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Renesas Cortex A9 mbed announcement

06 Sep 2014

There was an interesting announcement in one of the slides presented at the 10th-mbed-fest-summer-2014. The mbed overview and update presentation mentions a new mbed enabled platform by Renesas. It is based on the Renesas RZ/A1 and features the Cortex A9 core clocked at 400 MHz, 10MB internal memory, video input, audio and graphics output, USB etc. Compared to the Cortex-M it should have about 4x the performance and 40x the memory size.

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Release seems to be scheduled for end 2014. See here or here for links. Google translate is your friend..

06 Sep 2014

Wow, thats something on a whole different level. Although it makes you wonder if it isn't something where some real OS should run on. And you would think you would want a bit more pins than the standard Arduino pinout, but hey, it has a pink PCB :P.

06 Sep 2014

There is a row of unpopulated holes on the right side of the PCB. That will probably provide access to more pins. There are also some sockets (SWD) and a tiny connector for video I/O and some PCB holes that look like interface to a daughterboard like zigbee or something. The press release says it will run RTOS.

Here is another picture.

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12 Nov 2014

now that's good news from an Industry-respected manufacturer!

20 Nov 2014