by OLIMEX Ltd in olinuxino Tags: a80, board, oshw

Allwinner is about to release soon (end of this month hopefully) datasheet and info about their new 8-core monster processor with 4x Cortex-A15 + 4x Cortex-A7 and here we go and start preparing what to include in the new A80-OLinuXino.

We would love to hear your feedback and recommendation what do you think is important as value and “to have” on board, here are the major features (taken from Allwinner site) :

DDR3 standard 2GB, optional 4GB

Gigabit Ethernet

optional NAND Flash 4GB

SD cards x4 possible

USB-OTG 3.0

USB hosts x2 2.0

MIPI camera interface

real ADCs x2

PWM

UART x7

I2C x7

SPI x4

I2S

LCD

Unfortunately A80 have no audio on chip so external codec is necessary if you want to have Audio connector how important is this if we already have audio on the HDMI connector?

If we go in to LIME form factor route we have to look just for the bare minimum of connectors due to the space limitation, if we go in max features direction the board will become big and expensive.

Let’s the wishes begin 🙂