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Intel CEO Announces Collaboration with Arduino

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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 .

That is pretty awesome, I have a much better feel for Galileo now than I did, its basically a PC with an Arduino Sheld Slot :-). I really liked the switchable 5v/3.3v I/O option.

So way back in the day folks would do unholy things to the parallel port in DOS to get this kind of feature :-) And of course thinking that I realized there is probably an interesting market if you put FreeDOS on this thing for the 'UX', which makes me wonder if Microsoft is going to wake up here at some point and come out with an OS for this stuff. (Not that it's needed, but like Intel they were a big deal in the early experimenters world and they are being made irrelevant in that space by Linux (like Intel is being threatened by ARM) and so I expect them to react at some point)

I'm still looking for the firmware code which they claim is "open source", too.

Here's the overview page for the Galileo board: http://www.intel.com/support/galileo/index.htm

It has links for downloads, specs, tutorials, etc. Looks like they won't be available for sale until November, though.

Whatever happened to StrongARM? I can't find any references on the Wiki page paget the 1990's?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StrongARM

edit: fixed typo

They sold it to Marvell.

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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. :(

Datasheets on the Quark:

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

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.

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).

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.

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