SolidRun is an Israeli company producing

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components, mainly

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s and

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devices. It is specially known for the

CuBox CuBox and CuBox-i are series of small and fanless nettop-class computers manufactured by the Israeli company SolidRun Ltd. They are all cube-shaped and sized at approximately 2 × 2 × 2 inches (5 cm) and weigh 91 grams (0.2 lb, or ...

family of mini-computers, and for producing

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s and processing components such as the HummingBoard motherboard. Situated in

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, SolidRun develops and manufactures products aimed both for the private entertainment sector, and for companies developing

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based products, notably components of "

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" technology systems. Within the scope of the IoT technology, SolidRun's mini computers are aimed to cover the intermediate sphere, between sensors and user devices, and between the larger network or Cloud framework. Within such a network, mini computers or

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devices, act as mediators gathering and processing information from sensors or user devices and communicating with the network - this is also known as Edge computing.

History

SolidRun was founded in 2010 by co-founders

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(formally an engineer at

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) and Kossay Omary. The goal of SolidRun has been to develop, produce and market components aimed for integration with IoT systems. The company today is situated in

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in the Northern District of Israel, and headed by Dr. Atai Ziv (CEO). The major product development line aimed at the consumer market is the CuBox family of mini-computers. The first of which was announced in December 2011, followed by the development of the CuBox-i series, announced in November 2013. The most recent addition to the CuBox line has been the CuBoxTV (announced in December 2014), which has been marketed primarily for the

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market. A further primary product developed by SolidRun is the Hummingboard, an uncased single-board computer, marketed to developers as an integrated processing component. SolidRun develops all of its products using

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(such as

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and OpenELEC), identifying itself as a member of the OSS community and a promoter of Open-source software platforms. The products developed by SolidRun are classed into a number of families, based upon the processor maker. Each family offers a range of mini-computers, SOM's & and networking solutions - currently divided into

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's i.MX 6, i.MX 8 and LX2160A processor families,

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Armada and Octeon families, and

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Sitara family. Every processing family offering different advantages with different application capacities.

IoT and industrial products

SOMs

A compact system-on-module ARM based processing board, with a

Freescale i.MX The i.MX range is a family of Freescale Semiconductor (now part of NXP) proprietary microcontrollers for multimedia applications based on the ARM architecture and focused on low-power consumption. The i.MX application processors are SoCs (Syst ...

6 system-on-chip & networking, power management and storage capabilities. At , the MicroSoM is aimed for device and system developing, as an all rounded modular processing component. The SOM varies between 4 models ranging in performance, especially in regard to processing. The Single-core and Dual-Light-core SOMs house a

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GC880

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, 10/100 Mbit/s Ethernet network connection and a 2 Lane CSI camera interface port. The Single-core variant holds 32-bit DDR3, 512 MB memory, while the Dual-light variant holds 64-bit DDR3, 1 GB memory.
The Dual-core and Quad-core SOM's house a

GC2000

, 10/100/1000 Mbit/s Ethernet network connection and a 4 Lane CSI camera interface port, they also include a built in 802.1 b/g/n wireless and a 4.0

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port. Both variants offer 64-bit DDR3 memory at a 1066 Mbit/s speed, the dual-core coming with 1 GB of memory, while the Quad-core comes with 2 GB of memory. Models & specifications: *TI AM64x Sitara

CuBox-i & CuBox-M

Announced in December 2011, CuBox and CuBox-i are a series of fanless

nettop A nettop (or miniature PC, Mini PC or Smart Micro PC) is a small-sized, inexpensive, low-power, legacy-free desktop computer designed for basic tasks such as web browsing, accessing web-based applications, document processing, and audio/vide ...

-class mini computers, all cube shaped and approximate 2 × 2 × 2 inches in size, weighing around 91 g (3.2 oz). The first generation CuBox was a low-power

ARM architecture ARM (stylised in lowercase as arm, formerly an acronym for Advanced RISC Machines and originally Acorn RISC Machine) is a family of reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architectures for computer processors, configure ...

CPU A central processing unit (CPU), also called a central processor, main processor or just processor, is the electronic circuitry that executes instructions comprising a computer program. The CPU performs basic arithmetic, logic, controlling, an ...

based computer, using the Marvell Armada 510 (88AP510) SoC with an ARM v6/v7-compliant superscalar processor core,

GC600

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3.0 and

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2.0 capable 2D/3D

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, Marvell vMeta HD Video Decoder hardware engine, and

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security extensions, Cryptographic Engines and Security Accelerator (CESA) co-processor. In November 2013, SolidRun released a family of CuBox-i computers initially named CuBox-i1, i2, i2eX, and i4Pro, containing a range of different

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processors by

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. A further development in the family, CuBoxTV was announced in December 2014 as a mid-range CuBox-i

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device designed to run

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on an OpenELEC

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, developed for the home entertainment market. CuBoxTV was based on an

Quad core A multi-core processor is a microprocessor on a single integrated circuit with two or more separate processing units, called cores, each of which reads and executes program instructions. The instructions are ordinary CPU instructions (such ...

, 1 GB, 64 bit memory, GC2000

with an

ES quad shader, and a host of video, audio and picture decoders and encoders supporting all major file type. The device has a number of connection ports including

HDMI High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) is a proprietary audio/video interface for transmitting uncompressed video data and compressed or uncompressed digital audio data from an HDMI-compliant source device, such as a display controll ...

, 10/100/1000

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USB 2.0 Universal Serial Bus (USB) is an industry standard that establishes specifications for cables, connectors and protocols for connection, communication and power supply (interfacing) between computers, peripherals and other computers. A broad ...

eSATA SATA (Serial AT Attachment) is a computer bus interface that connects host bus adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives, optical drives, and solid-state drives. Serial ATA succeeded the earlier Parallel ATA (PATA) standard to ...

and

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HummingBoard

A compact computer-on-module ARM based mini computer, running an

or iMX8M SoC. HummingBoard is marketed as a modular fanless mini computer, to be integrated with larger networks or systems, especially in the area of

IoT The Internet of things (IoT) describes physical objects (or groups of such objects) with sensors, processing ability, software and other technologies that connect and exchange data with other devices and systems over the Internet or other com ...

development.

Networking products

Marvell ARMADA A388 Family

A388 SOM Based on the

ARMADA 388 SoC, the SOM features a Dual core

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with 1.6 GHz processing power (up to 1.3 GHz in industrial grade), and up to 2 GB, 32-bit DDR3L memory. At 30 mm × 50 mm the ARMADA MicroSoM is the basis for a number of SolidRun's products in this product family. ClearFog A388 Announced in November 2015, SolidRun's ClearFog

(SBC) is based on

's Armada 38x ARM Cortex-A9 Dual SoC and is marketed as a modular development integration SBC. The ClearFog is divided into two grades: Base and Pro, differing mainly in connectivity options and size. The ClearFog is a fanless SBC based on a Marvell ARMADA A388 dual 1.6 GHz core SOM, with 1 GB memory,

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mikroBUS Click Board support, and various connection ports including USB 3.0, mPCIE & Ethernet ports. The Clearfog Pro has a Marvell 88E6176

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chip.

NXP Layerscape LX2160A Family

LX2160A COM Express type 7

Marvell OCTEON TX2 CN9130 Family

References

External links

Solid-run.com

cuboxtv.com
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