Olimex A20-OLINUXINO-MICRO Single Board Computer
- Olimex A20-OLINUXINO-MICRO, The Olimex A20-Olinuxino-Micro single board computer is an extremely capable, small footprint device with a dual core CPU. Internally it has 1GB of DDR3 RAM, 2KB of EEPROM & a Mali 400 GPU, but it is its external connectivity that makes this board so special. The list of ports is extensive but the highlights are HDMI, SATA, Ethernet, 2 x USB (Universal Serial Bus) plus 1 x USB (Universal Serial Bus)-OTG, 160 GPIO pins, an LCD interface & an SD card slot. As you would expect many of the GPIO pins have additional specialist functions with interfaces for 2 x cameras (CSIO), UARTS, SPI, IR, touch panel, I2S, PWM, audio & more. In all departments it compares favourably to the Raspberry Pi with a faster CPU, hardware 3D acceleration & considerably more IO functionality. It can be made into a complete small footprint computer or kiosk computer with Linux, a hard disk, keyboard & mouse & HD display. Alternatively it could be used as the controller in an embedded system for robotics, photography, web serving etc.. Another version is available which has 4GB of NAND flash memory which comes with Android pre-loaded (73-0226). The board is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License & as such it can be reproduced for commercial use. Please visit the Olimex website for full details. The associated software is released under the GPL licence. There are no software binary blobs on this system & the hardware design is fully documented & available online to copy or modify. In all, this is an ideal platform for exploring microcontroller connectivity or as the core for an Internet of Things product. Olimex A20-OLINUXINO-MICRO OLinu Xino Linux Android Single Board Computer A20 A7