ST-Ericsson SKY-S9500 Snowball

The Snoball device is an embedded dual core Cortex A9 embedded board based on ST-Ericsson Nova A9500 chipset.

Hardware specifications

  • ARM Dual Cortex A9 @ 1GHz,
  • 4 / 8GByte e-MMC,
  • 1GByte LP-DDR2,
  • 1x Micro-SD,
  • 1x RTC Battery Backup,
  • 1x HDMI Full HD,
  • 1x Ethernet 10/100Mbits,
  • 1x CVBS Video OUT,
  • 1x Audio OUT,
  • 1x Audio IN,
  • 1x USB OTG HS (480Mbits),
  • 1x DC IN +5V,
  • 1x Li-Ion Battery Charger,
  • 1x Serial Port (RS232 / Over USB),
  • 1x JTAG Connector,
  • 1x MiPi34 Debug Connector,
  • 1x IEEE 802.11 b/g/n WLAN,
  • 1 x Bluetooth 2.1+EDR (Ex. Antenna),
  • 1 x GPS (Ex. Antenna),
  • 1x 3 Axis Accelerometer,
  • 1x 3 Axis Magnetometer,
  • 1x 3 Axis Gyrometer,
  • 1x Pressure sensor,
  • 3x Expansion Connectors (FSMC, HSI, Audio, MiPi CSI / Camera, LCD, MiPi DSI, UART, SPI, I2C, GPIO).

Igloo community

The snowball was maintained and advertized by the igloocommunity, but unfortunately, after the ST-Ericsson secession, the Igloocommunity is doomed to vanish.

Hardware bringup

Repository

On our git page there is a collection of all the Linux based software taken from the igloocommunity.

Download the using git:

git clone git://git.etezian.org/snowball/<project_name>.git

These are the projects available on etezian

  • b2r2lib
  • bluez
  • hdmiservice
  • igloo-hwpack
  • igloo-kernel-meta
  • igloo-kernel
  • legacy-kernel
  • loader_communication
  • riff
  • snowball-init
  • snowball-ltp-tests
  • snowball-mactool
  • u-boot-ux500
  • xorg-x11-drv-ste