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armStone™A8
Note: This Product Is No Longer Available For New Developments!
Single Board Computer in PicoITX Formfaktor with Samsung S5PV210 CPU
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| armStone™A8 | ||
| State | no new developments | |
| CPU | ||
| CPU | Samsung CortexA8 with 833MHz (1GHz optional) | |
| Core | Cortex-A8 | |
| Frequency | 1GHz | |
| GPU | PowerVR SGX540 | |
| Operating System | ||
| Linux | 3.3 | |
| Windows | WCE 6.0 R3/ WEC 7 | |
| Memory | ||
| Flash | 128MByte Flash (1GB optional) | |
| RAM | 256MByte (512MByte optional) | |
| Interfaces | ||
| Ethernet | 1-2x 10/ 100Mbit | |
| USB Host | 1 | |
| USB Device | 1 | |
| CAN | 1 | |
| I2C | 1 | |
| SPI | 1 | |
| Audio | IN/ OUT/ MIC | |
| Digital I/O | max. 66 | |
| Touch Panel | 4-wire, analogue resistive capacitive Touch interface |
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| Display | ||
| LVDS | WXGA, 18Bit | |
| CRT/DVI | DVI 1080p | |
| Common | ||
| Supply Voltage | +5VDC / ±5% | |
| Power Consumption | 4W typ. | |
| Operating Temperature | 0°C up to +70°C (-25°C up to +85°C I-Temp. Version) | |
| Size | 100mm x 72mm x 15mm (l x b x d) |
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| Weight | about 40g |
| aStoneA8-WCE | aStoneA8-LIN | aStoneA8-Prem-LIN | aStoneA8-Prem-WCE | aStoneA8-PremI-LIN | aStoneA8-PremI-WCE | |
| State | no new developments | no new developments | no new developments | no new developments | no new developments | no new developments |
| CPU | ||||||
| CPU | Samsung CortexA8 mit 833MHz | Samsung CortexA8 mit 833MHz | Samsung CortexA8 with 833MHz (1GHz optional) | Samsung CortexA8 with 833MHz (1GHz optional) | Samsung CortexA8 with 833MHz (1GHz optional) | Samsung CortexA8 with 833MHz (1GHz optional) |
| Core | Cortex-A8 | Cortex-A8 | Cortex-A8 | Cortex-A8 | Cortex-A8 | Cortex-A8 |
| Frequency | 800 MHz | 800 MHz | 1GHz | 1GHz | 1GHz | 1GHz |
| GPU | PowerVR SGX540 | PowerVR SGX540 | PowerVR SGX540 | PowerVR SGX540 | PowerVR SGX540 | PowerVR SGX540 |
| Operating System | ||||||
| Linux | Linux | 3.3 | 3.3 | |||
| Windows | WCE 6.0 R3 | WEC 7 | WEC 7 | |||
| Memory | ||||||
| Flash | 128MB | 128MB | 128MByte Flash (1GB optional) | 128MByte Flash (1GB optional) | 128MByte Flash (1GB optional) | 128MByte Flash (1GB optional) |
| RAM | 256 MB | 256 MB | 512 MB | 512 MB | 512 MB | 512 MB |
| Interfaces | ||||||
| Ethernet | 1 x 10/ 100Mbit | 1 x 10/ 100Mbit | 2 x 10/ 100Mbit | 2 x 10/ 100Mbit | 2 x 10/ 100Mbit | 2 x 10/ 100Mbit |
| USB Host | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| USB Device | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| CAN | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| I2C | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| SPI | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Audio | IN/ OUT/ MIC | IN/ OUT/ MIC | IN/ OUT/ MIC | IN/ OUT/ MIC | IN/ OUT/ MIC | IN/ OUT/ MIC |
| Digital I/O | max. 66 | max. 66 | max. 66 | max. 66 | max. 66 | max. 66 |
| Touch Panel | 4-wire, analogue resistive capacitive Touch interface |
4-wire, analogue resistive capacitive Touch interface |
4-wire, analogue resistive capacitive Touch interface |
4-wire, analogue resistive capacitive Touch interface |
4-wire, analogue resistive capacitive Touch interface |
4-wire, analogue resistive capacitive Touch interface |
| Display | ||||||
| LVDS | WXGA, 18Bit | WXGA, 18Bit | WXGA, 18Bit | WXGA, 18Bit | WXGA, 18Bit | WXGA, 18Bit |
| CRT/DVI | DVI 1080p | DVI 1080p | DVI 1080p | DVI 1080p | DVI 1080p | DVI 1080p |
| Common | ||||||
| Supply Voltage | +5VDC / ±5% | +5VDC / ±5% | +5VDC / ±5% | +5VDC / ±5% | +5VDC / ±5% | +5VDC / ±5% |
| Power Consumption | 4W typ. | 4W typ. | 4W typ. | 4W typ. | 4W typ. | 4W typ. |
| Operating Temperature | 0°C bis +70°C | 0°C bis +70°C | 0°C bis +70°C | 0°C bis +70°C | -25°C-+85°C | -25°C-+85°C |
| Size | 100mm x 72mm x 15mm (l x b x d) |
100mm x 72mm x 15mm (l x b x d) |
100mm x 72mm x 15mm (l x b x d) |
100mm x 72mm x 15mm (l x b x d) |
100mm x 72mm x 15mm (l x b x d) |
100mm x 72mm x 15mm (l x b x d) |
| Weight | about 40g | about 40g | about 40g | about 40g | about 40g | about 40g |
| aStoneA8-WCE | aStoneA8-LIN | aStoneA8-Prem-LIN | aStoneA8-Prem-WCE | aStoneA8-PremI-LIN | aStoneA8-PremI-WCE |
The Linux BSP (multiplatform-linux-f+s-V2.0) contains the customized Linux Kernel Source Code (v3.3.7), the customized U-Boot Source Code (2012.07) and a customized Buildroot (2012.08), as well as our Cross-Toolchain. The package also holds our standard binaries of the Linux Kernel Images, U-Boot and a UBIFS Root Filesystem. For a first impression, the Root Filesystem based on Buildroot has the following features installed:
Busybox 1.20.x, gdb 6.8, alsa-utils, gstreamer, madplay, directFB, fbv, X.Org rel-7.5, Matchbox, feh, X11vnc, openssl, openssh, freetype, glib2, tslib, libv4l, ncurses, can-utils, iproute2, ftpd, httpd, telnet, tftp
The BSP also contains our First-Step documentation and example applications.
Windows Embedded Lifetime
| Feature | Available until | End of Mainstream Support | End of Extended Support |
| Windows Embedded Compact 2013 | 31.05.2028 | 10.09.2018 | 10.10.2023 |
| Windows Embedded Compact 7 | 28.02.2026 | 12.04.2016 | 13.04.2021 |
| Windows CE 6.0 | 28.02.2022 | 09.04.2013 | 10.04.2018 |
Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3/Compact 7
Windows Embedded CE6.0 R3 or Windows Embedded Compact 7 offers Bootloader, interface drivers and kernel (with e.g. Silverlight, Mediaplayer or IE). Interface drivers for almost every offered interface are ready to use (an access code for this software is shipped with the starter kit). Hard work with PlatformBuilder is unnecessary, since we already did that. Create your software with Visual Studio .NET (not shipped with the starterkit) in C, C++, C# or VB.NET. Use interfaces like I²C in the same way like a RS232 interface, without having to handle the underlying hardware. Configure the display and other settings with the F&S configuration tool. This is software development at its easiest.
Our FailSafe Flash File System F3S is also available in WCE 6.0 and Compact 7.
Windows Embedded Features for FSV210
General
| Feature | Description |
| .NET Support | Library to easily access DIO, CAN, I²C and SPI from .NET Compact Framework |
| AnalogIn | Stream driver to easily access the analog inputs |
| Audio Codec | Support for Microphone, LineIn and LineOut. Implements Mixer interface and special F&S mixer control panel applet to easily change settings. |
| BusEnum2 | Support for asynchronous loading of drivers. Use events to start loading of drivers. |
| Broadcast | Stream driver Boards can be easily identified and configured over LAN connection |
| CAN | Stream driver to easily access CAN interface. Special tool suit to generate traffic or check communication. |
| Digital I/O | Stream driver to configure pins as input, output or interrupt. Possibility to adjust drive strength or enable/disable internal pull-up or pull-down. Settings can be stored pin registry. |
| Display | Display driver can be configured by registry settings without modifying operating system. |
| Display | Multi-Monitor Support Adjustable by registry |
| Display | 2D software acceleration using NEON co-processor Multiple overlays with alpha blending |
| Display | 2D hardware acceleration 3D OpenGL ES 1.1 and 2.0 hardware acceleration Multiple overlays with alpha blending Multiple monitor support (incl. 2D acceleration and Video support) |
| Firmware Update | Software to update Bootloader and/or operating system from running operating system. |
| Software Update | Program to update application and registry settings from USB stick, SD card or other source. Includes automatic detection. Can incorporate with Firmware Update |
| I²C | Stream driver Support for hardware I²C controller (NI2C) Support for using GPIOs as I²C (I²C) |
| JPEG | Stream driver Hardware accelerated JPEG encoder/decoder |
| Keyboard | Support for German 0407, Spanish 040A, French 040C, Italy 0410 and English 0409 Matrix keyboard support: Use IO pins for keyboard |
| SPI | Stream driver Support for hardware SPI controller |
| Touch | Resistive touch driver with virtual key support - Capacitive touch driver for ATMEL EDT and others Extended USB mouse driver to accept absolute coordinates |
| USB Host | EHCI and OHCI driver |
| USB Device | |
| KBDHID | Extended MS kbdhid - Support for all keys on the keyboard |
| MOUTOUCHHID | Support for absolute coordinates |
| Power Management | Support for screen saver and touch activation |
| PWM | Stream driver |
| Video Streaming | Filter framework for streaming video over HTTP |
| VoIP | Voice over IP sample solution |
File System
| Feature | Description |
| F&S BinFS | Bug fixed BinFS file system for XIP images |
| F3S | F&S Secure Flash File System Optimized throughput on all file operations Wear-Leveling strategies to reduce flash abrasion (including Garbage Collector) Transaction-based concept already cooperates with a lot of applications |
| Filesystem Filter Driver |
Used to limit access to file system. Possible restrictions: Move, Delete, Rename |
| FAT/TFAT | Microsoft Windows Embedded FAT/TFAT solution. |
Services
| Feature | Description |
| Telnet Server | Enabled by default. Easy access to command shell. |
| FTP Server | |
| HTTPD Server | Use device as web server. Create ISAPI extensions in C/C++. HTTPD DirectShow stream filter (i.e. camera) |
| OpenSSH | Offers SSH server functionality for Windows Embedded. Based on OpenSSH SFTP SCP SMTP |
| SSH SCP/SFTP server | SSH Library (also used from SMTP). |
| SMTP | SMTP library to send EMail |
Tools
| Feature | Description |
| Bootscreen | Showing custom image during boot. |
| Control Panel | Standard Windows Embedded Control Panel with additional tools. |
| CE Remote Display | Driver and application to access desktop of device remotely. |
| ndcucfg | Command line configuration tool. Can be used locally, over Telnet connection and over serial connection. Registry editing Reading/writing of boot loaders and splash screen User administration Certificate administration .... Usage: * Can be used in own applications as DLL. * As a command line tool from telnet or serial debug console |
| Update tool | Update of boot loader Update on WinCE image Registry changes Update of user application Runs from SD/USB/LAN |
| F&S 2D control utility | Control panel applet Change 2D acceleration on the fly |
| F&S Board Config | Control panel applet Check hardware revision, version of boot loader, version of WinCE image and much more. Change system startup and registry. |
| F&S Audio Mixer | Control panel applet Change audio features like volume, bass, treble, input ... |
| F&S HDMI config utility | Command line tool Configure HDMi interface on the fly Change HDMI resolution Change position and size of layers Change priority, color key and blending |
| F&S SSH/SMTP control utility | Control panel applet Start stop SSHD service Send test EMail by SMTP |
| F&S USB Loader | Uses USB device connection to update Bootloader, operating system, boot screen, configuration information, partition information. Can be used to update software or to automate production. |
Multimedia
| Feature | Description |
| Codec Filter | Hardware accelerated DirectShow Filter Max. Resolution: 1920x1080 Formats: ITU-T H.264, ISO/IEC 14496-10, ISO/IEC 14496-2 MPEG4 |
| Camera Filter | Max. Resolution: 8192x8192 Supported: Cameras: OVM9665, OVM7690 Supported PINs: Preview, Capture, Still |
| MJPEG Filter | Hardware accelerated MJPEG filter. |
armStoneA8 - Hardware
- Hardware Documentation (602 KB, pdf) - 07/01/2014
- CE Certificate (35 KB, pdf) - 13/09/2012
armStoneA8 - Linux
- GPIO Reference Card (81 KB, pdf) - 15/08/2012
- Advices for Linux on PC (2 MB, pdf) - 10/01/2018
- Linux First Steps Documenation (1.4 MB, pdf) - 22/11/2012
armStoneA8 - Windows Embedded CE/Compact
- First Steps Documentation (1.8 MB, pdf) - 10/04/2012
- Device Driver (2.9 MB, pdf) - 24/01/2013
- CAN Device Driver (967 KB, pdf) - 23/03/2015
- I2C Device Drivers I2C+NI2C (393 KB, pdf) - 13/01/2017
armStoneA8 - Display
- Display Pin Assignment LVDS
- Display Settings from Datasheet (11 KB, pdf) - 19/11/2009
- Display - Drivers
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- ETV570G0DHU, 640x480 Pixel (764 bytes, txt) - 04/03/2014
- AUO
- AUO G104SN02, 800x600 Pixel (801 bytes, txt) - 23/11/2012
- AUO G104SN02_V2, 800x600 Pixel (1.1 KB, txt) - 07/12/2012
- AUO G150XG01, 1024x768 Pixel (1.1 KB, txt) - 25/09/2013
- CHIMEI
- CHIMEI G070Y, 800x480 Pixel (786 bytes, txt) - 12/03/2013
- CHIMEI G121I1-L01, 1280x800 Pixel (755 bytes, txt) - 11/04/2012
- EDT
- EDT ET035080, 320x240 Pixel (712 bytes, txt) - 30/11/2012
- EDT ET070003, 800x480 Pixel (769 bytes, txt) - 16/07/2013
- Emerging
- Emerging ET070081DM6, 800x480 Pixel (723 bytes, txt) - 04/04/2014
- Emerging ETQ570G0DH6, 320x240 Pixel (1 KB, txt) - 19/11/2012
- Evervision
- Evervision VGG804809, 800x480 Pixel (727 bytes, txt) - 05/12/2013
- KOE
- KOE TX26D12, 800x600 Pixel (755 bytes, txt) - 05/09/2012
- KOE TX23D25VM, 1280x242 Pixel (759 bytes, txt) - 11/02/2013
- Kyocera
- Kyocera TCG057VG, 640x480 Pixel (751 bytes, txt) - 07/04/2014
- Kyocera TCG075VGLEA, 640x480 Pixel (1.1 KB, txt) - 19/11/2012
- Kyocera TCG121SVLx, 800x600 Pixel (757 bytes, txt) - 27/08/2012
- NEC
- NEC NL8060BC26and31, 800x600 Pixel (771 bytes, txt) - 04/03/2013
Variants
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aStoneA8-WCE 256MB-RAM, 128MB Flash, Audio, 1x Ethernet, no CAN, 800MHz, 0°C-+70°C, Windows CE 6.0R3 Core SKU: aStoneA8-WCE |
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aStoneA8-LIN 256MB-RAM, 128MB Flash, Audio, 1x Ethernet, no CAN, 800MHz, 0°C-+70°C, Linux SKU: aStoneA8-LIN |
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aStoneA8-Prem-LIN 512MB-RAM, 128MB Flash, Audio, 2x Ethernet, CAN, 1GHz, 0°C-+70°C, Linux SKU: aStoneA8-Prem-LIN |
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aStoneA8-Prem-WCE 512MB-RAM, 128MB Flash, Audio, 2x Ethernet, CAN, 1GHz, 0°C-+70°C, Windows EC7 C7E license SKU: aStoneA8-Prem-WCE |
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aStoneA8-PremI-LIN 512MB-RAM, 128MB Flash, Audio, 2x Ethernet, CAN, 1GHz, -25°C-+85°C, Linux SKU: aStoneA8-PremI-LIN |
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aStoneA8-PremI-WCE 512MB-RAM, 128MB Flash, Audio, 2x Ethernet, CAN, 1GHz, -25°C-+85°C, Windows EC7 C7E license SKU: aStoneA8-PremI-WCE |
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Link to the Forum
You will always find support in our Forum.
Recent Contributions
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25 Feb, 16:33 |
WIFI Adapter for WEC2013 PicoCOMA9X |
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23 Feb, 11:13 |
Differences in new PicoCOMA5 board rev. 1.23 |
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18 Feb, 09:57 |
Using SAM-BA |
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17 Feb, 10:06 |
Hardware flow control in serial driver on efusA9X |
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16 Feb, 15:51 |
Issues with PCB Revisions prior to 1.30 for PicoCoreMX8MM-V3/-V4 and also PCB Revision prior to 1.20 for PicoCoreMX8MM-V5 |
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12 Feb, 10:47 |
ActiveSync Connection to WCE6 devices |
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12 Feb, 06:49 |
Automatic date and time synchronization on PicoCOMA9X WEC2013 via Ethernet |
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09 Feb, 13:34 |
UART C on efusA9X with on board WLAN/BT |
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09 Feb, 10:28 |
PWM_A,PWM_B, PWM_C: how to control them? |
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09 Feb, 08:14 |
USB overvoltage protection |
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Many applications in the industrial and medical area demand for a high-performance SBC. For solutions with Computer on Module (COM), which need a base board, a Single Board Computer (SBC) in an established form factor offers an alternative. This PicoITX form factor with Cortex-A8-1GHz is perfectly suited for developing small, but high-performance applications. armStone™A8 is a small, powerful and very cost-effective SBC, offered by F&S. Powerful and Cost-EffectiveThe first PicoITX SBC by F&S is based on a Cortex-A8 CPU with 1GHz. armStone™A8 has 512 Mbyte RAM and 128Mbyte NAND Flash, which is sufficient to boot WCE or Linux directly from Flash. A micro SD-Card can be added optionally. |
The board offers interfaces such as USB Host/Device, 2x LAN, RS232, CAN, SPI, I²C, and Audio (IN/OUT). Furthermore, a LVDS interface (max. resolution up to XGA/WXGA), a HDMI/DVI interface up to 1920 x 1080 and a touch panel interface are available, so it is possible to control two displays/ screens independently. Multimedia ProzessorThe CPU offers functions like 2D/ 3D, 5 Window-Layer, FPU and a MPEG4/ H264 Decoder up to 1080p@30fps, so many multimedia applications can be realized. With a power consumption of less than 4W, armStone™A8 can be operated without fan or cooling element. |
