PandaBoard, OMAP4430 open-source ARM Cortex-A9 development board!

Posted by Charbax – October 3, 2010

It’s shipping to selected few developers starting this month. This is Texas Instrument’s Dual-Core ARM Cortex-A9 OMAP4 development board, the successor of the ARM Cortex-A8 OMAP3 based BeagleBoard.org project, they are to launch the PandaBoard.org community now, for powerful embedded open source Linux development. Development of the kind of software that we could be seeing on upcoming ARM Powered laptops, tablets, set-top-boxes, desktop replacements and not only on smart phones!

This type of development board could provide one the worlds fastest and smoothest Ubuntu and Chromium on ARM development platforms yet with high resolution 1080p output and a whole bunch of exciting stuff.

If you are a hard core ARM developer, you can apply on PandaBoard.org to get an early access to this development board.

Source: PandaBoard.org and OMAPpedia.org
Found via: blogarm.net (really cool french blog on ARM related news)

  • aftermath

    PowerVR graphics on-board, right?

    It's getting harder and harder to take seriously these hardware platforms that:

    * boast about graphics prowess

    * seem targeted at open source operating systems

    * don't offer open source drivers for the target platform

    I know this is not a trivial situation, and there aren't many impressive options. However, the release of such an embedded GPU would be exciting. For the same reason, the release of this isn't.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_RJWWL2TMKM6T4AEFHETQ5HYBF4 Darren

    I wonder how this will compare in price/power/support to the NVidia 'Tegra 250 Development Board'?

  • http://ARMdevices.net/ Charbax

    Last I heard http://armdevices.net/2010/02/15/flash-support-and-unreal-tournament-on-nvidia-tegra-2/ the Tegra 2 development board was about $400 while the ARM Cortex A8 based http://BeagleBoard.org seems to be $149 and TI says that tens of thousand of developers are using it. I don't know how much PandaBoard is going to be sold for.

  • http://ARMdevices.net/ Charbax
  • http://www.slashgear.com/pandaboard-offers-ti-cortex-a9-omap4-to-imaginative-devs-04105681/ PandaBoard offers TI Cortex-A9 OMAP4 to imaginative devs – SlashGear

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  • http://theallbox.com/archive/2010/10/pandaboard-open-source-ti-omap-4-dual-core-arm-cortex-a9-offered-to-select-developers/ PandaBoard, open-source TI OMAP 4 dual-core ARM Cortex A9 offered to select developers | The All Box

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  • microlith

    The problem lies 100% with the IP Core designer. We suffer the same problem with ARM Mali, Qualcomm's stuff, and on desktop Linux with Nvidia and ATi (mostly.) So the problem isn't TIs, and they actually put up a good effort to make sure that Linux developers have at least a somewhat easier time getting libraries that work for them.

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  • neha

    What knid of camera module does this board supports? which camera is compatible to this board? can anyone help me? thanks in advance.

  • Neha

    kind* :P

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