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Gumstix Overo - Feature Overview
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 Product Name
Overo™ Earth Motherboard
     
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 Release Date
 October 2008
 

 At only 17mm x 58mm x 4.2mm in size, the Overo™ Earth motherboard gives open source innovators access to the industry’s highest performance, generally available ARM®-based platform in the tiniest, lowest cost Linux computer available.

Nearly 40 percent smaller than existing Gumstix motherboards, Overo is ideal for small, hand held applications such as mobile computing, data collection, telecom, remote operations, transportation and embedded systems.

The power consumption of the Overo Earth motherboard is typically less than 1W.

Processor

  Texas Instruments' OMAP 3503 Applications Processor  featuring the ARM® Cortex™-A8 CPU

   Pin-compatible with future OMAP 35x-based Overo motherboards.

Clock (MHz)

  600 MHz

RAM

 256 MB low power DDR RAM

Flash

 256 MB NAND Flash

Removable Memory

 microSD adapter

Connectors

 The top side of Overo has one (1) x 27-pin flex ribbon connector (Hirose FH26-27S)

- Connector J5 on Overo - features the camera control signals.

 The bottom side of Overo has two (2) x 70-pin AVX 5602-14 connectors:

- Connector J1 on Overo - features the LCD, PWM and analog signals.
- Connector J4 on Overo - features the Extended Memory Bus and MMC signals.

Futher connector information posted here

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 Expansion Board Connectors

- Two (2) x AVX 5602-24 connectors on an Overo expansion board

- Mate with the two (2) x 70-pin AVX 5602-14 connectors on Overo.

Features

24-bit LCD signals

2 Peripheral Interupts, reset, wake and power-on

I2C signaling, PWM lines (6), UART, IR_UART PORT

Headset out lines, power, ground, backup, Pseudodifferential mic

A/D (6 x 10 bits), 1-wire signaling

USB OTG signals (Host or Client mode)

Address-bus chip selects, Address-bus control lines, Address lines 1:10

Data lines 0:15, SPI bus with 2 selects, IRQ lines

8-bit MMC signals

Camera input (12 bit)

Power and 1.8W supply

Expansion Board(s)

  Feature Overview sheet for Overo expansion boards

Operating System

 Linux 2.6.27 or higher

Dimensions

 17mm x 58mm x 4.2mm    (0.67 in. x 2.28 in. 0.16 in.)

 Weight 6 grams

Mounting holes

 Four (4) x #0 mounting holes, one hole in each corner of the Overo motherboard.

Temperature Range

 O deg C to 85 deg C

Supply Voltage

 3.3V – 4.2V

Current Draw Max.

250 mA @ 4v

Getting Started

Click here for more information.

Applications

Portable Data Collection

Point-of-Sale Devices

Telecom

Industrial Control

Computer Devices

Portable Navigation Devices

Utility Metering Devices 

Embedded Systems

A wide range of other applications, worldwide

 

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