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Low Cost Linux boards in India

August 29, 2024August 29, 2024 Blog

Cubie board:

The Cubie board is a small board made for hardware hacking with a high end Cortex A8 ARM processor. Available for purchase locally in India.

Features :

  • 1G ARM cortex-A8 processor, NEON, VFPv3, 256KB L2 cache
  • Mali400, OpenGL ES GPU
  • 1GB DDR3 @480MHz
  • HDMI 1080p Output
  • 10/100M Ethernet, optional WiFi
  • 4GB NAND Flash
  • 2 x USB Host, 1 x MicroSD slot, 1 x SATA, 1 x IR sensor
  • 96 extend pin interface, including I2C, SPI, RGB/LVDS, CSI/TS, FM-IN, ADC, CVBS, VGA, SPDIF-OUT, R-TP, and more
  • Official Android distribution available (not pre-installed), Linux, with Android Playstore support*
  • Requires regulated 5VDC 2A power supply with a 4.0mm(ext. diameter) x 1.7mm (int. diameter) barrel plugBeagle Bone Black : The original Beagle bone board is back in Black with new improvements and cost reductions.

    Here are the new Beagle bone black features :

    • AM335x 1GHz ARM® Cortex-A8 processor
    • 3D graphics accelerator
    • NEON floating-point accelerator
    • 2x PRU 32-bit microcontrollers
    • USB client for power & debug USB host
    • Ethernet HDMI 2x 46 pin headers
    • Angström
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Ubuntu
    • Cloud9 IDE on Node.js w/ BoneScript library plus much more

    Beagle Bone board:

    This board comes with a 720 MHz Super-scaler ARM Cortex A8 processor manufatured by Texas instruments. Beagle bone comes packed with a

    • 256MB RAM,
    • USB,
    • Ethernet support,
    • SD CARD.

    This board is a made specifically for hardware hacking, so the manufacturer has left out most of the processor pins accessible by connectors.

    Beagle board:

    This board is built to give a laptop like performance and comes with a 1 GHz Super-scaler ARM Cortex A8 processor manufatured by Texas instruments. Beagle board comes packed with a

    • 512MB RAM,
    • USB,
    • Ethernet,
    • S-Video,
    • Camera port,
    • Stereo IN/OUT,
    • micro SD CARD slot,
    • LCD expansion.

    Mini2440 | S3C2440 AMR9 Board by Friendly ARM:

    • 400 MHz Samsung S3C2440A ARM920T (max freq. 533 MHz)
    • 64 MB SDRAM, 32 bit Bus
    • 64 MB / 128 MB / 256 MB / 1GB NAND Flash and 2 MB NOR Flash with BIOS
    • 256 Byte EEPROM (I2C)
    • SD-Card socket
    • DB9 connector (RS232), total: 3 serial port connectors
    • USB
    • 3.5 mm stereo jack
    • Condenser microphone with connector
    • Ethernet
    • CR1220 Real Time Clock with battery
    • PWM buzzer
    • 20 pin (2.0 mm) Camera interface
    • 41 pin (1.0 mm) connector for FriendlyARM Displays and VGA Board
    • 4 wire resistive touchscreen interface
    • 6 push buttons and 1 A/D pot
    • 4 LEDs
    • RASPBERRY PI:

      The RASPBERRY PI is the cheapest ARM11  powered linux capable single board computer board you will ever find. This board runs an ARM11 processor @700MHz and comes with a 512 Mega Bytes of RAM memory. Here are the features of the board,

      • 512MB SDRAM,
      • Ethernet, USB,
      • HDMI,
      • LINUX FEDORA OS,
      • ARM 11 processor @700MHz
      • BCM2835 SoC based chipset
      • A13-OLINUXINO: 

        Its a development board by Olimex powered by the A13 processor from Allwinner technology from China. Here are the features of the board,

        • A13 Cortex A8 processor at 1GHz, 3D Mali400 GPU
        • 512 MB RAM
        • 6-16VDC input power supply, noise immune design
        • 3 + 1 USB hosts, 3 available for users, 1 leads to onboard pinout
        • 1 USB OTG which can power the board
        • SD-card connector for booting the Linux image
        • VGA video output
        • LCD signals available on connector so you still can use LCD if you diasble VGA/HDMI
        • Audio output
        • Microphone input
        • RTC PCF8536 on board for real time clock and alarms
        • 5 Keys on board for android navigation
        • UEXT connector for connecting addtional UEXT modules like Zigbee, Bluetooth, Relays, etc
        • GPIO connector with 68/74 pins and these signals
        • Optional low-cost 7″ LCD with touchscreen
        • 17 for adding NAND flash;
        • 22 for connecting LCDs;
        • 20+4 including 8 GPIOs which can be input, output, interrupt sources;
        • 3x I2C;
        • 2x UARTs;
        • SDIO2 for connectinf SDcards and modules;
        • 5 system pins: +5V, +3.3V, GND, RESET, NMI

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