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Vantron | Embedded in your success, Embedded in your better life World-leading provider of embedded/IoT products and solutions Revision History Version Description Date V1.0 First release Jun 14, 2022 V1.1 Update description on GPIO Jun 16, 2022 VT- SBC-3568 | User Manual...
Vantron | Embedded in your success, Embedded in your better life World-leading provider of embedded/IoT products and solutions Table of Contents Foreword ..............................1 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION ........................5 Product Overview ........................6 Terminology ..........................6 Block Diagram ......................... 7 Specifications ..........................
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Vantron | Embedded in your success, Embedded in your better life World-leading provider of embedded/IoT products and solutions 3.2.2 ADB setup ..........................26 3.2.3 Image download ........................27 Firmware Upgrade in Loader Mode (Ubuntu system) ............29 3.3.1 ADB setup ..........................29 3.3.2...
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The use or placement of the operation tools shall comply with the code of practice of such tools to avoid short circuit of the Product. Cut off the power before inspection of the Product to avoid human injury or product • damage. VT-SBC-3568 | User Manual www.vantrontech.com...
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Clean with a damp cloth Do not try to clean exposed electronic components unless with a dust collector Power off and contact Vantron technical support engineer in case of the following faults: The Product is damaged The temperature is excessively high...
Vantron | Embedded in your success, Embedded in your better life World-leading provider of embedded/IoT products and solutions CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION VT-SBC-3568 | User Manual www.vantrontech.com...
World-leading provider of embedded/IoT products and solutions 1.1 Product Overview VT-SBC-3568 single board computer is based on Rockchip RK3568 processor that integrates quad-core ARM Cortex-A55 CPU and Mali G52 GPU to provide optimized performance at lower power consumption, and offer high-quality video encoding and decoding for better display performance.
U S B 2. 0 T ype-C H D M I 1x2x2. 0m m P ow er Jack R J45 W i t h i nt ernal M agnet i cs C onnect or 12V / 5A VT-SBC-3568 | User Manual www.vantrontech.com...
1.8 Environmental Specifications VT-SBC-3568 works at a temperature ranging from 0℃ to +60℃ (for 3568J: -20℃ to +70℃) and is designed to be stored at a temperature ranging from -20℃ to +70℃ (for 3568J: - 40°C~+85°C) and a humidity of no more than 96% RH for non-condensing purpose.
Vantron | Embedded in your success, Embedded in your better life World-leading provider of embedded/IoT products and solutions CHAPTER 2 CONNECTOR DESCRIPTION VT-SBC-3568 | User Manual www.vantrontech.com...
4GB LPDDR4 RAM by default, and users also have the option of 2GB RAM. 2.2.2 eMMC Flash VT-SBC-3568 provides an eMMC 5.1 flash up to 128 GB, and the default capacity is 16GB. It is used as the default boot and storage device. 2.2.3 EEPROM VT-SBC-3568 provides a 2Kb EEPROM to store hardware configuration information.
This section is going to brief the connectors/jumpers on the Board with corresponsive pinout description. 2.4.1 Power input (1) VT-SBC-3568 provides a 4-pin power connector and a female power jack to supply power for the Board. Pinout description of the 4-pin power connector:...
World-leading provider of embedded/IoT products and solutions 2.4.2 J23 Ethernet port (2) VT-SBC-3568 offers an RJ45 ethernet jack with two LEDs, green for activity indication and yellow for link indication. The interface supports 10/100/1000 Mbps transmission rate. 2.4.3 J13 Wi-Fi and Bluetooth (3) VT-SBC-3568 offers an AP6256 1T1R combo SiP module, combining 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac Wi-...
Power supply 2.8V VCC2V8_DVP Power supply 2.8V Ground 2.4.9 J22 I C (9) VT-SBC-3568 offers an I C interface for connecting a touch panel. Specifications: 1 x 6, 0.5mm, 0.4A, 0.9mm(H), female, RA, WDT, SMT, RoHS (UJU: PF050- B06B-C09-A) Pinout description: Name...
USB DATA- HUB_HOST_5V Power supply 5V for USB 2.4.12 J6 USB 3.0 (12) VT-SBC-3568 offers a USB 3.0 (Type-A) interface with pinout in line with the pin assignment of standard USB 3.0 Type-A. USB 3.0 VT-SBC-3568 | User Manual www.vantrontech.com...
| Embedded in your success, Embedded in your better life World-leading provider of embedded/IoT products and solutions 2.4.13 J7 USB 2.0 Type-C (13) VT-SBC-3568 offers a USB 2.0 Type-C interface. Specifications: Max. current output: 0.5A, OTG supported. USB 2.0 Type-C 2.4.14 J21 GPIO (14)
Ground 2.4.15 J20 40-pin header (15) The 40-pin header on VT-SBC-3568 supports 2 CAN buses, 6 UART ports, and 12 GPIOs (customized for alarm in and out in the following description). Among the 6 UART ports, there are 2 RS485 ports (UART 6 & UART 7, corresponding to nodes ttyS6 & ttyS7), 1 TTL (UART 9, corresponding to ttyS9), 2 RS232 (UART 3 &...
Power input DC_IN Power input DC_IN Power input DC_IN Power input 2.4.16 J17 M.2 Key B slot (16) VT-SBC-RK3568 offers an M.2 Key B slot, supporting PCIe to connect a 3G/4G/5G module and supporting SATA. VT-SBC-3568 | User Manual www.vantrontech.com...
PCIE 2.0 CLK- PCIE_CLKP_A PCIE 2.0 CLK+ 5G power on and off 5G_PWR_OFF#1_1V8 control 1.8 V power 5G Flight mode control 5G_DISABLE#1_1V8 domain data WWAN_RESET#1 5G RESET 2.4.17 J16 Audio jack (17) VT-SBC-RK3568 offers a 3.5mmaudio jack. VT-SBC-3568 | User Manual www.vantrontech.com...
Vantron | Embedded in your success, Embedded in your better life World-leading provider of embedded/IoT products and solutions CHAPTER 3 SOFTWARE VT-SBC-3568 | User Manual www.vantrontech.com...
World-leading provider of embedded/IoT products and solutions 3.1 Prerequisites Whenever a new image is available, Vantron will provide a release package consisting of all the tools/files necessary so that you can flash the image in the Windows and Ubuntu environments.
3. Click in sequence Advanced > Environment Variables > Path > Edit, and click New in the pop-up; 4. Copy the path of adb .exe as mentioned in step 1, and click OK to confirm; VT-SBC-3568 | User Manual www.vantrontech.com...
3.2.3 Image download 1. Connect VT-SBC-3568 and the host with the USB cable; 2. Input “adb devices -l” in the command prompt window to check if VT-SBC-3568 is connected to thehost; 3. Navigate to the local directory as follows: SW/ downloadetools/ windows/ RKDevTool_Release_v2.84, and double click RKDevTool.exe...
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10. Click Upgrade button (next to Firmware button), and the device will start to download the image and upgrade; 11. When the upgrade finishes, the device will reboot automatically. VT-SBC-3568 | User Manual www.vantrontech.com...
1. Input the following command line in Ubuntu terminal to install ADB tool; $ sudo apt-get install adb -y 2. Connect VT-SBC-3568 and the host with the USB cable; 3. Check if VT-SBC-3568 is connected to the host; $ adb devices -l 4.
1. Input the following command in the terminal for network setup $ vi /etc/network/interfaces 2. Example: $ auto eth0 $ iface eth0 inet static $ address 192.168.1.111 $ netmask 255.255.255.0 $ gateway 192.168.1.1 $ reboot VT-SBC-3568 | User Manual www.vantrontech.com...
1. Install Qt installer (Ubuntu 20.04 is recommended); $ dpkg -i ubuntu-host-qt-5.12.11.deb 2. Run the installer and click Tool -> Options ->Kits in sequence, then add the compilers that have been installed: aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc, aarch64-linux-gnu-g++, aarch64- linuxgnu/bin/aarch64-linux-gnu-gdb. 3. Configure (path: opt/gcc-tool/gcc-linaro-7.4.1-2019.02-x86_64_aarch64- linuxgnu/bin/aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc); VT-SBC-3568 | User Manual www.vantrontech.com...
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Vantron | Embedded in your success, Embedded in your better life World-leading provider of embedded/IoT products and solutions 4. Configure G++ (path: /opt/gcc-tool/gcc-linaro-7.4.1-2019.02-x86_64_aarch64- linuxgnu/bin/aarch64-linux-gnu-g++); 5. Configure GDB (path: /opt/gcc-tool/gcc-linaro-7.4.1-2019.02-x86_64_aarch64- linuxgnu/bin/aarch64-linux-gnu-gdb); VT-SBC-3568 | User Manual www.vantrontech.com...
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| Embedded in your success, Embedded in your better life World-leading provider of embedded/IoT products and solutions 6. Click Qt Versions next to Compiler to configure qmake; 7. Add the build kit, including name, device type, complier, and Qt version. VT-SBC-3568 | User Manual www.vantrontech.com...
~# echo 1 > /sys/class/gpio/gpio20/value [set it high] 4. Read the GPIO value; ~# cat /sys/class/gpio/gpio20/value 5. When you finish using the pin, just unexport it. To do this, write the pin number to the unexport file: ~# echo 20 > /sys/class/gpio/unexport VT-SBC-3568 | User Manual www.vantrontech.com...
Set up and verify the IP address of the ethernet port: # ifconfig eth0 192.168.9.10 # ping 192.168.9.10 PING 192.168.9.10 (192.168.9.10): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 192.168.9.10: seq=0 ttl=64 time=1.296 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.9.10: seq=1 ttl=64 time=1.358 ms VT-SBC-3568 | User Manual www.vantrontech.com...
Vantron | Embedded in your success, Embedded in your better life World-leading provider of embedded/IoT products and solutions CHAPTER 4 DISPOSAL AND PRODUCT WARRANTY VT-SBC-3568 | User Manual www.vantrontech.com...
& electronic waste recycling/disposal center. Proper disposal of this sort of waste helps avoid harm and adverse effect upon surroundings and people’s health. Please contact local organizations or recycling/disposal center for more recycling/disposal methods of related products. VT-SBC-3568 | User Manual www.vantrontech.com...
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