Today’s Diminutive Device is a small castellated System-On-Module (Twitter link, nitter proxy) from [MangoPi] called M-Core, with a quad-core A53 CPU and 1 GB of RAM. As such, it’s very capable of ...

Ever wanted to run Linux in an exceptionally small footprint? Then [Reimu NotMoe] from [SudoMaker] has something for you! She’s found an unbelievably small Linux-able chip in BGA, and designed a ...

Microchip Technology Inc. unveils a new System on Module (SOM) featuring the SAMA5D2 MPU, which greatly simplifies design by integrating the power management, non-volatile boot memory, Ethernet PHY ...

Arm’s Cortex-A family handles heavy-duty operating systems like Linux, while the Cortex-M microcontroller typically runs an RTOS. Designing a system for a Cortex-M tends to be relatively easy compared ...

Aimed at applications that need to transition from a microcontroller (MCU) to a microprocessor (MPU) to handle increased processing requirements, Microchip Technology Inc. has expanded its MPU-based ...

The NI System on Module (SOM), based on the Xilinx Zynq All Programmable SoC, is shipped with a complete middleware solution and Linux-based real-time OS already integrated into the system. Related To ...

Xilinx’s Zynq family has been an extremely successful system-on-chip (SoC) FPGA solution. However, as with many FPGA platforms, using this flexible solution can be especially tough when it comes to ...