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authorbnewbold <bnewbold@robocracy.org>2012-05-24 19:30:13 -0400
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@@ -16,15 +16,22 @@ routing easier (eg, iPhones, RaspberryPI).
The establishment players for mobile ARM SoCs are TI (OMAP), Qualcomm
([Snapdragon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapdragon_(System_on_Chip))), not
-regular ARM), Samsung ([Exynos](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exynos))), Broadcom (Armada, Armada XP, )
+regular ARM), Samsung ([Exynos](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exynos))), Marvell
+(Armada, Armada XP, )
The establishment players for MIPS SoCs are Broadcom and Marvell (Kirkwood).
+
# ARM
-### TI OMAP
+### Freescale i.MX6
+
+<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.MX#i.MX6x_series>
-[OMAP5 overview](http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/TI-OMAP5430-and-OMAP5432-CES-demos/)
+40nm process. 1.2GHz Cortex A9, up to 4 cores, includes vidoe processing
+"stuff". Single PCIe, GigE, SATA, 64bit RAM bus, $10-20 price range, available
+summer 2012? Sabre Lite DevKits available to some?
+[linaro link with specs](https://wiki.linaro.org/Boards/MX6QSabreLite)
### Marvell Armada XP
@@ -34,13 +41,19 @@ The establishment players for MIPS SoCs are Broadcom and Marvell (Kirkwood).
- 2x 1GHz armv5 chips
- 2x SATA
- 2x PCIe x4
- - $60 or less?
+ - "$60 or less" (?)
Samples available from
[nu horizons](http://www.nuhorizons.com/featuredproducts/portal/samples/January_2012.asp)
Apple experimenting with these chip? [arstechnica article](http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/09/support-for-quad-core-arm-cpu-shows-up-in-apples-xcode-but-why.ars)
+### TI OMAP4
+
+PandaBoard's OMAP4460:
+
+ - up to 1.5GHz dual-core Cortex-A9
+
### Calxeda "EnergyCore"
Going for massively parallelized market, with hundreds of cors in a rack.
@@ -50,48 +63,63 @@ ECX-1000 is 4 Cortex-A9 at 1.1-1.4ghz, 5watts with 4gb DDR3 RAM. SATA and PCIe,
"routing fabric". Hard FPU.
-### Freescale i.MX6
-
-<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.MX#i.MX6x_series>
-
-40nm process. 1.2GHz Cortex A9, up to 4 cores, includes vidoe processing
-"stuff". Single PCIe, GigE, SATA, 64bit RAM bus, **$10-20** price range,
-available summer 2012? Sabre Lite DevKits available to some?
+### Allwinner A10
-[linaro link with specs](https://wiki.linaro.org/Boards/MX6QSabreLite)
+A Chinese-made fast+cheap ($5 in volume) tablet-oriented chip.
-### Allwinner A10
+ - 1.5GHz ARM Cortex A8, with MALI GPU
+ - "$5 in volume"
+ - NAND flash controller
+ - 4 SDIO interfaces
+ - SATA-II (3 gb/sec... bit?)
+ - 10/100 Ethernet
-A Chinese-made fast cheap (**"$5 in volume"**) tablet-oriented processor
+Links:
- <http://elinux.org/Hack_A10_devices>
- <http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/>
- <http://www.wits-tech.com/pages/board.jsp>
- SDK and tools docs <http://www.cnx-software.com/2011/12/28/allwinner-a10a1x-processor-resources-development-board-and-sdk/>
-# x86
+### Nvidia Tegra
-### Intel Atom
+Has PCIe?
-Line of devices with low-gate-count integrated Altera FPGAs. Great
-connectivity, but higher price (**~$60?**), proprietary toolchain, higher power
-consumption.
+### ST SPEAr1340
+
+[pre-production](http://www.st.com/internet/mcu/product/251211.jsp):
+
+ - 2x Cortex-A9 cores up to 600MHz
+ - 32bit DDR3-1066 memory bus, up to 1GB addressable
+ - 1x GigE port
+ - 1x PCIe 2.0 lane
# MIPS
Ingenic jz4760B
+# x86
+
# PowerPC
AppliedMicro APM86290
# Other
-Marvell Avanta ethernet switch SoCs: http://www.marvell.com/broadband/
+ - [Rhombus Tech CPU eval list](http://rhombus-tech.net/evaluated_cpus/)
+
+ - [Marvell Avanta](http://www.marvell.com/broadband/) ethernet switch SoCs
+
+ - Marvell Prestera EX/MX enterprise packet processors
-Marvell Prestera EX/MX enterprise packet processors
+ - Freescale QorIQ DPAA
-Freescale QorIQ DPAA
+ - TI [OMAP5 overview](http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/TI-OMAP5430-and-OMAP5432-CES-demos/)
-http://www.caviumnetworks.com/Table.html#CNS3XXX (ARM network chips)
+ - TI Sitara AM389x has PCIe? $40+ in 1k quantities?
+ - 1x PCIe
+ - up to 1.5GHz Cortex-A8
+ - 2x 32bit DDR3-1600 interfaces
+ - GigE ethernet
+ - 1031FCBGA package (1k pins?)