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Home Automation with Intel Galileo

You're reading from  Home Automation with Intel Galileo

Product type Book
Published in Mar 2015
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781785285776
Pages 188 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Onur Dundar Onur Dundar
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Home Automation with Intel Galileo
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Getting Started with Intel Galileo Getting Started with Home Automation Applications Energy Management with Environmental and Electrical Sensors Energy Management with Light Sensors and Extending Use Cases Home Monitoring with Common Security Sensors Home Surveillance and Extending Security Use Cases Building Applications and Customizing Linux for Home Automation Extending Use Cases Index

Intel Galileo – hardware specifications


The Intel Galileo board is an open source hardware design. The schematics, Cadence Allegro board files, and BOM can be downloaded from the Intel Galileo web page.

In this section, we will just take a look at some key hardware features for feature references to understand the hardware capability of Intel Galileo in order to make better decisions on software design.

Intel Galileo is an embedded system with the required RAM and flash storages included on the board to boot it and run without any additional hardware.

The following table shows the features of Intel Galileo:

Processor features

  • 1 Core 32-bit Intel Pentium processor-compatible ISA Intel Quark SoC X1000

  • 400 MHz

  • 16 KB L1 Cache

  • 512 KB SRAM

  • Integrated real-time clock (RTC)

Storage

  • 8 MB NOR Flash for firmware and bootloader

  • 256 MB DDR3; 800 MT/s

  • SD card, up to 32 GB

  • 8 KB EEPROM

Power

  • 7 V to 15 V

  • Power over Ethernet (PoE) requires you to install the PoE module

Ports and connectors

  • USB 2.0 host (standard type A), client (micro USB type B)

  • RJ45 Ethernet

  • 10-pin JTAG for debugging

  • 6-pin UART

  • 6-pin ICSP

  • 1 mini-PCI Express slot

  • 1 SDIO

Arduino compatible headers

  • 20 digital I/O pins

  • 6 analog inputs

  • 6 PWMs with 12-bit resolution

  • 1 SPI master

  • 2 UARTs (one shared with the console UART)

  • 1 I2C master

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Home Automation with Intel Galileo
Published in: Mar 2015 Publisher: ISBN-13: 9781785285776
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