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Marvell SheevaPlug – Tiny Linux Power Plug PC

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Marvell has launched a new tiny Linux PC, the SheevaPlug, which is designed to offer high performance, ultra compact, green computing.

Marvell SheevaPlug

The SheevaPlug is a tiny Linux PC inside a wall socket power adapter, which uses 1/10th of the power of a standard PC, and it is about the size of a standard poweline adapter.

marvell sheevaplug

The SheevaPlug PC comes with a 1.2GHZ Kirkwood processor, 512MNB of RAM and 512MB of flash storage, it also has Gigabit Ethernet and a USB 2.0 port.

The SheevaPlug PC supports the majority of Linux 2.6 Kernel distributions and it can be plugged directly into a standard wall socket.

Here’s a list of the specifications.

Sheeva CPU Core


  • 1.2 GHz operation
  • L1 Cache: 16K Instruction + 16K Data
  • L2 Cache: 256KB
Memory


  • DDR2 400MHz, 16-bit bus
  • 512MB DDR2: 1Gb x8, 4 devices
  • Power efficient Samsung devices
  • NAND FLASH Controller, 8-bit bus
  • 512MB NAND FLASH: 4Gb x8, direct boot
  • 128-bit eFuse Memory
Power


  • Power input: 100-240VAC/50Hz-60Hz. Power output: 5VDC/3.0A
    Universal AC input, 5V DC output module
  • High efficiency POL DC-DC converters
Development Interface

  • System Development Board
  • JTAG and Console Interface via USB
  • SDIO expansion
  • JTAG OpenOCD support via USB
High speed I/O & Peripherals

  • GE, USB 2.0 Host
  • RTC w/ Battery

It is accessed by using a web browser, and it can be purchased as a development kit from Marvell for $99, although Marvell expect to be able to reduce the cost of the kit to $49 in the near future.

via Engadget, Crave

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