Banana Pi (Same as Raspberry PI but with more functionality and speed)

Brand: Giga
Product Code: BANANAPIARMA7V1
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Banana Pi

What is Banana Pi?

Banana Pi is a single-board computer. Banana Pi targets to be a cheap, small and flexible enough computer for daily life. Built with ARM Cortex-A7 Dual-core CPU and Mali400MP2 GPU, and open source software, Banana Pi can serve as a platform to make lots of applications for different purposes.

Banana PI M1 is the open source hardware platform which published to assistant the Elastos open source OS, Banana PI M1 is the dual core Android 4.2 product which better than the Raspberry Pi. Banana Pi M1 series run Android,Debian linux,Ubuntu linux, Raspberry Pi imange and cubieboard imange. Banana PI hardware: 1Ghz ARM7 dual-core processor, 1GB DDR3 SDRAM, Banana PI with Gigabit ethernet port, SATA Socket. It can run with Android 4.2.2 smoothly. The size of Banana PI M1 like the credit card, it can easily run with the game it support 1080P high definition video output, the GPIO compatible with Raspberry Pi and can run the ROM Image directly

Interface compatibility

Description	Banana Pi	Performance
CPU performance	Faster A20 CPU	ARM Cortex-A7 Dual-Core 1GHz
Memory Performance	More Memory	1GB DDR3 SDRAM (shared with GPU)
SD card Performance	Storage is only really limited by SATA	SD (Max. 64GB) / MMC onboard
IDE performance	Has SATA interfaces there is no limit	Hard disk drive (Large hard drives storage )
Network performance	Faster Ethernet port 1G	10/100/1000 on A20 not Shares
USB performance	USB 2.0 ports	2 on A20 (not shared) so it is faster
Interface boards availability		All Raspberry Pi boards should work
Operating system compatibility	Android, Lubuntu, Raspbian, Kali Linux, openSUSE, fedora 1.1, Arch Linux 1.1
Video output	Support HDMI 1.4 better	HDMI 1.4, composite RGBCVBS , LVDS on board
Power consumption
GPIO(2X13) pin	GPIO, UART, I2C bus, SPI bus with two chip selects, CAN bus, ADC, PWM, +3.3v, +5v, ground.
Power consumption	5V (2A)	(not the most economical)
LED.	Power Status LED (Red). Ethernet Status LED (Blue). User Define LED (Green).
Overall experience

Ok we have the overall picture lets decide on the operating system

OS Images For Banana Pi: http://www.bananapi.com/index.php/download?layout=edit&id=29

OS	Description
Android 4.4 (Beta 1)
Android 4.2.2
Lubuntu 3.1	My choice due to most of my exiting servers is Ubuntu
Raspbian 3.1	This is good choice if you want to use the ad don Raspberry Pi features and functions such as spi, i2c , pwm and so on
Kali Linux 1.0
openSUSE 1.1
fedora 1.1
Arch Linux 1.1

Now let me create my boot SD card.

down Lubuntu 3.1 from here http://www.bananapi.com/index.php/download?layout=edit&id=29

Con3 (GPIO Header)

CON3	Pin Name	Multiplex Function Select	GPIO
Multi 1	Multi 2
Pin 1	3.3V1	VCC-3V3
Pin 2*	5.0V1	VCC-5V
Pin 3	SDA	TWI2-SDA	PB21
Pin 4*	5.0V2	VCC-5V
Pin 5	SCL	TWI2-SCK	PB20
Pin 6	GND3	GND
Pin 7	IO-GCLK	GPCLK	PI3
Pin 8	TXD0	UART3-TX	PH0
Pin 9	GND1	GND
Pin10	RXD0	UART3-RX	PH1
Pin11	IO-0	IO-0(UART2-RX)	PI19
Pin12	IO-1	IO-1	PH2
Pin13	IO-2	IO-2(UART2-TX)	PI18
Pin14	GND4	GND
Pin15	IO-3	IO-3(UART2-CTS)	PI17
Pin16	IO-4	IO-4(CAN_TX)	PH20
Pin17	3.3V2	VCC-3V3
Pin18	IO-5	IO-5(CAN_RX)	PH21
Pin19	SPI-MOSI	SPI0_MOSI	PI12
Pin20	GND5	SPI0_GND
Pin21	SPI-MISO	SPI0-MISO	PI13
Pin22	IO-6	IO-6(UART2_RTS)	PI16
Pin23	SPI-CLK	SPI0_CLK	PI11
Pin24	SPI-CE0	SPI0_CS0	PI10
Pin25	GND2	GND
Pin26	SPI-CE1	SPI0_CS1	PI14

Looking at the Con3 26-pin general-purpose input-output (GPIO) header at the top-left of the board, which is pin-compatible with existing Pi accessories

J11 (UART)

The jumper J11 is the UART interface. For developers of Banana Pi, this is an easy way to get the UART console output to check the system status and log message.