Parallella LCD Board + Android
Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2014 11:37 am
Hi everyone,
We have just finished the design for a Parallella daugther board with an LCD connector so that the board can be turned into a standalone SBC with a small screen, without the need for a monitor and HDMI support in the FPGA bitstream. As you can see we have also added some useful connectors which we found necessary for day to day Parallella work. The board will be released as open hardware in the coming days, but we wanted to give you a sneak peak preview of the visualisations since they are already there. The board is designed in Altium, we will share the schematics and BoM on github.
The first PCBs just arrived today, we will solder the board and confirm that it works very soon.
Here goes the visualisations:
The LCD board allows Parallella to run Linux with graphics, using a simple GPU IPcore and a proper Linux driver (including e.g. LCD dimming) which we also made.
All this will be open sourced in the nearest future.
Another piece of good news is that all this infrastructure will allow us to release a decently behaving Android for Parallella, which we have been baking in the background.
We have just finished the design for a Parallella daugther board with an LCD connector so that the board can be turned into a standalone SBC with a small screen, without the need for a monitor and HDMI support in the FPGA bitstream. As you can see we have also added some useful connectors which we found necessary for day to day Parallella work. The board will be released as open hardware in the coming days, but we wanted to give you a sneak peak preview of the visualisations since they are already there. The board is designed in Altium, we will share the schematics and BoM on github.
The first PCBs just arrived today, we will solder the board and confirm that it works very soon.
Here goes the visualisations:
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The LCD board allows Parallella to run Linux with graphics, using a simple GPU IPcore and a proper Linux driver (including e.g. LCD dimming) which we also made.
All this will be open sourced in the nearest future.
Another piece of good news is that all this infrastructure will allow us to release a decently behaving Android for Parallella, which we have been baking in the background.