| CuBox | |
| Manuf1: | Marvell or Freescale Semiconductor |
| Designfirm: | SolidRun |
| Introduced: | CuBox [1] |
| Cost: | 99 euro (~US$135) |
| Type: | Single-board computer |
| Processor: | Marvell Armada 510 ARMv7 or i.MX6 |
| Frequency: | From 800 MHz and upwards |
| Memory: | From 1 GB and upwards |
| Coprocessor: | VFPv3 (VFP/FPU) WMMX / WMMX2 SIMD vMeta Video Decoder Vivante GC600 GPU Two XOR/DMA Engines and PDMA TrustZone CESA PMU (Power Management Unit) |
| Ports: | HDMI 1.3 with CEC S/PDIF (optical output) 1000baseT Ethernet 2 × USB 2.0 host ports 1 × eSATA (3 Gbit/sec) IrDA (InfraRed) receiver MicroUSB (console only) MicroSD slot (comes with 2 GB MicroSD SDXC, upgradable to 64 GB) |
| Power: | 3 W @ 5 V, 2 A DC |
| Weight: | ~91 g |
| Dimensions: | 55 × 55 × 42 mm |
CuBox and CuBox-i are series of small and fanless nettop-class computers manufactured by the Israeli company SolidRun Ltd. They are all cube-shaped and sized at approximately 2 × 2 × 2 inches (5 cm) and weigh 91 grams (0.2 lb, or 3.2 oz).[2] CuBox was first announced in December 2011 and began shipping in January 2012, initially being marketed as a cheap open-source developer platform for embedded systems.[1] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
The first-generation CuBox was according to SolidRun the first commercially available desktop computer based on the Marvell Armada 500-series SoC (System-on-Chip) and at the time was said to be the world's smallest desktop computer.[9]
In November 2013, SolidRun released the Cubox-i1, i2, i2eX, and i4Pro, containing i.MX6 processors.[10] [11]
CuBox is a low-power computer based on ARM-architecture CPU, using the Marvell Armada 510 (88AP510) SoC with an ARM v6/v7-compliant superscalar processor core, Vivante GC600 OpenGL 3.0 and OpenGL ES 2.0 capable 2D/3D graphics processing unit, Marvell vMeta HD Video Decoder hardware engine, and TrustZone security extensions, Cryptographic Engines and Security Accelerator (CESA) co-processor.[5] [12]
Despite being about 2-inch-square in size, the platform can stream and decode 1080p content, use desktop-class interfaces such as KDE or GNOME under Linux, while requiring less than 3 watts and less than 1 watt in standby.[13]
SolidRun currently officially only supports Linux kernel 2.6.x or later and Android 2.2.x and later. It comes with Ubuntu Desktop 10.04 and Android 2.2 dual-boot pre-installed.[1]
In November 2013, SolidRun released a family of CuBox-i computers named CuBox-i1, i2, i2eX, and i4Pro, containing a range of different i.MX6 processors by Freescale Semiconductor.[10] [11]
They have also released a series of caseless i.MX6 models called the Hummingboard.[14]
Announced in December 2014, CuBoxTV is a mid-range and simplified version of the CuBox-i computer. It is designed to exclusively operate KODI (formerly known as XBMC) on an OpenELEC operating system.[15]
CuBoxTV weighs approximately, and is around 2X2 Inches wide and 1.8 inches high, shaped like a cube with rounded sides. It features an i.MX6 Quad core processor at a 1GHz speed, 1GB of RAM memory, 8GB base storage memory and a GC2000 OpenGL quad shader GPU. It houses a couple of USB 2.0 ports, a HDMI port, microSD port and an Ethernet port.[16]