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Raspberry Pi gets a SODIMM Form Factor and Printout

posted by janrinok on Wednesday April 09 2014, @11:39PM   Printer-friendly
from the what-will-they-think-of-next? dept.

c0lo writes:

Ras Pi foundation announces a new product: the compute module.

The compute module contains the guts of a Raspberry Pi (the BCM2835 processor and 512Mbyte of RAM) as well as a 4Gbyte eMMC Flash device (which is the equivalent of the SD card in the Pi). This is all integrated on to a small 67.6x30mm board which fits into a standard DDR2 SODIMM connector (the same type of connector as used for laptop memory). The Flash memory is connected directly to the processor on the board, but the remaining processor interfaces are available to the user via the connector pins.

While not yet what I imagined by only the name i.e a unit to build a shoebox-sized Beowolf cluster of 1K-RasPi-cores the new form factor and pin-out should make this endeavour easier (ahem... for someone skilled in PCB design, EE practician, and a soldering-fu master that has achieved enlightenment... not quite my profile).

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 10 2014, @08:28PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 10 2014, @08:28PM (#29695)

    On the engineering side of things we've also been very busy over the past year, and not to be outdone by the education team, we are ready to take the wraps off something special, this time aimed at business and industrial users.