beaglebone like board using SAMA5D3

[tcmichals]

Here is a new chip from Atmel SAMA5D3  http://www.atmel.com/products/microcontrollers/arm/sama5d3.aspx

[olimex]

saw this and will talk to EVB about it next week at Embedded World
seems much less powerful than AM335x and same price range, so when we release AM3352 I do not see who will be interested in this part

[farlane]

You could probably argue the same for the ATSAM91 devices, but as far as i know they are pretty popular and Linux support is right up there with TI. I have a feeling it is even better than Freescale's Linux support.

Apart from that, it is the first single core A5 SoC near to producion status ( that i am aware of anyway )

[olimex]

there are a lot of Chinese Cortex A5 based devices

[wpc]

Hello

Me interests a low cost SAMA53D board too, because i think Atmel gives better documentation and sample code than TI.
And TI AM335x have now very low cost board: BBB, but SAMA5 still not..

[geniu]

seems much less powerful than AM335x and same price range, so when we release AM3352 I do not see who will be interested in this part

I'm not sure. AM335x do not offer secure boot option. In SAMA5D3 it is possible.

[kpa]

Do not think only about processing power but think low power consumption.
An ultra low power ARM module based on Cortex-A5 would be really useful for a lot of application.

For example a module based on SAMA5D3 with LPDDR2/3 and nor or nand flash and an optimized power stage would be really interesting for many applications.

[Matthias]

yes, we love this processor!
the Atmel software package is well done so its easy to program it bare metal
and as far as I can see, its cheaper than the AM335x
we are going to use it for the http://evoloop.org
so we could buy quantities of a board with the main connectors on one side (and headers on the other)
thank you
Matthias