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The latest member to the community boards is the Craneboard, a development tool supporting the Sitara Processors from Texas Instruments. Its an ARM-based reference platform that utilizes and highlights the peripheral features of the Texas Instruments' AM35x ARM Cortex-A8 microprocessors (MPUs). Craneboard from Mistral, a hardware development platform that enables development is based on the Sitara AM3517 ARM Cortex - A8 microprocessor device, a processor that comprises of Microprocessor Unit sub-system, POWERVR SGX Graphics Accelerator sub-system for 3D graphics acceleration to support Graphical User Interface options whilst maintaining fast and fluid display transitions and gaming effects with features for multiple concurrent image manipulation, and a programmable interface supporting a wide variety of displays...
Capabilities
- AM3517 Sitara ARM Cortex-A8 – 600MHz
- Integrated 3D Graphics Accelerator
- Support for on-chip peripherals:
- 10/100 EMAC
- USB OTG utilizing on-processor PHY
- 3.3V I/O
- CAN
- DDR2
- Power over Ethernet and other power options including USB and DC
- Fully open-source four-layer PCB
- Fully Open Source Linux Board Support package (2.6.32)
- Based on existing AM3517 Sitara ARM evaluation module (EVM) software
- All software available via GIT
- Arago File System
- Flashing tool and board diagnostics
- Ethernet / Power Over Ethernet (POE) utilizing on-processor 10/100 EMAC
- DVI-D (HDMI Connector)
- RS-232
- JTAG
- TV Out (CVBS)
- Expansion
