Cubieboard2 A20 Dual Core ARM MiniPC Cortex-A7 1GB DDR3 with linux/android/More powerful pcduino/Raspberry pi/Smartfly team

Note:

this link is an 8GB eMMC version, it is more stable than the Nand Flash version.

Cubieboard2 is based on Allwinner A20 SoC(ARM® Cortex™-A7 Dual-Core) that has higher performance,small size(10x6cm), hacker friendly, extendable and very low-cost.
Cubieboard2 support both android 4.2 Jelly Bean, Ubuntu 12.04 and other Linux distributions. Android Jelly Bean improves on speed simplicity and brings a lot of new features.

96 external pin definitions

More detail ,see the hardware user guide in our web site.

Preinstall android 4.2.2
Support lubunut 12.04 destkop, ubuntu13.03 server
(..your can get it in our web site.)
Support Fedora 18
Support Kali Linux
Support Debian Linux
...

Downloads (SDK Source, Tools, Firmware, Documentation) :
( Mega)https://mega.nz/#F!ZtwxCCJC!AIYHcTqz-ucjuzKnE9qD7A

It is very insteresting to see how many linux distros already running on Cubieboard1/2/3

About the instructions how to run the linux distros list above, please look at the following link

Install OS in the NAND Flash

step1:Download Image

Assuming you are going to use cb_a20_android42_v1.04_8188eu-en_US

step2:Run Livesuit

Run Livesuit, select the image we just extract

step3:Enter FEL Mode

Press the FEL key when power up(the FEL key is the one under the USB OTG port), The CPU automatically enters FEL mode. Livesuit will start to write the image to Nand on board

make SD card system(for example)

step1:Download the tool

Window-Win32DiskImager
web:sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/
Linux - dd

step2:Download the image
Lubuntu - ubuntu with lxde desktop

step3:Insert the uSD card to card reader and
connect to PC

step4:Run Image Writer

step5:Choose the image and disk and click Write

step6:Done

How to contrl GPIO(in android OS)

cubieboard running lubuntu

Cubieboard2 Main board x 1

DC to USB cable x 1

SATA cable(data + power) x 1

CPU Fin x1