ARM A9 Adapter board

Question

Is it possible to get a breakout board or an adapter board in the market for this microprocessor, so that we can access the individual pins easily ( it has 624 pins ).

michaelkellett · Accepted Answer

Once you are accessing the pins what do you mean to do with them - things like DDRAM interfaces won't work with dangly wires !

These people make the sort of thing you want (I haven't checked for details)

Ironwood Electronics Adapter Technologies

or else you can make your own. You might do better to choose aprocessor where there is a dev board already available - playing with 624 pin BGAs is not cheap or easy.

MK

michaelkellett · Answer

What is the spec of the microcomputer - do you have to use an ARM9 ? Do you need to make your own pcb ? Here is a slightly more friendly packaged ARM "application" type processor. https://olimex.wordpress.com/2012/04/24/cortex-a8-in-tqfp-sure-allwinner-a13/ If you could use an ARM Cortex M4 or M7 it would be much easier - but I would need to know the spec you are aiming at for the complete system to advise. MK

michaelkellett · Answer

M series won't do for Linux. The AllWinner may be your best bet - I've seen some home brew projects on the web - worth Googling for them for tips. Is this a college project ? MK

bvj · Answer

The spec that we are aiming at is a 32 bit microcomputer with 2 GB RAM that can be loaded with an OS such as Linux or Windows. It should have the ability to support various interfacing standards such as USB, LAN, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth . We are also aiming at using this microcomputer for digital image processing which might point to the fact that it should support implementation of Artificial Neuro Network ( Probability < 10% ) and also some amount of Video processing. As far as i know the issue with choosing the M-series is that their clock frequency is lower ( about 800 MHz ) than A-series ( 1 GHz ) making them not capable of supporting Linux or Windows OS. Nevertheless to mention we are using a VGA monitor .