Introducing Tabor and the A1222
Date 1-Nov-2015 22:11:46
Topic: hardware OS4
| 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 Technologys 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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