Target Market And Purpose Of The Board; Board Variants; Organization - OLIMEX A13-OLinuXino User Manual

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1.2 Target market and purpose of the board

The boards from the OLinuXino family are easy to setup and powerful. They are suitable for
embedded programming enthusiasts, Linux and Android gadget fans and also professionals (since
its low cost makes it very good solution for application orientated embedded systems). The main
usage of the board is software embedded development without the urge of understanding perfectly
the hardware.
The strong points of the boards are the processor speed, the mobility of the board and the low ratio
price to productivity.
Customers have full access to the technical documentation of the board. The software is released
under General Purpose License and the board is considered open-hardware.

1.3 Board variants

There are three major processor variants. According to the names: A13-OLinuXino and A13-
OLinuXino-MICRO and A13-SOM.
The base model has also two flavors: A13-OLinuXino and A13-OLinuXino-WIFI. The first one is
the base model that goes without any operating system image on board, while the second has two
additional components – a WIFI module on the board and NAND memory with stored Android
image.
The A13-OLinuXino-Micro differs from the base A13-OLinuXino by having only 1 USB host, 1
USB OTG, no power connector, no NAND memory, no WIFI, no audio out connector, less buttons.
If you are looking for an A13 board with tiny dimensions and suitable for implementing in own
designs then refer to A13-SOM board – it has tiny dimensions.
There are more powerful A10 and A20 designs that Olimex manufactures nowadays. Boards like
A20-OLinuXino-LIME; A20-OLinuXino-MICRO and A20-OLinuXino-LIME2 are generally faster
and capable of better video output.

1.4 Organization

Each section in this document covers a separate topic, organized as follow:
– Chapter 1 is an overview of the board usage and features
– Chapter 2 provides a guide for quickly setting up the board and software notes
– Chapter 3 contains the general board diagram and layout
– Chapter 4 describes the component that is the heart of the board: the A13 – Allwinner
processor
– Chapter 5 is an explanation of the control circuitry associated with the microcontroller to
reset. Also shows the clocks on the board
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