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Android on Development Boards

Silicon Valley Android Developers Meetup2012/05/16

Karim Yaghmour@karimyaghmour

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About

● Author of:

● Introduced Linux Trace Toolkit in 1999● Originated Adeos and relayfs (kernel/relay.c)● Training, Custom Dev, Consulting, ...

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Agenda

● What's a “Development Board”● System Architecture● SoCs● Boards● Demo

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1. What's a “Development Board”

● Wikipedia: “... printed circuit board containing a microprocessor and the minimal support logic needed for an engineer to become acquainted with the microprocessor on the board and to learn to program it.”

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2. System Architecture

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3. System-on-Chip

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3.1. Some SoCs out thereSoC CPU Speed GPU

OMAP4 Dual-core Cortex-A9 1-1.8GHz PowerVR

i.MX53 Cortex A8 1GHz OpenGL-ES 2.0-compatible

Tegra2 Dual-core Cortex-A9 1-1.2GHz GeForce

Snapdragon Dual-core Scorpion 1.2-1.5GHz Adreno

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4. Boards

Name SoC Speed RAM Price (USD) URL

BeagleBone OMAP3 500MHz 256MB 89 beagleboard.org

BeagleBoard-xM

OMAP3 1GHZ 512MB 149 beagleboard.org

iMX53 Quick Start

i.MX53 1GHz 1GHz 149 freescale.com

PandaBoardES OMAP4 Dual-core

1.2GHz 1GB 182 pandaboard.org

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5. Demo

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Figures taken from “BeagleBoard-xM Rev C System Reference Manual” by BeagleBoard.org's

Gerald Coley