May 22, 2015

LinkSprite pcDuino3Nano Lite

Overview

pcDuino3Nano Lite is a high performance, cost effective single board computer. It runs operation systems such as Ubuntu Linux and Android. pcDuino3Nano Lite has HDMI interface to output its graphic desktop screen. It could support multi-format 1080p 60fps video decoder and 1080p 30fps H.264 and MPEG4 video encoder with its built-in hardware video processing engine. It targets specially the fast growing demands from the open source community. pcDuino3Nano Lite provides easy-to-use tool chains and is compatible with the popular Arduino ecosystem such as Arduino Shields.

 

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Note: The difference between pcDuino3Nano and pcDuino3Nano Lite is that pcDuino3 Nano lite has no flash and no IR receiver.

Hardware Specifications

Items Details
CPU AllWinner A20 SoC, 1GHz ARM Cortex A7 Dual Core
GPU OpenGL ES2.0, OpenVG 1.1, Mali 400 Dual Core
DRAM 1GB
Onboard Storage NO Flash, microSD card (TF) slot for up to 32GB
Video Output HDMI 1.4 with HDCP support
OS
  • Ubuntu 12.04
  • Android 4.2
Arduino extension interface Arduino sockets, same as Arduino UNO
14xGPIO, 2xPWM, 6xADC, 1xUART, 1xSPI, 1xI2C
Network interface
  • Ethernet 10M/100M/1Gbps
Audio out
  • 3.5mm analog audio interface
IR NO IR receiver
SATA SATA Host socket
Camera MIPI
USB 2 x USB host, 1xUSB OTG
Power 5V, 2000mA
Overall Size 3 5/8 ” x 2 1/8″

 Software Specifications

Items Description
OS
  • Ubuntu 12.04
  • Android 4.2
Language
  • English
API
  • All the arduino shield pins are accessible with the provided API
  • It consists of API to access the following interfaces:
    • UART
    • ADC
    • PWM
    • GPIO
    • I2C
    • SPI
Programming language support
  • C, C++ with GNU tool chain
  • Java with standard Android SDK
  • Python

 

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