New board for OptimusBoard developers based on the eight-core big.LITTLE SoC AllWinner A80

The first debugging board Cubieboard version 1 , on the AllWinner A10 processor was released in October 2012. Then came the releases of Cubieboard version 2 , the AllWinner A20 processor. And Cubieboard 3, or Cubietruck . Unlike previous versions, wireless modules Wi-Fi + BT with an integrated antenna were additionally placed on the Cubietruck board.

In early 2014, NanoXion launched the first colocation hosting (colocation) based on the CubieBoard board (Cubiebox).
At CES 2014, Allwinner Tech unveiled to the public the future Optimus Board debugging board based on the AllWinner A80 SoC.

The company Shenzhen Merrii Technology (aka WITS), which made development kits for Allwinner Tech processors, developed and introduced the OptimusBoard board.
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The A80 OptimusBoard is designed on the eight-core AllWinner A80 SoC with four cores, the Cortex A15, and the Cortex A7, operating in big.LITTLE mode.

SoC AllWinner A80


OptimusBoard can be purchased at the AliExpress site for $ 345 plus shipping to Russia $ 92.61 by Fedex. While it is very expensive, but soon the cost should fall.

Specifications

• Processor: AllWinner Ultra Core A80 4x Cortex 15, 4x Cortex A7 big.LITTLE with PowerVR GC6230 GPU (64-stream), and support for OpenGL ES 1.1 / 2.0 / 3.0, Directx 9.3
• RAM: 2GB DDR3, processor supports up to 8GB
• User memory: NAND memory 8 GB, plus microSD up to 32 GB
• SATA: in the official announcement there is no information, but most likely there is, because all previous versions of SoC supported
• Video: HDMI 1.4a to 4K30, UHD / 4K H.264 / VP8 4Kx2K @ 30 fps
• Audio: AC100 Codec, headphone jack
• Network interfaces: Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g / n, Bluetooth 4.0 (AP6330), and Gigabit Ethernet (GMAC)
• USB: one USB 3.0 OTG port !!!, two USB 2.0 host ports
• Camera: 16MP MIPI CSI
• Debugging: UART and JTAG
• Programming: 32-pin GPIO pins, one IR
• Optional: power and reset button, LED indicators
• Power Management: AXP806, AXP809 “smart power management specialist”
• Power supply: 5V DC in 3A, or from battery
• Size: 135 mm x 70 mm

The board comes with a power adapter and debugging cable (UART -> USB). The board is pre-loaded with Android 4.4.2, Linux 3.4.39. So far, the choice of prepared OSs for this board is over, but Allwinner Tech has promised for SoC AllWinner A80, support for 5 operating systems :

• Android
• Chrome OS
• Ubuntu
• Firefox os
• Windows RT (!!!)

Perhaps the support of other operating systems will require much more time, and we will see them in the near future.

Performance comparison with other boards:

In addition to OptimusBoard, the A80 has a pcDuino8 board in beta.

Below is a video about the OptimusBoard board: