General theory on EFI

[Dennis Grisez]

Connections, mainly.  Thats why I say you could probably 
make one rugged enough, especially starting with PC104.  It would
take development, but it could certainly be done.  Then with the 
extra capacity you could play "Quake" when stuck in traffic.


>>> Arnaud Westenberg <arnaud at casema.net> 11/07/00 11:21AM >>>
Dennis Grisez wrote:
> 
> I have seen PC104 based equipment live for quite a while in
> service as in-vehicle test instrumentation.  A certain system I've
> worked with runs two PC104's, one for video capture, one for
> data, both write to removable hard drives on the fly.
> That having been said, I still avoid using any PC based equipment
> in durability tests where bump courses are involved.

Could someone enlighten me about wich parts/subsystems of the PC/PC104
are likely to break in these kind of environments? I understand the
disks with their moving parts would be likely suspects, but when using
flash this should be solved.

I don't see any difference in a (homebrew) microcontroller board versus
a PC board, but thats probably why I'm a _mechanical_ engineering
student :-)

I'd like to know this because I think it's easier for _me_ to obtain a
pc104 board than building my own (efi332) board. Besides, I like the
'extra' functionality like a serial port to aid in debugging.

Thanks,

Greetings Arnaud
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