Raspberry Pi development board optimization design

The Raspberry Pi system provides a strong open source foundation that enables vendors, third-party developers, and users themselves to tap into and contribute to a growing ecosystem of software and hardware. Originally developed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation as a low-cost platform for teaching computers, the Pi hardware has evolved into a powerful, low-cost platform suitable for rapid prototyping and, increasingly, as an embeddable computing platform. Pi software offers a similar level of performance and is easily accessible. The Pi board runs Raspbian, a version of the GNU/Linux operating system (OS) optimized for the Raspberry Pi board. Developers can insert an SD card containing the Raspbian installer NOOBS into the Pi board's SD port and within seconds the familiar Linux environment is up and running. Thanks to the active Raspberry Pi community, developers with specific requirements can choose from other operating systems, including desktop Ubuntu, Ubuntu Core, Windows 10 IoT Core, Linux-based Open Source Media Center (OSMC), and RISC OS. For these distributions, developers simply load the system using the downloaded image stored on the SD card. Finally, software engineers can take advantage of the rich software libraries available to support development in a variety of programming languages.