Board and Chip Vendors

This page has a list of the companies or organizations that make processors or boards for embedded products. If you are looking for companies who sell Linux software or Linux-related services, see the Vendors page. If you are looking for companies who sell end-user products based on Linux, see Companies

A

• Armadeus
  • affordable ARM boards
  • Armadeus started as a community project
• Atmel - Wikipedia entry
  • Atmel makes AT91SAM 32-bit ARM-based Microcontrollers
  • AT91 Linux gateway

C

• Cirrus Logic - Wikipedia entry
  • Cirrus Logic makes ep93xx and ep73xx 32-bit ARM-based Microcontrollers

D

• DigiKey sells the OMAP3 based beagleboard

F

• Freescale Semiconductor - Wikipedia entry
  • Freescale makes the MX31 ARM11-based processor (and associated development boards), among others.
  • Freescale makes several PPC-based processors (and associated development boards) as well.

G

Gumstix sells various very small processor and add-on boards. Especially interesting for robotics related projects.

K

KwikByte sells full-featured ARM based boards: KB9202, KB9260 and KBAT9261

R

• Renesas Technology - Wikipedia entry
  • Renesas makes the SuperH, M32R, and H8 RISC CPUs, the RX CISC CPUs, and others.

T

• Texas Instruments - Wikipedia entry
  • Texas Instruments makes the MSP430 MCUs, TMS320 C2000/C5000/C6000 DSPs, DaVinci/OMAP ARM+DSP-based processors, and others.