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dream, design, deliver

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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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

Computing by Gumstix


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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

Gumstix: the Common Development Platform

2006Time & Attendance

2008Access Control


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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

RoHS compliant

Overo with AA battery


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Overo MotherBoard

OMAP 3503 Processorw Ram and flash

On-board Bluetooth & 802.11b/g (future)

TI Power Management IC

microSD card slot

2 x 70-pin connectorsfor expansion board

Top Side

Bottom Side

Mounting Hole(four corners)


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Gumstix: OpenEmbedded

With Gumstix OpenEmbedded, its 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 withoutrecompile

- 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

The OpenEmbedded development and build environment produces theGumstix distribution of Linux which runs Overo and the BeagleBoard


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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 ofhttp://www.gumstix.net

Community events- Linux User Groups, Engineering events

- Educational activities worldwide

Verified Consultants- Experienced with Gumstix technology

- Independent Contractors

- Fee based
http://www.gumstix.net/http://www.gumstix.net/


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Available worldwide for custom hardware & software design work


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