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AMD Embedded G‑Series SoC Gives New Gizmo 2 Development Board a Boost in Performance for DIY Developers

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Open source sin­gle board com­pu­ter from Giz­mo­Sphe­re offers fle­xi­bi­li­ty and per­for­mance for embedded, DIY and advan­ced hob­by­ist markets

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Nov. 11, 2014 — AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announ­ced the AMD Embedded G‑Series Sys­tem-on-Chip (SoC) is powe­ring the new Giz­mo 2 deve­lo­p­ment board from Giz­mo­Sphe­re, a non­pro­fit deve­lo­p­ment board com­mu­ni­ty. Giz­mo 2 is a second-gene­ra­ti­on, open source deve­lo­p­ment board, offe­ring embedded pro­gramm­ers and advan­ced DIY­ers out­stan­ding com­pu­te and gra­phics per­for­mance on a sin­gle plat­form for a wide ran­ge of Linux and Win­dows based deve­lo­p­ment projects.

“The AMD Embedded G‑Series SoC pro­ces­sor com­bi­nes a powerful and effi­ci­ent CPU and GPU on a sin­gle chip, making Giz­mo 2 ide­al for both DIY­ers and pro­fes­sio­nals loo­king to go bey­ond the ent­ry-level per­for­mance available with most of today’s DIY boards,” said Kamal Khou­ri, direc­tor of mar­ke­ting, AMD Embedded Solu­ti­ons. “Giz­mo 2 offers cut­ting-edge com­pu­te per­for­mance and excep­tio­nal gra­phics pro­ces­sing, enab­ling the explo­ra­ti­on of new ide­as in sci­ence and tech­no­lo­gy, while encou­ra­ging inno­va­ti­on around mul­ti­co­re hete­ro­ge­neous computing.”

Based on the AMD GX-210HA dual-core pro­ces­sor, Giz­mo 2 is more powerful than its pre­de­ces­sor, cou­pling a 1.0 GHz CPU and 300 MHz GPU while only dra­wing 9 watts TDP on a com­pact, 4‑inch by 4‑inch board. Giz­mo 2 is one of the hig­hest per­forming deve­lo­p­ment boards available with 85 GFLOPS per­for­mance, ide­al for tho­se loo­king to sup­ple­ment or replace ent­ry-level plat­forms. Foun­ded on an open source, com­mu­ni­ty-based eco­sys­tem, Giz­mo 2 hard­ware sche­ma­tics, Ger­ber for­mat files and bill-of-mate­ri­als (BOM) will be open-sourced to the Giz­mo­Sphe­re and Element14 com­mu­ni­ty for tho­se loo­king to design and build a cus­tom board.

Fea­tures of the Giz­mo 2 board include:

  • HDMI video/audio output
  • 1 GB DDR3-1600 memory
  • HD audio in/out
  • mSATA/mini PCIe Connector
  • microSD card slot
  • Onboard Giga­bit Ethernet
  • USB 3 (2) and 2 (2) connectors
  • Sup­port for DirectX® 11.1, OpenGL 4.2x and Open­CL™ 1.2, enab­ling par­al­lel processing
  • Error-Cor­rec­tion Code (ECC) memo­ry support

The board is available world­wi­de for $199 (USD) through Giz­mo­sphe­re and the Element14 com­mu­ni­ty. Giz­mo­Sphe­re pro­vi­des com­mu­ni­ty forums for deve­lo­pers to find and share infor­ma­ti­on on Giz­mo 2, plus examp­les and tips on deve­lo­p­ment pro­jects. To learn more about Giz­mo­Sphe­re, or to purcha­se a Giz­mo 2 board, plea­se visit www.GizmoSphere.org.

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About AMD

AMD (NYSE: AMD) designs and inte­gra­tes tech­no­lo­gy that powers mil­li­ons of intel­li­gent devices, inclu­ding per­so­nal com­pu­ters, tablets, game con­so­les and cloud ser­vers that defi­ne the new era of sur­round com­pu­ting. AMD solu­ti­ons enable peo­p­le ever­y­whe­re to rea­li­ze the full poten­ti­al of their favo­ri­te devices and appli­ca­ti­ons to push the boun­da­ries of what is pos­si­ble. For more infor­ma­ti­on, visit www.amd.com.

About Giz­mo­Sphe­re

Giz­mo­Sphe­re is an inde­pen­dent initia­ti­ve crea­ted to meet the open source deve­lo­p­ment needs of embedded deve­lo­pers around the glo­be. It ser­ves as a resour­ce cen­ter pro­vi­ding documentation,

down­loads, sche­ma­tics, news and other infor­ma­ti­on per­ti­nent to the embedded deve­lo­p­ment com­mu­ni­ty. Giz­mo­Sphe­re offers Giz­mo 2, which brings the power of a super­com­pu­ter and the I/O capa­bi­li­ties of a micro­con­trol­ler to the x86 open source embedded deve­lo­p­ment com­mu­ni­ty in one con­ve­ni­ent, afforda­ble packa­ge. For details, visit www.gizmosphere.org.

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