[Arm-netbook] beaglebone black
luke.leighton
luke.leighton at gmail.com
Tue Apr 23 21:44:11 BST 2013
http://beagleboard.org/Products/BeagleBone%20Black
looks like a good basis for an EOMA-68 CPU Card... almost. with no
SATA you have to add that as USB-to-SATA. that means adding a USB HUB
IC because there's not enough USBs (only 2 - one's for EOMA-68, the
other for a Micro-USB connector). ok, maybe lose the Micro-USB (bad).
but the kicker is the 16-bit DDR3 data bus.
so, let's compare to e.g. cubieboard:
* price: identical (ish)
* SATA: yes on cubieboard, no on bbb
* Ethernet: identical
* HDMI: yes (ish) - bbb uses a converter IC.
* RAM: 32-bit width on cubieboard and 16-bit on bbb.
* GPIO: not as much on bbb.
so... yeah. still doesn't cut the mustard, sadly!
oh... and don't AM335x use PowerVR? *shudder*
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