Cubieboard

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Cubieboard first sold prototype

Cubieboard is a single-board computer, made in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. The first short run of prototype boards were sold internationally in September 2012, and the production version as started to be sold in October 2012.[1] It can run Android 4 ICS, Ubuntu 12.04 desktop,[2] Fedora 19 ARM Remix[3] desktop, XBMC media player system,[4] Archlinux ARM [5] or basic Debian server via Cubian distribution.[6]

It uses the AllWinner A10 SoC, popular on cheap tablets, phones and media PCs. This SoC is used by developers of the lima driver, an open source driver for the ARM Mali GPU.[7] It was able, at the 2013 FOSDEM demo to run ioquake 3 at 47 fps in 1024×600.[8]

The Cubieboard team managed to run an Apache Hadoop computer cluster using the Lubuntu GNU/Linux distribution.[9]

Specification

Cubieboard cluster running Apache Hadoop

The little motherboard utilises the AllWinner A10 capabilities[10]

  • AllWinner A10 SoC (ARM Cortex-A8 @ 1 GHz CPU, with Mali-400MP GPU and CedarX VPU able to decode 2160p quadHD video).
  • 512 MB (beta) or 1GB (final) DDR3
  • 4 GB NAND flash built-in, 1x microSD slot, 1x SATA port.
  • HDMI 1080p output
  • 10/100 Ethernet connector
  • 2x USB Host, 1x USB OTG, 1x CIR.
  • 96 extend pin including I²C, SPI, LVDS
  • Dimensions: 10 cm × 6 cm

Cubieboard2

The second version, sold since June 2013, enhances the board mainly by replacing the AllWinner A10 SoC with an AllWinner A20 which contains 2 ARM Cortex-A7 MPCore CPUs and 2 Mali-400 GPUs (Mali-400MP2).

This card is used by Fedora to test and develop the Allwinner SoC port of the distribution.[11]

Cubietruck

The third version has a new and larger PCB layout and features the following hardware:[12]

  • AllWinner A20 SoC (dual-core ARM Cortex-A7 @ 1 GHz CPU, with Mali-400MP2 GPU).
  • 2 GB DDR3 @ 480 MHz
  • 8 GB NAND flash built-in, 1x microSD slot, 1x SATA 2.0 port.
  • HDMI 1080p output
  • 10/100/1000 RTL8211E Ethernet PHY
  • 2x USB Host, 1x USB OTG, 1x CIR.
  • S/PDIF, headphone and HDMI audio out, mic and line in via extended pins
  • Wi-Fi and Bluetooth onboard with PCB antenna (Broadcom BCM4329/BCM40181)
  • 54 extended pins including I²C, SPI
  • Dimensions: 11 cm × 8 cm

There is no LVDS support any longer. The RTL8211E NIC allows transfer rates up to 630–638 Mbits/sec (sending while 5–10% idle) and 850–860 Mbits/sec (receiving while 0–2% idle) when simultaneous TCP connections are established (testing was done utilising iperf with 3 clients against Cubietruck running Lubuntu desktop 1.0)[13]

To connect a 3.5" HDD the necessary 12 V power can be delivered by this 3.5 inch HDD addon package which can be used to power the Cubietruck itself as well. Also new is the option to power the Cubietruck from LiPo batteries.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Ready to ship October 30, 2012 on Cubieboard.org
  2. ↑ $49 Cubieboard: AllWinner A10 Open Hardware Development Board on CNX-Software.com
  3. ↑ Cubie Board on Fedora wiki
  4. ↑ XBMC on Linux SunXi
  5. ↑ Cubieboard on Archlinux documentation
  6. ↑ Cubian
  7. ↑ limadriver.org official site of the Lima driver
  8. ↑ Old and new limare code, and management overhead... on the blog of Luc Verhaegen, one of the main developers of the Lima driver
  9. ↑ Hadoop(High-availability distributed object-oriented platform) on Cubieboard
  10. ↑ Cubieboard on linux-sunxi.org
  11. ↑ Fedora 19 ARM Remix R1 Release With Support for AllWinner A10, A10s, A13 and A20 SoCs
  12. ↑ Cubietruck on linux-sunxi.org
  13. ↑ http://dl.cubieboard.org/software/a20-cubietruck/lubuntu/

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