The only quad core I've noticed on TI's site lately is an A15 quad ( keystone ) and is $125 @ 1ku . . . No stock, but active.
Anyway, the dual A15 on the X15 is supposed to be more than a match for the quad on the rPI 2. On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 4:14 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote: > I can sit and think about tons of reasons why the beaglebone line is > heads( and tails ) above the rest. But the two most prominent in my own > mind . . . > > 1) It is a real embedded system unlike most ( all? ) "comparable" boards > out there. Plenty ways to interface the board to the outside world, and TI > is the only ARM licensee who has PRUs one die( or otherwise ) that I'm > aware of. > > 2) A real Linux distribution that is well documented. Not some fork of a > real distro, or some made up crappy distro because no one felt like > supporting a dated instruction set. This means "we" have the whole Linux > open source community to work with. Instead of having to perform secrete > handshakes, or special incantations / magic hand waving every time the > kernel changes. > > the rPI 2 should be inline with #2 above, but we'll see how well their BSP > shapes up. After that though. They're using the same old GPU . . . > > > On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Chris Morgan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi William. >> >> I'm a big fan of the bbb. I like its wide range of io, the headers that >> make it stable when mounted on a cape and its price point. It also uses a >> CPU that I could put into my own design, unlike the Broadcom soc on the pi2 >> that I guess you need some magic handshake and millions of units to get >> access to. >> >> I see the x15 aimed at a different market due to cost and features. >> That's a good question though. Who is the x15 intended for? Why choose the >> x15 over say a minnowboard max? >> >> I'd like to help keep the bbb more on par with the cpu power of the pi2. >> Basically a bbb v2 with a multi core cpu, and maybe 1gb of ram as its >> leading features at a similar price point. I'm not sure if TI has any >> sitara quad cores in the works that might be candidates. >> >> I've done some digital circuit design, board bring up, uboot, etc. I'd >> be willing to help in any effort if circuitco, Gerald etc were interested. >> Plus the company I work for is using the bbb in a design and we could >> benefit from another CPU or three. >> >> Chris >> >> >> >> On Saturday, April 25, 2015, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> There are boards out there with SATA on them that cost less than the BBB >>> does right now. That are around the same size. >>> >>> >>> https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/A20/A20-OLinuXIno-LIME2/open-source-hardware >>> >>> That is one. Robert even has build instructions for it . . . but drivers >>> still seemed to be in infancy last i looked. >>> >>> Anyway Chris you should be more precise on what you want. If you want >>> any serious feedback. Which crowd do you think benefits from using a BBB >>> but not the X15 ? Are we talking pure cost, or something else ? Granted, >>> I'm also expecting the cost of the X15 to be out of the casual hobbyist >>> range. Which may have been by design ? >>> >>> On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 7:39 AM, Chris Morgan <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Graham. >>>> >>>> I've been watching the x15 project. It doesn't look like the same kind >>>> of board for the same kind of end user imo. eSATA isn't something we'd >>>> use (we are ok with sd or emmc for these limited uses), audio codec is >>>> interesting but wonder if that also increases cost for people that >>>> don't need it, same with the expansion connector, 2GB of ram vs. 1GB >>>> etc. >>>> >>>> I think a BBB v2 would be a lower performance/capability point than >>>> say the x15, something more price/performance in line with the Pi2 >>>> than a minnowboard. >>>> >>>> Chris >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Graham <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >> >>>> > http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoard-X15 >>>> > >>>> > == >>>> > >>>> > -- >>>> > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >>>> > --- >>>> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups >>>> > "BeagleBoard" group. >>>> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >>>> send an >>>> > email to [email protected]. >>>> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >>>> --- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "BeagleBoard" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "BeagleBoard" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> -- >> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "BeagleBoard" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. 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