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Parallella $99 board now open hardware on Github

morgaine
morgaine over 12 years ago

It's probably spreading everywhere like wildfire, but I just read on Olimex's blog that Adapteva's Parallella kickstarter board now has almost all of its development materials on Github in Parallela and Adapteva repos, and is officially being launched as open hardware.

 

The 16-core board is priced at US$99 and its host ARM is a dual-core Cortex-A9 (Xilinx Zynq 7010 or 7020).  It comes with 1GB DDR3, host and client USB, native gigabit Ethernet and HDMI, so at that price this would be a fairly interesting board even without its 16-core Epiphany coprocessor.  (There's a 64-core version planned too.)  For more details see the Parallella Reference Manual.

 

This has all the makings of a pretty fun board.  I hope Element 14 has one eye open in that direction. image

 

Morgaine.

 

 

PS. Note the 4 x Parallella Expansion Connectors (PEC) on the bottom of the board, illustrated on page 19 of the manual and documented on page 26.  They look very flexible for projects, providing access to both Zynq and Epiphany resources.

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    michaelkellett over 12 years ago in reply to johnbeetem +2
    I wonder why in these discussions so many people overlook Lattice. Easily the most fun FPGA company and they DO have FPGAs in phones. Their Ultra Low Density approach fits well with John's definition of…
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    Former Member over 12 years ago +1
    Morgaine Dinova wrote: PS. Note the 4 x Parallella Expansion Connectors (PEC) on the bottom of the board, illustrated on page 19 of the manual and documented on page 26. They look very flexible for projects…
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    morgaine over 12 years ago in reply to Former Member +1
    selsinork wrote: I've wondered about these for a while.. 16 or 64 cores of a specialised processor that probably can't run linux or other general purpose OS makes it highly niche. If they sell many of…
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    Former Member over 12 years ago

    Morgaine Dinova wrote:

     

    PS. Note the 4 x Parallella Expansion Connectors (PEC) on the bottom of the board, illustrated on page 19 of the manual and documented on page 26.  They look very flexible for projects, providing access to both Zynq and Epiphany resources.

    Oh... I saw 'samtec' and my heart sank.. those look very similar to the ones on the i.MX53-QSB, ridiculously expensive and likely somwhere in the highly difficult to impossible to hand solder category. So likely only useful for projects that have a professionally assembled baseboard that the Parallella can be mounted on.

     

    It's certainly nice to have the expansion available, but I'll take those 2mm headers John likes over these any day image

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    Former Member over 12 years ago

    Morgaine Dinova wrote:

     

    PS. Note the 4 x Parallella Expansion Connectors (PEC) on the bottom of the board, illustrated on page 19 of the manual and documented on page 26.  They look very flexible for projects, providing access to both Zynq and Epiphany resources.

    Oh... I saw 'samtec' and my heart sank.. those look very similar to the ones on the i.MX53-QSB, ridiculously expensive and likely somwhere in the highly difficult to impossible to hand solder category. So likely only useful for projects that have a professionally assembled baseboard that the Parallella can be mounted on.

     

    It's certainly nice to have the expansion available, but I'll take those 2mm headers John likes over these any day image

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