Craneboard, from Mistral, is a hardware development platform that enables customers to develop general purpose computing and other applications based on the Sitara AM3517 ARM Cortex - A8 microprocessor device. Craneboard is a low cost, open source reference platform to help the developer community leverage the benefits of the AM3517 processor while leveraging a host of exciting peripherals.
Craneboard includes pre-programmed binaries for x-loader, u-boot, Linux Kernel and JFFS2 file system for Linux. The software release from Mistral includes the required source code and utilities. The software package will be made available at CraneBoard.org.