ArmStone A9r2 is a compact and very powerful single board computer in PicoITX form factor. Compared to ArmStone A9, it comes with eMMC, CAN PHY, additional serial interfaces and WLAN/Bluetooth. The Cortex-A9 CPU by Freescale is available in a QuadPlus, DualLite or Solo version and it is suitable for multimedia applications. The module comes with a high capacity of RAM, Flash and eMMC memory. ArmStone A9r2 has communication interfaces such as CAN, mPCIe, I²C, SATA, Gigabit Ethernet, camera interface and so on, which are relevant for medical and industrial fields.
Furthermore, it offers two-channel LVDS and DVI. Resistive, as well as capacitive touch panels can be connected via I2C. Available operating systems are Windows Embedded Compact 2013 and Linux (Buildroot or Yocto).
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