[ BACK ]

At the present time, two different DOS boards are being evaluated.  The first is the JK Microsystems - Flashlite 386 SX.  This board is based on the Intel 386SX single chip computer.  The CLOCK is 25MHz with 512 KB RAM and 512KB Flash Memory.  The system has two serial ports and 28 discrete I/O lines.  Most of the serial, DMA, I/O programming follow the standard PC DOS implementation as based on the 386SX implementation.  More details can be obtained from JK Microsystems.  This Unit has no floating point hardware.  This could be a draw back in some critical number crushing applications.

This unit has been interfaced with A LCD display and a hex keyboard.  Therefore, after the programs have been loaded from the PC, the Unit can operate in a stand alone method.  This type of board would be used to do any intense calculations or complex procedures that could be used in this type of application.  As an exmple, this board is presently being evaluated with a serial interfaced GPS unit.

This board could provide the software for the processing  of various AI type programs.   These programs could implement many tasks associated with aniamation and robotics.  These type of computer could control the processing along with the general IO requirements.

The second board under evaluation is the Bagetronix, Inc DOS STAMP^tm .  This is DOS based board but smaller in size that the 386SX board.  This is a 40 M chip using the AM188ESCP.  The board has 512K SRAM adn 256K Flash memory.  The interfaces follow the AM188ESCP implementation and are somewhat different then the PC implementation.  Again, there is no hardware floating point unit and could some limitations with high number crushing requirements.   This unit is presently being evaluated in how best the unit fits the animation type application.