Mar 15, 2022·edited Mar 23, 2022Liked by Bryan Lunduke
I, umm, impulse bought this. The ARM ones had little appeal to me other than the form factor as I have several ARM computers already. But, a reasonably priced RISC-V machine and a cool form factor? Yes please. Without a GPU it will be a text based machine, similar to the TRS-80 from which it draws inspiration, but it should be more than sufficient for SSH and telnet.
EDIT: This chip is beefier than I thought it would be. I had multiple comments on this, and finally found the datasheet from Allwinner and what follows is what I found.
**Allwinner D1 SOC facts in brief:**
* XuanTie C906 RISC-V CPU and HiFi4 DSP
* DDR2/DDR3 SDRAM
* SD3.0/SDIO3.0/eMMC5.0
* H.265/H.264/MPEG-1/2/4/JPEG/VC1 decoding, up to 4K
The first RISC-V portable computer is now available
I, umm, impulse bought this. The ARM ones had little appeal to me other than the form factor as I have several ARM computers already. But, a reasonably priced RISC-V machine and a cool form factor? Yes please. Without a GPU it will be a text based machine, similar to the TRS-80 from which it draws inspiration, but it should be more than sufficient for SSH and telnet.
EDIT: This chip is beefier than I thought it would be. I had multiple comments on this, and finally found the datasheet from Allwinner and what follows is what I found.
**Allwinner D1 SOC facts in brief:**
* XuanTie C906 RISC-V CPU and HiFi4 DSP
* DDR2/DDR3 SDRAM
* SD3.0/SDIO3.0/eMMC5.0
* H.265/H.264/MPEG-1/2/4/JPEG/VC1 decoding, up to 4K
* JPEG/MJPEG encoding, up to 1080p@60fps
* Allwinner SmartColor2.0 post processing
* Supports de-interlace (DI) up to 1080p@60fps
* Supports Graphic 2D (G2D) hardware accelerator including rotate, mixer, LBC decompression functions
* RGB interface up to 1920 x 1080@60fps
* Dual link LVDS interface up to 1920 x 1080@60fps 4-lane MIPI DSI up to 1920 x 1200@60fps
* HDMI TX interface up to 4K@30fps
* CVBS OUT interface, supporting NTSC and PAL format
* 8-bit parallel CSI interface
* CVBS IN interface, supporting NTSC and PAL format
* 2 DACs and 3 ADCs
* LINEOUTLP/N, LINEOUTRP/N, HPOUTL/R, MICIN1P/1N, MICIN2P/2N, MICIN3P/3N, LINEINL/R, FMINL/R
* Three I2S/PCM external interfaces (I2S0, I2S1, I2S2)
* Maximum 8 digital PDM microphones (DMIC)
* OWA TX and OWA RX, compliance with S/PDIF interface
* AES, DES, 3DES, RSA, MD5, SHA, HMAC
* Integrated 2 Kbits OTP storage space
* USB 2.0 DRD (USB0) and USB 2.0 HOST (USB1)
* 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet port with RGMII and RMII interfaces
* Up to 6 UART controllers (UART0, UART1, UART2, UART3, UART4, UART5)
* Up to 2 SPI controllers (SPI0, SPI1)
* Up to 4 TWI controllers (TWI0, TWI1, TWI2, TWI3)
* CIR RX and CIR TX
* 8 independent PWM channels (PWM0 to PWM7)
* 2-ch GPADC
* 4-ch TPADC
* 1-ch LRADC
* LEDC
Still waiting for mine :( I hope they manage to get these out.
$100 cheaper then the A06 model I have on order.
Would you recommend going with the RISC-V model instead? (Might be more fun.)
It finally showed up. I did a review:
https://www.abortretry.fail/p/review-of-the-clockwork-pi-devterm