Anyone knows of any Cortex-A9 development boards?

I like the Panda Board and Galaxy Nexus for Linux and Android related projects but with TI leaving this space, the Panda isn't as well supported. The Arndale is quite well supported by Linaro and other communities but, of course, is not a Cortex-A9.

Developers really appreciate that Hardkernel is committed to open source so I'm confident in recommending the Odroid devices like the U3 even though I haven't used it myself.

What features do you need in a dev board? (Particular OSes, bootloaders, BSP?) What type of trouble are you having with the Panda?

I'll pick up a U3 since I seem to be recommending it more and more and get back to you.

Hi Chin,

I've used Freescale evaluation boards, and I like them. I've mainly used their evaluation board for iMX.51 processors, based on the Cortex-A8, and I loved it. Their iMX.6 range is based on a Cortex-A9, and there is an evaluation board for that too, but I only had it for about two hours, so I can't say. First impressions were good, though. Lots of documentation, a rather well designed I/O system, OS examples, but I did manage to damage/fry an iMX.51 eval board, so I don't know if it is fragile or not, or if I just had bad luck. Might be worth a look.

I would recommend a Digilent board (Zynq or lower-cost ZYBO) for several reasons:

• Great tool/software support through Xilinx (include profiling features, an excellent library of stand-alone drivers, and plenty of documentation)
• Convenient USB/JTAG interface
• PMOD interface gives many (user-friendly) expansion options
• And, of course, there's the added bonus of having programmable logic in case your ever need it.

The only down-side is the added cost of programmable logic if you don't need it.

Hi Chin,

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• 2D/3D/VG Accelerator,1080P h.264 video hardware codec,support dual 720P video encoding;
• 1x 20-bit parallel, MIPI-CSI2 (4-channel), three simultaneous inputs;
• 2-ch HOST USB HSIC, 1-ch OTG and 1-ch HOST USB integrated PHY;
• 1 industrial gigabit Ethernet MAC(10/100/1000MHZ);
• 2-ch CAN ports, each channel can up to 1 Mbps, support CAN2.0;
• 3 SD/MMC 4.4 and 1 SDXC;
• 5 SPI, 5 UART, 3 I2C, 4 PWM;
• Integrated MIPI-HSI interface, 1-ch PCIe2.0 interface;
• Dual LVDS interface, support resolution up to 2048*1536;
• Freescale PF100 PMU;
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Wandboard is worth considering. It is supported by buildroot, armhf. Plus their official support is pretty good too.

Good Luck

Nitin

Yeap, Wand Board is good option. Multiple serial IO interfaces are the challenge.  Other option to check out is RioT board, www.riotboard.org again based on Freescale iMX 6 which is A9 based.

or for a ful list of Embedded Computing Boards which indicates the core they are based on can be found  @ Single Board Computers

Good luck!