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1.3. Limited Warranty Boardcon warrants this product to be free of defects in material and workmanship for a period of one year from date of buy. During this warranty period Boardcon will repair or replace the defective unit in accordance with the following process: A copy of the original invoice must be included when returning the defective unit to Boardcon.
EM3288_C carrier board providing connectors and several additional functions. The rich feature set of EM3288 is customizable according to the price / performance needs of the target application. EM3288 contains expansion connectors which accommodate a wide range of standard peripheral devices. Wide input range switched power supply is compatible with requirements for telecom and automotive applications.
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Quad-Core Cortex-A17 Separately Integrated Neon and FPU per CPU 32KB/32KB L1 ICache/DCache per CPU Unified 1MB L2 Cache LPAE (Large Physical Address Extensions) , support up to 8GB address Space Virtualization Extensions Support DVFS support - 3D GPU...
1.6 Motherboard Power meter Support 5v/2.5A voltage Electric Electric System Connected devices System Connected devices current(A) current(A) Android Android Power, 10.1 inch HD 5v power 0.464 0.753 4.4.4 4.4.4 capacitive screen SLEEP+(Power, sd Power, sd card, play card, U disk, usb...
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Feature * MINI3288 Development Board: EM3288 * Processor: Rockchip RK3288, Quad Core Cortex-A17 @ 1.8GHz * DDR: 2GB DDR3 * NAND Flash: 8GB eMMC * Preinstalled Android4.4.4 * Power supply: 5V/2.5A * The modular is led out most signals of RK3288, such as USB Host, USB OTG, LCD, VGA, UART, Gigabit Ethernet, HDMI, Audio, SD/MMC/SDIO, SPI, I2C, I2S, ADC, MIPI-CSI/DSI, LVDS and so on.
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Signal Signal Signal Signal (J1) (J1) (J2) (J2) TX_C 51 MIPI_TX/RX_D2P VDD5V 51 TS0_D7 TX_0- 52 MIPI_TX/RX_D1P 52 TS0_D6 TX_C+ 53 MIPI_TX/RX_D3P VDD5V 53 GND TX_0+ 54 GND 54 TS0_SYNC 55 MIPI_TX/RX_D3N nRESET 55 TS0_D2 56 VDD3V3_EN MDI0+...
Signal Description Signal Description VDD5V Main power supply. DC 5V power in Ground Ground Lithium battery (J17) EM3288 gains a Li+ battery management unit and provides an external Li+ battery interface. (Reserved interface, the function is not supported currently.)
VBAT Li+ Battery Ground 2.2 Ethernet (JP1) RK3288 has integrated Gigabit Ethernet MAC. EM3288 adopts RTL8211E as the Ethernet chip. RJ45 connector Feature * Supports 10/100/1000-Mbps data transfer rates with the RGMII interfaces * Supports both full-duplex and half-duplex operation * Supports IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tag detection for reception frames...
2.3 USB HOST (P2, P3) EM3288 provides 3x USB2.0 Host. One is a single USB (P2), and the other is a double-USB (P3). The 3-ch USB HOST interfaces are extended by AU6256 which is a fully compliant with the USB 2.0 hub specification and is designed to work with USB host as a high-speed hub.
Ground Ground 2.4 USB OTG (J8) EM3288 OTG is a Micro USB2.0 port, it is used to download image and ADB transfer file. Feature * Compatible with USB OTG2.0 specification *Supports USB 2.0 High Speed (480Mbps), Full Speed (12Mbps) and Low Speed (1.5Mbps) operation in host mode *Supports USB 2.0 High Speed (480 Mbps) and Full Speed (12 Mbps) operation in peripheral mode.
EM3288 SoC. The “HDMI transmitter” combines video/display data from the IPU, Audio data from EM3288 memory & control/status data from the ARM complex, into Xhdmi data & clock channels. The “HDMI 3D Tx PHY” transmits the combined data by means of 3 Xhdmi data pairs and an Xhdmi clock pair to the EM3288 carrier board interface.
VGA_OUT_SDA Serial Data LCD_HSYNC LCD Horizontal Sync LCD_VSYNC LCD Vertical Sync VGA_OUT Data VGA_OUT_SCL Ground Clock Ground 2.9 LVDS (CON3) The LVDS is a 40-pin header connector. EM3288 supports 10.1-inch HD capacitive LCD. The resolution up to 1280 x 800.
Features * Comply with the TIA/EIA-644-A LVDS standard * Combine LVTTL IO, support LVDS/LVTTL data output * Support reference clock frequency range from 10MHz to 148.5MHz * Support LVDS RGB 30/24/18bits color data transfer * Support VESA/JEIDA LVDS data format transfer...
TOUCH_RST TOUCH_INT 2.11 MIPI (CON5) EM3288 supports a 26-pin MIPI connector. Currently the MIPI function is not supported. Features * Embedded 3 MIPI PHY, MIPI 0 only for TX, MIPI 1 for TX and RX, MIPI 2 only for RX...
The GPS module (Model: ST-91-U7) uses ublox 7 chipset which is high performance u-blox 7 multi-GNSS(GPS, GLONASS, QZSS, SBAS – Galileo and Compass ready) position engine delivers exceptional sensitivity and acquisition times. Features * Ublox 7 high performance and low power consumption GPS Chipset...
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Features * 802.11b/g/n single-band radio * Bluetooth V4.0 + EDR with integrated Class 1.5 PA Concurrent Bluetooth and WLAN operation * Simultaneous BT / WLAN receive with single antenna * WLAN host interface options: - SDIO v2.0 — up to 50 MHz clock rate...
Bluetooth UART Bluetooth UART UART0_TX UART0_RTS interface interface 2.14 Debug serial port (J10) EM3288 provides an online debug serial port (UART2). It is used to connect PC and board with the USB-to-serial TTL232 serial cable. Signal Description Signal Description UART2_RX...
Ground VCC_IO 3.3V VCC_IO 3.3V Ground Ground VCC5V VCC5V 2.15 Control (J2) The Pin6 of J2 is IR_IN. The EM3288 supports IR data receiver. The signals are transmitted directly to the CPU. Signal Description Signal Description VCC_IO 3.3V Ground KEY_IN...
The K1&K2 share the same signal port with PIN3&4 of J2. The K2 is used for download. If download system, connect PC and EM3288 with USB cable, then keep-press K2 and power up until the PC pop up “found one download device”.
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* Form Factor: PCI Express Mini Card * Size: 51*30*4.7mm * Weight: About 10g * Chipset: MSM6290+ RTR6285 + PM6653 * Memory: (SDRAM/NAND)32MByte/64MByte * Air Interface: HSUPA/HSDPA/WCDMAEDGE/GPRS/GSM * Frequency Bands: - WCDMA/HSPA 2100/1900/850(900) MHz - GSM/GPRS/EDGE 1900/1800/900/850MHz * RxDiv Band: 2100/1900/850(900) MHz...
2.18 SATA & SATA_Power (J14, J18) On-board 7-pin SATA Interface, equipped with a HS USB to SATA bridge JM20329. The SATA requires 5V power supply. The SATA only supports mobile hard disk, and desktop hard disk is not supported.
The backup battery (3V) is used to ensure the RTC (frequency 32.768KHz) is still able to work after power off. Lithium cell model: CR1220. 3 Product Configurations 3.1 Standard Contents • EM3288 board • CD-ROM (Android BSP, Ubuntu BSP, Documents, tools, Schematic Drawing, datasheets) • Ethernet cable • Serial Cable •...
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