Intel released a new generation of embedded chip QUARK SE on this year's CES, and launched the Curie module based on this chip. This module facing the wearable field, contains computing, motion sensing, Bluetooth and charging chips, running on an open source RTOS system. From the Intel's naming rules and product positioning, the Quark SE should be the simplified version of the original QUARK chip. However, today's protagonists are not QUARK SE and Curie, as the Curie module based on Quark SE is expected to be listed in the second half of this year.
Intel established the Internet of Things Division at the end of 2013, and launched an Edison (Edison) module on CES last year, officially entered the field of Internet and intelligent hardware. Intel hopes to build a product + service + supporting the ecosystem of the three, support team and individual innovation, through Edison and subsequent series of products, support team and individual innovation and helps its products really form and go to the market.
After posting a new version of the Edison Development Board on the IDF in September 2014, Intel officially launched the edison development board and platform on the Painter Carnival held in Shanghai in October 2014. Up to now, the EDISON development board still has no mass supply.
According to "pretending is the generous", it is currently in the relevant channels to prepare for bulk. The application development competition for the EDISON module is also prepared. It is said that Intel will cooperate with Baidu, Tencent, Jingdong, to promote the application of Edison modules in intelligent hardware.
Let's take a look at the EDISON's development board (see above), the outer packaging is very simple. Edison invented the bulb made the human beings broke the bondage of the night, and the EDISON's development board, what would you use?
After opening the outer package, we see the EDISON module, while printed on the official website of the Edison Getting Started Guide on the packaged paper shell.
The EDISON template is slightly larger than the standard SD card size.
Finally, it is an ARDUINO expansion board.
Intel's official EDISON development kit has three configurations, named Arduino bottom plate + Edison module, supporting interface board and separate Edison module. Among them, the Arduino version is more suitable for the use of Creatant people. After installing the EDISON module onto the expansion board, the inventors can use Arduino's development environment and the Internet Shanghai's Arduino software and hardware resources to develop their own intelligent hardware prototype products.
EDISON ARDUINO version is similar to Arduino Yun, which is previously "pretending to be HK", and the interface is also compatible with Arduino Uno (2 small PWM ports), and Arduino expansion board can be directly inserted on this motherboard.
(The ARDUINO extension module in the developer can be used directly on this Edison development board)
(Arduino Uno / Arduino Mega 2560 / Edison Arduino version contrast)
Let's dismantle the EDISON module. After the shield of the front and reverse surface is removed, it can be seen in the internal structure.
(Memory chip of the built-in processor)
(White chip is WiFi and Bluetooth module)
The functions of each part of the chip are as follows:
In particular, the CPU processor in the EDISON module is integrated in a Samsung's Flash memory. According to Intel official data, Edison's processor unit integrates a 22-nambodian double thread 500MHz atom SOC (on-chip system) and a 32-bit 100MHz QUARK microcontroller.
EDISON's communication module is a BCM43340 chip of Bo Tong, support 2.4G band and WiFi directly, and supports Bluetooth 4.0 Ble low power technology.
After installing the driver and connects the Edison development board to your computer, you can use Arduino to develop your own products for your Intel's development environment. "Pretending is Evergreen" with the easiest Blink flashproofer to give Edison into the first program. From the development environment, you can see that there are many routines for the developer reference. Of course, since this developing board has come with a WiFi module, the user can also achieve connection with the development environment via WiFi when developing products.
(Edison's Arduino Development Environment and Example Program)
Intel offers Arduino version of Edison, which is to make developers to make their own products with ARDUINO resources. In fact, when using EDISON to develop your own products, if you only use Arduino's function, it is really a small use. With the computing power of Atom chips, developers use Edison's development board to fully implement more multimedia and data processing applications. In addition, EDISON also supports a variety of popular development environments, developers, can even use HTML5 to make software application support for their hardware products.
Since Edison has built-in ATOM and QUARK two processors, developers can use QUARK to do data acquisition, and use Atom to do data analysis processing. At the same time, the EDISON module also provides cloud support, users can achieve more features and services through the back-end cloud platform.
The Galileo development board equipped with the QUARK processor is launched from Intel to use the Curie of Atom and QUARK, and then use the Quark SE's Curie. Intel's fast layout in the intelligent hardware and Internet of Things fields in the field of intelligent hardware and Internet of Things, trying to shorten the intelligent hardware development cycle for entrepreneurial teams and enterprises to adapt to the fast iteration of Internet era products. However, it is also because of the high integration of the product, it has also increased the hardware cost expenditure of the entrepreneurial team to some extent, and more suitable for products that have requested multimedia and local data processing. Whether such patterns are subject to the test of the market, they still have to be observed.
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