Low Cost Linux boards in India

Cubie board:

The Cubie board is a small board made for hardware hacking with a high end Cortex A8 ARM processor. Available for purchase locally in India.

Features :

1G ARM cortex-A8 processor, NEON, VFPv3, 256KB L2 cache
Mali400, OpenGL ES GPU
1GB DDR3 @480MHz
HDMI 1080p Output
10/100M Ethernet, optional WiFi
4GB NAND Flash
2 x USB Host, 1 x MicroSD slot, 1 x SATA, 1 x IR sensor
96 extend pin interface, including I2C, SPI, RGB/LVDS, CSI/TS, FM-IN, ADC, CVBS, VGA, SPDIF-OUT, R-TP, and more
Official Android distribution available (not pre-installed), Linux, with Android Playstore support*
Requires regulated 5VDC 2A power supply with a 4.0mm(ext. diameter) x 1.7mm (int. diameter) barrel plug

Cubie board is available for purchase in India at Digibay website for Rs. 4499 /-

Beagle Bone Black :

The original Beagle bone board is back in Black with new improvements and cost reductions.

Here are the new Beagle bone black features :

AM335x 1GHz ARM® Cortex-A8 processor
3D graphics accelerator
NEON floating-point accelerator
2x PRU 32-bit microcontrollers
USB client for power & debug USB host
Ethernet HDMI 2x 46 pin headers
Angström
Linux
Android
Ubuntu
Cloud9 IDE on Node.js w/ BoneScript library plus much more

Beagle bone black is available for purchase in India at element 14 website for Rs. 3380/-

Beagle bone black is avialaible for purchase in India at Tenet tech website for Rs. 3300/-

Beagle Bone board:

This board comes with a 720 MHz Super-scaler ARM Cortex A8 processor manufatured by Texas instruments. Beagle bone comes packed with a

256MB RAM,
USB,
Ethernet support,
SD CARD.

This board is a made specifically for hardware hacking, so the manufacturer has left out most of the processor pins accessible by connectors.

Beagle bone is available for order @ element14 website at the price of Rs 7,181/-

Beagle board:

This board is built to give a laptop like performance and comes with a 1 GHz Super-scaler ARM Cortex A8 processor manufatured by Texas instruments. Beagle board comes packed with a

512MB RAM,
USB,
Ethernet,
S-Video,
Camera port,
Stereo IN/OUT,
micro SD CARD slot,
LCD expansion.

Beagle board is available for buying @ NSK electronics website at the price of Rs 9,500/-

Mini2440 | S3C2440 AMR9 Board by Friendly ARM:

400 MHz Samsung S3C2440A ARM920T (max freq. 533 MHz)
64 MB SDRAM, 32 bit Bus
64 MB / 128 MB / 256 MB / 1GB NAND Flash and 2 MB NOR Flash with BIOS
256 Byte EEPROM (I2C)
SD-Card socket
DB9 connector (RS232), total: 3 serial port connectors
USB
3.5 mm stereo jack
Condenser microphone with connector
Ethernet
CR1220 Real Time Clock with battery
PWM buzzer
20 pin (2.0 mm) Camera interface
41 pin (1.0 mm) connector for FriendlyARM Displays and VGA Board
4 wire resistive touchscreen interface
6 push buttons and 1 A/D pot
4 LEDs

This board is avaialble for buying at NSK Electronics website at the price of Rs 7800/-

RASPBERRY PI:

The RASPBERRY PI is the cheapest ARM11 powered linux capable single board computer board you will ever find. This board runs an ARM11 processor @700MHz and comes with a 512 Mega Bytes of RAM memory. Here are the features of the board,

512MB SDRAM,
Ethernet, USB,
HDMI,
LINUX FEDORA OS,
ARM 11 processor @700MHz
BCM2835 SoC based chipset

RASPBERRY PI model B is available for purchase at element14.com website at the price of Rs.2750/-

RASPBERRY PI kit is also available for purchase from Tenet technotronics at the price of Rs.4000/-

A13-OLINUXINO:

Its a development board by Olimex powered by the A13 processor from Allwinner technology from China. Here are the features of the board,

A13 Cortex A8 processor at 1GHz, 3D Mali400 GPU
512 MB RAM
6-16VDC input power supply, noise immune design
3 + 1 USB hosts, 3 available for users, 1 leads to onboard pinout
1 USB OTG which can power the board
SD-card connector for booting the Linux image
VGA video output
LCD signals available on connector so you still can use LCD if you diasble VGA/HDMI
Audio output
Microphone input
RTC PCF8536 on board for real time clock and alarms
5 Keys on board for android navigation
UEXT connector for connecting addtional UEXT modules like Zigbee, Bluetooth, Relays, etc
GPIO connector with 68/74 pins and these signals
Optional low-cost 7″ LCD with touchscreen
17 for adding NAND flash;
22 for connecting LCDs;
20+4 including 8 GPIOs which can be input, output, interrupt sources;
3x I2C;
2x UARTs;
SDIO2 for connectinf SDcards and modules;
5 system pins: +5V, +3.3V, GND, RESET, NMI

This board is available for purchase from Tenet technetronics India at the price of Rs. 4652 /-

IMX233-OLINUXINO-MICRO:

This mini development board is based on the Freescales i.mx233 processor from freescale semiconductors.

Here are the features of the board,

iMX233 ARM926J processor at 454Mhz
64 MB RAM
SD-card connector for booting the Linux image
TV PAL/NTSC video output
1 USB High Speed Host
three Buttons
2×30 pin GPIO for connection of other hardware
PCB dimensions: 3.00” x 1.70” (76.2mm x 43.2mm)
Nominal dimensions: 3.40” x 1.70” (86.4mm x 43.2mm)

This board is available for purchase from Tenet tech website India at the price of Rs. 2481 /-

IMX233-OLINUXINO-MINI:

The board is the mini version of the Olinuxino board mentioned above. Here are the features of this mini linux board

iMX233 ARM926J processor at 454Mhz
64 MB RAM
SD-card connector for booting the Linux image
TV PAL/NTSC video output
3 USB High Speed Host
optional WIFI RTL8188CU module
Stereo Audio Input
Stereo Headphones Audio Output
two Buttons
UEXT connector for connection of different peripherial modules
40 pin GPIO for connection of other hardware
Board is in shape for fit inside Pactec JM42 plastic box
Power supply input 6-16VDC
PCB dimensions: 3.70” x 2.15” (94.0mm x 54.6mm)
Nominal dimensions: 3.70” x 2.65” (94.0mm x 67.3mm)

This board is available for buying @Tenet tech website at the price of Rs. 3435 /-

WANDBOARD SOLO :

The Wandboard is a Freescale i.MX6 Cortex-A9 -Solo processor based board and comes with a 1Ghz processor,512MB DDR3 RAM, HDMI display interface and ethernet.