Fully armed: Android development board boasts Cortex-A9 core

6th February 2014

Mick Elliott

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Farnell element14 is today exclusively launching an open source, single board platform designed to run Android operating systems. The Revolutionising the Internet of Things (RIoT) board features a high processing performance/low-power consumption processor with a broad range of peripherals and display capabilities.

The board is ideal for Android and Linux development and is based on the Freescale i.MX 6Solo processor; using the ARM Cortex-A9 architecture. Priced at £46 the RIoTboard is available from Farnell element14 in Europe.

David Shen, Chief Technology Officer at Premier Farnell said: “The RIoTboard has been designed for and supported by a community of Design Engineers and Application Developers. The hardware design has an optimised form factor, utilises one of the latest high performance multimedia processors and has been optimised for low power consumption. Addressing these key design challenges upfront will reduce development time and time to market.”

He continued, “The RIoTboard is the latest in our ever-expanding range of solutions offering everything from starter kits to complete development boards, including the newest releases and exclusive bundles.”

Reducing system cost, board size and complexity with low power, the BOM-optimised platform includes: the Freescale i.MX 6Solo processor based on ARM Cortex-A9 Core architecture at speeds up to 1 GHz; the Freescale Kinetis K20 MCU; the Freescale MMPF0100Power Management Integrated Chip; 1GByte of 32-bit wide DDR3 @ 800MHz; and 4GB eMMC

The RIoTboard platform also includes a rich set of peripherals including a 10M/100M/Gb Ethernet port, 1 USB 2.0 OTG High Speed and 4 USB 2.0 High Speed 2.0 Hosts, LVDS, HDMI and Parallel RGB interfaces, micro TF and SD card interfaces, analog headphone/microphone jacks, camera interface, serial ports, JTAG and boot configuration interfaces.

Key applications include Vertical/Industrial/Educational Tablets, Smart Home Appliances, Medical – Patient Monitoring and telehealth, Factory Automation and HMI, Digital Signage, Point of Sale equipment and IP Phones, Scanners and Smart Metering.