Low Cost Linux boards in India

Cubie board:

The Cubie board is a small board made for hardware hacking with a high end Cortex A8 ARM processor. Available for purchase locally in India.

Features :

1G ARM cortex-A8 processor, NEON, VFPv3, 256KB L2 cache
Mali400, OpenGL ES GPU
1GB DDR3 @480MHz
HDMI 1080p Output
10/100M Ethernet, optional WiFi
4GB NAND Flash
2 x USB Host, 1 x MicroSD slot, 1 x SATA, 1 x IR sensor
96 extend pin interface, including I2C, SPI, RGB/LVDS, CSI/TS, FM-IN, ADC, CVBS, VGA, SPDIF-OUT, R-TP, and more
Official Android distribution available (not pre-installed), Linux, with Android Playstore support*
Requires regulated 5VDC 2A power supply with a 4.0mm(ext. diameter) x 1.7mm (int. diameter) barrel plugBeagle Bone Black : The original Beagle bone board is back in Black with new improvements and cost reductions.

Here are the new Beagle bone black features :
- AM335x 1GHz ARM® Cortex-A8 processor
- 3D graphics accelerator
- NEON floating-point accelerator
- 2x PRU 32-bit microcontrollers
- USB client for power & debug USB host
- Ethernet HDMI 2x 46 pin headers
- Angström
- Linux
- Android
- Ubuntu
- Cloud9 IDE on Node.js w/ BoneScript library plus much more
Beagle Bone board:

This board comes with a 720 MHz Super-scaler ARM Cortex A8 processor manufatured by Texas instruments. Beagle bone comes packed with a
- 256MB RAM,
- USB,
- Ethernet support,
- SD CARD.
This board is a made specifically for hardware hacking, so the manufacturer has left out most of the processor pins accessible by connectors.

Beagle board:

This board is built to give a laptop like performance and comes with a 1 GHz Super-scaler ARM Cortex A8 processor manufatured by Texas instruments. Beagle board comes packed with a
- 512MB RAM,
- USB,
- Ethernet,
- S-Video,
- Camera port,
- Stereo IN/OUT,
- micro SD CARD slot,
- LCD expansion.
Mini2440 | S3C2440 AMR9 Board by Friendly ARM:
- 400 MHz Samsung S3C2440A ARM920T (max freq. 533 MHz)
- 64 MB SDRAM, 32 bit Bus
- 64 MB / 128 MB / 256 MB / 1GB NAND Flash and 2 MB NOR Flash with BIOS
- 256 Byte EEPROM (I2C)
- SD-Card socket
- DB9 connector (RS232), total: 3 serial port connectors
- USB
- 3.5 mm stereo jack
- Condenser microphone with connector
- Ethernet
- CR1220 Real Time Clock with battery
- PWM buzzer
- 20 pin (2.0 mm) Camera interface
- 41 pin (1.0 mm) connector for FriendlyARM Displays and VGA Board
- 4 wire resistive touchscreen interface
- 6 push buttons and 1 A/D pot
- 4 LEDs
- RASPBERRY PI:
  The RASPBERRY PI is the cheapest ARM11 powered linux capable single board computer board you will ever find. This board runs an ARM11 processor @700MHz and comes with a 512 Mega Bytes of RAM memory. Here are the features of the board,
  - 512MB SDRAM,
  - Ethernet, USB,
  - HDMI,
  - LINUX FEDORA OS,
  - ARM 11 processor @700MHz
  - BCM2835 SoC based chipset
  - A13-OLINUXINO:
    Its a development board by Olimex powered by the A13 processor from Allwinner technology from China. Here are the features of the board,
    - A13 Cortex A8 processor at 1GHz, 3D Mali400 GPU
    - 512 MB RAM
    - 6-16VDC input power supply, noise immune design
    - 3 + 1 USB hosts, 3 available for users, 1 leads to onboard pinout
    - 1 USB OTG which can power the board
    - SD-card connector for booting the Linux image
    - VGA video output
    - LCD signals available on connector so you still can use LCD if you diasble VGA/HDMI
    - Audio output
    - Microphone input
    - RTC PCF8536 on board for real time clock and alarms
    - 5 Keys on board for android navigation
    - UEXT connector for connecting addtional UEXT modules like Zigbee, Bluetooth, Relays, etc
    - GPIO connector with 68/74 pins and these signals
    - Optional low-cost 7″ LCD with touchscreen
    - 17 for adding NAND flash;
    - 22 for connecting LCDs;
    - 20+4 including 8 GPIOs which can be input, output, interrupt sources;
    - 3x I2C;
    - 2x UARTs;
    - SDIO2 for connectinf SDcards and modules;
    - 5 system pins: +5V, +3.3V, GND, RESET, NMI

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