Arndale Community Board (via arndaleboard.org)
The market for smart phone, tablet and computer apps has exploded. This year’s purchase of Instagram by Facebook, for about $715 million, is prime example of where the app developing community is fitting into the market. With that said, Samsung has just added a new tool the developers arsenal. They have released a new version of the Arndale community development board, this time using their Exynos 5 Dual system-on-chip (SoC), which features two world’s first: a dual-core ARM Cortex-A15 MPCore processor and a quad-core ARM Mali T604 GPU (based on 32nm High-K Metal Gate process technology).
This new version allows developers to take advantage of newer and up and coming technologies like NFC and easier integration of GPS and sensor data. The new hardware also makes this Arndale dev board fully compatible with OpenCL while providing “an order of magnitude lift in performance." The initial version of this Arndale board will ship with the Android Jellybean OS and offer a resolution support of 24bit 2560X1600 @ 60 fps. (Other open operating systems are also supported.)
Check out the spec highlight:
● CPU Board
○ Cortex-A15@1.7 GHz dual core subsystem with 64/128 bit SIMD NEON
○ 32KB(instruction)/32KB(DATA)L1 Cache and 1MB L2 Cache
○ 32-bit 800 MHz LPDDR3/LPDDR2 2GB
● Base Board
○ Sensor
■ Accelerator : Invensence MPU-6050
■ Gyro : Invensence MPU-6050
■ e-Compass : AKM -AK8963C
○ ITU 601 camera Interface
○ HDMI 1.4 interfaces with on-chip PHY
○ One channel eDP output Single WQXGA
○ MIPI DSI Standard Specification V1.01r11
○ MIPI CSI standard Specification V1.0 Two ports
○ USB3.0 Host or Device 1-channel that supports SS(5Gbps) with on-chip PHY
○ USB2.0 Host or Device 1-channel that supports LS/FS/HS with on-chip PHY
○ USB HSIC 2-channel that supports 480Mbps with on-chip PHY
○ SATA 1.0/2.0/3.0 interface
○ One channel eMMC 4.5
○ One channel SDIO 3.0
○ Two channel SD 2.0
○ Four channel high-speed UART
○ (up to 3Mbps data rate for Bluetooth 2.0 EDR and IrDA 1.0SIR)
○ Three channel high-speed SPI
○ Three channel 24-bit I2S audio interface
○ Four channel I2C interface support , up 400kbps
○ Four channel HS-I2C up to 3.1Mps
With the $250 price tag and all this powerful hardware, you better get started on your billion-dollar app idea ASAP!
Cabe