{"id":8,"date":"2011-06-10T18:35:16","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T23:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graygoo.net\/blog\/?p=8"},"modified":"2011-06-15T09:44:30","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T14:44:30","slug":"arm-development-boards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.graygoo.net\/blog\/2011\/06\/arm-development-boards\/","title":{"rendered":"ARM development boards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arm.com\/products\/processors\/index.php\">ARM<\/a> is a major competitor in the world of processors for portable and embedded devices such as cell phones and e-book readers. ARM does not sell processors directly; rather, it licenses its designs to manufacturers such as <a href=\"http:\/\/focus.ti.com\/general\/docs\/wtbu\/wtbugencontent.tsp?templateId=6123&amp;navigationId=11988&amp;contentId=4638\">Texas Instruments<\/a>, which include the processors in Systems-on-Chip (SoC). SoCs comprise processors and peripherals such as power and I\/O ports (similar to a CPU and motherboard on a traditional personal computer).These SoCs provide capabilities comparable to a desktop PC of several years ago, in a low-power, compact (deck of cards) package, and it is possible to run general-purpose operating systems such as <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/ARM\">Linux<\/a> on them.<\/p>\n<p>There are a number of development boards available to hobbyists interested in exploring embedded\/SoC development (the author has no affiliation with any of the companies listed herein):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beagleboard.org\/\">BeagleBoard<\/a> (Cortex-A8\/OMAP3-based, community-based).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pandaboard.org\/\">PandaBoard<\/a> (Cortex-A9\/OMAP4-based)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.andahammer.com\/\">Industrial ARMWorks<\/a> (Samsung S3C6410A)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tincantools.com\/home.php\">Hammer<\/a> (Samsung S3C2410A, DIP 40)<\/p>\n<p>Further reading on <a href=\"http:\/\/armdevices.net\/\">ARMdevices trade blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ARM is a major competitor in the world of processors for portable and embedded devices such as cell phones and e-book readers. ARM does not sell processors directly; rather, it licenses its designs to manufacturers such as Texas Instruments, which &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.graygoo.net\/blog\/2011\/06\/arm-development-boards\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,3,5],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ugoo","tag-arm","tag-embedded","tag-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.graygoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.graygoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.graygoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.graygoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.graygoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.graygoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.graygoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.graygoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.graygoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->