One could recall a bit group of Linux-loving chums called Linaro, which was formed almost a year ago within the hopes of speeding up Linux development. Today at Computex, the company’s taking one step further with the announcement of the Origen development board. In accordance with Samsung’s beefy Exynos 4210 dual core chipset, the kit packs the entire essential ports — including HDMI, USB 2.0 host, SD slot, etc. — for keen developers to get their hands dirty on, and its base board is likewise removable to house future chipsets. Potential buyers are told to maintain an eye fixed on Insignal, so as to soon offer the elemental Origen package for $199, together with optional parts at an additional cost.
Linaro provides optimized base of software and tools for highest performance cheap ARM board ‘Origen’ using Samsung’s dual-core ARM® Cortex-A9 based Exynos 4210 chipset with high bandwidth DDR3 memory.
TAIPEI, TAIWAN – May 30 2011 – Linaro welcomes the scoop that developers shall be capable of buy
low-priced, high performance ‘Origen’ development boards using Samsung’s Exynos 4210
chipset, and run free open source software and tools which were optimized by Linaro.
Software developers now have low-priced access to the high performance Exynos mobile
computing platform that packs features inclusive of the newest multi-core Cortex-A9 CPU and multicore Mali400 GPU, with 1GB of high end DDR3 memory. This board might be popular with
developers of tablets, smartphones and other connected screens where leading edge
performance, stunning graphics and the facility to drive HD displays is essential. Linaro will
provide source code downloads of Linaro Evaluation Builds of Android and Ubuntu from its
website. The Linaro Evaluation Builds might be built with the most recent stable Linux kernel and
toolchain, and could deliver cutting edge performance on a sub-$200 board. The supply of
product quality software by Linaro will reduce time to market and straightforwardness the method of product
creation using open source software and tools.
“The Origen board and Linaro’s provision of software and tools makes it easier, faster and less
expensive for developers and corporations to develop high-end embedded Linux products,” said
George Grey, CEO Linaro. “Origen provides outstanding performance for tablets, smartphones
and quite a lot of embedded Linux products, and we’re excited to offer optimized
open source components and builds of Android and Ubuntu for this development platform.”
“The recent cost-effective ‘Origen’ board and consolidated software packages from Linaro are expected
to enable easy and quick development of mobile platforms incorporating scalability of richfeatures
on a cutting-edge Exynos 4210 application processor,” said Dojun Rhee, vice
president, System LSI Marketing, Samsung Electronics. “We’re confident that our customers
and the open source community can be ready to develop their products in a timely manner
in the course of the innovative Exynos platform.”
The ‘Origen’ integrates mobile platform orientated features reminiscent of interfaces for HDMI, SD
card, WiFi, Bluetooth, Stereo audio, LCD, JTAG debug and Camera. To enable future upgrade
options the Exynos processor is mounted on a small daughter board including high
bandwidth DDR3 memory. The ‘Origen’ board may be available through its manufacturer at
www.insignal.co.kr
Linaro exists to enable the newest open source software on advanced ARM SoCs, and to assist to
accelerate innovation among software developers. The present wave of “alwaysıconnected,
alwaysıon” devices are increasingly turning to Linux and highly integrated SoCs to realize the
performance and battery life consumers demand. For more info at the company,
access to software and tools, and knowledge at the community and open engineering, visit
www.linaro.org
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