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Product description- ESPRESSOBin Board is a low cost high performance ARM based 64bit single board computer aimed at the networking, storage, and connectivity space. It utilizes Marvell's newest Armada 3700 chipset which is a dual core SOC running up to 1.2Ghz based upon the ARM A53 64bit instruction set.

ESPRESSObin Specs

Powered by a 64bit Dual Core ARM A53 Armada 3700 SOC clocked up to 1.2Ghz

1x Topaz Networking Switch

1x uSD card slot with footprint for an optional 4GB EMMC

512MB DDR3, 1GB DDR3 & 2GB DDR3 options

2x Gb Ethernet LAN

1x Ethernet WAN

1x SATA interface for HDD storage

1x USB 3.0 and 1x USB 2.0

1x MiniPCIe for Wireless/BLE peripherals

2x Row of GPIO headers for accessories and shields

Physical Interfaces

Board Interfaces

GPIO Map

Armada SOC and Topaz Switch Specs

Armada 3700 SOC block diagram

Topaz Switch

Strengths-

ESPRESSObin is much more than just another SBC like the Raspberry Pi and the Pine64. It has a powerful set of Networking & Storage interfaces such as a dedicated networking Switch and Gigabit WAN & LAN. It can connect to storage such as USB 3.0 thumb drives and HDD hard drives via USB and SATA. For networking applications it acts like an ethernet switch with 2 LAN and 1 WAN.

ESPRESSObin has a very low power consumption with less than 1W Thermal dissapation at 1 Ghz

Use Cases

ESPRESSObin address a host of applications that has been overlooked by other SBC such as home and office networking, storage,& media streaming, and IoT. Here are a few examples that we demonstrate on the lab using open software applications.

NAS-SATA-Wi-FI-connect the device Sata interface to Hard drives and stream via wireless or ethernet.

NAS implementation streaming to Monitor

Video Camera Monitor- connect old USB cameras to the EspressoBin and stream it to your computer as a power conscious IP camera

convert old usb webcam for IP camera use

Plex Media server- Stream content via ethernet or Wi-Fi to connected TV in multiple rooms. Stream personal content from your hard drive or USB stick from your personnel network or NAS device.

Plex Media Server

Video of the actual working demos

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Stacking switch cluster- Connect storage and ethernet to create your own power efficient storage and compute cluster for Torrent server applications

IOT Gateway-Use the ESPRESSObin as an IOT gateway connecting LORA, BLE, Zigbee, Zwave , and other protocols through its variety of interfaces.

Rewards Chart

Key Team members-Globalscale

Bryan Cheng-Project manager

DH Liu-Engineering Manager

Winchester Hsu-Hardware Engineer

C.P Chang-Software Engineer

Steven Ding-Software Engineer

Wayne Yang-Test Engineer

Marvell partnership and advisors

Eran Jurman-Technical Marketing Manger

Maen Suleiman-Software Community Lead

Philip Nguy-SOC engineer

Erez Alfiya- Application Manager

Guru Bachchu-Software Engineer

Joe Zhou-Software Engineer

Bobby Dhanota-Lab Supervisor

ESPRESSObin in the Media

Video-Description of an early board sample at Computex 2016

Timeline

The software is open source and will be available here and on a new Wikipage coming out.

https://github.com/MarvellEmbeddedProcessors/main/wiki/Armada-3700

Software Operating Systems

Besides support for the Mainline Linux & Uboot, we support Ubuntu of Canonical and plan to support the following ecosystems.

Ubuntu Core

ArchLinuxARM, one of the most lightweight and flexible Operating Systems

Debian, one of the most popular OS available

OpenWRT for your Router and networking applications

Initiatives

Partners

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Why do we need your help?

Despite being an established company we are not a large company. Especially with this aggressive price target we need economies of scale to be able to buy parts in sufficient quantities to offer a $49 base price. We also have to pay for certification such as FCC & CE.