INTRODUCTION
The Raspberry pi is a single computer board with credit card size, that can be used for many tasks that your computer does, like games, word processing, spreadsheets and also to play HD video. It was established by the Raspberry pi foundation from the UK. It has been ready for public consumption since 2012 with the idea of making a low-cost educational microcomputer for students and children. The main purpose of designing the raspberry pi board is, to encourage learning, experimentation and innovation for school level students. The raspberry pi board is a portable and low cost. Maximum of the raspberry pi computers is used in mobile phones. In the 2st century, the growth of mobile computing technologies is very high, a huge segment of this being driven by the mobile industries. The 98% of the mobile phones were using ARM technology.
Raspberry Pi Technology
The Raspberry pi comes in two models, they are model A and model B. The main difference between model A and model B is USB port. Model A board will consume less power and that does not include an Ethernet port. But, the model B board includes an Ethernet port and designed in china. The raspberry pi comes with a set of open source technologies, i.e. communication and multimedia web technologies.In the year 2014, the foundation of the raspberry pi board launched the computer module, that packages a model B raspberry pi board into module for use as a part of embedded systems, to encourage their use.
Raspberry Pi Hardware Specifications
The raspberry pi board comprises a program memory (RAM), processor and graphics chip, CPU, GPU, Ethernet port, GPIO pins, Xbee socket, UART, power source connector. And various interfaces for other external devices. It also requires mass storage, for that we use an SD flash memory card. So that raspberry pi board will boot from this SD card similarly as a PC boots up into windows from its hard disk.
Essential hardware specifications of raspberry pi board mainly include SD card containing Linux OS, US keyboard, monitor, power supply and video cable. Optional hardware specifications include USB mouse, powered USB hub, case, internet connection, the Model A or B: USB WiFi adaptor is used and internet connection to Model B is LAN cable.
Model A Raspberry Pi Board
The Raspberry Pi board is a Broadcom(BCM2835) SOC(system on chip) board. It comes equipped with an ARM1176JZF-S core CPU, 256 MB of SDRAM and 700 MHz,. The raspberry pi USB 2.0 ports use only external data connectivity options. The board draws its power from a micro USB adapter, with min range of 2. Watts (500 MA). The graphics, specialized chip is designed to speed up the operation of image calculations. This is in built with Broadcom video core IV cable, that is useful if you want to run a game and video through your raspberry pi.
Features of Raspberry PI Model A
- The Model A raspberry pi features mainly includes
- 256 MB SDRAM memory
- Single 2.0 USB connector
- Dual Core Video Core IV Multimedia coprocessor
- HDMI (rev 1.3 & 1.4) Composite RCA (PAL and NTSC) Video Out
- 3.5 MM Jack, HDMI, Audio Out
- SD, MMC, SDIO Card slot on board storage
- Linux Operating system
- Broadcom BCM2835 SoC full HD multimedia processor
- 8.6cm*5.4cm*1.5cm dimensions
By using Raspberry pi we have done several projects. The link will shows our project details
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