A new industrial grade single board computer dubbed the Banana Pi BPI-F2S has been launched and is now available for purchase at $58.
This SBC has been specially made for industrial, IoT, and smart audio applications and is powered by SunPlus SP7021 “Plus1” processor with four Cortex-A7 cores at 1.0 GHz. It has one ARM9 real-time core, one 8051 I/O core to handle I/Os, and a built-in 128/512MB DDR3 RAM.
For storage, Banana Pi BPI-F2S has an 8GB eMMC flash and a microSD card slot. Here’s the rest of the specs list:
- Video Output – HDMI 1.4 output
- Camera I/F – MIPI CSI connector
- Connectivity – two 10/100M Ethernet
- USB – two USB 2.0 host ports, one micro USB port
- Power Supply – 12VDC via power barrel jack
- Expansion
- 40-pin GPIO header compatible with Raspberry Pi header
- two 50-pin FPGA interface for Trenz Electronic TE0725LP-01-100-2D Artix 7 FPGA board
- Debugging – 3-pin header for UART console, 10-pin JTAG header, SWD ICE port
- Security – TPM 2.0 via ST33TPH2EI2C secure element
Apart from these, there is a power switch, reset button, and a boot selection dip switch.
On the software front, Banana Pi BPI-F2S has Linux 4.19.37 (Github) along with Debian 10 Buster and Fedora 31 Mate firmware. For more detailed information, you can refer to the other resources mentioned on Wiki.
Those who are interested in purchasing the SBC, can buy it from Alibaba for $58 and Taobao for 390RMB
