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ConnectCore 6UL

SBC Pro

Hardware Reference Manual

Summary of Contents for ConnectCore 6UL SBC Pro

Page 1: ...ConnectCore 6UL SBC Pro Hardware Reference Manual ...

Page 2: ... to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of Digi International Digi provides this document as is without warranty of any kind expressed or implied including but not limited to the implied warranties of fitness or merchantability for a particular purpose Digi may make improvements and or changes in this manual or in the product s and or the program s described in th...

Page 3: ...ower connector 15 Coin cell connector 15 Power and reset buttons 15 5V supply connector 16 3 3V supply connector 16 System boot interfaces 16 Boot configuration 16 Boot mode 17 Debug interfaces 18 JTAG 18 SWD 18 Console port 19 Communication interfaces 19 NFC NTAG 19 10 100 Mbps Ethernet 20 Antenna connector 21 USB Host 21 USB OTG 22 Mini PCI Express slot 23 Micro SIM 25 XBee 26 Multimedia interfa...

Page 4: ...ical specification 44 Supply voltages 44 Power consumption 44 Use case descriptions 44 Mechanical specification 45 Top view 46 Bottom view 47 Profile view 47 Environmental specification 47 WLAN specification 48 Known issues Known issue Connecting Fusion 7 display causes system to wake from suspend mode 50 Affected versions models 50 Description 50 Workaround fix 51 Regulatory information Maximum p...

Page 5: ...e 6UL module o i MX6UL single ARM Cortex A7 core operating at speeds up to 528 MHz o 16 bit DDR3 800 memory interface with a density up to 1 GB default 256 MB o 8 bit SLC NAND flash with density up to 2 GB default 256 MB o IEEE 802 11 a b g n ac WLAN and Bluetooth 4 2 dual mode l Power o Power jack or industrial dedicated 5V power connector o Coin cell battery charger supplying the on module RTC o...

Page 6: ...Card slot supporting full and half size cards o 2 KBytes NFC NTAG l Expansion o USB Host 2 0 port o CAN connector with two FlexCAN interfaces including transceivers o UART connector with one TTL level UART and two RS 232 UART ports o SPI o Audio connector with MIC LINE IN and LINE OUT o Audio connector with speakers and LINE IN o GPIO connector with analog input for touch and digital GPIO signals ...

Page 7: ...About the ConnectCore 6UL SBC Pro Block diagram ConnectCore 6UL SBC Pro Hardware Reference Manual 7 Block diagram ...

Page 8: ...About the ConnectCore 6UL SBC Pro Placement ConnectCore 6UL SBC Pro Hardware Reference Manual 8 Placement Top view ...

Page 9: ...About the ConnectCore 6UL SBC Pro Placement ConnectCore 6UL SBC Pro Hardware Reference Manual 9 Bottom view ...

Page 10: ...About the ConnectCore 6UL SBC Pro Connectors ConnectCore 6UL SBC Pro Hardware Reference Manual 10 Connectors Top view ...

Page 11: ...nufacturers and part numbers for each connector Connector Interface Manufacturer Manufacturer part number J1 5V power in jack SHOGYO MJ 179LR J2 Coin cell Molex 53047 0210 J3 Power and reset Molex 53047 0310 J4 3 3V output Molex 53047 0210 J5 5V output Molex 53047 0210 J6 Ethernet 1 Xmultiple XMG 9799 8821 100D L1TO H HIM J7 microSD Molex 500873 0806 ...

Page 12: ...08 22101 J21 Parallel display OMRON XF2M 4015 1A J22 Audio jack CUI Inc SJ1 3515 SMT J23 J24 XBee module Samtec SMM 110 02 F S P TR J25 XBee expansion Molex 53047 0310 J26 Audio expansion line in line out and microphone Molex 53047 0810 J27 CAN expansion Molex 53047 0610 J28 I2C expansion Molex 53047 0610 J29 UART expansion Molex 53047 1410 J30 GPIO expansion Molex 53047 1410 J31 LVDS Hirose DF14A...

Page 13: ...C Pro Hardware Reference Manual 13 Connector Interface Manufacturer Manufacturer part number SW4 RF kill RF antenna internal external selection switch C K Components TDA02H0SB1 CAD1 i MX6UL JTAG Tag Connect CAD2 MCA SWD Tag Connect CAD3 IO expander SWD Tag Connect ...

Page 14: ... interfaces 15 System boot interfaces 16 Debug interfaces 18 Communication interfaces 19 Multimedia interfaces 27 Storage interfaces 33 Additional expansion interfaces 34 User interfaces 42 ConnectCore 6UL SBC Pro Hardware Reference Manual 14 ...

Page 15: ...input is also protected against overvoltage events The following table shows the pinout of the power connector J35 Pin Signal name Description 1 VIN 5V power supply rail 2 GND Ground Coin cell connector A 2 pin 1 25 mm pitch straight connector provides battery charging functionality and powers the real time clock RTC interface when the main supply is off The main power supply rail powers the RTC w...

Page 16: ...D and LVDS and the USB VBUS The following table shows the pinout of the 5V supply connector J5 Pin Signal name Description 1 5V 5V power line 2 GND 3 3V supply connector The ConnectCore 6UL SBC Pro provides a 2 pin 1 25 mm pitch straight connector with a regulated 3 3V supply for powering external circuitry The 3 3V supply is generated on a buck regulator of the ConnectCore 6UL PMIC 3V3_EXT power ...

Page 17: ...ces 00 1 device 01 2 devices 10 4 devices 11 Reserved BOOT_CFG1 3 BOOT_CFG1 4 Pages in block 00 128 pages 01 64 pages 10 32 pages 11 256 pages BOOT_CFG1 5 BOOT_CFG1 6 Samsung toggle mode DDR NAND 0 Raw NAND 1 Toggle mode NAND BOOT_CFG1 7 Boot device selection 1 Boot from NAND interface Note Boostrap pins are protected against being overwritten by devices connected to the LCD signals See the Connec...

Page 18: ...mment Not populated Not populated Populated Populated Boot from fuses Populated Not populated Not populated Populated Boot from serial downloader Not populated Populated Populated Not populated Boot from board settings default Populated Populated Not populated Not populated Reserved Note A different resistor configuration may prevent the ConnectCore 6UL module from booting Debug interfaces JTAG Th...

Page 19: ...console port The console signal is a serial TTL which travels through the console connector directly to the i MX6UL processor You can use a TTL to USB cable to access this console port from a host PC USB port The following table shows the pinout of the console connector J9 Pin Signal name Description 1 UART5_TX Transmission line 2 UART5_RX Receiver line 3 3V3 3 3V power line 4 GND Ground CAUTION P...

Page 20: ...HYs are connected to the i MX6UL ENET1 and ENET2 instances respectively Both Ethernet interfaces are accessible through RJ 45 connectors with integrated link activity LEDs The following table shows the pinout of both RJ45 connectors Pin Signal name Description 1 TD Transmit pair data 2 TD Transmit pair data 3 RD Receive pair data 4 CT Center tap 5 CT Center tap 6 RD Receive pair data 7 NC Not conn...

Page 21: ...is antenna is placed on the top right side of the board Note The double switch SW4 selects between the on module antenna and the SBC antenna so they cannot be used simultaneously The upper switch 1 selects the antenna see picture below See Certifications for a list of certificated antennas for the ConnectCore 6UL module This double switch SW4 also controls one of the RF kill signals RF_KILL_HW Eit...

Page 22: ...nsion connector Pin Signal name Description 1 VIN 5V power line 2 USBH4_D_P USB 4 differential data signal 3 USBH4_D_N USB 4 differential data signal 4 USBH4_OC_N Over current input 5 USBH4_PWR_EN Power enable output 6 GND Ground The USB hub can be switched off for advanced power management through the USB_PWR IO21 signal from the I O expander USB OTG A micro AB type receptacle for USB OTG connect...

Page 23: ...in low level PCIe wake up signal l GPIO signal I O expander PCIE_DIS_N IO12 signal for the low level PCIe disable signal l SIM interface l 3 3V supply The PCIe interface has a dedicated 3 3V regulator For power consumption management this regulator can be controlled through I O expander PCIE_VCC_EN IO27 signal The ConnectCore 6UL SBC Pro has four 2 6 mm metalized drills two for the half size and t...

Page 24: ...WR Power supply for SIM card 9 GND Ground 10 PCIE_UIM_DATA SIM card data line 11 NC Not connected 12 PCIE_UIM_CLK SIM card clock line 13 NC Not connected 14 PCIE_UIM_RST SIM card reset line 15 GND Ground 16 PCIE_UIM_VPP Power supply for SIM programming 17 NC Not connected 18 GND Ground 19 NC Not connected 20 PCIE_DIS_N Disable signal 21 GND Ground 22 NC Not connected 23 NC Not connected 24 PCIe_VC...

Page 25: ...C 3 3V power line 40 GND Ground 41 PCIe_VCC 3 3V power line 42 NC Not connected 43 GND Ground 44 NC Not connected 45 NC Not connected 46 NC Not connected 47 NC Not connected 48 NC Not connected 49 NC Not connected 50 GND Ground 51 NC Not connected 52 PCIe_VCC 3 3V power line Micro SIM A micro SIM card slot is located on the bottom side of the board The SIM interface is connected to the PCIe Mini c...

Page 26: ...ART2 port This UART2 port is also available on the UART expansion connector to allow for other uses besides the XBee interface Four GPIO signals of the ConnectCore 6UL reset the XBee and control the status of the XBee module The table below shows the pinout of the XBee module connectors J23 and J24 Pin Signal name Description 1 XBEE_VCC 3 3V power line 2 UART2_RX XBee output data line 3 UART2_TX X...

Page 27: ...f the board through a 40 pin 0 5 mm pitch FFC connector Backlight control signal I2C port and interrupt line for the touch screen panel are available on the LCD connector This connector also provides a 3 3V power line for the LCD display and a 5V power line for the LED backlight By default only data lines 0 to 17 are connected allowing an 18 bit parallel video interface Data lines 18 to 23 can be ...

Page 28: ...14 Display data line 14 R 2 G 6 17 LCD_DATA15 Display data line 15 R 3 G 7 18 LCD_DATA16 Display data line 16 R 4 R 0 19 LCD_DATA17 Display data line 17 R 5 R 1 20 LCD_DATA18 Display data line 18 NC serial resistor R41 R 2 21 LCD_DATA19 Display data line 19 NC serial resistor R207 R 3 22 LCD_DATA20 SPI1_ CLK Display data line 20 NC serial resistor R208 R 4 23 LCD_DATA21 SPI1_ SS0 Display data line...

Page 29: ...nected to the lower bits of the same color In this case full black and white can be reached but some color gradients are lost LVDS The ConnectCore 6UL SBC Pro provides an LVDS interface from a parallel to LVDS transceiver The LVDS connector is on the bottom side of the board close to the LCD connector Pad conflicts The LVDS and parallel connectors share the same video interface and therefore canno...

Page 30: ...Transmission pair data line 3 16 BCKL_PWM Backlight PWM connected to i MX6UL NAND_DQS 17 DISP0_I2C_SCL i MX6UL I2C1 bus clock line 18 DISP0_I2C_SDA i MX6UL I2C1 bus data line 19 DISP0_IRQ_N Interrupt line connected to i MX6UL GPIO5_09 20 5V_DISPLAY 5V power line You can switch off the parallel to LVDS transceiver for advanced power management through I O expander LVDS_PD IO30 signal Parallel camer...

Page 31: ...22 17 GND Ground 18 CSI_I2C_SCL i MX6UL I2C1 bus clock line 19 CSI_I2C_SDA i MX6UL I2C1 bus data line 20 3V3 3 3V power line Pad conflicts The data lines of the camera interface are shared with the eMMC and microSD interfaces so the camera cannot be used simultaneously with these interfaces Audio Audio functionality on the ConnectCore 6UL SBC Pro provides headphone speaker line out two line in and...

Page 32: ...nel signal 4 LINE_IN_A_L Line in A left channel signal 5 GND Ground 6 LINE_OUT_R Line out right channel signal 7 LINE_OUT_L Line out left channel signal 8 GND Ground The MAX98089 audio codec also allows speakers to be connected to internal Class D amplifiers An additional line in input is also available on the audio codec This additional functionality is available in a 6 pin 1 25 mm pitch expansio...

Page 33: ...r CSI0_VSYNC signal 6 GND Ground 7 CSI_DATA02 Serial data 0 8 CSI_DATA03 Serial data 1 9 GND Ground 10 GND Ground eMMC The ConnectCore 6UL SBC Pro carries a 4 GBytes eMMC memory This interface is connected to the USDHC2 controller of the i MX6UL CPU Pad conflicts The eMMC shares the connection to the i MX6UL processor with the microSD interface The selection is made via the eMMC SD signal which is...

Page 34: ...l l User LED l Parallel camera port reset l XBee socket lines Power domain control The following table lists the lines that are intended to control the power domains of the peripherals in the ConnectCore 6UL SBC Pro I O Expander pin name Signal name Pin direction Description Peripheral affected IO2 RF_KILL_ SW IO2 Output Part of the logic for disabling RF modules Currently not supported CCWi i MX6...

Page 35: ... CAN_ STBY IO34 Output Sets the CAN1 and CAN2 transceiver into low power standby mode CAN1 CAN2 Transceiver IO38 PCIE_ WAKE_ N IO38 Output Connected to the miniPCIe socket miniPCIe socket User IOs The following lines of the I O Expander are available for general purpose use I O Expander pin name Signal name Connector and pin Digital I O IRQ capable ADC capable IO3 IOEXP_3 J30 pin 1 IO4 IOEXP_4 J30...

Page 36: ...n input voltage is inversely proportional to the reference voltage of the ADC For the I O Expander in the ConnectCode 6UL SBC the reference voltage corresponds to the 3V3_IOEXP voltage Note that it is a different voltage reference than the ConnectCore 6UL MCA ADCs The ADCs provide 12 bit resolution with right justified unsigned format output They are suitable for low frequency sampling under 10 Hz...

Page 37: ...ansceiver It allows you to reverse the output IO13 SWD_ DIO IOEXP_SWD_ DIO LVDS_RF Output Connected to LVDS_RF pin of the LVDS transceiver It allows you to select the input CLK triggering edge UART 1 Two signals of the I O Expander are reserved to be used as a UART They are connected to an RS 232 level adapter CAUTION This functionality is not supported by the current I O Expander firmware I O Exp...

Page 38: ...1 CAN1_L CAN1 bus low signal line 2 CAN1_H CAN1 bus high signal line 3 GND Ground 4 CAN2_L CAN2 bus low signal line 5 CAN2_H CAN2 bus high signal line 6 GND Ground Two 120Ω termination resistors are populated on the CAN transceivers Resistor Description R104 CAN1 termination resistor R116 CAN2 termination resistor I2C The ConnectCore 6UL SBC Pro provides access to an I2C interface This I2C bus is ...

Page 39: ...er 100 0x6E NTAG 100 0x55 Module PMIC 100 0x08 MCA 100 0x7E Cryptography chip 100 This I2C1 bus is available on a 6 pin 1 25 mm pitch expansion connector which provides access to the following signals l I2C1 SDA and SCL lines l Interruption line l GPIO The following table shows the pinout of the I2C1 expansion connector J28 Pin Signal Name Description 1 EXP_I2C_SCL i MX6UL I2C1 Bus Clock line 2 EX...

Page 40: ...pt line connected to i MX6UL GPIO5_08 8 GND Ground GPIO The ConnectCore 6UL SBC Pro has a 14 pin 1 25 mm pitch expansion connector which provides access to several GPIO lines of the i MX6UL on module MCA and I O expander The pinout of the GPIO expansion connector J30 is shown below Pin Signal name Description 1 IOEXP_3 Connected to I O expander 2 IOEXP_6 Connected to I O expander 3 IOEXP_4 Connect...

Page 41: ...IOEXP_2_RX I O expander UART2 receiver line 3 NC Not connected 4 NC Not connected 5 3V3 3 3V power line 6 RS232_3_TX UART3 transmission line 7 RS232_3_RX UART3 receiver line 8 RS232_3_RTS_N UART3 request to send line 9 RS232_3_CTS_N UART3 clear to send line 10 GND Ground 11 UART2_TX UART2 transmission line 12 UART2_RX UART2 receiver line 13 UART2_RTS_N CAN2_RX UART2 request to send line 14 UART2_C...

Page 42: ...re 6UL SBC Pro Hardware Reference Manual 42 User interfaces User LED The ConnectCore 6UL SBC Pro provides one user LED which is controlled through the I O expander LED Signal Description LED1 USER_LED1 Yellow LED controlled by I O expander USER_LED1 IO23 signal ...

Page 43: ...e 6UL SBC Pro specifications Electrical specification 44 Power consumption 44 Mechanical specification 45 Environmental specification 47 WLAN specification 48 ConnectCore 6UL SBC Pro Hardware Reference Manual 43 ...

Page 44: ... 6UL SBC Pro plus the ConnectCore 6UL module has been measured directly through the 5V input power supply The following table lists power consumption figures measured in the ConnectCore 6UL SBC Pro under specific use cases SBC Power consumption VIN Suspend mode Power off mode Run time IDLE Display connected IDLE Decoding video CPU stress 40 mW 2 mW 0 84 W 2 85 W 3 10 W 1 375 W Note To better under...

Page 45: ...t interface up and linked The other one disabled n USB connected to the system n Hanoi application running Hanoi application stresses the CPU and put it at 100 work load Mechanical specification The ConnectCore 6UL SBC Pro is a 100mm x 72mm pico ITX board Four 3 2mm drills are located on the four corners of the PCB for assembling the board into an enclosure These drills have a 5 5mm round metalize...

Page 46: ...ConnectCore 6UL SBC Pro specifications Mechanical specification ConnectCore 6UL SBC Pro Hardware Reference Manual 46 Top view ...

Page 47: ...cification ConnectCore 6UL SBC Pro Hardware Reference Manual 47 Bottom view Profile view Environmental specification The operating temperatures defined for the ConnectCore 6UL SBC Pro are as follows Specification Operating temperature Industrial 40 C to 85 C ...

Page 48: ... SBC Pro specifications WLAN specification ConnectCore 6UL SBC Pro Hardware Reference Manual 48 WLAN specification For a complete WLAN specification please refer to the ConnectCore 6UL module Hardware Reference Manual ...

Page 49: ...Known issues Known issue Connecting Fusion 7 display causes system to wake from suspend mode 50 ConnectCore 6UL SBC Pro Hardware Reference Manual 49 ...

Page 50: ...6UL SBC Pro meaning any board revision prior to revA To check the board version of your SBC Pro look for the part number in the label as shown in the following photo The board shown in the photo is a 2P revision which precedes revA and therefore exhibits the issue described in this section Description Two pull up resistors R78 and R168 are placed in the interrupt line of the LCD interface LCD_IRQ_...

Page 51: ...controller Check the interrupt line of the LCD interface LCD_IRQ_N in your carrier board for this wake from suspend behavior Workaround fix Remove the following resistors from your ConnectCore 6UL SBC Pro before connecting the Fusion 7 display Design recommendation When connecting any display to this interface make sure that the LCD_IRQ_N line is properly driven by the display If it is not Digi re...

Page 52: ...Regulatory information Maximum power and frequency specifications 53 Europe 53 ConnectCore 6UL SBC Pro Hardware Reference Manual 52 ...

Page 53: ...ory agency in the desired countries of operation for more information CE mark The ConnectCore 6UL SBC Pro is certified for use in several European countries For information visit www digi com resources certifications If the ConnectCore 6UL SBC Pro is incorporated into a product the manufacturer must ensure compliance of the final product with articles 3 1a and 3 1b of the RE Directive Radio Equipm...

Page 54: ...initials CE taking the following form n If the CE marking is reduced or enlarged the proportions given in the above graduated drawing must be respected n The CE marking must have a height of at least 5mm except where this is not possible on account of the nature of the apparatus n The CE marking must be affixed visibly legibly and indelibly ...

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