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ARM on a single-board computer? See it at ESC.
Rich Nass
4/12/2010 12:57 PM EDT
At the Embedded Systems Conference Silicon Valley, Micro/sys will be showing a board based on an 800-MHz Cortex-A8 CPU core. It's actually Freescale's i.MX515 microprocessor. The SBC1651 is aimed at high-performance, low-power embedded applications. The board is scheduled to ship in the first week of May.
Interestingly, it'll be priced at $595 (in single quantities). That's roughly $100 to $300 less than an Intel-based board with similar performance specs. The biggest contributor to that price drop is the i.MX515's single-chip design, as opposed to the two chips required for the Intel-based board.
Micro/sys pledges to continue down the ARM path. This board will be followed by family members that move both up and down the performance spectrum, including a board for handheld applications.
The SBC1651 ships with all the typical I/O and peripherals that you'd expect: USB On-The-Go, real-time clock, watchdog timer, audio support, TV out, 24-bit LVDS flat panel display output, 4-wire touchscreen interface, two PWM outputs, a SATA HDD port, two SD/MMC card slots, 1-Wire interface, seven serial ports, and 24 lines of discrete I/O.
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sanmao
4/18/2010 11:08 PM EDT
It's Priced $595? It very higher than an Intel-based board .
except the low power,Is there any strength than intel?
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t.alex
4/21/2010 5:16 AM EDT
How about Beagle Board ( http://beagleboard.org/) at only USD149?
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Steven Huo
3/8/2011 8:58 PM EST
Devkit8000 Evaluation Board also have a competitive price that contains a lot of accessory(http://www.embedinfo.com/english/Product/devkit8000.asp)
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Robotics Developer
3/8/2011 10:49 PM EST
I have found many more ARM based SBCs than Atom / Intel and others,BUT (and that is a big but) the ARM offerings (until now) all were below 600Mhz and the Intel offerings had dual 1Ghz and beyond chips. I look forward to some serious clocking speeds in the ARM family and the dual/quad core offerings. Then things will get interesting.
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