MIPS tempts hackers with Raspbery Pi-like dev board
Bob Lawrence (VE1RLL)
Posts: 1,720
"Hard to choose between Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone Black, and MinnowBoard Max? Now there’s another choice: the open source MIPS-based “Creator CI20″ dev board.
The core of the 90.2 mm x 95.3 mm Creator CI20 SBC is its Ingenic JZ4780 system-on-chip, which integrates a pair of MIPS32 cores clocked at 1.2GHz, a PowerVR SGX540 GPU, and an IEEE754 FPU.
The Ingenic SoC is accompanied by 1GB of DDR3 DRAM and 8GB of NAND flash memory, and there’s also an one SD card slot and a set of signals for a second SD interface resides on an expansion connector.
http://linuxgizmos.com/mips-tempts-hackers-with-raspbery-pi-like-dev-board/
"The MIPS Creator CI20 platform is a feature laden MIPS/Imagination Linux and Android development system. It incorporates an Ingenic JZ4780 SoC which includes a 1.2GHz dual core MIPS32 processor and Imagination PowerVR SGX540 GPU. The CI20 board provides comprehensive connectivity, multimedia capabilities and substantial RAM and flash. CI20 is preloaded with Debian7, and other distros are being packaged to be available for download soon"
http://elinux.org/MIPS_Creator_CI20
The core of the 90.2 mm x 95.3 mm Creator CI20 SBC is its Ingenic JZ4780 system-on-chip, which integrates a pair of MIPS32 cores clocked at 1.2GHz, a PowerVR SGX540 GPU, and an IEEE754 FPU.
The Ingenic SoC is accompanied by 1GB of DDR3 DRAM and 8GB of NAND flash memory, and there’s also an one SD card slot and a set of signals for a second SD interface resides on an expansion connector.
http://linuxgizmos.com/mips-tempts-hackers-with-raspbery-pi-like-dev-board/
"The MIPS Creator CI20 platform is a feature laden MIPS/Imagination Linux and Android development system. It incorporates an Ingenic JZ4780 SoC which includes a 1.2GHz dual core MIPS32 processor and Imagination PowerVR SGX540 GPU. The CI20 board provides comprehensive connectivity, multimedia capabilities and substantial RAM and flash. CI20 is preloaded with Debian7, and other distros are being packaged to be available for download soon"
http://elinux.org/MIPS_Creator_CI20
Comments
-Tor
"Hard to choose between ....Now there’s another choice" Seems to be overstating. At this moment the thing is not available and it's price is unknown. Does not sound like a choice to me.
I'm glad to see a MIPS board out there. But I can't see it taking off much. Not unless it's performance can beat the current ARM offerings or it costs significantly less which seems unlikely. Does it have significantly less power consumption?
As it is I'm knee deep in dev boards of all kinds and I have been fiddling with MIPS processors in some WIFI router boxes with OpenWRT. No time to think about yet another choice.