SBC ARM boards: an overview

[Dirk Broer]

Year	Core	Architecture	Diagram	SOC Example	SBC Example(s)
2003	ARM11	ARMv6		Broadcom BCM2835, BCM21553 VIA WonderMedia WM87x0	Raspberry Pi A, A+, B, B+, Odroid-W Via APC 8750
2005	ARM Cortex-A8	ARMv7-A		Texas Instruments Sitara AM335x, OMAP 3 Allwinner A10, A13 Apple A4 Freescale i.MX5x Rockchip RK2918, RK2906 Samsung Exynos 3110, S5PC110, S5PV210 ZiiLABS ZMS-08	BeagleBone Black Cubieboard, Gooseberry
2007	ARM Cortex-A9	ARMv7-A		Freescale i.MX6x Actions ATM702x, ATM703x Altera Cyclone V, Arria V/10 Amlogic AML8726, MX, M6x, M801, M802/S802, S812, T866 Apple A5, A5X Broadcom VideoCore BCM21xxx, BCM28xxx HiSilicon K3V2 Leadcore LC1810, LC1811 MediaTek MT65xx Nvidia Tegra, 2, 3, 4i Nufront NuSmart 2816M, NS115, NS115M Renesas EMMA EV2, R-Car H1, RZ/A Rockchip RK292x, RK30xx, RK31xx Samsung Exynos 4 ST-Ericsson NovaThor Telechips TCC8803 Texas Instruments OMAP 4 VIA WonderMedia WM88x0, 89x0 Xilinx Zynq-7000 ZiiLABS ZMS-20, ZMS-40	CuBox, HummingBoard, Udoo
2009	ARM Cortex-A5	ARMv7-A		Amlogic M805/S805 Actions Semiconductor ATM702x Atmel SAMA5D3 Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Play, 200 InfoTMIC iMAPx820, iMAPx15 Telechips TCC892x	Odroid-C1, C1+

Year	Cortex Application Core	Architecture	Diagram	SOC Example	SBC Example(s)
2010	ARM Cortex-A15	ARMv7-A		nVidia Tegra 4, K1 Allwinner A80 HiSilicon K3V3 MediaTek MT6599 Nvidia Tegra 4, K1 Renesas R-Car H2 Samsung Exynos 5 Texas Instruments OMAP 5, DRA7xx	nVidia Jetson TK1 Arndale board

The Nvidia Tegra K1, as used in the Jetson TK1, is made using an ARM Cortex-A15 quad-core CPU and a Kepler SMX GPU (comparable with a GeForce GTX 770 in features and of 300 GFLOP power)
Input voltage is 12V, power consumption (idle-max): 3-12W

Features : Thumb / Thumb-2 / DSP / VFPv4 FPU / NEON / integer divide / fused MAC / Jazelle RCT
Pipeline : 15 stage integer/17–25 stage floating point pipeline, with out-of-order speculative issue 3-way superscalar execution pipeline.
3.5-4.0 DMIPS/MHz, giving

floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU, integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU

You don't see many of these high powered ARM SOCs on their own, most Cortex-A15 cores are found in a big.LITTLE implementation, a power-optimization technology where the high-performance 'big' Cortex-A15 cores are combined with more efficient 'LITTLE' CPU cores (the Cortex-A7) to deliver peak-performance capacity, higher sustained performance and increased parallel processing performance at significantly lower average power. Examples are the Samsung Exynos 5 Octa's and the Allwinner A80.

Year	Cortex Application Core	Architecture	Diagram	SOC Example	SBC Example(s)
2011	ARM Cortex-A7	ARMv7-A		Allwinner-A2x, A3x, H3 Broadcom VideoCore BCM2836, BCM23550 Freescale QorIQ LS10xx Leadcore LC1813, LC1913 Marvell Armada PXA1920 MediaTek MT65xx Qualcomm Snapdragon 200, 400	Banana Pi M1, M1+, Pro, M2 Raspberry Pi2