HawkBoard Platform Combines ARM, Floating-point DSP for Low-power Linux Innovations

Innovators, engineers, developers and hobbyists can now effortlessly create state-of-the-art products with the flexible, user-friendly HawkBoard, an open source embedded processor development board. Developed by Innovate Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd, HawkBoard provides processing power through a robust ARM and digital signal processor (DSP) and has multiple expansion and interface options to allow users to create end-use applications such as portable test and measurement systems, portable medical devices, public safety and military radios, power protection systems, networked audio/video servers and receivers, VoIP solutions and Qt development applications.

Offering portability and diversity in its small, 9x10cm form factor, the HawkBoard, based on the OMAP-L138 processor from Texas Instruments Inc. (TI), enables Linux developers to harness the power of floating-point DSP to design unique open source applications. Developers can utilize ARM without DSP with TI’s pin-for-pin compatible AM1808 microprocessor from the Sitara family of processors. This low-power board requires only a 5V power supply, allowing portability by connecting to a laptop.

The HawkBoard's 128MB of DDR2 RAM and 128MB of NAND flash allow developers to run multiple applications on an open platform. It has a built-in SATA controller that supports SATA I and II interfaces as well as built-in MMC/SD; as well as a JTAG interface that enables low-level debugging and reads/writes software and data into system memories.

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