Friday, September 27, 2013

DFrduino FIO (Arduino Compatible)

The DFRduino Funnel I/O (Fio) is a board based on the original design of Arduino FIO. It is 100% compatible with original Arduino FIO.

Funnel is a toolkit to sketch your idea physically, and consists of software libraries and hardware. By using Funnel, the user can interface to sensors and/or actuators with various programming languages such as ActionScript 3, Processing, and Ruby.

Arduino Fio is compatible with Funnel. It has connections for a Lithium Polymer battery and includes a charge circuit over USB. An XBee socket is available on the bottom of the board. The Fio has been designed to be wirelessly reprogrammable.

Features
  • ATmega328V running at 8MHz
  • Arduino Bootloader
  • XBee socket
  • Lithium Polymer battery compatible
  • MAX1555 LiPo Charger
  • Reset button
  • On/Off Switch
  • Status/Charge/RSSI LEDs

Specification
  • Size: 65x25x13 mm
  • Weight: 10 gram

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Odroid U2

ULTRA COMPACT 1.7GHz QUAD-CORE BOARD


ODROID-U2 is a micro sized open development platform which is powered by Exynos4412 Prime. 1.7Ghz ARM Cortex-A9 Quad Cores show PC-like performance. Enjoy various PC peripherals on Android & Ubuntu Linux. 


KEY FEATURES

* Low-cost development platform
* Ultra compact size with full metal enclosure
* Quad core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore
* 10/100Mbps Ethernet with RJ-45 LAN Jack 
* 2 x High speed USB2.0 Host port
* Audio codec with headphone jack on board
* Android 4.x & Ubuntu 12.10
* Community-driven projects & supports


SPECIFICATIONS
ProcessorSamsung Exynos4412 Prime Cortex-A9 Quad Core 1.7Ghz with 1MB L2 cache
Memory2048MB(2GB) LP-DDR2 880Mega data rate
3D AcceleratorMali-400 Quad Core 440MHz
Videosupports 1080p via HDMI cable(H.264+AAC based MP4 container format)
Video Outmicro HDMI connector 
AudioStandard 3.5mm headphone jack
HDMI Digital
LAN10/100Mbps Ethernet with RJ-45 Jack ( Auto-MDIX support) 
USB2.0 Host High speed standard A type connector x 2 ports
USB2.0 Device ADB/Mass storage(Micro USB)
Display HDMI monitor 
Storage (Option)MicroSD Card Slot
eMMC module socket
Power (Option)5V 2A Power
System Softwareu-boot 2010.12, Kernel 3.0.x, Android 4.x
Source code will be uploaded on download page after first shipment.
CaseAluminum full metal body with heat sink. (59 x 57 x 60 mm)
PCB Size 48 x 52 mm

Odroid XU

The ODROID-XU is based on Samsung Exynos5 Octa processor
Exynos-5410 which has ARM’s big.LITTLE architecture with Cortex-A15 Quad + Cortex-A7 Quad and Samsung’s LPDDR3 2GB.

Every developer wants to know the performance of new platform. The Samsung Exynos5 Octa SoC is mighty competitive as shown by following initial benchmarks compared to a Calxeda quad-core Cortex-A9 SoC, the TI OMAP4460 dual-core A9 1.2GHz SoC, and an Intel Atom D525 1.8GHz dual-core CPU plus Hyper Threading.


The first tests were done with Ubuntu 13.04 Linaro(13.07) server version and Kernel 3.4.5 to feel the speed of ODROID-XU. We used the famous Phoronix test suit for benchmarking on Linux.
Let’s start the bench marking with NAS Parallel Benchmarks which were developed by NASA. The NAS Parallel Benchmarks (NPB) are a small set of programs designed to help evaluate the performance of parallel supercomputers. The benchmarks are derived from computational fluid dynamics (CFD) applications and consist of five kernels and three pseudo-applications in the original "pencil-and-paper" specification (NPB 1). The benchmark suite has been extended to include new benchmarks for unstructured adaptive mesh, parallel I/O, multi-zone applications, and computational grids.



CPUSamsung Exynos5 Octa : Cortex™-A15 and Cortex™-A7 big.LITTLE processor with 2GByte LPDDR3 RAM
PMICMAX77802 10 high-efficiency Buck regulators and 32 LDOs. Contact Maxim for more information
HSIC Ethernet LAN9730 HSIC USB 2.0 to 10/100 Ethernet controller with HP Auto-MDIX from SMSC/Microchip
HSIC USB 2.0 HubUSB3503A Integrated USB 2.0-compatible hub / HSIC upstream port from SMSC/Microchip
USB Load Switch RTL9715EGBR is 90mΩ, 1.1A High-Side Power Switch for USB from Richtek
Audio CodecMAX98090 is a full-featured and high performance audio CODEC from Maxim
Power protectorMAX14572 is a Reversevoltage, Overvoltage and Overcurrent Protector from Maxim
LED indicatorTri-color RGB LED to display the status of operating system
LCD interfaceMIPI DSI and Touch screen I2C ports (IPEX-40PIN)
HDMI connectorStandard Micro-HDMI, supports up to 1920 x 1080 resolution
IO PortsUSB 3.0 Host x 1, USB 2.0 Host x 4, USB 3.0 OTG x 1, PWM for Cooler
Ethernet RJ-45, Headphone Jack, 30Pin : GPIO/IRQ/SPI/ADC
Storage slotMicro-SD slot, eMMC 4.5 module connector
DC Input5V / 4A input, Plug specification is inner diameter 2.1mm and outer diameter 5.5mm

Wednesday, September 18, 2013