Intel Galileo – hardware specifications

The Intel Galileo board is an open source hardware design. The schematics, Cadence Allegro board files, and BOM can be downloaded from the Intel Galileo web page.

In this section, we will just take a look at some key hardware features for feature references to understand the hardware capability of Intel Galileo in order to make better decisions on software design.

Intel Galileo is an embedded system with the required RAM and flash storages included on the board to boot it and run without any additional hardware.

The following table shows the features of Intel Galileo:

Processor features	1 Core 32-bit Intel Pentium processor-compatible ISA Intel Quark SoC X1000 400 MHz 16 KB L1 Cache 512 KB SRAM Integrated real-time clock (RTC)
Storage	8 MB NOR Flash for firmware and bootloader 256 MB DDR3; 800 MT/s SD card, up to 32 GB 8 KB EEPROM
Power	7 V to 15 V Power over Ethernet (PoE) requires you to install the PoE module
Ports and connectors	USB 2.0 host (standard type A), client (micro USB type B) RJ45 Ethernet 10-pin JTAG for debugging 6-pin UART 6-pin ICSP 1 mini-PCI Express slot 1 SDIO
Arduino compatible headers	20 digital I/O pins 6 analog inputs 6 PWMs with 12-bit resolution 1 SPI master 2 UARTs (one shared with the console UART) 1 I2C master