RicoBoard AM437x thoughts?

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CNX Software blog posted this today:

“MYiR Tech Announces Low Cost Rico and Z-turn Boards Powered by TI AM437x and Xilinx Zynq-7010 SoCs”
http://www.cnx-software.com/2015/03/03/myir-tech-announces-low-cost-rico-and-z-turn-boards-powered-by-ti-am437x-and-xilinx-zynq-7010-socs/

  • Texas Instruments AM4379 single core ARM Cortex A9 processor @ 1.0GHz with PowerVR SGX530 GPU, and 4x PRU @ 200 MHz. Other AM437x on request.
  • System Memory - 512MB DDR3 (Options: 256MB or 1GB)
  • Connectivity – 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet

I’m familiar with the AM335x from Bones, but I didn’t realized there was a Cortex A9 Sitara. This SoC is interesting as it has what would seem like the next step up on the TI Sitara product line. Thoughts?

thanks,
drew

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Any chance those expansion headers match the BeagleBone Black? Doesn't look like they're the right size.