Karim Yaghmour's "Android on Development Boards" at AnDevCon3

1. Android on
Development Boards
Silicon Valley Android Developers Meetup
2012/05/16
Karim Yaghmour
@karimyaghmour
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3. About
● Author of:
● Introduced Linux Trace Toolkit in 1999
● Originated Adeos and relayfs (kernel/relay.c)
● Training, Custom Dev, Consulting, ...
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4. Agenda
● What's a “Development Board”
● System Architecture
● SoCs
● Boards
● Demo
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5. 1. What's a “Development Board”
● Wikipedia: “... printed circuit board containing a
microprocessor and the minimal support logic
needed for an engineer to become acquainted
with the microprocessor on the board and to
learn to program it.”
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7. 2. System Architecture
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8. 3. System-on-Chip
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9. 3.1. Some SoCs out there
SoC CPU Speed GPU
OMAP4 Dual-core Cortex-A9 1-1.8GHz PowerVR
i.MX53 Cortex A8 1GHz OpenGL-ES
2.0-compatible
Tegra2 Dual-core Cortex-A9 1-1.2GHz GeForce
Snapdragon Dual-core Scorpion 1.2-1.5GHz Adreno
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10. 4. Boards
Name SoC Speed RAM Price (USD) URL
BeagleBone OMAP3 500MHz 256MB 89 beagleboard.org
BeagleBoard- OMAP3 1GHZ 512MB 149 beagleboard.org
xM
iMX53 Quick i.MX53 1GHz 1GHz 149 freescale.com
Start
PandaBoardES OMAP4 Dual- 1.2GHz 1GB 182 pandaboard.org
core
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11. 5. Demo
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12. Thank you ...
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Figures taken from “BeagleBoard-xM Rev C
System Reference Manual” by BeagleBoard.org's
Gerald Coley
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