[Arm-netbook] OLIMEX A10 board

[Tsvetan Usunov - OLIMEX Ltd]

> sounds very interesting ... i think a good number of people are interested
> in a cheap A10 board thats open enough to allow the general community to
> easily support and develop it ... be good if you could stretch it to 1GB
> RAM and clock it towards 1.5GHZ.
>
> i know theres been a good deal of heat on this subject but personally I
> dont have an issue if people want to earn money from patents on "open"
> projects, though more generally patents nowadays are often used as a
> barrier to entry to stifle competition and innovation.
>
> .... for me its the final price, product functionality (and to a lesser
> extent the degree of openess for community support and development) thats
> important but i think for a lot of people a plain and simple "all in one
> board" you propose sounds very interesting.
>
> can i ask if you plan to include ethernet on it (i'm slowly eliminating
> wifi devices from my flat to depollute the airspace :-)
>
>

the preliminary specs we work on are:

A10 / AXP209
512MB DDR3
USB host x2
USB OTG
HDMI / VGA / Composite video
Ethernet
Sata
+(optional WIFI)
+(optional NAND 4GB)
JTAG / GPIOs / UARTs / SPIs / I2Cs / CAMERA / LCD / on 0.1" connectors

still didn't decided if we will add possibility board to work on LiPo 3.7V
battery as this require adding step-up for USB hosts

(optional) means we will layout it but may not populate these to lower the
price

we work on both A13 and A10 schematics in parallel but A13 will be routed
easier and I expect to have first A13 prototypes in June, the A10
prototypes probably in August

overclocking to 1.5GHz should be possible by the hardware but I don't know
how useful it will be for serious applications

we target the price of A10-OLinuXino to be in EUR 50-60 range

the project will be open source both hardware and software like
iMX233-OLinuXino and all files will be on GitHub under CC-BY-SA 3.0
licensee for the hardware and GPL for the software.

Tsvetan
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