Arrow Announces Availability for DragonBoard™ 410c

Arrow-built board for makers and community developers

CENTENNIAL, Colo. – Media OutReach – June 24, 2015 – (EON: Enhanced Online News) Arrow Electronics, Inc. today (June 19, 2015) announced the availability of the DragonBoard™ 410c, a low-cost development board design based on the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 410 processor. The Snapdragon 410 processor is a product of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated. Arrow will manufacture and distribute the DragonBoard 410c to community developers and commercial customers.

Arrow introduces DragonBoard™ 410c for makers and community developers

The credit card-sized kit is based on Linaro’s 96Boards specification and enables developers, makers, universities and commercial manufacturers to utilize the power of the Snapdragon 410 processor for things such as next-generation robotics, medical devices, building automation, digital signage, and gaming consoles, among others. The board is designed to build a software ecosystem around Snapdragon 410, as well as offering uses in education, prototyping, and commercial embedded computing products.

The highlights of the DragonBoard 410c are:

• A 32-/64-bit capable Quad-core ARM® Cortex® A53 at up to 1.2 GHz per core

• Qualcomm® Adreno™ 306 GPU for PC-class graphics

• 1080p HD @ 30fps video playback and capture with H.264 (AVC)

• 1GB RAM, 8GB eMMC Flash + Micro SD card slot

• Onboard Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n 2.4GHz, Bluetooth 4.1, GPS

• Support for Android 5.1, Linux based on Ubuntu and planned support for Windows 10

In addition, Arrow offers an easy transition from community board to commercial product through its extensive partner network and design services to enable customers who want to take their ideas from development board to production.

“We’re excited to help the maker and community developer field grow by building the DragonBoard 410c,” said Arrow Digital President Matt Anderson.

“We’re excited that the DragonBoard 410c is now available to the embedded developer communities, makers and hobbyists, and to see it play an important role in helping drive the innovation of embedded computing products,” said Jason Bremner, senior vice president of product management for Qualcomm Technologies. “Our collaboration with Arrow not only extends the availability of Snapdragon to a wide variety of embedded devices, but also makes it quicker and easier to develop product prototypes.”

For more information about the DragonBoard 410c, visit www.arrow.com/dragonboard410c.