Low Cost SBC Dev Kits for Embedded App Training?

SmilingMonk writes "The company I work for is looking to train engineers fresh out of school on embedded software development. It seems to be specialized enough field of interest that it might be helpful for some people to 'get their feet wet' developing embedded solutions on in-expensive SBC ^? s before they are handed off to the product lines. A low cost ($400) full featured solution we recently stumbled across is the eCOG1 Development Environment. Yes, we've been to LinuxDevices, but feel compelled to ask which similarly featured low priced SBCs others have used that we could have our trainees develop embedded Linux applications on?"

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How about one that combines GNU training?

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I'm an embedded development and training consultant. I have a tutorial on my website that features the ARM Evaluator 7T board (about $250) and a complete procedure for building the arm-elf GNU toolchain and debugging a simple "hello, world!" program.

I have both onsite and public training courses available, and I'm working on an elearning site as we speak. I'm also available for just plain old embedded development tasks. See my resume.

The ARM7TDMI chip that the Evaluator 7T uses doesn't have as many peripherals as the eCog chip you mention, but it is a true 32-bit chip with a GNU-supported instruction set and debugging environment. Hard to beat that!
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HTH,