Introductory price £50, US$65 Storage 8 GB Flash | Memory 1 GB DDR3 | |
Release date November 2014 (2014-11) (Updated May 2015 (2015-05)) Operating system CPU Dual-core 1.2 GHz MIPS32 processor, 32k I&D L1 cache, 512k L2 cache |
Creator is a family of single-board computers developed by Imagination Technologies to promote educational research and software development based on the MIPS CPU architecture. The first board in the platform, the Creator Ci20, was released in August 2014. A second development kit called Creator Ci40 was introduced through a Kickstarter campaign in November 2015.
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Creator Ci20
The Creator Ci20 board is based on an Ingenic JZ4780 mobile-class application processor, which contains a dual-core 1.2 GHz MIPS32 CPU with 32k I&D L1 cache and 512k L2 cache and an IEEE754 Floating Point Unit, coupled with a PowerVR SGX540 GPU. This processor supports MXU, a 32-bit SIMD extension. In addition, the board provides:
Creator Ci40
The Creator Ci40 board is based on a cXT200 chip optimized specifically for IoT applications which contains a dual-core, dual-threaded 550 MHz MIPS interAptiv CPU with 32k I&D L1 cache and 512k L2 cache and an IEEE754 Floating Point Unit coupled with an Ensigma C4500 Wi-Fi radio processor. In addition, the board provides:
Software
All Creator boards support the Creator IoT Framework, an open source software package based on the LWM2M protocol developed by the Open Mobile Alliance.