"96Boards standard development board in recent years is the fire, they want a unified standard development board, hardware make it easier. I also reviewed a lot of information, found that for the present, global production of development in line with norms of 96Boards few platform, can be counted on one hand, holds rare = precious principles, I talk to you today to share a line with open source hardware platform 96Boards specifications --Qualcomm DragonBoard 410C single board computer for its performance exactly how , I can not wait.
As the name suggests, DragonBoard 410C see the name, it is easy to think of the board may be based on Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 series processors, the fact that, from the official website of Qualcomm can understand, Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 series processor performance and power consumption aspects to find the perfect balance, brings great things intelligent hardware and end-user experience. Thanks to the powerful processor performance, even now many entry-smart phones using this chip family, glimpse of a leopard and look at the whole body, more looking forward Snapdragon 400 series processor performance on a single board computer, and nonsense is not say, look at the board physical map.
Packaging is very delicate, if you really use a word to express the word is "comparable to the box of the current flagship smartphone."
In the shield to DragonBoard 410C card can be seen close to Arrow's trademark, it is not difficult to guess the board should Arrow actual product.
After reading so attractive packaging, to see such a fine board, most users would probably like me ecstatic, I actually got Qualcomm DragonBoard 410C board is following it looks like.
To know the new purchase of DragonBoard 410C only a veneer, and this evaluation to get a lot of DragonBoard 410C peripheral accessories, including:
DragonBoard 410C * 1
Power adapter 12V / 2A * 1 output, flashlight * 1
* Gesture sensor module 1, the light sensor module 1 *, 1 * color recognition sensor module
Above these things as being below the experiment to use the material.
Dragonboard development board and our credit card size is so small in life, mainly caters 96Boards consumer version of the design specifications, engineering prototype of factors aside, the board as a whole is still very delicate senses.
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Dragonboard 410C is the first use Qualcomm 410 processor Snapdragon, in line with 96Boards consumer version of the open source hardware board design specifications, onboard 1GB LPDDR3 RAM, 8GB eMMC 4.51 Flash, WiFi / BT / GPS / FM function, MicroSD card connector, HDMI, 3 USB (USB TypeA wherein two support USB Host, a MicroUSB interface support function Device), low-speed expansion interface 40PIN, 60PIN 16pin high-speed expansion interface and analog expansion interface, 6.5V ~ 18V DC power supply interface rich in resources, particularly resources distribution as shown in FIG.
DragonBoard 410C on-board resources:
Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 SoC, 4 ARM Cortex-A53-core processor, the highest frequency 1.2GHz, Adreno306 GPU
1GB LPDDR3 @ 533MHz, 8GB eMMC 4.51
3 x USB2.0 (USB TypeA wherein two support Host, a support MicroUSB interface supports Device), MicroSD card connector, HDMI
WiFi / BLE / GPS / FM 4-one module
40pin speed expansion interfaces, including UART, SPI, I2S, I2C, GPIO x12, DC power
60pin expansion of high-speed interfaces, including DSI, USB, I2C, CSI
16pin analog extension interfaces, including headphones, speakers, FM antenna
DragonBoard 410C supports 6.5V ~ 18V power supply, can ensure a very large wide voltage power input, onboard rich expansion interface enables engineers to add a variety of powerful peripheral resources, compared to other open source hardware board as we know, such as raspberry pie the biggest difference DragonBoard 410C is a wired Ethernet port removed, this should be taken into account increasingly prosperous wireless network environment and their own little piece of the development board size is very difficult to accommodate a large space occupied by the Ethernet port in addition DragonBoard 410C board is also equipped with eMMC storage, external MicroSD without having to boot the system, very convenient.
Remove the shield portion of the application processor can be found, DragonBoard 410C onboard 1GB RAM and processor package is stacked, external display type is APQ8016, additionally equipped with a separate on-board audio codec chip PM8916.
It supports various connectivity features on DragonBoard410C board, but does not support LTE. APQ8016 based 28nm low-power technology, the integrated 64-bit core 4 ARM Cortex-A53 processor, the highest frequency 1.2GHz.
There is a particularly interesting thing, because the shield relationship, I always thought the whole GPS and WiFi / BT module together, in fact, GNSS GPS baseband card used is integrated within Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, good powerful integration capabilities, while the WiFi / BT module is put together outside of the GNSS receiver hardware block diagram of the entire board is shown below, I believe glance looked after.
After reading the entire hardware profile DragonBoard 410C board, we find that, due to the design specifications 96Boards relying on the consumer version, in addition to the main application processor, the other functions of the board is basically equivalent to the same design specification-based development 96Boards plate. Speaking from 96Boards community learned that this board or board 96Boards in line with the consumer version of the design specifications very representative.
Single Board Computer Development Board Highlighted:
RIoTboard with a strong i.MX6Solo, with ARM Cortex-A9 cores for high-end mobile devices, high-end PDAs, the field of high-end portable media players, game consoles, netbooks, desktops machine, portable navigation devices.
Based on an evaluation board SVTronics OMAP5432 Cortex-A15, Cortex-M4 implement portable data terminal (PDT), single-board computers and digital signage convenient benchmark evaluation and medical monitoring terminal device.
Atom E3815 a single board computer with Intel ® Atom ™ (Bay Trail) processor for efficient imaging workflow, digital signage content delivery with safety features, portable medical equipment, industrial control systems and in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems.
Powering on
DragonBoard 410C introduction to hardware, then power-up look at the board, from the official website that, DragonBoard 410C supports Andriod, Linux, Windows 10 IoT Core systems. Because I do not know get what the system board built-in, choose to re-burn the Andriod system in the case of tossing back and forth monitors found no output.
DragonBoard 410C board is seemingly unable to start the system by MicroSD card directly, can only burn to onboard eMMC through a MicroSD card, the specific process is to use familiar win32 Disk Imager download Andriod image burned into MicroSD card . MicroSD card is then inserted into the deck board, the DIP switch on the back board DragonBoard 410C to modulate SD boot, Boot board.
This download Andriod system is andriod-118 version.
Log can be installed by tracking the serial output and display, but the actual time to install the system still must be used to monitor the operation of the UI interface, serial port can only assist viewing.
Directly selecting a corresponding image on the display in accordance with the output of the installation
There will be a confirmation prompt before the official start of the installation, the system will erase the previous eMMC.
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RIoTboard with a strong i.MX6Solo, with ARM Cortex-A9 cores for high-end mobile devices, high-end PDAs, the field of high-end portable media players, game consoles, netbooks, desktops machine, portable navigation devices.
Based on an evaluation board SVTronics OMAP5432 Cortex-A15, Cortex-M4 implement portable data terminal (PDT), single-board computers and digital signage convenient benchmark evaluation and medical monitoring terminal device.
Atom E3815 a single board computer with Intel ® Atom ™ (Bay Trail) processor for efficient imaging workflow, digital signage content delivery with safety features, portable medical equipment, industrial control systems and in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems.
System installation is very fast, it reminds me of the once nearly burned BBBlack board system to use more than 40 minutes, it is shame ah. After installation is complete, remove the MicroSD card, the DIP switch to restore the default state, all set to the OFF position, the system is powered on again is OK, as shown in FIG.
Here it must be noted down, you see the following output shows why the change? All in all, in fact there are a little special attention, since I usually have been using a monitor DVI interface, so toss DragonBoard 410C when default with HDMI to output DVI, but the download according to the author above Andriod system image, HDMI to DVI output is a problem, can not be displayed.
If the HDMI output directly into it, tried several types of equipment are possible.
In addition, this version of Andriod system there is a little problem, plug in a USB keyboard when displayed "Unfortunately, the process com.andriod.phone has stopped" ", unplug the USB keyboard, when they returned to normal, temporarily unclear What causes.
Andriod system image is based on the latest 6.0 version
Other WiFi settings, Bluetooth connections are working properly, there will be Caton online video, WiFi connection is not too smooth, of course, may also be a problem in the corporate network, with respect to some of the so-called open-source hardware board provides only one image installation Andriod , many drivers did not improve, DragonBoard 410C of Andriod system significantly more sincere.
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RIoTboard with a strong i.MX6Solo, with ARM Cortex-A9 cores for high-end mobile devices, high-end PDAs, the field of high-end portable media players, game consoles, netbooks, desktops machine, portable navigation devices.
Based on an evaluation board SVTronics OMAP5432 Cortex-A15, Cortex-M4 implement portable data terminal (PDT), single-board computers and digital signage convenient benchmark evaluation and medical monitoring terminal device.
Atom E3815 a single board computer with Intel ® Atom ™ (Bay Trail) processor for efficient imaging workflow, digital signage content delivery with safety features, portable medical equipment, industrial control systems and in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems.
Then the test developed by Qualcomm exemplary community project provided a sensor mounted on sensordemo DragonBoard 410C.
The article describes the beginning of the three sensor modules connected DragonBoard I2C speed expansion interface on the interface 410C through the I2C interface, power on the board.
Open the installation sensordemo app, we can directly be changed by APP sensor senses the brightness of the screen, color graphics, gesture control operation, in fact, this is what I usually see a lot of product on the use of these features, such as gestures switch songs, control switch, DragonBoard 410C provides a flexible prototype can DIY to the engineer, and the actual product you need creative engineer himself excavated.
To be honest, the experience Andriod system is pretty good, in fact, various open-source hardware platform support for Andriod system basically stay in a "support" did not make great efforts to optimize, or do not have the manpower alone is Andriod system optimization on large open source hardware board support, DragonBoard this point 410C good performance.
So then I still want to experience the next Debian system, previously under windows platform and Andriod system updates the same process.
Fortunately, after the burning of the Debian system, which willOn the display of the author's HDMI DVI interface, you can output it normally, whereby the previous Android system is not supported for the DVI interface.
It is easy to connect to WiFi through interface operations, and open the web page, although it is slow, but it is good.
After experiencing Dragonboard 410c outstanding hardware design and humanized hardware layout, the experience on the system is also bright. At present, Dragonboard 410c open source hardware board is about 570RMB in China. Although there are many other open source hardware board prices, it is better than hardware configuration, perfect function, and in the developer community in Qualcomm, there is very The data of the Dragonboard 410C card, the project instance download, whether it is studying or research and development, engineers can do more.
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