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