The Snowball is a Nano-ITX-form factor single-board computer using the NovaThor A9500.[1]
 Snowball-PCB with NovaThor A9500 | |
| Common manufacturers | ST-Ericsson |
|---|---|
| Design firm | ST-Ericsson |
| Manufacturer | CALAO Systems |
| Type | Single-board computer |
| Processor | Dual Cortex-A9 |
| Coprocessor | Mali-400 MP |
| Dimensions | Nano-ITX |
The Linux-based mobile operating system Tizen was ported to Snowball in early 2012.[2]
The Snowball had a public support site at igloocommunity.org,[3] but since support for the board has been withdrawn, the tools are archived at GitHub: [1]
One of the many builds released by Linaro is located here This is build: 13.05 (May 2013). At the link are the binaries that were built, the instructions for using the binaries and instructions for building everything from source.
References
edit- ^ Snowball is a low power, low cost Single Board Computer based on the ST-Ericsson Nova A9500 processor (Dual Cortex A9 + Mali 400 GPU) Archived August 8, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Tizen 1.0 Larkspur on Snowball". Tizen Talk. Archived from the original on 2012-06-01. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
- ^ "Developer's Igloo". ST-Ericsson. Archived from the original on 2013-06-07. Retrieved 2014-10-13.