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hardware OS4   hardware OS4 : Introducing Tabor and the A1222
   posted by amigakit on 1-Nov-2015 22:01:15 (20761 reads)
Introducing Tabor and the A1222
A powerful, low cost, entry level PowerPC motherboard

San Francisco 19th October 2015


A-EON Technology Ltd is pleased to announce that Tabor, a new powerful, low cost, entry level PowerPC motherboard, which forms part of our A1200 series, is about to undergo beta testing.

As part of our drive to create more powerful lower cost, entry level hardware and expand the Next-Generation user base we commissioned Ultra Varisys to create a new PowerPC motherboard. The result is Tabor, a 170 mm x 170 mm mother-board based on a Freescale QorIQ P1022 32-bit e500v2 dual-core PowerPC processor running at 1.2 GHz. Prototypes have already been shipped to key developers and members of A-EON Technology’s Core Linux support team and, as a result, several Linux distributions are already up and running on the Tabor board. Working in cooperation with ACube srl, a beta test programme is about to commence, which is already over-subscribed.

The full system is designated the AmigaOne A1222.







Tabor specifications*
(Subject to change without notice)

PowerPC CPU: Freescale QorIQ P1022, 1.2GHz, 32-bit, e500V2, dual-core
• 1x CPU fan + heatsink
• 2x fan ports

DDR3 SODIMM
• 64 bit interface
• 400Mhz
• Support up to 8GB RAM

RS232 Serial
• 1x RS232 including flow control
• Level shifting from TTL UART serial levels to RS232 levels
• Maximum baud rate of 230,400

SATA
• 2x SATA 2.6 compliant controllers

USB
• 2x External & 2x Internal USB port

Ethernet
• 1x RGMII ethernet PHYs each providing Gbit ethernet

PCIe
• x4 PCIe gen 1 link allows data rates of 2.5Gb/s per lane
• x16 PCIe connector to support RadeonHD graphics cards

Audio
• Audio CODEC generating stereo audio out from I2S digital audio

HDMI LCD Interface
• 24 bit colour depth
• Support for resolution up to 1280x1024
• HDMI 1.3 support

GPIO
• Support for user GPIOs
• GPIO JTAG

Micro SD
• Micro SD card for ROM - later possibility of running the whole system from the microSD card

WCU Prog

LED ports for Power, CPU, HDD
    

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Re: Introducing Tabor and the A1222
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Depending on the price tag. This might be my first OS4 machine. (Not counting the OS4 classic running in FS-UAE).


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Sounds exciting 😎


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well done A-Eon/ACube, the more the merrier


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Interesting machine


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Sounds like a great little board

You guys rock!


Is it a standalone board ? or is it a full solution - are A-eon working on a cool case ?

Could be great with a centered boing ball power button at a size of 3-5 cm with light in it

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Beautiful board, and beautiful boot image

Now go starting pre-orders for X5000

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Nice, more company!

Thanks!

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Nice! With HDMI and next AMC it could end up as nice mediacenter
What means low cost... Sub 500 , sub 400€?


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Maybe maybe...
Can you clarify what is the A1200 serie?
"•Support for resolution up to 1280x1024" with any card?

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Quote:
"•Support for resolution up to 1280x1024" with any card?


As I understood it, it's the inbuilt capability of the P1022 (supported or not by OS4, I don't know).


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@ fjudde
Yes the P1022 has a build in DIU (Display Interface Unit).

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@fjudde

Obviously it's the onboard graphics that can only do 1280x1024.

Now let's just hope OS4 will fully support the onboard features (shouldn't be TOO hard) and the workaround for the FPU reaches acceptable performance (there's been some doubt here)

Btw, I like the SD bootROM. Using this myself on a P1025 board. Really saves a lot of hassle in production and development. But note that only industrial SD cards (single level cells) will retain data long term. Would suck to wake up one morning a few years down the road and having to source compatible SD cards and card readers on eBay because they've gone the way of floppies

Oh and I hope this board has some power drain from the 12V rail. Modern ATX PSUs are built for mostly generating +12V. Even the low spec ones. Allthough Tabor would probably be best used with a PicoPSU.


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And it price? Only 32bit support and 1.2 GHz? The price 200-300 euros will be good.

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then it would be heavy competition for some of Acubes products

I read that Sam 460 will be further sold

But we will see

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The Sam460CR just went for sale again.... and this is announced. Pity, no price.

By the way, what is the TOPAZ thing showed in the logo?


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@olegil

Quote:
Obviously it's the onboard graphics that can only do 1280x1024.


Yes that was what I was trying to say with "the inbuilt capability of the P1022". I did not mean that it would reflect on graphics cards in the PCIe as the highest resolution. Reading my own post I see now that I partially failed.

And I Also hope it will be supported by OS4, Would be nice to try a dual monitor setup.


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>DDR3 SODIMM
>• 64 bit interface
>• 400Mhz

Should I read it as 3x400Mhz ~= 1200Mhz?

> Support up to 8GB RAM

Now I fail to recall how that is done on 32bit CPU & OS...


" Would be nice to try a dual monitor setup."

Me too! I'm grown used to use two monitors on my mainstream HW boxes.


@price
We must conquer the price challenge. To get new users the minimum HW dongle must not cost much.

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on intel there seem to be some integrated mechanism:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PAE

this mechanism uses MMU to change between pages but is slow

normally you cannot address more than 4 GB

regarding PPC:
"The PowerPC 970 "G5" has 64-bit data paths and registers with native support for 32-bit application code."

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Great News

If Price/Performance is ok, I'll probably buy one.

Thanks to all the developers involved.

-> Will there be one Tabor running at the Alchimie 0xb?


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