Plug computing with the SheevaPlug
Marvell, maker of a wide variety of eletronics components, has announced its Plug Computing initiative and introduced an SDK for its SheevaPlug product. The SheevaPlug is a computer in a plug-sized container and has minimal power requirements to make it cheaper to run 24/7. Not much to look at, the SheevaPlug frees up a lot of desk space and provides a 1.2GHz CPU with 512MB of flash storage and 512MB of RAM.
Network connectivity is provided by an Ethernet socket and peripherals are interfaced using USB. Various Linux operating systems are supported by the device.
With the price of MicroSD cards and flash memory in general being pretty low, I can’t understand why only 512MB is provided onboard – 8GB seems far more sensible for an unobtrusive computing platform, methinks…
