It's like Chrismas
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I found a source for the AllWinner H616 SoC Allwinner H616 (sun50iw9p1) is a SoC that features a Quad-Core Cortex-A53 ARM CPU, and a Mali-G31 MP2 GPU from ARM. The H616 is "targeted towards TV boxes and SBCs with the Mali-G31, better video encoding/decoding hardware and more efficient power consumption" (wiki), but it happens to have the features we need for most of our user facing stuff (UI/UX/inputs), and is modestly priced @ $12 USD - cheaper in bulk We're going from 512kB of RAM to 512MB of RAM We're going from FreeRTOS to (probably) Armbian Linux, or perhaps ZephyrOS depending We're going from dual core typically 160MHz (up to 240), to quad core 1GHz We're going from SPI and i8080 16-bit displays to True Color HDMI This is a game changer for me professionally. Expect a flurry of articles on developing for banana boards starting sunday or monday. *knock on wood*
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I found a source for the AllWinner H616 SoC Allwinner H616 (sun50iw9p1) is a SoC that features a Quad-Core Cortex-A53 ARM CPU, and a Mali-G31 MP2 GPU from ARM. The H616 is "targeted towards TV boxes and SBCs with the Mali-G31, better video encoding/decoding hardware and more efficient power consumption" (wiki), but it happens to have the features we need for most of our user facing stuff (UI/UX/inputs), and is modestly priced @ $12 USD - cheaper in bulk We're going from 512kB of RAM to 512MB of RAM We're going from FreeRTOS to (probably) Armbian Linux, or perhaps ZephyrOS depending We're going from dual core typically 160MHz (up to 240), to quad core 1GHz We're going from SPI and i8080 16-bit displays to True Color HDMI This is a game changer for me professionally. Expect a flurry of articles on developing for banana boards starting sunday or monday. *knock on wood*
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
I've been using these little beauties for years [Nanopi M4 V2](https://www.friendlyelec.com/index.php?route=product/product&product\_id=268)
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I've been using these little beauties for years [Nanopi M4 V2](https://www.friendlyelec.com/index.php?route=product/product&product\_id=268)
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
Neat! The main reason I'm using the Orange Pi Zero2 is it uses an AllWinner H616 which is relatively easy to source, and the board has schematics.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
