MinnowBoard MAX is an excellent open source embedded hardware platform based on Intel Atom E38xx 64-Bit Bay Trail System on Chips (SoC), which is quite versatile to our Tizen developer community. Our friend Leon Anavi got a MinnowBoard MAX board during the recent Tizen Developer Summit in Shanghai earlier this year and the first thing he did was port Tizen over to it !!!!
Leon: I have the model with single-core Atom CPU and 1GB RAM. Following the tutorial for installation of Tizen:Common I have created a bootable microSD card to show you the board in action. The installer for Tizen IVI is also compatible with MinnowBoard MAX and this Tizen profile can be easily booted on the board too. The main advantages of the MinnowBoard MAX compared to the other ARM boards on which I have tried out Tizen is the support of mainline Linux kernel and the open source graphics drivers for hardware acceleration.
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Specifications
| Category | Feature | Notes |
| Core Logic | 64-bit Intel® Atom™ E38xx Series SoC | $99 MSRP: E3815 (single-core, 1.46 GHz) $139 MSRP: E3825 (dual-core, 1.33 GHz) |
| Integrated Intel® HD Graphics | With Open Source hardware-accelerated drivers for Linux OS | |
| Memory | DDR3 RAM | System Memory $99 MSRP: 1 GB $139 MSRP: 2 GB |
| 8 MB SPI Flash | System Firmware Memory | |
| Video | Intel® HD Graphics | HDMI (micro HDMI connector) |
| Audio | Digital | via HDMI |
| Audio | Analog | To be available separately via MinnowBoard MAX Lure (sold separately) |
| I/O | 1 – Micro SD | SDIO |
| 1 – SATA2 3Gb/sec | ||
| 1 – USB 3.0 (host) | ||
| 1 – USB 2.0 (host) | ||
| 1 – Serial debug | via FTDI cable (sold separately) | |
| 10/100/1000 Ethernet | RJ-45 connector | |
| Experimenter Features |
8 – Buffered GPIO pins | 2 pins support PWM |
| I2C & SPI bus | ||
| System Firmware Flash Programming Header |
Compatible with Dedi-Prog programmer | |
| Board Dimensions | 99 x 74mm (2.9 x 3.9in) | |
| Temperature Range | 0 – 70 deg C | Contact us for industrial temp range needs |
| Power | 5V DC | Sold separately in configurations appropriate to your region |
| Software | Operating System | Debian GNU/Linux, Windows 8.1, Yocto Project Compatible, Android 4.4 System |
| System Boot Firmware | UEFI Firmware |
Have you got the MinnowBoard MAX? Had you had any adventures with it? Let us know in the comments.
