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Beagle Board is an ultra-low cost, high performance, low power OMAP3 based platform designed by BeagleBoard.org community members and sold by Digi-Key.

Hardware:
OMAP3530 processor delivers laptop-like performance at handheld power levels. Over 1,200 Dhrystone MIPS using the superscalar ARM Cortex-A8 with highly accurate branch prediction and 256KB L2 cache running at up to 600MHz.

OpenGL © ES 2.0 capable 2D/3D graphics accelerator capable of rendering 10 million polygons per second.

HD video capable TMS320C64x+&trade DSP for versatile signal processing at up to 430MHz.
USB power.

Product Highlights
The USB-powered Beagle Board is a low-cost, fan-less single board computer that unleashes laptop-like performance and expandability without the bulk, expense, or noise of typical desktop machines.

OMAP3530 Processor highlights:

Over 1,200 Dhrystone MIPS using the superscalar ARM Cortex-A8 with highly accurate branch prediction and 256KB L2 cache running at up to 600MHz.

OpenGL© ES 2.0 capable 2D/3D graphics accelerator capable of rendering 10 million polygons per second.

HD video capable TMS320C64x+ DSP for versatile signal processing at up to 430MHz.

USB power via complete chip-set with minimal additional power-consuming logic.

Expansion capability and power options to satisfy your imagination:

DVI-D for connecting digital computer monitors.

Compatibility with a huge collection of USB peripherals including hubs, keyboards, mice, WiFi, Bluetooth, web cameras, and much more.

MMC+/SD/SDIO interface for memory or wireless connectivity.

S-Video out for connecting your NTSC or PAL television or wearable visor .

Stereo audio in and out for a microphone and headphones or speakers.

Power via typical USB chargers for cell phones from your laptop, from an automobile adapter, from batteries, or even from a solar backpack.

http://beagleboard.org/

Price: 10,000 INR

About my company

Co-creating the world’s most innovative communications products and services.

Company

Aricent is a global innovation, technology and outsourcing company focused exclusively on communications. Aricent is a strategic supplier to the world's leading application, infrastructure and service providers, with operation in 19 countries worldwide.

Company Highlights

• One of the largest privately-held companies in Silicon Valley;
• 550+ customers;
• 8,000+ employees, 33 offices worldwide;
• Product portfolio of more than 125 licensable products;
• Owned by KKR, Sequoia Capital, The Family Office and Flextronics.

Market & Vision

Today's trillion dollar "mile wide inch deep" outsourcing market is transitioning to very large, vertically oriented segments as customer look for deep domain expertise, innovation and implementation from a single strategic supplier. Gartner estimates the market opportunity in communications industry, with its massive scale and unprecedented period of change, to exceed $100B in 2009. Aricent is the first company to combine both innovation and implementation to capitalize on this significant market transformation and opportunity.

The Aricent Difference

Aricent offers its customers a fundamentally unique combination of attributes. These include an exclusive focus on the communications industry, leading innovation capabilities, and a broad set of products, technology, and services resources available via a scalable global delivery model. We believe these three ingredients are essential to co-creation with our customers, and that they are a key reason why Aricent has become a strategic supplier to the world's leading communications equipment manufacturers and service providers. Aricent's products and services span the entire communications ecosystem including user experience design and consulting, research, development and testing for devices and infrastructure, as well as operational and billing systems.

Rich History of Success

• 9 of the top 10 telecommunications equipment suppliers are Aricent customers
• 8 of the top 10 mobile phone manufacturers are Aricent customers
• 1.5B mobile users connected to industry leading base station powered by Aricent
• Media gateways hosting 70% of the world's IP traffic are powered by Aricent
• 400M handsets shipped with Aricent middleware
• Co-Developed world's first commercially available Femtocell solution
• Approximately 70% of GSM/GPRS calls goes through Aricent Software
• Approximately 85% of the DSLAM ports & routing solutions deployed worldwide are powered by Aricent
• Co-developed first ever in-flight broadband roll-out for American Airlines, Air Canada, Delta and Virgin America
• Co-developed one of the industry's first WiMAX Base Stations

Investors

Aricent is owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., Sequoia Capital, The Family Office, Flextronics and Aricent management.

About Me

The 3 wise men: I, Me and Myself

I am writing a blog so y’all know I’ve been through school + 2. Did my bachelors in Electronics Engineering and Masters in Advanced Embedded Systems Design. My areas of study & interest are Image processing, Micro controllers, Digital Signal Processing and most of all SoC design. I’ve been a trainer in FPGA based systems design for a while. I am a Trance freak; make my own music, Trance and progressive, ambient. I’m a big fan of the radio show A State of Trance…one of the best and hosted by the best: Armin Van Buuren. Here is a brief description of my tech- savvyness :D

EDA Tools: Electronics Workbench, Multisim, Proteus ARES / ISIS. Xilinx ISE, Modelsim, ChipScope Pro, Keil 8051/ARM, RVDS, AVR, DSP, Matlab, LabView…

Programming related: C, Embedded C, V.H.D.L, C++, Java, J2ME, VC++, Windows Shell Programming, ActionScript 2.0, UNIX Shell programming, Java Imaging API, JMyron Computer Vision API.

Multimedia Authoring: 3DS Max, Flash MX, Adobe Photoshop, Maya.

Music Creation: FL Studio Suite, Dance Ejay, Tractor DJ Studio, Cool Edit Pro, virtual DJ. Native Instruments Absynth, Massive…etc etc....