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ARM-based SBC comes with embedded Debian
Aug. 16, 2006

Taiwanese embedded board start-up Embedian is shipping an ARM-based 3.5-inch form-factor SBC (single-board computer) targeting fixed and mobile applications, including mobile terminals, POS devices, kiosks, ATMs, vending machine, networking, gaming, security audio/video processing, and telematics. The APC-7110 is available with a Linux development kit.

The APC-7110 is based on a Samsung S3C2440A SoC (system-on-chip), which features an ARM9 core clocked at 400MHz, an LCD controller, USB host and camera interfaces, and onboard RAM, NAND/NOR flash, and SD/MMC memory controllers.

Samsung has published little additional information about the SoC, other than as relates to a "Kingfish II PDA-Phone" design.


The APC-7110, top and bottom
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The APC-7110 comes standard with 64MB or 128MB of soldered-on SDRAM, plus 500KB of on-board NOR flash and 32MB of on-board NAND flash. It can drive LCD displays up to SVGA (1024 x 768) resolution, and deliver QVGA (320 x 240) video up to 24fps, Embedian claims.

Other touted features include:
  • Full- or half-duplex 10/100 Ethernet
  • 4 x USB 1.1 (12Mbit/s) OHCI host interfaces, with on-board Type-A and Type-B connectors
  • Type I/II CompactFlash slot
  • 133MHz system BUS
  • +5V AT/ATX or DC power
  • +12V connection bypass to backlight inverter board or other external devices
  • Battery-backed RTC (real-time clock)
  • CompactFlash(CF), Type I and Type II, 3.3V, memory mode, I/O mode, or true IDE mode
  • Serial console port
  • 1 x 5-wire RS-232 interface
  • 4 x 9-wire RS-232 ports
  • 1 x 5-wire RS232/422/485 port
  • High-quality onboard sound and audio I/O
  • 12 x GPIOs
  • WatchDog timer (WDT)
  • VGA port
  • TTL and 18-/24-bit LVDS interface
  • Dual BIOS support
  • uBoot bootloader
  • Ethernet TFTP download
  • NAND flash; bootable
Software side

The APC-7110 comes with a 2.6.13 kernel and an embedded filesystem based on Debian Linux. The system environment includes X11, Qt, and KDE. The company says that "every attempt has been made" to keep the environment source-level compatible with x86 systems, for easier migration of standard open-source and custom-developed applications.

Development Kit

The APC-7110 is available as an embedded Linux development kit that includes an LCD panel (various sizes and resolutions available), backlight inverter board, power adapter, cables, 1GB CompactFlash card, and email and forum-based technical support.

Availability

The APC-7110 is shipping now, priced at $140, according to the company. The Development Kit version is offered for $1,800. For further details, visit the company's website.



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