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MinnowBoard

Presenters’

Tauhidul KhandakerID : 011 111 010

Shahriar IbrahimID : 011 111 010

Repertory

•What is MinnowBoard?•Who owns MinnowBoard?•Who designs, manufactures and sells MinnowBoard?

•Price/ Where to buy?•Contents of the box•Performance

Repertory

•Openness•Flexibility•Standards•Software/ OS•Board Design Goals•Anatomy of a MinnowBoard (Top/Bottom)•Arduino UNO VS MinnowBoard

What is MinnowBoard?

MinnowBoard is an open hardware embedded board designed with the Intel® Atom™ E640 (1Ghz) Processor. The board targets small and low cost embedded market and was designed to appeal to both embedded developers and the maker community. MinnowBoard offers great performance, flexibility, openness and standards for the price.

Who owns MinnowBoard?

minnowboard.org: non-profit organization status has been applied for as of July 2013.

Who designs, manufactures and sells MinnowBoard?

CircuitCo, a custom manufacturing company based in Richardshon, Texas, designed and manufactured the board with feature, design and component recommendations from Intel Corporation. CircuitCo’s services are available to create modified versions of MinnowBoard for industrial and other custom applications.

Price/ Where To Buy?

Contents of The Box

• MinnowBoard• 4GB micro SD card preloaded with Angstrom Linux

Distribution(Yocto Project Compatible)• 5V Power Adaptor• USB Cable

Performance• Intel® Atom™ 1.0 GHz 32-bit CPU with Hyper-Threading and

Virtualizatoin Technology.• Integrated Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 600• Generous I/O

PCI ExpressSATA2 3Gb/secGigabit EthernetSDIO

• UEFI Firmware

Openness

•Open Hardware Platform•Customizations Possible Without Signing NDAs

•Open Source Angstrom Linux* Distribution•Open Source MinnowBoard Lure Designs

Flexibility

•Affordable Intel® Atom™ Platform•Scales up to Higher Workloads•Small Form Factor•Extensive Firmware Capabilities•Expandability via MinnowBoard Lures

Standards

• X86 compatibility• PCI Express, SATA, USB - PC Architecture Standards• SPI, I2C, CAN, GPIO - Embedded System Standards• Angstrom Linux* Distribution (Yocto Project

Compatible)• UEFI Firmware• ACPI 5.0

Software/ OS

The MinnowBoard V1 is powered by the open source Angstrom Linux* Distribution, which provides a variety of software packages that are relevant to and optimized for embedded applications.

Anatomy of A MinnowBoard (Top)

Anatomy of A MinnowBoard (Bottom)

Arduino UNO VS MinnowBoard

Name SoC

CPU

GPU

RAM

Architecture

Cores

Frequency SizeData rate

(MT/s)

Data path width [bits]

Type

Arduino UNO Atmel ATmega328P

AVR 1 16 MHz N/A 2KB 16 8 SRAM

MinnowBoard Intel Atom E640

x86 Bonnell 1 1 GHz Intel GMA600

1GB ? 64 DDR2

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