{"id":392,"date":"2013-08-20T15:51:50","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T14:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.prunk.si\/?p=392"},"modified":"2013-10-18T19:39:17","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T17:39:17","slug":"utilite-miniature-embedded-arm-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.janprunk.com\/?p=392","title":{"rendered":"Utilite miniature embedded ARM computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.prunk.si\/wp-uploads\/\/2013\/08\/5477-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-502\" alt=\"5477-2\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.prunk.si\/wp-uploads\/\/2013\/08\/5477-2.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.janprunk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/5477-2.jpg 630w, https:\/\/blog.janprunk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/5477-2-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a> I was in search for a replacement miniature embedded system to serve as my home router and <a title=\"XBMC\" href=\"http:\/\/www.xbmc.org\" target=\"_blank\">XBMC<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0video platform. Currently serving this purpose is the pico-ITX form factor <a title=\"Raspberry PI\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Raspberry_pi\" target=\"_blank\">Raspberry PI<\/a>. While RPI still uses older ARM CPU v6, the <a title=\"Utilite\" href=\"http:\/\/utilite-computer.com\/web\/home\" target=\"_blank\">Utilite<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0in the pro-version uses quad core\u00c2\u00a0Freescale i.MX6\u00c2\u00a0ARM v7 Cortex A9 CPU running at 4 x 1.2 Ghz. Looking at its embedded <a title=\"Utilite enclosure\" href=\"http:\/\/utilite-computer.com\/web\/utilite-gallery\" target=\"_blank\">enclosure<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0reveals that it has:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 16px;\">dual 1000 Base-T Ethernet ports<\/span><\/li>\n<li>802.11b\/g\/n Wi-Fi, single antenna<\/li>\n<li>Bluetooth 3.0<\/li>\n<li>S\/PDIF 5.1 (electrical through 3.5mm jack)<br \/>\nStereo line-out, Stereo line-in<\/li>\n<li>Four USB 2.0 standard A type connector \u00e2\u20ac\u201c max current 1A per port<br \/>\nUSB OTG micro-USB connector<\/li>\n<li>Two RS232 serial ports, ultra mini serial connector<\/li>\n<li>HDMI 1.4 max resolution 1920 x 1200<\/li>\n<li>DVI-D max resolution 1920 x 1200<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Considering it&#8217;s small size factor of only\u00c2\u00a0135mm x 100mm x 21mm and power consumption between 4-8 Watt makes it a perfect router. It can run various GNU\/Linux distributions. I hope that it will successfully run with Debian, sadly there is no free software distribution currently ready which would support the ARM port.<\/p>\n<p>The pre-order price from several distributors vary, the one from <a title=\"Tiny Green PC\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tinygreenpc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tiny Green PC<\/a> happens to be 285 EUR after VAT and shipping.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\" style=\"margin: 0; padding: 0; overflow: hidden;\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"padding: 0; background: none; list-style: none; display: block; float: left; vertical-align: top; text-align: left; width: 104px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0 5px 10px 0;\"><a style=\"padding: 2px; display: block; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/liliputing.com\/2013\/10\/utilite-arm-based-linux-pc-now-available-99.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 1px 4px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); padding: 0; margin: 0; border: 0; display: block; width: 100px; max-width: 100%;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/208366047_150_150.jpg\" \/><\/a><a style=\"display: block; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 12pt; height: 80px; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px;\" href=\"http:\/\/liliputing.com\/2013\/10\/utilite-arm-based-linux-pc-now-available-99.html\" target=\"_blank\">Utilite ARM-based Linux PC now available for $99 and up<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"padding: 0; background: none; list-style: none; display: block; float: left; vertical-align: top; text-align: left; width: 104px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0 5px 10px 0;\"><a style=\"padding: 2px; display: block; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unixmen.com\/utilite-linux-mini-pc\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 1px 4px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); padding: 0; margin: 0; border: 0; display: block; width: 100px; max-width: 100%;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/209251686_150_150.jpg\" \/><\/a><a style=\"display: block; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 12pt; height: 80px; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unixmen.com\/utilite-linux-mini-pc\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Utilite Linux Mini PC<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in search for a replacement miniature embedded system to serve as my home router and XBMC\u00c2\u00a0video platform. Currently serving this purpose is the pico-ITX form factor Raspberry PI. While RPI still uses older ARM CPU v6, the Utilite\u00c2\u00a0in the pro-version uses quad core\u00c2\u00a0Freescale i.MX6\u00c2\u00a0ARM v7 Cortex A9 CPU running at 4 x 1.2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,11,12,3,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.janprunk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.janprunk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.janprunk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.janprunk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.janprunk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.janprunk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513,"href":"https:\/\/blog.janprunk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.janprunk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.janprunk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.janprunk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}