Tiny quad-core system-on-module for makers and hardware startups

Re:Tiny quad-core system-on-module for makers and hardware s... by ivereninov on Thursday February 22, 2018 @05:02PM (#16441880)

It is all about the details. Industrial DDR3 with -25C temperature is quite expensive, but it is a requirement for any company building a product that could be used outdoors. Quad-core GHz A53 in such tiny footprint, but really with everything needed onboard. Very motherboard and embedding friendly and with proper software support.

I think I will give some backstory which might be relevant. This product was born out of a need to migrate from Intel Edison in our high precision GPS equipment. We looked long and hard for Edison alternatives but there were none. They were either too big, or too expensive or did not have enough computing power. So we decided to build our own.

Disclosure: I am co-founder of Emlid, the company behind Neutis. Happy to answer any questions.

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Re:Tiny quad-core system-on-module for makers and hardware s... by tcd on Thursday February 22, 2018 @05:24PM (#16442074)

"Neutis runs modern Linux kernel based on the mainline version. Unlike other modules that are stuck with old legacy kernels without updates, Neutis will get security fixes and new features on time."

You must clarify that. You are on a technical forum and that simply is not acceptable. "Mainline" is 4.16-rc2, there is only one mainline, so you are saying it's shipping with an rc quality kernel that is still in active development?

Or do you mean it comes with an LTS? "Yocto and Debian". Debian does not use mainline kernel, in fact, no linux distro does, ever. What version of debian?

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Re:Tiny quad-core system-on-module for makers and hardware s... by ivereninov on Thursday February 22, 2018 @05:51PM (#16442311)

Currently our main focus is on Yocto, since this is what most people would use in production. Right now BSP runs on 4.15 and the processor is well supported in mainline. Since our own product is based on Neutis we put a lot of effort in testing of stability of the system and peripherals.

There is so much work done by the great linux-sunxi community, you can see the mainlining progress for H5 processor here: http://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort

Sorry, it is the middle of the night here and I am not ready to confirm on the exact Debian version, but I believe that it has not been decided yet. You can contact us directly and we will get back to you with more info on this.

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Re:Tiny quad-core system-on-module for makers and hardware s... by slededit on Thursday February 22, 2018 @05:37PM (#16442185)

In the context of ARM devices its understood that it isn't based off a custom fork maintained only by the SOC manufacturer.

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