Nvidia Tegra 250 Developer Kit Hardware

NVIDIA Tegra is a system-on-a-chip series developed by NVIDIA for mobile devices such as smart phones, personal digital assistants and mobile internet devices. Each Tegra is a "computer on a chip" which integrates the ARM architecture processor CPU, GPU, north bridge, south bridge and memory controller onto a single package. The series emphasizes low power consumption and high performance for playing video and audio. The series is classified into three parts –APX series, 6xx series and 2xx series . The first product of 2xx series is TEGRA 250 . Here ,the initial setup of Nvidia Tegra 250 Development kit is focused .This is designed to assist a new user in understanding the hardware , selecting an operating system to install to the devkit , and connect and configure the hardware to boot that operating system .

The first product of 2xx series is TEGRA 250 .It has the following specifications :-

 Processor: Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore, up to 1 GHz
 Graphics: double 3D graphics performance of Tegra 600 series
 LP-DDR2 / DDR2
 1080p H.264/VC-1/MPEG-4 Video Decode
 1080p H.264 Video Encode
 JPEG encode and decode
 dual-display support
 camera support

Here ,the initial setup of Nvidia Tegra 250 Development kit is focused .This is designed to assist a new user in understanding the hardware , selecting an operating system to install to the devkit , and connect and configure the hardware to boot that operating system. The developer kit contains almost all the necessary hardwares required to install the particular OS and boot it to make use .This kit is a compact , smartbook-motherboard form factor computer-on-a-board with the following specifications :

 Dual ARM Cortex A9 CPU @1GHz
 1GB of RAM
 High-performance, shader-based 3D acceleration
 HD video encode and decode
 512MB of Flash memory
 Onboard wired Ethernet
 WiFi
 Bluetooth
 Analog stereo audio in/out
 USB keyboard/mouse/storage support
 HDMI/DVI-D and VGA/CRT display support
 Onboard SD(HC) slot

Devkit Contents and Hardware Requirements

Initially , the developer kit contain the following items:

 Devkit main board (rectangular circuit board containing the Tegra chip and connectors for networking, USB peripherals, storage and display devices)

 15V power adapter (USA 120V mains power connection)

 Adjustable, folding, threaded WiFi antenna

 Expansion board (smaller, square circuit board containing a serial port, LEDs and a few buttons) Items required to use the devkit, but not present in devkit :

 Host PC with USB ports. The exact OS that this host PC must be running may differ depending upon the devkit OS to be used, but is most frequently Microsoft Windows.

 USB mini (NOT micro, as with previous Tegra devkits) to USB cable (for device setup and connectivity)

 External display supporting VGA (15-pin D-Sub), HDMI or DVI (via HDMI-to-DVI adapter)

 SD card or USB-based “thumb drive” for additional storage

 USB mouse

 USB keyboard

Items provided by developer :

 Powered USB hub