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[Perknose]

Get a "Raspberry Pi on steroids" for free!

The romantically-named MIPS Creator CI20 is a barebones board that's capable of running Linux distros like Debian 7, as well as Android 4.4, and measures 90.2mm by 95.3mm. The hardware is packing a 1.2GHz MIPS32 CPU, 1 GB RAM and a PowerVR SGX540 GPU - the same GPU that is used inside Google Glass, Kindle Fire, Razr I and Galaxy Tab 3 7.0. Combining that graphical prowess with dedicated video controllers that'll support 1080p at 60fps makes the C120 ideal as a barebones HTPC, something the company takes great pains to point out. There's also 8GB of on-board storage and a full-size SD card reader, a step up from both the BeagleBone Black and the Pi Model B+. Connectivity-wise, in addition to the usual Ethernet port, the CI20 also comes with Bluetooth 4.0 and 802.11 b/g/n WiFi as well as two full USB ports and a HDMI-out port.

The company is asking that you sign up on its online store (it's in the source link) to register, offering up both your personal details as well as the details of the project you're planning to develop -- for instance, a nice HTPC -- with the hardware.

 

[mdram]

Update: Unfortunately, the sheer volume of requests has already caused Imagination's website to collapse. The company has asked that hopeful users should be patient and hold off for a little while until everything's up and running again.

 

[SOFTengCOMPelec]

If you can get through to their shop, I believe it would look like this:

The MIPS® Creator CI20 board is a high performance, fully featured Linux and Android development platform. It incorporates an Ingenic JZ4780 SoC which includes a 1.2 GHz, dual-core MIPS32 processor and PowerVR SGX540 GPU. The CI20 board is preloaded with Debian 7, with other distributions (including Gentoo, Yocto, Angstrom and Arch) being available soon.

Android KitKat v4.4 is being prepared and will be available for download by the end of September 2014.

For more information on the CI20 board including:

User’s Guide
Hardware and Software Technical documentation
Component specifications
Schematics
Linux kernel, U-Boot sources forum and more…
visit http://elinux.org/MIPS_Creator_CI20

Major hardware features include:

Ingenic JZ4780, dual 1.2GHz MIPS32 processor, SGX540 GPU, 32k I&D L1 cache, 512k L2 cache
IEEE754 Floating Point Unit
8GB Flash, 1GB DDR3 memory
Video playback up to 1080p
AC97 audio, via 4-pin input/output jack and HDMI connector
Camera interface –ITU645 controller
Connectivity – 10/100 ethernet, 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0
HDMI output up to 2K resolution
2 x USB – host and OTG
14-pin ETAG connector
2 x UART, GPIO, SPI, I2C, ADC, expansion headers
Power supply
Contact Imagination for availability by completing the Request Form. The Creator CI20 is supplied free of charge to certain approved projects under Imagination’s ecosystem.

The MIPS Creator CI20 board is compatible with the principles and development of prpl.

The prpl foundation is the exciting new open source community for all things MIPS. Find out more at http://www.prplfoundation.org/

 

[Perknose]

Update: Unfortunately, the sheer volume of requests has already caused Imagination's website to collapse. The company has asked that hopeful users should be patient and hold off for a little while until everything's up and running again.

Keep trying. This happened to me as well, but I eventually got through.

 

[mdram]

got a link for how you got through

im just getting database errors atm

 

[SOFTengCOMPelec]

got a link for how you got through

im just getting database errors atm

I got the database errors as well. But may have sometimes got further. But I never managed to get to the final form, to fill in.

I'm TOO sceptical, that they won't ship to the UK and/or would refuse to send me one for my project(s), to waste time trying to get one.

 

[mdram]

I got the database errors as well. But may have sometimes got further. But I never managed to get to the final form, to fill in.

I'm TOO sceptical, that they won't ship to the UK and/or would refuse to send me one for my project(s), to waste time trying to get one.

http://imgtec.com/about/contactus.asp

worldwide hq is in the UK

 

[SOFTengCOMPelec]

http://imgtec.com/about/contactus.asp

worldwide hq is in the UK

Thanks, the (links at the top of this thread) pages would not load for me (mostly), so I did not know they were in the UK.

That had to happen, as it badly serves me right, for bad mouthing the situation like that.

The Rasberry PI has been a tremendous success. Because this is dual core, and probably a fair bit faster, it could be very interesting, depending on what the price for them is going to be.
$25 GREAT!
$99 Maybe
$399 Sorry, No.

 

[hashish]

Yeah I emailed the headquarters because I can't get through either. Well I'll keep trying.

 

[Samus]

MIPS...competition to ARM would be good. Kind of crazy there are only two mainstream architectures left.

 

[SOFTengCOMPelec]

MIPS...competition to ARM would be good. Kind of crazy there are only two mainstream architectures left.

Part of my interest in playing with it (if I got one), would be to just play about with the MIPs part of the architecture. I have not looked into it in a longish time, but if I remember correctly, it is suppose to still be practicable to program its assembly language by hand (sorry if I am mis-remembering).
Unlike a 2000+ instruction X86 cpu (including all the SIMD etc extentions).

 

[mdram]

finally was able to send the request

 

[SOFTengCOMPelec]

finally was able to send the request

Good luck on getting it!