A10 Lime OlinuXino board - 512 Mb Ram - Cortex A8 1 Ghz

A AllWinner ARM A10 board for embedded Linux dev.

Lime A10 is an ARM Linux 1GHz board based on a AllWinner A10 Cortex A8 processor. With its 512 Mb of RAM, an SD card holder and SATA connector (hard drive), HDMI output and USB 2.0 interface you get a Linux based development plateforme and enough power to create a large variety of applications.

The board also offers 160 GPIOs (General Purpose Input Output, 1.25mm spacing, 3.3v) offering a lot of prototyping possibilities. The GPIOs can be drive with python script thanks to the pyA10Lime python library available on Python.org.
The GPIOs can also been manipulated with the file system through /sys/class/gpio/ (see this Olimex documentation).
The HDMI output is able to display 720p video but you can also a the LCD connector.

One of the best feature is the onboard Lipo Charger so your board can be fully nomadic.

The OlinXino A10 plateform is a great compromise between the board size, power, functionality and autonomous (via lipo battery). A great choice for the embedded project.

The OlinuXino board does exists in many versions: storage ib SD card, on 4 Gb Nand memory or 8 Gb Nand memory.
This product use a SD card to store the operating system.

See also the Olimex Product sheet for OlinuXino-A10 for more details.

Technical details

• Allwinner A10 Cortex-A8 processor typically running at 1GHz and Mali 400 GPU
• 512MB DDR3 RAM memory
• SATA connector with 5V SATA power jack
• Capable of HD (720p) video playback
• HDMI connector
• 2 x USB High-speed host with power control and current limiter
• USB-OTG with power control and current limiter
• 100MBit native Ethernet
• LiPo Battery connector with battery-charging capabilities
• LCD row of pins (1.25mm step)
• 160 GPIOs on four GPIO rows of pins (1.25mm step)
• MicroSD card connector
• DEBUG-UART connector for console debug with serial cable
• GPIO LED
• Battery charge status LED
• Power LED
• 2KB EEPROM for MAC address storage and more
• 3 BUTTONS with ANDROID functionality + RESET button
• 4 mount holes
• 5V input power supply, noise immune design
• Board Size: 84x60 mm

Hardware resources

• GitHub A10-OLinuXino (source files for the material)

Software ressources

Link to OS image, instructions, demo software, customer projects and more. See the wiki page of A10 LIME board for more information.

• A10-OLinuXino-Lime

The Python package for A10-OLinuXino under Debian Linux is named pyA10Lime. This paquet ease the access to the GPIO, I2C bus and SPI bus. This packet is available on Debian image. You willl find more information and exemples on the library usage with the following link:

• The pyA10Lime package on python.org