HiKey board
Arrow Electronics is adding open-source hardware to its embedded design offerings and it has signed up to Linaro, the organisation which optimises open-source software for ARM processor-based designs.
Arrow will sell open-source ARM-based boards as part of the Linaro community known as “96Boards”.
The community includes both maker and embedded product manufacturers.
“96Boards is building a single software and hardware community across low-cost development boards based on ARM Cortex-A processors from multiple silicon vendors,” said Rob Booth, Linaro chief operating officer.
96Boards is an open specification to define a platform for 32-bit and 64-bit Cortex-A boards from the range of ARM SoC vendors.
It includes standardised expansion buses for peripheral I/O, display and cameras allow the hardware ecosystem to develop a range of compatible add-on products that will work on any 96Boards product over the lifetime of the platform.
An example is the HiKey board, which is based on the HiSilicon Kirin 6220 eight-core ARM Cortex-A53 64-bit SoC running at 1.2GHz and delivering over 10,000 Dhrystone VAX MIPS total performance. The SoC also delivers high performance 3D graphics support with its ARM Mali 450-MP4 GPU.
The board is the standard 96Boards credit-card form factor powered by an 8-18V DC 2A power supply.
“Ensuring reliable hardware production and distribution is key to developing this community,” said Booth.
Aiden Mitchell, vice president of semiconductor marketing for Arrow, said the move was part of a five year plan to expand its involvement in the open-source community.
“We look forward to working with the Linaro community to accelerate the pace of innovation for the ARM processor market,” said Mitchell.
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