element14 Raspberry Pi Compute Development Kit

Many design engineers are incorporating a complete Raspberry Pi unit into their end design. The next step is to provide engineers with the benefits of the traditional board in a flexible form factor to support embedded design, hence the development of the Raspberry Pi Compute Module as part of the Raspberry Pi Compute Development Kit. The module allows design engineers to use their own interface board that will host the product and deliver a smooth experience as they move from prototyping on the Pi through to shipping commercial product in volume.

Small, powerful and SODIMM-sized (6.5 x 3 cm), the module contains the BCM2835 chip with 512 MB RAM with an onboard 4 GB eMMC Flash memory for booting the OS. With flexible and rapid prototype development, the kit contains a fully functional IO board which supports an extensive GPIO and multiple connectors to help foster rapid prototype development with access to all of the BCM2835 functionality. The product combines the dedicated hardware design created by an engineer with all of the power of a fully functional Linux application server to perform the analysis and computational tasks necessary to manage and self-diagnose the industrial solution.