The PandaBoard is a low-power, low-cost development platform based on the Texas Instruments OMAP4430 system on a chip (SoC). The board has been available to the public at the subsidized[1] price of US$174 since 27 October 2010. It is a community supported development platform.[2]
The PandaBoard ES is a newer version based on the OMAP4460 SoC, with the CPU and GPU running at higher clock rates. The board has been available to the public at the subsidized price of US$182 since 16 November 2011. Like its predecessor, it is a community supported development platform.[3]
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The PandaBoard features a dual-core 1 GHz ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore CPU, a 304 MHz PowerVR SGX540 GPU, a C64x DSP, and 1 GB of DDR2 SDRAM. The PandaBoard ES uses a newer SoC, with a dual-core 1.2 GHz CPU and 384 MHz GPU. Primary persistent storage is via an SD Card slot allowing SDHC cards up to 32 GB to be used. The board includes wired 10/100 Ethernet as well as wireless Ethernet and Bluetooth connectivity. Its size is slightly larger than the ETX/XTX Computer form factor at 4 × 4.5 in (100 × 110 mm). The board can output video signals via DVI and HDMI interfaces. It also has 3.5 mm audio connectors.[4]
The device runs the Linux kernel, with either traditional distributions or the Android user environment. A development version of RISC OS 5 also exists.[5]
Optimised versions of Android and Ubuntu are available from the Linaro Foundation. Linaro have selected the PandaBoard to be one of the hardware platforms they support with monthly build images.
The Pandaboard has an integrated SGX540 video processor. This chipset supports OpenGL ES 2.0, OpenGL ES 1.1, OpenVG 1.1 and EGL 1.3