A13-OLinuXino first time Android boot
Olimex is hard at work to roll out the A13 based OLinuXino by September. In the latest news they were able to flash the device with a custom Android build.
Dimitar Gamishev learned that we have A13-OLinuXino prototypes and came to our office after work, he already had pre-built Android image, so after spending some time tweaking with Livesuite we uploaded the Android image to A13-OLinuXino NAND and when we connected our 7″LCD module we saw the Android booting image, this means board have working DDR3, power supply managment chip, NAND flash and so on! Yahooooo !
A13-OLinuXino is single board Linux computer in the nano-ITX form factor. It uses the first eLQFP176 packaged Allwinner Technology Inc A13 1Ghz CPU, with 512 MB of RAM.
This entry was posted in Android, dev boards and tagged A13, Olimex, OLinuXino.
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This little ARM Cortex-A8 board is the only board of this type I’ve seen with VGA output, which is of great interest to many. The Raspberry Pi, the larger OlinuXino, and all the ARM android dongles I’ve seen so far have HDMI and (sometimes) composite video out, no VGA.
However on the Olimex blog, I recently read a post where prototype testing seems to reveal the LCD to VGA via R2R DAC implementation (seemingly 18-bit max. color depth) seems to provide only 800×600 @75fps max. resolution. This is because the Allwinner A13 ARM A8 chip’s video controller pixel clock can’t go higher than 36Mhz. I posted a question on the comments to this Olimex blog post asking them to confirm the resolution maximum limit and clarify the color depth – and got what I consider a rather insulting reply from Olimex. The blog post is here:
http://olimex.wordpress.com/2012/08/03/a13-olinuxino-open-source-linux-computer-prototypes-recap/#comment-1667
Olimex is on vacation for August. They say the A13-OlinuXino will go up for sale in September 2012. There’s more info on their blog site.