Creator is a special group. In the electronics industry, they require their own product development speed, low cost, strong performance, and quickly push to the market, so choose what kind of development platform is the top priority. On this Cantomino Week, the ARDUINO development board from Italy has opened the path globally. Its the biggest feature is open source, and Yucai can expand the open hardware and open source software platform through Arduino. Can DIY any Creativity and ideas.
The reporter learned that the Wuchen Week made this many famous development boards rapidly, such as Atmel emphasized the application of their own microprocessors in Arduino, the chip giant QUALCOMM and Intel, etc. All products can expand their products to the Arduino platform as an important promotion approach, and the operating system company Microsoft also emphasizes the support of the Windows system to Arduino.
ARDUINO open source and the entry threshold is low, many "small white" can also develop products above, such as Arduino, which has brought the latest Chinese version of the Chinese version of Arduino Starter Kit, work ARDUINO YUN MINI with a frequency of up to 400 MHz, a built-in Wi-Fi module, and an Arduino M0 Pro with 32-bit ARM kernels, with powerful scalability.
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Arduino is popular with global developers but it is not so high, it is limited to entry-level intelligent hardware products that are not high, which is the same hot and hardware platform in the past few years - Raspberry Pi It is also limited to applications of small scope simple computing functions. In order to cope with the increasingly complex complicated operation and control capacity requirements of hardware products, the performance requirements of the development board are afraid far more than this. At present, the upstream AP chip manufacturers have grinded the knife, and they are struggling to launch their own high performance, high integration, and low cost development boards.
Just during the Welcometer Week, QUALCOMM officially issued the development board 410c based on the Pomantian group, which is a high-performance, high integration and low-cost development board. The chip size 410 uses four Nuclear ARM Cortex-A53 architecture, mononuclear clock up to 1.2GHz, support 64-bit and 32-bit, GPU uses Qualcomm home Adreno306, support advanced API and content security feature, but also supports 1GB RAM and 8GB EMMC storage and Multiple USB interfaces.
In addition to high performance, small size, high integration, and scalability have always been the needs of Chuangke. The size of the Snapdragon 410C has only credit card size, integrated with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS, support Android and Ubuntu-based Linux operating system, and is the world's first development board that supports Windows 10. It is also equipped with high-speed and low speed interfaces that can be connected to the SHIELD expansion board (such as an Arduino Expansion Board) to achieve other applications by extension. This development board is manufactured by Qualcomm with Arowu Electronics, currently priced at $ 75, has been sold.
Qualcomm Technologies ("QTI") Advanced Vice President of Product Management emphasizes that the main purpose of participating in the Shenzhen Workshop is to bring Qualcomm to more Chuangguan in IT and IP-level technology. This credit card size 410C development kit is designed to support fast software development and prototyping, driving new products rapid commercialization, before it only supplies OEMs and ODM vendors, and now you can offer guests. The "C" represented by the Snapdragon 410c name is the meaning of community. He hopes to pass this development board to make the player group better contact to Qualcomm's core technology.
In addition to Qualcomm's Snapdragon 410c, Intel's EDISON development platform is very hot. As the core power partner of this Cantonese Current Shui Festival, the Intel Exhibition area shows dozens of intelligent hardware new products based on Edison computing platforms. The EDISON platform uses a 22-nammomorphic processor with dual-core / double thread 500 MHz CPU and 32-bit 100 MHz Quark MCU. Small size, only one stamp size, module supports up to 40 GPIO, 1G LPDDR3 memory, 4G EMMC, dual-band Wi-Fi and low power Bluetooth.
In terms of scalability, Edison has supported development using Arduino and C / C ++ and extended to Node.js, Python, Visual Programming, and RTOS, support device to the cloud connection frame. In terms of selling price, Intel Edison module retail a retail price of $ $ 85 for Arduino's EDISON toolkit, and the Retail price of Intel EDISON extensions sold through Mouser and Makershed in 65 countries around the world is $ 60.
Advanced Director of Intel New Technology Division Edward Ross
EDWARD ROSS EDWARD ROSS in Intel's New Technical Division said that it is the establishment of Shenzhen's local R & D team officially promoted the listing of Edison. In 2013, Intel learned that future equipment will become more linkage, based on this, Intel In September 2014, the Edison module was officially launched, from this concept to Edison's experience only 9 months, this platform is very important to Intel, and Intel is very encouraged to develop in the development of Corretion.
Compared with the high performance of Intel and QUALCOMM development board, MTK also exhibited the development platform for wearable and intelligent hardware in 2014 during the Welcometer week - Based on the Linkit platform of MT7681 and MT2502 chips, based on this The platform of smart watches and live robots have ushered in many audiences. It is reported that the sales board based on the MT7681 platform will drop to $ 59 based on the MT7681 platform.
Ask the gap between performance and competitors, a staff member of the MTK told reporters that do not necessarily all intelligent hardware require high performance, high performance means high-power and high cost, and even performance excess performance, MTK The platform is to meet the valet groups that are not as high as performance. In addition, as a representative of domestic tablet and OTT box chips, Zhuhai Jums also combined with LeMaker (Lemaker, Lemaker Bass, Lemaker Guitar, Lemaker Bass, and Lemaker Piano) based on torch core S500 and S900 main controlled intelligent hardware development board. Cut the intelligent hardware development business opportunities. In addition, Jun, in the country, has already been involved in the field of wearing chip, and gradually expands development platform to smart home, smart hardware, etc. More vague.
Today, the demand for the development board is high in the demand for the development board, whether it is a very imminent event that the upstream semiconductor manufacturer is imminent with the help of the ARDUINO to promote their chips and toolkits, or the most developing board, because this is directly related to The pattern of network big data competition. Unlike traditional smart phones, tablets, etc. PCBA development boards are different, not large OEM / ODM vendors, but a thousands of OEM / ODM vendors, so how to serve these groups is current AP. The biggest challenge facing the manufacturers.
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