Searching for a new CPU

rseedle wrote on Wednesday, May 24, 2017:

I am searching for a new board for an upcoming FREERTOS project. Do you have any familiarity with these vendors ? Do you have any preferences from the list provided ?

______________________________________________________MMU__________Ghz_______RAM______Storage_____USB_____Ethernet_____Video
DreamPlug
( Marvell’s Kirkwood 88F6281 ARM9E SoC) yes 1.2 512MB 4GB, SATA 2 1000 N/A

Udoo
Freescale i.MX6 SOM Quad (ARM Cortex A9) yes 1.2 1G SATA 4 1000 XGA, WXGA
Intel Quad Core yes 2.56 8G 32G, SATA 3 1000 HDMI

Intel MinnowBoard Max
Intel Atom E3826 yes 1.46 8G SD card, SATA 2 1000 microHDMI FTDI cable sold seperately.

odriod C2
Amlogic Quad Core Cortex-A53 64 Bit ARMv8 yes 2 2G Micro SD 5 1000 HDMI

HummingBoard yes
Freescale i.MX6 SOM Quad (ARM Cortex A9) yes 1.2 1G SATA 4 1000 XGA, WXGA
Freescale i.MX8 SOM Quad (ARM Cortex A9) coming soon

Solid-Run
HummingBoard ? from SOM micro SD, mSATA 2 from SOM from SOM
Freescale i.MX6 SOM Quad (ARM Cortex A9) yes 1.2 1G or 2G SATA, Micro SD 4 1000 HDMI camera interface
Intel Pentuim Quad Core (MicroSoM IB3710) yes 1.6 4G 4G, SATA, Micro SD 4 1000 HDMI

glenenglish wrote on Friday, May 26, 2017:

You are inexperienced I guess, so start with something simple.
Buy a STM DIscovery board like
http://www.st.com/content/st_com/en/products/evaluation-tools/product-evaluation-tools/mcu-eval-tools/stm32-mcu-eval-tools/stm32-mcu-discovery-kits/32f411ediscovery.html

or
http://www.st.com/en/evaluation-tools/32f746gdiscovery.html

http://www.st.com/en/evaluation-tools/stm32-mcu-discovery-kits.html?querycriteria=productId=LN1848

suggest you start with a STM32F4… series first

buy them everywhere $16+