14 DAY TRIAL // Linaro and Samsung have just announced the release of high performance development boards using Samsung's Exynos 4210 chipset, called 'Origen' and sporting reduced costs and offering support for open source software and tools optimized by Linaro. With 'Origen', software developers would enjoy access to the high performance Exynos mobile computing platform, taking advantage of the multi-core Cortex-A9 CPU and multicore Mali400 GPU.
The board also comes with 1GB of high end DDR3 memory, and is expected to prove highly popular among developers of tablets, smartphones, and other connected devices.
Moreover, the company says that it plans on providing source code downloads of Linaro Evaluation Builds of Android and Ubuntu, which would take full advantage of the great performance capabilities of this sub-$200 board.
“The Origen board and Linaro's provision of software and tools makes it easier, faster and less expensive for developers and companies to develop high-end embedded Linux products,” said George Grey, CEO Linaro.
“Origen provides outstanding performance for tablets, smartphones and a wide range of embedded Linux products, and we are excited to be offering optimized open source components and builds of Android and Ubuntu for this development platform.”
'Origen' packs mobile platform orientated features, including HDMI, SD card, WiFi, Bluetooth, Stereo audio, LCD, JTAG debug and Camera interfaces.
The company also notes that the Exynos processor was mounted on a small daughter board along with the high bandwidth DDR3 memory, and that it would offer support for future upgrades.
The delivery of software from Linaro should speed up development and result in faster time to market, while simplifying the product creation.
“The new low cost 'Origen' board and consolidated software packages from Linaro are expected to enable easy and quick development of mobile platforms incorporating scalability of rich features on a cutting-edge Exynos 4210 application processor,” said Dojun Rhee, vice president, System LSI Marketing, Samsung Electronics.
We are confident that our customers and the open source community will be able to develop their products in a timely manner through the innovative Exynos platform.”