Computing platform and boards

Here is a list of 40 boards for embedded applications. We should have a look into that.

http://www.cnx-software.com/2012/06/26/list-of-39-low-cost-linux-friendly-boards-and-products/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=list-of-39-low-cost-linux-friendly-boards-and-products

Among them :

http://raspberrypi.org based on ARM 11, small computing power

http://beagleboard.org : very small but not so powerfull boards, based on cortex A-8 architectures

http://pandaboard.org exists in 1GHz and 1.2 GHz dual core ARM cortex A9 based architecture

http://wandboard.org

http://elinux.org/Hawkboard‎

http://www.origenboard.org/   1.4GHz Cortex A-9 based Soc but board is tablet sized

http://www.armkits.com/product/sabrelite.asp : ARM Cortex A9 MPCore™ 4xCPU Processor at 1GHz

1.7GHz Exynos4 Quad Development Platform

I've looked in the ARM catalog which processor look more promising, they mainly have

Cortex A-57 A-53: highest performance and best consumption processor for mobile applications, not realeased yet but soon on the streets :)

Cortex A-5 : lowest cost and energy processors, probably not for us

Cortex A-7 : high efficiency processor, slowly coming in the market now, can be combined with cortex A-15 in mixed multi-core architecture

Cortex A-8 : quite frequent on embedded boards : up to 1GHz, quite frequent in development boards

Cortex A-9 : single, dual or quadcore architectures, upgrade of the A-8. Pandaboard for example proposes 1.2 GHz in dual core; can apparently go up to 1.5 GHz but have not found.

Cortex A-15 : Most recent commercialized cortex processor : typically 1.5 to 2 GHz. Can be combined with A-7 like in the Samsung Exynos processor. Few boards at the moment are available (maybe none), so I don't know, let us wait.