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Low End Mother Board base on TI Processors

Kadal Amutahm
Prodigy 60 points
Other Parts Discussed in Thread: OMAP3530

Day by day, the processor capability keeps increasing.  So it is possible to design a low end mother board for desktop / laptop application without intel / amd processors.  With rapid advancement in solid state drives (SSD) the hard disk can be eliminated. This mother board can be easily used to do simple work like word processing, spread sheet, email clients, browsing and chat. The total power consumption for this mother board shall be less than 25W (It can be even smaller) . If possible, it shall have an interface to TV. An USB port can be provided to connect external hard disk. And another USB port to connect mouse / key board. This type of products will be usefull in schools, educational institutes, libraries etc where the limited performance will do. If this device becomes popular MW of power can be saved.

I am looking for a team of engineers who support this idea. If complete schematics, gerbers can be created, it can be posted in open domain so that anybody can take up manufacturing. This will be an open source hardware. Let me know your views

V.Kadal Amutham

India 

 

  • TI__Mastermind 44306 points

    maybe you should look at BeagleBoard.org

    Regards.

  • Guru 31670 points

    Amudham,

    Its almost impossible to do such a thing. The fact is that you cannot make a generic board like intel or AMD architecture where you'll get a ZIF socket supported processor core. Here its totally different as you are dealing with System on Chips where each chip will have different kind of peripherals. So the pinout of one SoC will not match with another. Also there is no need of a mother board, as most of the things on the mother board are available on-chip, even including graphics. 

    The basic things like storage and DDR are really required to make a system like that. That's what is done by all phone/tablet manufacturers in fact. You can take up any silicon like OMAP3530 to start understanding the features. 

  • in reply to Renjith Thomas
    Prodigy 60 points

    Mr. renjith, Can you comment on the power requirement, excluding the power consumed by peripherals like mouse, keyboard, display etc?

  • in reply to Kadal Amutahm
    Guru 31670 points

    Power consumption of the system will be very less when compared to PC. The power consumption of the peripherals like mouse and keyboard will remain same. Display will also remain same if you are connecting a standard monitor. Can you mark this question as answered if you think so?

  • Guru 26430 points

    Here's an interesting attempt at inexpensive computing:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi

    I would guess that the ARM architecture is probably the more affordable at the moment. The Android has done a lot to popularize the ARM. A lot of  SOCs use the ARM. Very competitive market. You might have noticed that TI's ARM-only offerings are much less expensive than anything with a DSP in it.

  • in reply to Norman Wong
    Prodigy 60 points

    Norman Wong, this is what I had in mind  to develop. But the board, did not have SSD for program /data storage. Will it serve my requirement of simple processing? I will recheck once again come back to you.