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Board and Chip Vendors
This page has a list of the companies or organizations that make
processors or boards for embedded products. If you are looking for
companies who sell Linux software or Linux-related services, see the
Vendors page. If you are looking for companies who
sell end-user products based on Linux, see
Companies. If you are looking for information
about specific development boards, see Category:Development
Boards
Contents
A
- Allwinner Technology - An
arm soc vendor based in Zhuhai, China- make low cost arm soc for consumer electronic products, such as
A1x.
- make low cost arm soc for consumer electronic products, such as
- AMCC - Applied Micro Circuits
Corporation- makes embedded PowerPC processors??
- AMD
- acquired ATI and now produces MIPS-based embedded processors
(Xilleon series) - Also, used to make Geode chip
- acquired ATI and now produces MIPS-based embedded processors
- Analog Devices - Wikipedia
entry- ADI designs and manufactures the Blackfin
processor, which has been in
the mainline Linux kernel since 2.6.22 (May 2007). - There is a central open source
site with a dedicated
documentation wiki - Many more Blackfin manufactures can be found in that
wiki
as well
- ADI designs and manufactures the Blackfin
- ARM - Wikipedia
entry- ARM designs ARM architecture processors, and license the
technology to companies that actually make the chips, they also
make a few reference boards for their own technology named ARM
RealView, ARM
Versatile
and ARM Integrator
Info
- ARM designs ARM architecture processors, and license the
- Armadeus
- affordable ARM boards (Freescale i.MX + Xilinx Spartan FPGA)
- Armadeus started as a community project
- Atmel : Atmel.com -
Wikipedia entry- Atmel makes the SAMA5D3
Xplained 32-bit
ARM Cortex-A5 development platform, and the older
AT91SAM ARM926ej-s
development platform - AT91 Linux gateway
- Github for Linux-based systems : linux4sam.org
github - AT91SAM and Atmel MCU community forum
- Atmel makes the SAMA5D3
- Armkits Embest
- Atmel AT91SAM9G45 Single Board Computer English
Website,China
Website
- Atmel AT91SAM9G45 Single Board Computer English
B
- Bluetechnix makes tiny Blackfin
modules to simplify custom board development - Boundary Devices
- manufacturers of ARM based Single Board Computers and System on
Modules - does custom board and device work.
- manufacturers of ARM based Single Board Computers and System on
- Broadcom - makes ARM chips for mobile phone market
C
- CALAO Systems sells tiny and cheap
ARM based boards - Cambridge Signal Processing makes tiny
Blackfin modules to simplify custom board development - C Data Solutions makes tiny Blackfin
modules to simplify custom board development - Cirrus Logic - Wikipedia
entry- Cirrus Logic makes ep93xx and ep73xx 32-bit ARM-based
Microcontrollers
- Cirrus Logic makes ep93xx and ep73xx 32-bit ARM-based
D
- DigiKey sells the
OMAP3 based beagleboard,
Pandaboard and
Beaglebone
E
- EFlag Tech does custom Blackfin
platform designs (software and hardware) - eInfochips - The Solution
People Open-RD based platform - electronics.cat Open source hardware.
Fastest and tidiest way prototyping electronics. It can be connected
to Raspberry Pi 3Bpi - Elphel, Inc provide high performance
Network Cameras based on Free Software and Hardware designs. Axis
EtraxFS & Spartan 3e 1200k gates FPGA. - Embest sells Atmel SAM9G45 based
SBC6845, TI OMAP3530
based DevKit8000,
DM3730 based
DevKit8500D,
AM3359 based
DevKit8600, AM1808
based SBC8018,
Freescale i.MX 6Quad based SABRE
Lite, NXP LPC1788
based SBC1788 and
Discover-MO:)
modules for STF32F4DISCOVERY board.
F
Freescale Semiconductor - Wikipedia
entry- ARM
- i.MX3x series based on the ARM11 processor
- i.MX5x series based on the Cortex-A8
- i.MX6x series based on the Cortex-A9
- PPC
- Freescale makes several PPC-based processors (and associated
development boards) as well
- Freescale makes several PPC-based processors (and associated
- ARM
Forlinx Embedded - mainly focus on the
manufacture and sales of ARM series development boards.- FL2416 based on Samsung ARM9 S3C2416X
http://www.forlinx.net/?p=28&a=view&r=104 - OK6410-A based on Samsung ARM11 S3C6410
http://www.forlinx.net/?p=27&a=view&r=49 - OK6410-B based on Samsung ARM11 S3C6410
http://www.forlinx.net/?p=27&a=view&r=50 - OK210 based on Samsung Cortex-A8 S5PV210
http://www.forlinx.net/?p=26&a=view&r=47 - OK210-A based on Samsung Cortex-A8 S5PV210
http://www.forlinx.net/?p=26&a=view&r=48 - OK335xD based on TI Sitara AM335x
http://www.forlinx.net/?p=26&a=view&r=46 - OK335xS based on TI Sitara AM335x
http://www.forlinx.net/?p=26&a=view&r=99 - OK335xS-II based on TI Sitara AM335x
http://www.forlinx.net/?p=26&a=view&r=110
- FL2416 based on Samsung ARM9 S3C2416X
G
- Gumstix sells various very small
processor and add-on boards. Especially interesting for robotics
related projects.
H
- HITEG LTD does custom embedded
board ,it focused on IT outsourcing and embedded technology(software
and hardware) - Hua Heng Tech does
custom Blackfin platform designs (software and hardware) - HV Sistemas S.L. makes tiny Blackfin
modules to simplify custom board development
I
- IBM - Wikipedia
entry- Makes embedded PowerPC processor chips, such as the PPC 440 line
K
M
- Marvell sells a lot of ARM chips.
- One of the most interesting ones is probably the Marvell
88W8618 which is used in
the Freecom MusicPal.
- One of the most interesting ones is probably the Marvell
- MYIR sells various ARM development
boards, CPU modules and single board computers.- MYD-AM335X TI AM335x
Development Board using
MYC-AM335X SoM - MYD-AM335X-Y TI
AM335x Development Board using
MCC-AM335X-Y SoM - MYD-AM335X-J TI
AM335x Development Board using
MCC-AM335X-J SoM - MYD-IMX28X Freescale
i.MX28 Development Board using
MYC-IMX28X SoM - MYD-SAMA5D3X Atmel
SAMA5D3 Development Board using
MYC-SAMA5D3X SoM - MYD-SAMA5D3X-C Atmel
SAMA5D3 Development Board using
MCC-SAMA5D3X-C SoM - MYD-SAM9X5 Atmel
SAM9X5 Development Board using
MYC-SAM9X5 SoM - MYD-SAM9X5-V2 Atmel
SAM9X5 Development Board using
MYC-SAM9X5-V2 SoM - Z-turn Board
Xilinx Zynq-7010, 7020 Single Board Computer - Rico Board TI AM437x
Single Board Computer
- MYD-AM335X TI AM335x
N
- NEC - makes ARM chips, used to make lots of MIPS chips
- NVIDIA - Wikipedia
entry
Q
- Qualcomm - makes multicore ARM
MSM
products that support Linux- Their
Snapdragon
platform provides a 1GHz ARM core and advanced DSP.
- Their
R
- Renesas Technology - Wikipedia
entry- Renesas makes the SuperH, M32R, and H8 RISC CPUs, the RX CISC
CPUs, and others.
- Renesas makes the SuperH, M32R, and H8 RISC CPUs, the RX CISC
S
- Samsung
- Samsung Electronics makes the S3C24XX(ARM 9), S3C64XX(ARM 11),
S5P64XX(ARM 11), S5PC100(Cortex A8), S5PV210/S5PC110(Cortex A8),
EXYNOS4210(Cortex A9) SoCs and others. - See more Samsung Application
Processors
- Samsung Electronics makes the S3C24XX(ARM 9), S3C64XX(ARM 11),
- SiRF - Makes besides GPS products also ARM
based SoC for location aware devices, like the ARM9 based Atlas III
(codename) at4x0a and
the ARM11 based
SiRFPrima. - SolidRun i.MX6 uSoM’s, HummingBoard
baseboards and i.MX6 CuBox media box - ST-Ericsson make mobile platforms for
handset form factors and similar, typically ARM based with cellular
modems. - Sunplus is a company specialising in
chips for multimedia and mobile applications. One of their
interesting chips is the Sunplus
SPMP3050A which is used in
MP4 players. - Surveyor Corporation makes Blackfin
based robot modules for academics, hobbyists, and professionals
T
- [Tianyeit]
- Sell the tiny Package — Computer In Package base on TI
OMAP35x/AM3517/omap4430/omap4460/dm3730/am3359
- Sell the tiny Package — Computer In Package base on TI
- Timll
- Reference Design and customized HW/SW Design Based on TI
OMAP35x/AM3517
- Reference Design and customized HW/SW Design Based on TI
- TechNexion
- Expandable and fully customizable ARM system modules and
interface boards - Embedded x86 boards with coreboot and linux core extensions
- Expandable and fully customizable ARM system modules and
- Texas Instruments - Wikipedia
entry
V
- VIA Embedded
- ARM boards based on VIA and Freescale SoCs, such as the VAB-600
Springboard,
VAB-800/820/1000,
the APC series 8750/Rock/Paper - small form factor x86 boards for embedded, EPIA-900/910 series.
- ARM boards based on VIA and Freescale SoCs, such as the VAB-600