[HH] All winner A80 update

[Federico Lucifredi]

The duomo refers to the headers.

AllWinner said PCduino 8 and "Cubiebiard 8" will be available in June.

Best-F

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> On May 5, 2014, at 3:12 AM, Tom Metro <tmetro+hhacking at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Federico Lucifredi wrote:
>> Cortex a15 makes it's way to the PCduino 8 (?).
>> 
>> http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MjM5MTc1NzI3MQ==&mid=201830134&idx=1&sn=e3578bec20bd9424a5cefc3f6d5eaf6b#rd
> 
> "...next generation pcDuino, pcDuino8, based on Allwinner's UltraOctaA80
> chipset, world's first ARM® big.LITTLE(TM) octa-core heterogeneous SoC
> chip with lightning-fast PowerVR 64-core G6230 GPU from Imagination
> Technologies."
> 
> So this is an 8-core ARM board with a 64-core GPU?
> 
> I assume the "Duino" part alludes to Arduino, but what the connection? I
> don't see any mention of a microcontroller co-processor. Are they doing
> Arduino software emulation like the Galileo? Are the headers Arduino
> shield compatible? Or is "Duino" just their way of saying that it is an
> embedded board aimed at makers?
> 
> -Tom
> 
> 
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