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Re: Intel CEO Announces Collaboration with Arduino

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Post by unwind »

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Typical/classic Arduinos are not based on ARMs, they are based on Atmel's much smaller 8-bit series of "AVR" microcontrollers (for instance the ATmega328 presented here: http://www.atmel.com/devices/ATMEGA328.aspx). This is the brain of the bog standard Arduino Uno (http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardUno) which is €20 in Europe.

To these, Intel's Quark seems very, very advanced indeed, but perhaps Intel's version is to be compared to the more recent ARM-based "big Arduinos", such as the Due (http://arduino.cc/en/Main/arduinoBoardDue). For comparison, the price for the Due is €39.

By the way, the Wikipedia page on the Quark is the deadest page I've seen on there in a long while: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quark. :(

Re: Intel CEO Announces Collaboration with Arduino

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Post by msandford »

anujdeshpande wrote: post #2

A good step forward. But will be tough to match the likes of Raspberry pi. Beaglebone Black will be hard to replace too. Given it's raw power and number of pins and interfaces

Yeah that's true, but it sounds like this Intel SoC could be made into something substantially more powerful than an Arduino. I can't tell if it's the Galileo (which is the Arduino compatible board) or the Quark SoC dev board, but there's mention of PCI express, 10/100 ethernet, USB, UART and RS232.

The PCI express means you could rig up your own video card. Yeah it'd probably be PCI express x1 (not x16 like you'd like) but that would still give you the ability to run a card which can drive more than one monitor. That is something the BBB or RPi can't do.

Re: Intel CEO Announces Collaboration with Arduino

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Post by anujdeshpande »

msandford wrote: post #5
anujdeshpande wrote: post #2

A good step forward. But will be tough to match the likes of Raspberry pi. Beaglebone Black will be hard to replace too. Given it's raw power and number of pins and interfaces

Yeah that's true, but it sounds like this Intel SoC could be made into something substantially more powerful than an Arduino. I can't tell if it's the Galileo (which is the Arduino compatible board) or the Quark SoC dev board, but there's mention of PCI express, 10/100 ethernet, USB, UART and RS232. The PCI express means you could rig up your own video card. Yeah it'd probably be PCI express x1 (not x16 like you'd li…

True. I am really curious to see how the embedded Linux community i.e. the ARM community will reacts to this.I somehow don't see widespread adoption yet. x86 people, or the one's who haven't heard much of ARM will find this kind of a board easy to start with.

Re: Intel CEO Announces Collaboration with Arduino

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Post by JoshTriplett »

msandford wrote: post #5
anujdeshpande wrote: post #2

A good step forward. But will be tough to match the likes of Raspberry pi. Beaglebone Black will be hard to replace too. Given it's raw power and number of pins and interfaces

Yeah that's true, but it sounds like this Intel SoC could be made into something substantially more powerful than an Arduino. I can't tell if it's the Galileo (which is the Arduino compatible board) or the Quark SoC dev board, but there's mention of PCI express, 10/100 ethernet, USB, UART and RS232. The PCI express means you could rig up your own video card. Yeah it'd probably be PCI express x1 (not x16 like you'd li…

The news articles aren't the best source for technical specs; Galileo does indeed have all of those ports. From the FAQ (http://www.intel.com/support/galileo/faq.htm): Intel® Galileo includes native Ethernet, SD, USB Host support, USB Client support, RS-232 serial port, and 10 pin JTAG ports. It also includes Arduino* shield connectors compliant with the Arduino* Uno R3 connector definition. Finally it includes a native mini-PCIe connector for the addition of Wi-Fi (for example).

Re: Intel CEO Announces Collaboration with Arduino

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Post by JoshTriplett »

One major item of note that the news stories haven't picked up on: the Galileo board itself and all of its documentation, schematics, BOM, etc, are all Open Source under CC-by-sa. See, for instance, the schematic at https://communities.intel.com/docs/DOC-21822 , the BOM at https://communities.intel.com/docs/DOC-21823 , and the datasheet at https://communities.intel.com/docs/DOC-21831 .

Re: Intel CEO Announces Collaboration with Arduino

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Post by hershel »

unwind wrote: post #4
[deleted] wrote: post #3

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Typical/classic Arduinos are not based on ARMs, they are based on Atmel's much smaller 8-bit series of "AVR" microcontrollers (for instance the ATmega328 presented here: http://www.atmel.com/devices/ATMEGA328.aspx ). This is the brain of the bog standard Arduino Uno ( http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardUno ) which is €20 in Europe. To these, Intel's Quark seems very, very advanced indeed, but perhaps Intel's versi…

Datasheets on the Quark:

https://communities.intel.com/community/makers/manuals--guid...

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