ESWIN Computing has introduced its personal Raspberry Pi-inspired single-board pc (SBC) household, the EBC77 Collection, constructed round its four-core EIC7700X RISC-V system-on-chip — and it is partnered with Canonical to supply official help in Ubuntu 24.04, although questions stay about future releases.
“ESWIN Computing’s launch of the EBC77 Collection SBC integrates our strengths in high-end product design and computing energy optimization with Canonical’s experience within the Ubuntu OS and cloud-native applied sciences, collectively delivering extra secure, versatile, and high-performance hardware-software options for numerous eventualities,” says ESWIN’s Haibo Lu of the partnership. “We sit up for collaborating with Canonical to discover technological improvements, create larger worth for trade companions and developer communities, and step into the brand new period of clever computing collectively!”
ESWIN has a brand new single-board pc household, the EBC77 Collection, and has partnered with Canonical for Ubuntu help — for now, not less than. (📷: ESWIN Computing)
“The launch of ESWIN Computing’s EBC77 Collection SBC represents a major development for the open-source neighborhood, empowering everybody from seasoned builders to newcomers to innovate on the RISC-V structure,” provides Canonical’s Jonathan Mok. “This highlights each the adaptability and robustness of Ubuntu, and underscores Canonical’s deep dedication to offering the perfect software program surroundings for builders within the RISC-V ecosystem. Our collaboration with ESWIN Computing is an instance of how we will make open requirements and shared innovation really thrive.”
The ESWIN EBC77 Collection makes no try to cover its inspiration, boasting a really acquainted format based mostly on the full-size Raspberry Pi household of Arm-based single-board computer systems. At its coronary heart, although, is ESWIN’s personal EIC7700X system-on-chip — delivering 4 64-bit RISC-V cores operating at as much as 1.8GHz, an in-house neural coprocessor with a claimed minimum-precision compute efficiency of 20 tera-operations per second (TOPS), with a 64-bit LPDDR5 reminiscence controller.
The precise quantity of reminiscence out there to the person will depend upon which mannequin within the household they buy, however all embrace a spread of shared peripherals: a four-lane PCI Categorical Gen. 3 connection for high-speed exterior gadgets together with Non-Unstable Reminiscence Categorical (NVMe) storage and machine studying accelerators, two USB 3.2 Gen. 1 ports, two USB 2.0 ports, a gigabit Ethernet connection plus a dual-band 802.11ac Wi-Fi module, micro-HDMI and a four-lane MIPI Show Serial Interface (DSI) video outputs, a devoted four-lane MIPI Digicam Serial Interface (CSI) enter plus the flexibility to repurpose the DSI output as a CSI enter, a microSD Card slot for storage, and a Raspberry Pi-style 40-pin general-purpose enter/output (GPIO) header carrying alerts together with I2S, I2C, and UART buses.
The board borrows closely from the Raspberry Pi design e-book, right down to the place of its USB and Ethernet port and the 40-pin GPIO header. (📷: ESWIN Computing)
Canonical has confirmed that the board will probably be an official goal for Ubuntu 24.04 Lengthy Time period Help (LTS), gaining an official picture of the working system — but it surely appears unlikely that stated help will proceed by way of into future releases: the corporate has beforehand shifted its focus in the direction of RISC-V gadgets constructed to the RVA23 baseline profile and better, whereas ESWIN’s new board relies on the older RVA20 profile. Because of this, Ubuntu 24.04 might properly be each the primary and the final model to be suitable with the brand new board — a complicated place by which to place its new associate.
ESWIN has listed the EBC77 on its Amazon retailer with costs beginning at $149 together with bundled heatsink and cables — however has but to verify how a lot RAM is offered on that mannequin.
