Allwinner A1X

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One of many single-board computers that are based upon the Allwinner A10 SoC.

The Allwinner A1X, known under Linux as sunxi, is a family of single-core SoC devices designed by Allwinner Technology from Zhuhai, China. Currently the family consists of the A10,[1] A13,[2] A10s[3] and A12. The SoCs incorporate the ARM Cortex-A8 as their main processor[4] and the Mali 400 as the GPU.

The Allwinner A1X is known for its ability to boot GNU/Linux distributions such as Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, and other ARM architecture-capable distributions from an SD card, in addition to the Android OS usually installed on the flash memory of the device.

A1x Features

A generic tablet based upon the Allwinner A13 core.

Video Processing Unit

  • HD video decoding (up to Super HD 2160p/3D Film)
  • Supports popular video formats, including VP8, AVS, H.264 MVC, VC-1, and MPEG-1/2/4
  • HD Video Encoding (H.264 High Profile)
  • Supports encoding in H.264 format

Digital processing Unit

Memory

Connectivity

Storage and boot devices

Implementations

Many manufacturers have adopted the Allwinner A1X for use in devices running the Android operating system and the Linux operating System. The Allwinner A1X is used in tablet computers, set-top boxes, PC-on-a-stick, mini-PCs, and single-board computers.

Linux support

The Allwinner A1X kernel source code is available at https://github.com/linux-sunxi/linux-sunxi. At the moment, stable support is limited to 3.0.x kernels.[when?]

Documentation

No factory sourced programmers manual is publicly available for the A10S CPU at this moment.

FreeBSD support

There is a work in progress on support Efika on FreeBSD. At the moment, not all on-board peripherals are working. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arm/2012-December/004446.html

Allwinner A-Series

Apart from the single-core A1x (A10/A13/A10s/A12), two new more powerful Cortex-A7 Allwinner SoCs have been announced by Allwinner, the A10-pin-compatible dual-core Allwinner A20, and the quad-core Allwinner A31.[6]

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