Cotton Candy (single-board computer)
| Common manufacturers | ARM Holdings |
|---|---|
| Design firm | FXI Technologies |
| Introduced |
Cotton Candy November 17, 2011 |
| Cost | ~US$199 ERP |
| Type | Single-board computer |
| Processor | Samsung Exynos 4210 |
| Frequency | 1.2 GHz |
| Memory | 1 GB DRAM |
| Coprocessor |
Mali-400 MP GPU VFPv3 (VFP/FPU) NEON SIMD Hardware Audio / Video Decoder Thumb-2 inst. set Jazelle DBX Jazelle RCT TrustZone CESA |
| Ports |
HDMI 1.3a WiFi 802.11 b/g/n Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR USB 2.0 host/device Micro USB MicroSD SDXC slot |
| Weight | 21 g (0.74 oz) |
| Dimensions | 80 mm (3.1 in) (h) 25 mm (0.98 in) (w) 10 mm (0.39 in) (d) |
The Cotton Candy is a very small, fanless single-board computer on a stick, putting the full functions of a personal computer on a device the size of a USB memory stick, manufactured by the Norwegian-based hardware and software for-profit startup company FXI Technologies (also referred to as just "FXI Tech").
Cotton Candy is a low-power ARM architecture CPU based computer which uses dual-core processors such as the dual-core 1.2 GHz Exynos 4210 (45 nm ARM Cortex-A9 with 1MB L2 cache) SoC (System on a chip) by Samsung, featuring a quad-core 200 MHz ARM Mali-400 MP GPU OpenGL ES 2.0 capable 2D/3D graphics processing unit, an Audio and Video Decoder hardware engine, and TrustZone (Security Extensions) Cryptographic Engine and Security Accelerator (CESA) co-processor. The platform is said to be able to stream and decode H.264 1080p content, and be able to use desktop class interfaces such as KDE or GNOME under Linux.
FXI Technologies claims it will run both Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and the latest Ubuntu Desktop Linux operating systems, leveraging Linaro builds and Linux kernel optimizations.
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