Introducing Overo

Fall 2008

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 Gumstix: Tiny Linux Computers

• Family of Motherboards & Expansion Boards

• Wide Range of Expandability

• Extremely Small & Can Be USB-powered

• Reusable, Published Reference Designs

• Rapid Development Cycle

• Low Cost of Entry & Volume Deployment

• Ideal for 1,000 to 50,000 EAU products

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 Based in San Jose, California, USA
– Engineering, sales, marketing and public relations
– Outsourced contract manufacturing

 Privately-held and Profitable

– 6th year of business

 More than 9,000 registered customers worldwide

- Located in over 40 countries
- 60% of sales to US-based customers
- Very active Gumstix community with worldwide reach

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 Customers in over 40 Countries

• Commercial Customer List includes:

- USA
- HP Labs, IBM Research, Cisco and Intel
- Microsoft, Boeing, Adobe, National Instruments and eInk
- Europe
- Motorola Denmark, Dolby Australia and Nokia Finland
- British Telecom UK
- Timelink Germany, TR2E France
- Africa
- Hefcom South Africa

• Educational & Hobbyist Customer List includes:

- More than 150 Universities from Iceland to New Zealand
- Hobbyists and Enthusiasts Worldwide

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 Computing by Gumstix
 Further examples of products with Computing by Gumstix:

- Commercial
- RFID, Java, network appliances
- Instrument control and data acquisition
- Tracking and safety monitoring
- Commercial vehicle tracking and driver safety
- Personnel keypads and access control devices
- Utility power management and metering

- Educational
- Autonomous land, sea and air robots
- Student teaching, learning and competitions
- Hobbyists
- Air balloons, miniature IP PBXs

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 Gumstix: the Common Development Platform

2006
Time & Attendance

2008
Access Control

An example: e-DATA - A leading manufacturer of network ready

internet appliances used for access control and time & attendance.

Coppell, Texas (Dallas), and Leonberg, Germany (Stuttgart).

Multiple e-Data products with Gumstix technology inside

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Overo: Common Development Platform
 Common
- Same Overo from development to commercial deployment
- Ideal for 1,000 to 50,000 EAU customers
- Expansion Board brings out desired elements
- Extensive expandability for custom designs
- Off-the-shelf or OEM custom designed

 Development
- Linux 2.6.27 and later
- OpenEmbedded
- Worldwide open source development community

 Platform
- Smallest OMAP35x motherboard in industry
- 17mm x 58mm x 4.2mm
- OMAP 3503 processor @ 600Mhz
- Plug compatible upgrade to OMAP3530 (future)
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 Overo Motherboard: Specifications
• Hardware
– Processing
- Texas Instrument OMAP™ 3503 processor @ 600MHz
- Plug compatible upgrade to OMAP3530 upgrade (future)
– Memory
- 256 MB Ram & 256 MB Flash
- microSD card slot on-board
- Expandability
- Two (2) x 70-pin expansion connectors
- Dimensions
- 17mm x 58mm x 4.2mm

• Software
– Linux 2.6.27 or later and OpenEmbedded
• Standards
– USB OTG, microSD
– Network communications and much more Overo with AA battery
– RoHS compliant

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 Overo MotherBoard

TI Power Management IC

Bottom Side
microSD card slot

2 x 70-pin connectors
for expansion board

OMAP 3503 Processor

w Ram and flash

Top Side
Mounting Hole
(four corners)
On-board Bluetooth™ & 802.11b/g (future)

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 Gumstix: OpenEmbedded
The OpenEmbedded development and build environment produces the
Gumstix distribution of Linux which runs Overo and the BeagleBoard
 With Gumstix OpenEmbedded, it’s easier to:
- Support the wide array of gumstix configurations
- Download a wider selection of software packages
- Leverage an integrated package manager
- Install precompiled package binaries
- Upgrade factory images to the current package revision without
recompile
- Support field upgrades through pkg updates

 Gumstix’ Developer Site: http://www.gumstix.net

- Dedicated website for Gumstix development information
- Information posted 24/7/365
- Getting started instructions
- Product and I/O specifications
- Motherboard Layouts
- Expansion Board Schematics

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The Gumstix Development Community
 Gumstix Community Mailing list
- Worldwide technical support 24/7
- Customers in over 40 countries
- Monitored by Gumstix Engineering and Marketing
- Troubleshooting, Q&A, information sharing
- Gumstix product planning and issue identification
- No charge or cost to participants
- Access via links on lower left side of
http://www.gumstix.net
 Community events
- Linux User Groups, Engineering events
- Educational activities worldwide
 Verified Consultants
- Experienced with Gumstix technology
- Independent Contractors
- Fee based

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Available worldwide for custom hardware & software design work

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