Minnow Board

1. MinnowBoard

2. Presenters’
Tauhidul Khandaker
ID : 011 111 010
Shahriar Ibrahim
ID : 011 111 010

3. Repertory
•What is MinnowBoard?
•Who owns MinnowBoard?
•Who designs, manufactures and sells
MinnowBoard?
•Price/ Where to buy?
•Contents of the box
•Performance

4. Repertory
•Openness
•Flexibility
•Standards
•Software/ OS
•Board Design Goals
•Anatomy of a MinnowBoard (Top/Bottom)
•Arduino UNO VS MinnowBoard

5. What is MinnowBoard?
MinnowBoard is an open hardware embedded
board designed with the Intel® Atom™ E640
(1Ghz) Processor. The board targets small and low
cost embedded market and was designed to
appeal to both embedded developers and the
maker community. MinnowBoard offers great
performance, flexibility, openness and standards
for the price.

6. Who owns MinnowBoard?
minnowboard.org: non-profit organization
status has been applied for as of July 2013.

7. Who designs, manufactures and sells MinnowBoard?
CircuitCo, a custom manufacturing company based in
Richardshon, Texas, designed and manufactured the
board with feature, design and component
recommendations from Intel Corporation. CircuitCo’s
services are available to create modified versions of
MinnowBoard for industrial and other custom
applications.

8. Price/ Where To Buy?

9. Contents of The Box
• MinnowBoard
• 4GB micro SD card preloaded with Angstrom Linux
Distribution(Yocto Project Compatible)
• 5V Power Adaptor
• USB Cable

10. Performance
• Intel® Atom™ 1.0 GHz 32-bit CPU with Hyper-Threading and
Virtualizatoin Technology.
• Integrated Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 600
• Generous I/O
PCI Express
SATA2 3Gb/sec
Gigabit Ethernet
SDIO
• UEFI Firmware

11. Openness
•Open Hardware Platform
•Customizations Possible Without Signing
NDAs
•Open Source Angstrom Linux* Distribution
•Open Source MinnowBoard Lure Designs

12. Flexibility
•Affordable Intel® Atom™ Platform
•Scales up to Higher Workloads
•Small Form Factor
•Extensive Firmware Capabilities
•Expandability via MinnowBoard Lures

13. Standards
• X86 compatibility
• PCI Express, SATA, USB - PC Architecture Standards
• SPI, I2C, CAN, GPIO - Embedded System Standards
• Angstrom Linux* Distribution (Yocto Project
Compatible)
• UEFI Firmware
• ACPI 5.0

14. Software/ OS
The MinnowBoard V1 is powered by the open source
Angstrom Linux* Distribution, which provides a
variety of software packages that are relevant to
and optimized for embedded applications.

15. Anatomy of A MinnowBoard (Top)

16. Anatomy of A MinnowBoard (Bottom)

17. Arduino UNO VS MinnowBoard
Name SoC
CPU
GPU
RAM
Architectur
e
Core
s
Frequency Size
Data
rate
(MT/s)
Data
path
width
[bits]
Type
Arduino UNO
Atmel
ATmega328P
AVR 1 16 MHz N/A 2KB 16 8 SRAM
MinnowBoard
Intel Atom
E640
x86 Bonnell 1 1 GHz
Intel
GMA600
1GB ? 64 DDR2

18. Thank You