ASUS has just announced its latest Single Board Computer or SBC model. It was first presented at Computex 2019.
6 ARM cores with big.LITTLE architecture
Among its specifications we find a Rockchip RK3399 Pro, which has six ARM cores with big.LITTLE architecture of two high-performance Cortex A72 cores at a speed of 1.8 GHz and four low-power Cortex A53 cores at 1.4 GHz It has a performance of 3 TOPS with double current input by direct current and pins, with a design to avoid burning with power surges and works with a wide range of voltages between 12 and 19 V.
In the graphic section we find in the integrated SOC a GPU Mali T860 MP4 with an operation of 800 MHz and one Dedicated Rockchip NPU. In the memory section we find that the SBC includes 4 GB of dual-channel LPDDR4 RAM and 2 GB of additional dedicated LPDDR3 RAM for the NPU.
Integrated in the same SBC we find a 16 GB eMMC flash storage but it includes a microSD card reader to be able to expand said capacity for those who do not have enough capacity because they want to use it as a multimedia or storage device.
In the ports section we find three image outputs that include DP over USB Type C. This same port operates in USB 3.2 Gen 1 and supports OTG and three USB 3.2 Gen1 Type-A.
Powerful graphics with dedicated memory and NPU
In the connectivity section it comes with a Gigabit Ethernet connection with an M.2 modem that supports Wi-Fi 802.11 ac and Bluetooth 5.0 connectivity. It also includes an additional PCIe expansion slot to be able to add an LTE modem if its use is required for the use of mobile data.
The board comes in dimensions of 100 x 72mm and features a 40-pin header that supports up to 28-pin GPIO, SPI, I2C, UART, PWM, PCM / 12S, and S / PDIF TX.
The Tinker Edge R comes with support for an open source kernel that supports multiple APIs, including OpenGL, Vulkan, OpenCL, OpenVX, AndroidNN from Google and Caffe and Caffe2 from Facebook.
ASUS also provides a API and an SDK for the implementation of automated learning models in all types of applications.
It also provides your tool OS Flash Tool It makes it very easy to integrate or update a new or different operating system in the integrated eMMC memory so that we do not have any kind of headache to put it to work, at the moment with Linux.
The Operating Systems available for the ASUS Tinker Edge R will be Debian 9 «Stretch» and Android 8.1 Oreo although it is not currently available but it is expected that it will be by the end of 2020. It is not currently available for purchase in Spain but it will be very soon.
