Hawkboard, similar to Beagleboard is open hardware platform for developer community. It uses OMAP L138 SoC, which contains ARM9 processor core along with floating point DSP. AM1808 is similar chip-set but with only ARM9 core.
The board has direct serial console connector for debugging. Board has VGA, USB Host & Gadget, SATA, Audio IO peripheral options, making it useful for various home & industrial application.
Pros:
- Angstrom Linux distribution supports hawkboard. Besides that, users have successfully used Android on hawkboard.
- Both cores, ARM9 & Floating point DSP of Hawkboard can execute upto 456 MHz, which is fairly good processing power.
- VGA video output makes easy to connect to low end display device (e.g. CRT monitor).
- Fairly good price of 110 USD.
Update: Hawkboard’s recent batch has some hardware problem. Although solution is published, some users are still reporting problem. So do take this into account.
