Direct Insight has developed a flexible, production-quality ARM board, which is configurable by changing a tiny (68mm by 26mm) processor module – from ARM9 to quad core ARM Cortex-A9. This offers a production solution for Linux, Windows CE and Android-based products.
The company advises that, while system-on-modules (SOMs) are growing dramatically in uptake, as a route to manufacture with high-end ARM-based processors, they suffer from the requirement for a custom baseboard to break out the required interfaces.
Since introducing the first such module in 2000, the company has an accumulated experience of over 300 SOM based projects, which has been used to develop a standard baseboard to address the connectivity requirements of the majority of embedded end-products, while offering upgradeability by integrating a broad family of ARM-based processor modules.
The Triton-TXFB board is claimed as fully production-ready, with industrial temperature range support and protected I/O. It is intended for low and medium volume use in end-user products.
This latest board can be used with any of the current generation of pin-compatible 3.3v I/O modules in the range. The combination of a baseboard and module forms a complete production-ready solution.
The range of available interfaces in this rangeincludes Ethernet, USB Host and OTG, SD Card and 2x RS-232. In addition, connectors for an EDT unified interface resistive or capacitive touch screen, from 4.3” to 7” are provided as well as a 40-pin header for other displays. Other I/O includes I2C, digital audio, 12 GPIOs, analogue inputs and PWM outputs. A single 5-20v DC power supply is required. A range of add-on daughter cards for additional connectivity, including wireless, is under development
This range can be used for systems developed with the series development system, StarterKit-5, or with the new TXEK series of evaluation kits which so far support Freescale i.MX6 and TI AM3354 processors.
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