Development board for HMI/automotive applications
Mistral Solutions
Craneboard
Mistral Solutions has announced Craneboard, a low-cost ARM-based development board that offers designers a fully open-source printed circuit board (PCB) and design to reduce development costs.
Craneboard provides an alternative development option to Texas Instruments' (TI) AM35x Sitara ARM Cortex-A8 microprocessors (MPUs) evaluation module (EVM).
It utilises community support and resources from the open-source Beagleboard community.
The Craneboard is available from Mistral and a number of distributors, including Digikey.
Based on TI's AM35x Sitara ARM Cortex-A8 MPU, the Craneboard provides features not available on existing open-source, low-cost development boards, including Power over Ethernet (PoE) and Controller Area Network (CAN) bus interfaces.
Both the PoE and CAN interfaces can be used in industrial applications such as human machine interface (HMI), and CAN is also suitable for automotive applications.
The Craneboard offers numerous integrated peripherals and provides users with flexible power options, such as a power-over-DC wall adapter, PoE enabled by TI's TPS23750 PoE controller and USB, which allows for portability.
An expansion port allows users to easily add functionality such as an LCD panel, along with wireless and audio capabilities, and is compatible with other ARM Cortex-A8 open-source boards.
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