Cubietech Cubieboard

Cubieboard is a small (10x6cm), hacker friendly, extendable and very low-cost while powerful ARM board with Allwinner A10 SoC.

Community

 * cubieboard@googlegroups.com
 * #cubieboard IRC channel on Freenode. Click to join #cubieboard on Freenode (WebChat mode).
 * This wiki

Getting started
See the section Cubieboard/FirstSteps for more details on getting started with the Cubieboard.

The rev 2012-08-08 cubieboards ship with a pre-installed buildroot image, see Buildroot to rebuild it and possibly apply your customizaions. See Building on Debian for more detailed instructions on building images.

The pre-installed image is for testing only. If you have a HDMI screen or TV that can handle 720p you can see diagnostic output when you power on the board.

FAQs
You might have a lot of questions before and after you get the Cubieboard. You can start on the Cubieboard FAQ.

Expansion ports
These tables shows the available expansion ports, their pin assignments and available functions. We have tried to only list those functions which makes sense, omitting details on functions where not all needed signals are exposed in the pin headers.

Note: Each Pxnn pin is also GPIO capable even if not explicitly mentioned in the tables.

rev 2012-08-08 and 2012-09-09
Two 2x24 2.0mm male headers.

Debugging

 * Connecting the serial TTL cable

Hardware Hacking

 * Adding a second SD Card slot
 * Adding a reset button
 * Adding a JTAG header
 * Adding an extension board

Software Hacking

 * Arch Linux on Cubieboard
 * Berryboot multiboot bootloader
 * Building Android TV image
 * Instruction to build jellybean for cubieboard
 * Installing on NAND
 * Build your own embedded linux with buildroot
 * Run linux 3.9 on Cubieboard
 * Install Ubuntu Linux for Cubieboard/Cubieboard2
 * Fedora for Cubieboard
 * Android firmwares for Cubieboard/Cubieboard2
 * Kali Linux on Cubieboard

Photos

 * Alejandro Mery 2012-08-08 rev
 * Adrian Carter 2012-09-09 rev

Components

 * A10 SoC
 * GT8UB256M16BP-BG 256X16 DDR3-1333-9-9-9 SDRAM
 * AXP209 Power management
 * RTL8201CP Realtec 8201CP MII PHY
 * Samsung K9GBG08UOA-SCB0 8 GiB Flash Rom
 * Vishay HS0038B IR Receiver

Cubieboard(A20)

 * Share the same boards with cuibeboard(A10), and with exactly the same peripheral, e.g. 10/100Mbps ethernet, 2 usb host port, ..
 * Support Ubuntu Desktop 12.04 linux currently, and the related source code can be found at github.com/cubieboard2.
 * Preinstall android 4.2.2 OS
 * Dual core CPU(Cortex A7)
 * Support CPU frequency dynamically scaling

External

 * cubieboard.org - official homepage
 * prototype pictures
 * schematics of 2012-08-08
 * The CB is currently available at
 * aliexpress
 * taobao
 * ebay
 * kavirElectronic
 * CNXSoft - Cubieboard Unboxing and Quick Start Guide