User's Manual

January 2010 - 3 -
Introduction
This manual describes the basic, initial setup of an NVIDIA Tegra 250 developer kit (devkit),
and is designed to assist a new user in understanding the hardware, selecting an operating
system to install to the devkit, and connect and configure the hardware to boot that operating
system. Very little operating system-specific information will be found in this manual, as each
operating system supported by the Tegra 250 devkit includes its own support pack with
software and documentation. This manual covers the details that tend to cross over all
supported operating systems.
What is “The Devkit”?
The NVIDIA Tegra 250-based devkit is a compact, Smartbook-motherboard form factor
computer-on-a-board with the following specifications:
- Dual ARM Cortex A9 CPU @1GHz
- 1GB of RAM
- High-performance, shader-based 3D acceleration
- HD video encode and decode
- 512MB of Flash memory
- Onboard wired Ethernet
- WiFi
- Bluetooth
- Analog stereo audio in/out
- USB keyboard/mouse/storage support
- HDMI/DVI-D and VGA/CRT display support
- Onboard SD(HC) slot