| Inspiring the Evolution of Embedded Design |
| January 26, 2021 Embedded Boards |
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| | | Raspberry Pi Goes MCU with Open-Spec Pico |
| Raspberry Pi Ltd. has launched a $4 “Raspberry Pi Pico” board based on an “RP2040” chip with dual Cortex-M0+. The Pico adds 2MB of flash, micro-USB and 26 GPIO. RP2040-based boards are also available from Adafruit, Arduino, Pimoroni and SparkFun. |
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| | | Comet Lake-S Appears on COM Express |
| Portwell’s Linux-ready “PCOM-B655VGL” Basic Type 6 module features Intel’s up to 10-core, 10th Gen Comet Lake-S plus up to 32GB DDR4, 3x DDI, 4x SATA III, 4x USB 3.2 Gen2, and PCIe x16 and 8x PCIe x8 Gen3. Portwell has announced what appears to be first COM Express module based on Comet Lake-S, although Portwell makes no claims for being first. |
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| | | 150 Open-Spec SBCs Under $200 |
| Linuxgizmos.com, Circuit Cellar’s sister website, has posted its annual SBC catalog of 150 hacker-friendly, open-spec SBCs that run Linux or Android. Linuxgizmos’ 2021 catalog includes summaries of 150 community-backed and predominantly open-spec Linux/Android hacker boards under $200 It provides updated prices and descriptions plus a comparison spreadsheet of major features. |
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| | | Datasheet: Tiny Embedded Boards |
| An impressive amount of computing functionality can be squeezed on to a small form factor board these days. These tiny board-level products meet the needs of applications where extremely low SWaP (size, weight and power) beats all other demands. This Datasheet section updates you on this technology trend and provides a product album of representative small and tiny embedded boards. |
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| | | BeagleV SBC Runs Linux on AI-Enabled RISC-V SoC |
| BeagleBoard.org and Seeed unveiled an open-spec, $119-and-up “BeagleV” SBC with a StarFive JH7100 SoC with dual SiFive U74 RISC-V cores, 1-TOPS NPU, DSP and VPU. The SBC ditches the Cape expansion for a Pi-like 40-pin GPIO. But this is not a BeagleBone clone because it lacks the dual 46-pin GPIO headers that enable the use of common Cape add-ons —the HATs of the BeagleBone world. |
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| Rugged Mini-PC Dips Into Elkhart Lake Neousys unveiled a fanless, 112mm x 87mm x 50mm “POC-40” computer with an up to 3.0GHz, dual-core Atom x6211E plus up to 32GB DDR4, 2x GbE, 4x USB, 3x M.2, and DP, 2x serial and isolated DIO. |
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