pandaboard availability !!

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Eslam Hassan

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Nov 3, 2015, 6:46:05 AM11/3/15
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Please, can you tell me if pandaboard ES is still manufactured and supported or no? If yes, what's the official price of it and where can i buy it? I checked most of sellers on your website and either tell that is no longer manufactured or out of stock !! Thanks in advanced..

Tom Mitchell

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Nov 3, 2015, 8:02:11 PM11/3/15
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Texas Instruments (TI) backed off a couple years ago and some of the components only
have documentation under NDA.   If I recall the goal for TI was a platform for testing OMAP
parts and if you wanted to play with them it was a good choice.   That was more than a couple
years ago... 

Since you did not say why  you ask I would advise you to look at the 
latest quad core Raspberry-Pi with four USB ports.   
There is a speed difference: 
raznQuad ~ $ time /tmp/f50k > /dev/null
real 0m7.074s
user 0m6.960s
sys 0m0.090s
===
rasppisinglecore ~ $ time /tmp/f50k > /dev/null
real 0m18.834s
user 0m18.350s
sys 0m0.320s
===
panda:~$ time /tmp/f50k > /dev/null
real 0m10.113s
user 0m9.898s
sys 0m0.156s
===
$ cat /tmp/f50k 
#!  /bin/sh 
/usr/bin/calc << foo
fact(50000)
exit
foo
======




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Please, can you tell me if pandaboard ES is still manufactured and supported or no? If yes, what's the official price of it and where can i buy it? I checked most of sellers on your website and either tell that is no longer manufactured or out of stock !! Thanks in advanced..

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Eslam Hassan

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Nov 4, 2015, 2:25:44 PM11/4/15
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Thanks Tom, Raspberry pi is a good but i want board with two display like pandaboard. Do you know any board with two display.
Thanks in advanced.

modyrater

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Nov 4, 2015, 2:56:19 PM11/4/15
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Beagleboard or Wanda board.  Raspberry pi is for high school kids

Eslam Hassan

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Nov 4, 2015, 3:23:21 PM11/4/15
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Thanks lazarman, but Beagleboard and Wanda board don't support two monitor only one hdmi. I need board with two monitor.

GeorgeIoak

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Nov 4, 2015, 8:04:44 PM11/4/15
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The Cubie boards support both LVDS and HDMI outputs at the same time. Check www.store.iotllc.com for a baseboard that helps support doing this.

Eslam Hassan

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Nov 5, 2015, 3:37:43 AM11/5/15
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Thanks Georgeloak for your input..Does LVDS something like DVI or HDMI and has an interface which cab be connected to display like samsung or dell ?
Sorry i don't know about LVDS. Thanks in advanced

GeorgeIoak

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Nov 6, 2015, 9:58:44 AM11/6/15
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LVDS is an interface that usually used internally in laptops and tablets. The actual LCD panel has an LVDS interface. When you purchase a computer monitor it will have an LCD panel and then a LVDS driver board which has the DVI or HDMI connector that you connect to.

Eslam Hassan

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Nov 6, 2015, 11:13:22 AM11/6/15
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Thank very much GeorgeIoak, Actually that was a helpful info for me. So if i have HDMI monitor and board with LVDS interface, i will need a driver board to can connect this monitor to my board(for example Cubie board)? if yes, how can i find this drives which convert fron LVDS to HDMI ot DVI?
Thanks in advacded

GeorgeIoak

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Nov 6, 2015, 10:21:07 PM11/6/15
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There are driver boards that convert from HDMI to LVDS or LVDS to HDMI. If you were to take apart a HDMI monitor you would probably find a LVDS panel inside (there are eDP panels that those are somewhat rare). With the correct wiring you can plug a LVDS panel directly into those Cubieboards (which is made easier with the Baseboard).

I did design a different board way back when the Pandaboard came out that took the HDMI signal and split it into a HDMI and LVDS but I didn't put that into production. There are different ways to do what you want, it just depends on your application and requirements.

modyrater

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Nov 7, 2015, 3:38:22 PM11/7/15
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I have 2 panda board I'm not using I'll put them in my museum of dev board saying this support 2 monitor

Eslam Hassan

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Nov 8, 2015, 8:11:17 AM11/8/15
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Thank you very much GeorgeIoak. :)

Chris Evans

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Nov 9, 2015, 9:54:07 AM11/9/15
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There is a new AM5728 based board (OMAP5432 successor which was OMAP4430 as in the PandaBoard successor), the Titanium it has two DVI outputs:
http://shop.elesar.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&path=20_60&product_id=50
It isn't cheap though at about £400

We are evaluating one ourselves.

Chris

Eslam Hassan

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Nov 9, 2015, 11:22:27 AM11/9/15
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Thanks Chris for your input. I came to their website and didn't find any price there. Did you buy it? if yes, What's the price and how to get it?
Thanks in advanced.

Chris Evans

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Nov 11, 2015, 7:04:01 AM11/11/15
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I suggest you email them sa...@elesar.co.uk <sa...@elesar.co.uk>

Chris
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