2012-10-27, 11:23
This sounds like an interesting board for a XBMC project, does anyone know if linux will run on such a board?
Samsung Arndale Board
Samsung Arndale Board
2012-10-27, 12:38
Was looking at it as well; but with that kinda price; you're better off getting a 3-4 Raspberry Pi's instead. Its like a Pi; but with better processor and bigger size board though. If the price includes the Wifi Add-on; i'll seriously consider it as soon as there's a XBMC build for it. Size though looks like a big 7" tablet on the table
2012-10-27, 13:40
You're right, it has got a very high price. Here you can find the appropriate package -> Arndale Board Package
For 249$ you've got WiFi & Bluetooth onboard, not cheap but could be an interesting development platform...
At the moment it seems not to be possible to get the board without the Connection Option (WiFi & Bluetooth)
For 249$ you've got WiFi & Bluetooth onboard, not cheap but could be an interesting development platform...
At the moment it seems not to be possible to get the board without the Connection Option (WiFi & Bluetooth)
2012-11-03, 05:42
On the bright side; with the WiFi and bluetooth; straight out of the box we got a device that can compete with the Western Digital LIVE media players. Only thing lost is the size; but with processors like that; the Arndale is good for the next 5yrs in terms of playback. Not to mention the upgradeability of XBMC
2012-11-05, 14:44
That's right, it will be interesting if it is possible to do HW accelerated playback on the Mali GPU with XBMC...
2012-11-10, 08:59
Awesome board, pity it's so ugly lol
ARM has confirmed that the Cortex A15 core is 40 percent faster than the Cortex-A9 core with the same number of cores at the same speed
Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Cortex-A15_MPCore
So what's that, the Arndale Board board is a Cortex-A15 @ 1.7 GHz dual core so, a single core A9 would have to run at about 4Ghz?
In this clip it seems to be playing 3 x 1080p video clips in the background?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pla...zjnyE5s5aE#!
Raspberry Pi: is 1.25 DMIPS/MHz per core, so @ 700MHz single core = 875 DMIPS
Pivos Xios: Cortex A9 is 2.5 DMIPS/MHz per core, so @ 800MHz single core = 2,000 DMIPS
Arndale Board: Cortex A15 is (at least) 3.5 DMIPS/MHz per core, so @ 1.7GHz dual core = 11,900 DMIPS
Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ARM...ssor_cores
ARM has confirmed that the Cortex A15 core is 40 percent faster than the Cortex-A9 core with the same number of cores at the same speed
Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Cortex-A15_MPCore
So what's that, the Arndale Board board is a Cortex-A15 @ 1.7 GHz dual core so, a single core A9 would have to run at about 4Ghz?
In this clip it seems to be playing 3 x 1080p video clips in the background?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pla...zjnyE5s5aE#!
Raspberry Pi: is 1.25 DMIPS/MHz per core, so @ 700MHz single core = 875 DMIPS
Pivos Xios: Cortex A9 is 2.5 DMIPS/MHz per core, so @ 800MHz single core = 2,000 DMIPS
Arndale Board: Cortex A15 is (at least) 3.5 DMIPS/MHz per core, so @ 1.7GHz dual core = 11,900 DMIPS
Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ARM...ssor_cores
