Introduction; Specifications; Functional Specifications - Advantech ROM-8720 User Manual

1.1

Introduction

Advantech ROM-8720 COM Express Type 7 Compact Computer-on-Module is
powered by NXP LS1046A SoC which includes four Arm Cortex-A72 cores for Edge
networking and
Edge firewall, two 10Gbsp-KR and up to four Gbps for the networking
communications. Three PCIe, three USB 3.2 Gen1 and three USB2.0 for the
embedded interface expansions.
two UART, one SPI and 8 GPIO for embedded device controls.
ROM-8720 is paired with Advantech SOM-DB5920 Evaluation Carrier Board for faster
end product peripheral integration and time-to-market. The reference schematics and
layout
checklists documentations for carrier board development will be provided along with
Linux BSP with DPAA (Data Path Architecture Acceleration) SDK for Queue / Buffer /
Frame
Manager and SEC encryption, test utilities, hardware design utilities and reference
drivers.
1.2

Specifications

1.2.1

Functional Specifications

Processor: NXP LS1046 Series
◼ ARM Cortex™-A72 high performance processor, Quad core 1.6 GHz
System Memory Support
◼
LPDDR4 2133 MT/s
◼
Capacity: SO-DIMM slot, Max.16 GB
Gigabit Ethernet
◼
Chipset: NXP LS1046 integrated XFI, RGMII, SGMII
◼
2 x10Gbase-KR, 4 x10/100/1000 Mbps
Peripheral Interface
◼
1 x Gen3.0 x3 / 1 x Gen2.0 x2
◼
SATA V3.0 x1(only ROM-8720WQ-RA1E supports)
◼
USB 3.2 Gen1 x3, USB 2.0 x3
◼
Mano SIM slot x1
◼
2-wire UART x2
◼
I2C x1
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GPIO x8
OS Support
◼
ROM-8720 supports Ubuntu
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