LART is a

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(SBC) designed by staff of the University of Delft/Netherlands.Debian/ARM runs on LART
2000-11-23, Debian The creators advertise complete layout by means of

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files,

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and

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patches for

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. The software is released under the terms of the

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(GPL), and the

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is released under the

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TU Delft Delft University of Technology ( nl, Technische Universiteit Delft), also known as TU Delft, is the oldest and largest Dutch public technical university, located in Delft, Netherlands. As of 2022 it is ranked by QS World University Rankings among ...

built some boards, some people built their own LARTs (the board can be made at home by a competent engineer), and a batch was produced and sold in 2002-2003 by Aleph One Ltd and Remote 12, in an early demonstration of the viability of the

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concept (manufacture can be performed by groups other than the designers and copyright holders). The standard LART configuration featured 32 MB DRAM and 4 MB Flash ROM. Most interesting is the low-power consumption of less than 1 W while providing ~ 250 MIPS, making it an ideal system for embedded computing. The project also spun off an Open Hardware parallel port

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interface board and the

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References

External links

LART hardware shop and related information
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