Snapdragon development board covers host of applications

2nd July 2015

Mick Elliott

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DragonBoard 410c, a low-cost development board design based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 processor is on sale at Arrow Electronics. Arrow will manufacture and distribute the DragonBoard 410c to community developers and commercial customers. The credit card-sized kit is based on Linaro’s 96Boards specification and enables developers, makers, universities and commercial manufacturers to use the Snapdragon 410 processor for things such as next-generation robotics, medical devices, building automation, digital signage, and gaming consoles.

The board is designed to build a software ecosystem around Snapdragon 410, as well as offering uses in education, prototyping, and commercial embedded computing products.

The highlights of the DragonBoard 410c are:

A 32-/64-bit capable Quad-core ARM Cortex A53 at up to 1.2 GHz per core
Qualcomm Adreno 306 GPU for PC-class graphics
1080p HD @ 30fps video playback and capture with H.264 (AVC)
1GB RAM, 8GB eMMC Flash + Micro SD card slot
Onboard Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n 2.4GHz, Bluetooth 4.1, GPS
Support for Android 5.1, Linux based on Ubuntu and planned support for Windows 10

In addition, Arrow offers an easy transition from community board to commercial product through its extensive partner network and design services to enable customers who want to take their ideas from development board to production.

“We’re excited to help the maker and community developer field grow by building the DragonBoard 410c,” said Arrow Digital President Matt Anderson.

“We’re excited that the DragonBoard 410c is now available to the embedded developer communities, makers and hobbyists, and to see it play an important role in helping drive the innovation of embedded computing products,” said Jason Bremner, senior vice president of product management for Qualcomm Technologies. “Our collaboration with Arrow not only extends the availability of Snapdragon to a wide variety of embedded devices, but also makes it quicker and easier to develop product prototypes.”