A new development board that can run a variety of operating systems including Android, Linux, RTOSes and Windows has been developed. The Gizmo board is being described as a low-cost board geared toward x86-based embedded system development and is available from GizmoSphere.
AMD is a founding member of GizmoSphere, a not-for-profit organisation whose collective goal is said to be to drive and enable technology projects of interest to independent developers, with a focus on stimulating and encouraging innovation around multicore heterogeneous computing using APUs.
The board is powered by an AMD Embedded G-Series Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) and includesa G-T40E dual-core processor running at 1.0 GHz, combined on a single die with AMD Radeon HD 6250 discrete-class graphics.
The board is claimed to be able to provide a performance capacity of 52 gigaFLOPS (GFLOPS) at less than 10 watts. Custom high- and low-speed edge connectors enable a full range of functions. This level of integration between serial and parallel processing is said to offer a power-efficient foundation for high-performance multimedia content delivery across a broad range of embedded designs such as digital signage, x86 set-top box (xSTB), IP-TV, thin client, information kiosk, point-of-sale, casino gaming, media servers and industrial control systems.
‘Gizmo is an excellent board for the next generation of embedded systems development,’ said Kamal Khouri, Director of Embedded Products, AMD. ‘The new board will serve the diverse and growing embedded development community and is especially useful for those wanting to incorporate the advanced capabilities possible by harnessing a heterogeneous architecture. Developers ready to take advantage of a high-performance, full I/O-featured x86 development board will find tremendous value in Gizmo.’
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