Cubietruck Development Board Features AllWinner A20 SoC, 2GB RAM, and Gb Ethernet

When Cubietech announced the availability of the Cubieboard2 last week, some people seemed disappointed it only came with 1GB RAM and no Gigabit Ethernet. We already knew a board called Cubietruck was in the work with those features, but work has gone faster than I expected as pictures of the Cubietruck board are already available.

Instead of simply listing the specifications, I’ll show a comparison table of the specifications against Cubieboard2.

	Cubietruck	Cubieboard2
SoC	AllWinner A20 Dual-Core ARM Cortex-A7 with Mali400 MP2	AllWinner A20 Dual-Core ARM Cortex-A7 with Mali400 MP2
System Memory	1GB or 2GB DDR3@480MHz	1GB DDR3@480MHz
Storage	SATA 2.0 interface + NAND + Micro SD slot (or 2x micro Sd slot)	SATA 2.0 interface + 4GB NAND flash + micro SD slot,
Video Output Connectors	HDMI & VGA	HDMI
Audio I/O	1x TOSLINK (Optical SPDIF), 1x headphone jack	1x headphone jack, 1x line in
Connectivity	10M/100M/1G Ethernet	10M/100M Ethernet
	On-board Wifi+BT wireless module with antenna
USB	2x USB HOST, 1x OTG	2x USB HOST, 1x OTG
Misc	1x IR, 4x LEDs, 3x Keys	1x IR
Power	DC5V @ 2.5A with HDD, supports Li-battery & RTC	5V/2A power supply or USB OTG input
Expansion	54 extended pins including I2S, I2C, SPI, CVBS, LRADC x2,UART, PS2, PWMx2, TS/CSI, IRDA, LINEIN&FMIN&MICIN, TVINx4 with 2.0 pitch connectors	96 pins including I2C, SPI, RGB/LVDS, CSI/TS, FM-IN, ADC, CVBS, VGA, SPDIF-OUT, R-TP, and more
PCB Dimensions	11cm x 8cm x 1.4mm	10cm x 6cm x 1.5mm

Beside the extra RAM and Gigabit Ethernet, you also get built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, support for Li-battery, a VGA connector (instead of requiring an external board), but you apparently lose the line in connector, and have less I/O pins available which may be explained by the extra features. The Cubietruck is slightly larger than the Cubieboard(2).

The good news is the board seems to run Android fine, or at least boot to Android.

As for the Cubieboard2, you can also expect several Linux distributions to run on the device. Nevertheless the board is still under development, and availability and pricing information are not available, but I’d expect something like $79 for the 2GB version of this board.

Thanks Peter!

Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft)

Jean-Luc started CNX Software in 2010 as a part-time endeavor, before quitting his job as a software engineering manager, and starting to write daily news, and reviews full time later in 2011.

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11 years ago

Typo:
” a few people seemed disappointed in only came with 2GB RAM”
should read
” a few people seemed disappointed in only came with 1GB RAM”

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cnxsoft

@mj
Thanks. Actually 2 typos in this sentence… Corrected.

Rohith M

Thats a awesome upgrade , Even i got VGA so that I don’t have to Spend in front of TV anymore, instead use my normal monitor.

gicho

“TVINx4” – any details on this? Analog video? OS support?

onebir

Nice comparison table! Very helpful.

Johny007

That looks awesome, I only a bit reluctant because AllWinner didn’t help XBMC developers with VPU.

roel

Hello,

somebody knows which user interface is seen on the picture?

Cortex

I hope final version came in black PCB

Tom Cubie

it’s tv box launder from allwinner@roel

myfoolishgames

What about Linux kernel ? any hopes at all for the A20 ?
I would loved to add it to my Pogoplugs nases, just need a proper case (waf, no transparent acrylic) and Linux kernel 🙂 .