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ARM Powered Guide

Gather information and document various (advanced) ARM-based development platforms.

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Comparison Table

- BeagleBone BeagleBoard
(orig/xM)
PandaBoard
(orig/ES)
Raspberry Pi
(model A/B)
CubieBoard A13-OLinuXino
CPU (platform) ARM Cortex-A8 ARM Cortex-A8 ARM Cortex-A8 ARM1176JZF-S ARM Cortex-A8 ARM Cortex-A8
CPU (model) TI AM335x OMAP3530 OMAP4430 (orig)
OMAP4460 (ES)
BCM2835 Allwinner A10 Allwinner A13
CPU (MHz) 500 (on USB)
720 (adapter)
600 (orig)
1000 (xM)
1000 (orig)
1200 (ES)
700
1000 (clocked)
1000 1000
Graphics - PowerVR SGX PowerVR SGX540 Broadcom VideoCore IV Mali 400 Mali 400
RAM (MB) 256 512 1024 256/512 1024 512
Ethernet yes yes yes no (A)
yes (B)
yes no
Audio out no jack jack, HDMI jack, HDMI jack, HDMI jack
Audio in no jack jack no jack jack
Video no S-Video, HDMI HDMI RCA, HDMI HDMI VGA
USB yes yes yes yes yes yes
SD card microSD microSD SD SD microSD microSD
Flash no no no no 4 GB no
SATA no no no no yes no
Wireless no no yes no no optional
Bluetooth no no yes no no no
ADC 7 0 0 0 yes ?
CAN 2 0 0 0 ? ?
GPIO 66 ? ? 8 96 20+4
I2C 2 1 1 1 yes 3
PWM 8 ? ? 0 ? ?
SPI 2 1 1 1 yes ?
UART 5 1 1 1 yes 2
Price ($) 89 149 179 25 (A)
35 (B)
49 59

Cubieboard

cubieboard.jpg

Raspberry Pi

Beaglebone

beaglebone_block.jpg

Beagleboard / Pandaboard

pandaboard4460_block_diagram.jpg

PIN Beagleboard Pandaboard
1 1V8 1V8
2 5V 5V
3 MMC2_DAT7 MMC2_DAT7
4 MCBSP3_DX MCSPI1_CS3
5 MMC2_DAT6 MMC2_DAT6
6 UART2_TX UART4_TX
7 MMC2_DAT5 MMC2_DAT5
8 UART2_RX UART4_RX
9 MMC2_DAT4 MMC2_DAT4
10 MCBSP3_DR MCSPI1_CS1
11 MMC2_DAT3 MMC2_DAT3
12 MCSPI4_SIMO MCSPI1_SIMO
13 MMC2_DAT2 MMC2_DAT2
14 MCBSP1_CLKX MCSPI1_CS2
15 MMC2_DAT1 MMC2_DAT1
16 MCSPI4_CS0 MCSPI1_CS0
17 MMC2_DAT0 MMC2_DAT0
18 MCSPI4_SOMI MCSPI1_SOMI
19 MMC2_CMD MMC2_CMD
20 MCSPI4_SCLK MCSPI1_SCLK
21 MMC2_CLK0 MMC2_CLK0
22 MCBSP1_FSR GPMC_AD15
23 I2C2_SDA I2C4_SDA
24 I2C2_SCL I2C4_SCL
25 REGEN REGEN
26 nRESET nRESET
27 GND GND
28 GND GND

A13-OLinuXino

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A10-OLinuXino