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Posted 7 July 2014
Free Intel Galileo Development Board @ Microsoft
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Microsoft is sending out free Galileo boards for programmers and developers.
Specs:
The genuine Intel processor and surrounding native I/O capabilities of the Clanton SoC provides for a fully featured offering for both the maker community and students alike. It will also be useful to professional developers who are looking for a simple and cost effective development environment to the more complex Intel® Atom processor and Intel® Core processor-based designs.
400MHz 32-bit Intel® Pentium instruction set architecture (ISA)-compatible processor o 16 KBytes on-die L1 cache
512 KBytes of on-die embedded SRAM
Simple to program: Single thread, single core, constant speed
ACPI compatible CPU sleep states supported
An integrated Real Time Clock (RTC), with an optional 3V “coin cell” battery for operation between turn on cycles.
10/100 Ethernet connector
Full PCI Express* mini-card slot, with PCIe 2.0 compliant features
Works with half mini-PCIe cards with optional converter plate
Provides USB 2.0 Host Port at mini-PCIe connector
USB 2.0 Host connector
Support up to 128 USB end point devices
USB Device connector, used for programming
Beyond just a programming port - a fully compliant USB 2.0 Device controller
10-pin Standard JTAG header for debugging
Reboot button to reboot the processor
Reset button to reset the sketch and any attached shields
Storage options:
Default - 8 MByte Legacy SPI Flash main purpose is to store the firmware (or bootloader) and the latest sketch. Between 256KByte and 512KByte is dedicated for sketch storage. The download will happen automatically from the development PC, so no action is required unless there is an upgrade that is being added to the firmware.
Default 512 KByte embedded SRAM, enabled by the firmware by default. No action required to use this feature.
Default 256 MByte DRAM, enabled by the firmware by default.
Optional micro SD card offers up to 32GByte of storage
USB storage works with any USB 2.0 compatible drive
11 KByte EEPROM can be programmed via the EEPROM library.
Essentials
Status Launched
Launch Date Q4'13
# of QPI Links 0
Supported FSBs NA
FSB Parity No
Board Form Factor Arduino
Socket Quark 393pin FCPGA
Extended Life Program (XLP) No
Embedded Options Available No
Lithography 32 nm
Max TDP 12.5 W
DC Input Voltage Supported 5
Back-to-BIOS Button No
Recommended Customer Price N/A
Datasheet Link
Description Arduino Compatible development board
Processor Included Intel® Quark™ SoC X1000 (16K Cache, 400 MHz)
-Memory Specifications
Max Memory Size (dependent on memory type) 256 MB
Memory Types DDR3-800
# of Memory Channels 1
Max Memory Bandwidth 2.5 GB/s
Physical Address Extensions 32-bit
# of DIMMs 0
ECC Memory Supported ‡ No
-Expansion Options
PCI Support PCI Express
PCI Express Revision 2.0
PCI Express Configurations ‡ x1
Max # of PCI Express Lanes 1
PCIe x1 Gen 2.x 1
PCIe Mini Card Slot (Full Length) 1
-I/O Specifications
USB Revision 2.0
# of USB Ports 3
USB 2.0 Configuration (Back + Internal) 3
USB 3.0 Configuration (Back + Internal) 0
# of Serial Ports 1
Integrated LAN 1
-Package Specifications
Max CPU Configuration 1
Package Size 15mm x 15mm
Low Halogen Options Available See MDDS
Have fun and enjoy programming some new and fancy robots
P.S. It seems this one does not have a graphics card so it is for programmers only.
Syphire
Specs:
The genuine Intel processor and surrounding native I/O capabilities of the Clanton SoC provides for a fully featured offering for both the maker community and students alike. It will also be useful to professional developers who are looking for a simple and cost effective development environment to the more complex Intel® Atom processor and Intel® Core processor-based designs.
400MHz 32-bit Intel® Pentium instruction set architecture (ISA)-compatible processor o 16 KBytes on-die L1 cache
512 KBytes of on-die embedded SRAM
Simple to program: Single thread, single core, constant speed
ACPI compatible CPU sleep states supported
An integrated Real Time Clock (RTC), with an optional 3V “coin cell” battery for operation between turn on cycles.
10/100 Ethernet connector
Full PCI Express* mini-card slot, with PCIe 2.0 compliant features
Works with half mini-PCIe cards with optional converter plate
Provides USB 2.0 Host Port at mini-PCIe connector
USB 2.0 Host connector
Support up to 128 USB end point devices
USB Device connector, used for programming
Beyond just a programming port - a fully compliant USB 2.0 Device controller
10-pin Standard JTAG header for debugging
Reboot button to reboot the processor
Reset button to reset the sketch and any attached shields
Storage options:
Default - 8 MByte Legacy SPI Flash main purpose is to store the firmware (or bootloader) and the latest sketch. Between 256KByte and 512KByte is dedicated for sketch storage. The download will happen automatically from the development PC, so no action is required unless there is an upgrade that is being added to the firmware.
Default 512 KByte embedded SRAM, enabled by the firmware by default. No action required to use this feature.
Default 256 MByte DRAM, enabled by the firmware by default.
Optional micro SD card offers up to 32GByte of storage
USB storage works with any USB 2.0 compatible drive
11 KByte EEPROM can be programmed via the EEPROM library.
Essentials
Status Launched
Launch Date Q4'13
# of QPI Links 0
Supported FSBs NA
FSB Parity No
Board Form Factor Arduino
Socket Quark 393pin FCPGA
Extended Life Program (XLP) No
Embedded Options Available No
Lithography 32 nm
Max TDP 12.5 W
DC Input Voltage Supported 5
Back-to-BIOS Button No
Recommended Customer Price N/A
Datasheet Link
Description Arduino Compatible development board
Processor Included Intel® Quark™ SoC X1000 (16K Cache, 400 MHz)
-Memory Specifications
Max Memory Size (dependent on memory type) 256 MB
Memory Types DDR3-800
# of Memory Channels 1
Max Memory Bandwidth 2.5 GB/s
Physical Address Extensions 32-bit
# of DIMMs 0
ECC Memory Supported ‡ No
-Expansion Options
PCI Support PCI Express
PCI Express Revision 2.0
PCI Express Configurations ‡ x1
Max # of PCI Express Lanes 1
PCIe x1 Gen 2.x 1
PCIe Mini Card Slot (Full Length) 1
-I/O Specifications
USB Revision 2.0
# of USB Ports 3
USB 2.0 Configuration (Back + Internal) 3
USB 3.0 Configuration (Back + Internal) 0
# of Serial Ports 1
Integrated LAN 1
-Package Specifications
Max CPU Configuration 1
Package Size 15mm x 15mm
Low Halogen Options Available See MDDS
Have fun and enjoy programming some new and fancy robots
P.S. It seems this one does not have a graphics card so it is for programmers only.
Syphire
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230 Comments
sorted byYou sir are a four letter word
If you had to vote cold on everything posted here which you didn't understand you'd spend all day doing so. Enjoy your ignorance.
Im with arduino on this one, someone who hasn't done some basic research ("is this a windows phone?"), really is not going to want to learn to program a development board and make use of it. And if they tried, they would only inundate stackoverflow and other programming boards with the most basic questions.
A couple of points I would like to argue about:
Both of you are mistaken. No one said thehottest couldn't understand development boards - there was no willingness to learn or to understand. He asked if this was a phone, "no its not", therefore he voted cold - even though this is a scorching deal in my opinion as a programmer. There goes your theory of using the forum to share. A free dev board worth about £50, voted cold because the user didnt know how to google what it was, then didn't like the response someone gave him. - analogy "I vote a FREE lawnmower cold on HUKD, because I dont know what it is and no one told me what a lawnmower was" - ridiculous, yes? I could have googled it, could have asked better questions, could have checked prices online and realised that being free, this is a great deal, but no.
Also, there is good reason to get bothered when a deal is voted cold - it means some people may not see it. (I only saw this in my email as "todays hottest deal" - I would have missed it otherwise.) I'm sorry a good deal is a good deal - if you dont understand it or dont need it, scroll down the page or use the search bar and find deals that interest you. By voting a good deal cold because your lazy or incompetent - they hurt the community that you, Blasphemous so lovingly like to share with. The cold button is used when a deal is bad and can be beaten, on price, quantity or quality. Can the cold-voter find a better deal on windows dev boards?
That sounds all philosophical, but how often can you share the same thing over and over again? I think once we have figured out how to invent the tyre, it helps to centralise this information and make it accessible to everyone. Instead of trying to tell 7 billion people across the globe, the same thing again and again - the information is already available on wikipedia or some article that can be found via google or in the library. If we have to explain the basics to every single person (who has no initiative to do any research) you hinder progress. If Einstein had to explain E=MC^2 again and again or Newton had to explain calculus to people time and time again, their time would be sucked up doing nothing productive - instead they published their results in journals so that people who want to learn can read up on it, and they themselves could try and better the world by experimenting and furthering their own research.
The response to this was , and quite simply if they clicked on the 'get deal' link they would have seen this: "Development hardware like the Intel Galileo board allows you to read temperature sensors, power robot servos, check for intruders, blink a bunch of LED lights, or even make a little music." - took me all of 10 seconds to find this information.
I think both Blasphemous and dalipsinghno1 are either getting too philosophical about bettering the world or are blowing this conversation out of proportion. Lazyiness and stupidity should not be rewarded with other peoples time - it does not contribute to anything positive. The most basic amount of research could have told the user what this deal is about.
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Then you're unlikely to make use of the thing, if you can't understand what it is.
I haven't watched all three sessions yet, but this may help:
makezine.com/mak…eo/
Session 1: youtube.com/wat…U3c
Session 2: youtube.com/wat…cCA
Session 3: youtube.com/wat…2a4
I hope this helps your son.
Kind regards
Syphire
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Isn't douche a six lettered word
Just because someone doesn't understand something first time doesn't mean never will if explained. I say anything can be understood if the teacher is good, I remember my school/uni years when the same thing was explained by two different tutors there was world of difference in the methodology adopted.So please don't put someone down just because you understand/know one thing. It might be he knows something that you don't know.
Learn to exchange your knowledge/thoughts to make a better world
Sorry to drag it a bit but I just shared my personal world experiences
No idea why ppl are voting this cold, not understanding the point is not a reason to vote stuff cold.
Thank you for signing up for the Windows Developer Program for IoT. We’ll let you know when we have more to share.
I'll wait and see what happens, back to the rants now, maybe we can develop a rant appliance!
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Yeah, someone who voted cold because they didn't know what this was and couldn't be botherd to do as little as search for it, they're obviously looking to learn, right? I didn't put them down because they didn't know something. Had you read what you quoted you'd know that.
Scroll down for specs Galileo vs Raspberry Pi
If you had to vote cold on everything posted here which you didn't understand you'd spend all day doing so. Enjoy your ignorance.
I really like your comment mate
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Have to dust off my C programming books - its been a while.
The site is called "Windows on Devices", it has a windows logo at the top and the first line is "We’re bringing Windows to a whole new class of small devices." which all implies it will be running some flavour of Windows. Perhaps it is like Windows Fundamentals which was XP for low power machines (details) and its successor based on Windows 7 - Windows Thin PC (details)...
Search the freebies section, someone posted one about ~130 Microsoft books. Your son would likely benefit from an old book called "The joy of C". It's high level enough for the age group and introduces core concepts as well as absolute beginner to fairly advanced C.
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I'm going to attempt to build a radio controlled toy tank (with working turrets, just not firing anything) and have the whole thing powered by Hydrogen Fuel Cells
No, did you read the post or the page?
Voted cold then
I can't see it either... Signed up anyway as I've been looking at these boards for a while but not expecting Microsoft to send me one for free on the basis of that web page...
I was referring to things in general the hottest initially was just intrigued and looking for a short answer of y/n if nothing else, I think s/he got angry and voted cold.... even now if you post a link on how to work it some of those who never have done any IT or doesn't know what is a KB let alone programming in their lives might become interested and start learning and possibly become top dev's..... who knows someone might develop something that might benefit the human kind or the whole world....
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If they clicked the link which says "Get deal" it'd have told them everything they'd need to know. They didn't read it. You think someone who can't read a page aimed at the general public has the patience to get this to boot?
If they were interested they'd have read the one page explaining what the product is.
Nobody got hot and bothered, no idea where you're getting this from.
The whole point of this site is to make money for the owners of HUKD.
This is the lazyweb, most people are too lazy do even bother reading a one page.
A reasonable percentage of posts are people asking questions in the form of "what is this?". Spoon feeding them the answer teaches them nothing, they'll be back asking the same stupid question again and again. If you were really concerned you'd be teaching them how to find the answer for themselves.
I am so sorry that I did not explain better.
With the get deal link you have to fill out the forms with your correct information.
Microsoft will then send you an email to ask for your shipping address.
Once they send it out, you will receive another email that it is on the way.
As far as I know they do not check if you are a developer.
Enjoy and create amazing robots that hopefully won't take over the world.
Syphire
P.S: I would also like a coffee/waffle maker that automatically makes me fresh coffee every 2 hours
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Lot of hot air coming from you.
Wrong, it's a circuit board populated with tracks and componentes making it a microcontroller. If you don't know what you're talking about, feel free to stop spouting nonsense.
You have yet to provide any facts to back up any of your statements
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Those of you thinking about running a LINUX distro; it's unnecessary. You need a lower-level OS to get access to the hardware.
Could be great for torrents or perhaps bit coining
Douche isn't strong enough a word.
It's a micro controiller, describing it as a PCB is innacurate.
I've not questioned any motives anyone has, if you're going to accuse me of something point back up your claim.
The remainder of your comment is more trolling.
You have claimed:
No proof offered. Datasheets, source code, project examples provided by Intel on the webpage.
Most consumer level hardware is easily damaged, what's your point?
Yocto Project is a Linux foundation work group, you know, the group who promote, protect and standardise Linux? You seem confused as to what Linux is.
No proof offered.
Indeed - some, in the need to be all modern and right-on brother, miss the point of these development computers. They're suppose to encourage interest - for people to actually go looking for information and seek it out. If people are expecting it all on a plate, these are the wrong droids for them.
When I first started work in IT (early 90s) the internet, in terms of the WWW, was largely in it's infancy, in terms of an always-on resource for information. IT departments tended to have a fair amount of books, slightly inadequate programmers reference manuals, and that was about it - you learned through an enquiring mind or you didn't make the cut.
I think that's the type of impetus that various parties are attempting to stimulate with things like the Pi, the Arduino, and the Galileo. For somebody to just vote cold because they didn't understand and weren't prepared to find out themselves? Well it's just fallen at the first hurdle, then.
And that's not a snobbish, elitist, or aging-principles perspective - that's a very real understanding of the type of seed that's being attempted, with these devices.