The Parallella platform is based on the Epiphany multicore chips developed by Adapteva over the last 5 years and field tested since May 2011. The Epiphany chips consists of a scalable array of simple RISC processors programmable in C/C++ connected together with a fast on chip network within a single shared memory architecture. Here is a link to the Epiphany Architecture Reference Manual
Overview:
- Zynq-7000 Series Dual-core ARM A9 CPU (Z-7010 or Z-7020)
- 16 or 64-core Epiphany Multicore Accelerator
- 1GB RAM
- MicroSD Card
- 2x USB 2.0
- 4 general purpose expansion connectors
- 10/100/1000 Ethernet
- HDMI port
- Linux Operating System
- 3.4″ x 2.15″ form factor