CuBox as a Raspberry Pi alternative

published December 21st, 2011 | categories: Hardware | all categories

Solid-Run announced on December 11, 2011, the availability of CuBox. CuBox is an ultra small open-source Android TV and media center hardware device with an amazing power punch.

The CuBox operates with a voltage less than 3 watts. However, it packs an amazing hardware feature set to include:

• Marvell Armada 510 based 800MHz ARM processor
• ARMv7 Instruction set, including VFP3 floating point unit and wmmx SIMD unit.
• 1GByte DDR-3
• HDMI 1080p output backed by hardware video decoding engine capable of up-to 1080p decoding of all major multimedia codecs.
• OpenGL|ES 2.0 GPU
• Peripherals:

1. 1. 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet
   2. 2 x USB 2.0 (host)
   3. eSata 2, 3Gbps
   4. Infra-red receiver
   5. Optical audio SPDIF transmitter
   6. microSD for operating system
   7. microUSB (device) for debug and recovery

The platform is provided with completely open source SDK:

• Android 2.2
• Linux kernel 2.6
• Demo software for demonstrating capability of the platform:

1. 1. XBMC
   2. Ubuntu and Debian

According the Solid-Run, the Israeli manufacturer, “The platform ships with a universal 5V power supply and 2GByte micro-SD, and is user upgradeable to 64GByte and beyond. Customers will have access to the CuBox platform including all its supporting infrastructure and resources for €99.”

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