Linux Devices (Raspberry Pi 3, Cortex-A32)
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Raspberry Pi 3 Will Have Built-In Bluetooth And Wi-Fi
Recently, Raspberry Pi 3 Model B has been spotted in a FCC (Federal Communications Commission), leaking some interesting features like built-in bluetooth and 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi, permitting the users to access the wireless networks without needing a wifi dongle.
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New ARM and x86 Chips Line Up for IoT Duty
With the Mobile World Congress and Embedded World shows aligning this week, new processors have been popping up left and right. In this article, I’ll look at several that address the growing market for the Internet of Things (IoT), where modest power consumption and size are the winning tickets.
The biggest story for IoT was ARM’s announcement of its low-power Cortex-A32 processor, the first ARMv8 CPU designed specifically for 32-bit embedded devices. That includes wearables -- a market targeted by Qualcomm earlier this month with its Android Wear-directed Snapdragon Wear 2100.
On the x86 side of the aisle, Intel unveiled the Atom x5-E8000, the heir to the Atom E3800 “Bay Trail” line and the first embedded-focused system-on-chip (SoC) based on the same 14nm Airmont architecture as the “Cherry Trail” and “Braswell” SoCs. In addition, AMD announced its third-generation embedded G-Series, which maintains modest 6-15 Watt TDPs while offering faster “Excavator” cores borrowed from its higher-end R-Series. It also adds pin compatibility with R-Series.
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Raspberry Pi 3 With WiFi And Bluetooth
Details of the next member of the successful Raspberry Pi family have become available as part of FCC testing documents. The Pi 3 finally includes WiFi and Bluetooth LE.
About the only thing you could criticize in the current line up of Raspberry Pi single board computers is the fact that you have to add a WiFi or Bluetooth dongle. This increases the cost by around $5, but more importantly it raises the question of which dongle to use. Different dongles tend to have different problems and the whole thing is messy. This has tended to put beginners off. A built-in WiFi facility would make it possible to provide an easier experience.
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