background image

 

Hardware Documentation armStone

™A9 

| 16 of 26 

4.11 

66 Pin Feature connector 

This 2.54mm connector supports CAN, RS232, Audio, ADC Input, PWM output, TTL serial 
ports, keyboard matrix and GPIOs. 
 

Function 

Pin 

Pin 

Function 

VCC3.3 (J5 pin 26) 

VCC5 

XGPIO0/COL0 

XGPIO1/COL1 

XGPIO2/COL2 

XGPIO3/COL3 

XGPIO4/COL4 

XGPIO5/COL5 

XGPIO6/COL6 

10 

XGPIO7/COL7 

GND 

11 

12 

XGPIO8/SPI_CLK 

TX1/GPIO0 

13 

14 

XGPIO9/SPI_CSn 

RX1/GPIO1 

15 

16 

I2CLK/SPI_MOSI 

I2DAT/SPI_MISO 

17 

18 

XGPIO10/ROW0 

XGPIO11/ROW1 

19 

20 

XGPIO12/ROW2 

XGPIO13/ROW3 

21 

22 

XGPIO14/ROW4 

XGPIO15/ROW5 

23 

24 

XGPIO16/ROW6 

XGPIO17/ROW7 

25 

26 

XGPIO18 (J5 pin1) 

GND 

27 

28 

PWMOUT0 

ADC_IN0 

29 

30 

PWMOUT1 

ADC_IN1 

31 

32 

PWMOUT2 

ADC_IN2 

33 

34 

Backlight On 

ADC_IN3 

35 

36 

RXD2 rs232 

GND 

37 

38 

TXD2 rs232 

VCC3.3 

39 

40 

VCC5 

MIC1 (Audio pin 1) 

41 

42 

GND 

nc 

43 

44 

LINEIN_R 

LINEOUT_R 

45 

46 

GND 

GND 

47 

48 

LINEIN_L 

LINEOUT_L 

49 

50 

GND 

RESETBTN 

51 

52 

VCC3.3 

nc (COM pin1) 

53 

54 

nc 

RX0 

55 

56 

RTS0 

TX0 

57 

58 

CTS0 

nc 

59 

60 

nc 

GND 

61 

62 

VCC5 (COM keypin) 

CANRX 

63 

64 

CANTX 

BOOTSEL 

65 

66 

VCC3.3 

Table 7: armStone Feature Connector 

 
On default a 9 pin connector is mounted on pin 53..61 to use a COM port standard adapter 
cable. 

Italic signals does have a 4k7 pull-up on the module. 

 

 

Summary of Contents for armStone A9

Page 1: ...Hardware Documentation armStone A9 Version 102 14 09 2018 F S Elektronik Systeme GmbH Untere Waldplätze 23 D 70569 Stuttgart Fon 49 0 711 123722 0 Fax 49 0 711 123722 99 ...

Page 2: ...10 16 0 06 ASA9 A 4 11 4 Information about I2C interfaces HF 2014 10 18 0 07 ASA9 A 4 11 4 Correct information about SPI HF 2014 12 02 0 07 ASA9 M 4 8 Correct article numbers for touch modules JG 2014 12 10 0 08 ASA9 M 4 6 1 Correct pin 24 KW 2015 01 08 0 09 ASA9 M 4 6 14 11 4 11 10 Remove the optional CAN Transceiver KW 2015 02 05 0 10 ASA9 M 0 Add notice for pull up at touch con HF 2015 06 15 0 ...

Page 3: ...connector 12 4 8 Backlight control connector 13 4 8 1 Solution with a single cable with 3 connectors 13 4 8 2 Solution with 2 cable with 2 connectors each 14 4 9 I2C connector for touch module 15 4 10 Mini PCI Express 15 4 11 66 Pin Feature connector 16 4 11 1 Audio 17 4 11 2 RS232 COM port 17 4 11 3 TTL COM port 17 4 11 4 I2C SPI 18 4 11 5 ADC In 19 4 11 6 PWM out 19 4 11 7 Matrix keyboard 19 4 1...

Page 4: ...n armStone A9 4 of 26 Warranty Terms 26 1 Dimensions Figure 1 mechanical dimensions PCB thickness 1 5 mm 10 PCB size 72x100 mm picoITX Max Height of parts on top side 15 mm Max Height of parts on bottom side tbd Weight tbd ...

Page 5: ...IO LCD interfaces 1x 18bit LVDS F S JAY FI S25P 1x 2x 24bit LVDS JILI30 1x 18bit TTL ESDCI Memory 1 GByte DDR3 DRAM optional 2GB 128 MByte NAND Flash optional up to 32 GByte CPU Freescale i MX6 Solo DualLite or Quad Core Optional several temperature and frequency 2 1 Thermal Specification Min Typ Max Unit Operating temperature 0 701 C Operating temperature I 2 20 851 C Junction temperature i MX6 2...

Page 6: ...6 DDR3 4x 256Mx16 I2C con for touch controller Hirose DF13A 6P microSD push push USB 2 0 device 3x USB 2 0 host digital monitor 66 pin connector Audio Codec SLC NAND Flash TTL 18 bit ESDCI 34polig 1 27mm LVDS 18 bit JAE FI S25P SATA iMX6 Quad only 10 100 1000 Mbit LAN LAN Phy Freescale CortexTM A9 CPU i MX6 1GHz mPCIe USB Hub I2C ADC CAN controller ...

Page 7: ...f 26 4 Interface and signal description Figure 3 connector diagram Note there is a wrong pin 1 marker on the JILI30 connector on back side The inner pin is pin 1 The picture above is right This marking failure will occur up to PCB Rev 1 10 ...

Page 8: ...connector The signals on the internal connector doesn t have EMV filter The power on the 5V line is equipped with a resettable fuse with 1100mA for both front connected port and the internal port together At 70 C the summary current is limited to 650mA Current consuming summary of all ports shouldn t exceed maximum power consuming limit on the 5V path 4 3 USB Device Connector The USB device connec...

Page 9: ...isplays does have a JAE FI S series connector with different pinouts and it s easy to handle identical crimp contacts for the cable manufacturer LCD FI S25S Connector Pin Function 1 2 23 VLCD 3 3V switched max 300mA 3 4 7 10 13 16 19 22 GND 14 LVDS0_CLK 15 LVDS0_CLK 5 LVDS0_DATA0 6 LVDS0_DATA0 8 LVDS0_DATA1 9 LVDS0_DATA1 11 LVDS0_DATA2 12 LVDS0_DATA2 17 LVDS0_DATA3 18 LVDS0_DATA3 24 Backlight on 3...

Page 10: ...e recommend to use the top connector for the first channel and the second channel of the bottom connector for the second display LCD FI X30P Connector Pin Function 28 30 VLCD 3 3V switched max 300 mA 7 14 17 24 GND 1 LVDS0_DATA0 3 2 LVDS0_DATA0 3 3 LVDS0_DATA1 3 4 LVDS0_DATA1 3 5 LVDS0_DATA2 3 6 LVDS0_DATA2 3 8 LVDS0_CLK 3 9 LVDS0_CLK 3 10 LVDS0_DATA3 3 11 LVDS0_DATA3 3 12 LVDS1_DATA0 13 LVDS1_DAT...

Page 11: ...Hardware Documentation armStone A9 11 of 26 26 VLCDON TTL 3 3V 27 I2C_C_CLK 4k7 PU onboard Table 3 JILI30 dual channel LVDS connector 3 shared with FI S25P on top side ...

Page 12: ... 14 21 28 GND 4 LCD_CLK 5 LCD_HSYNC 6 LCD_VSYNC 8 LCD_R0 9 LCD_R1 10 LCD_R2 11 LCD_R3 12 LCD_R4 13 LCD_R5 15 LCD_G0 16 LCD_G1 17 LCD_G2 18 LCD_G3 19 LCD_G4 20 LCD_G5 22 LCD_B0 23 LCD_B1 24 LCD_B2 25 LCD_B3 26 LCD_B4 27 LCD_B5 29 LCD_DE 30 31 VLCD 3 3V switched max 300mA usable as VLCDON 32 I2C_DAT shared with I2C connector for touch module 4 7k PullUp 33 I2C_IRQ shared with I2C connector for touch...

Page 13: ...cts Unused signals should be left unconnected Pin Signal 1 VLCDON 3 3V TTL level control signal not used for backlight 2 Backlight On 3 3V TTL level control signal no power out 3 Backlight PWM 3 3V TTL level control signal 4 GND Table 5 Backlight Control 4 8 1 Solution with a single cable with 3 connectors Cable with 3 connector Figure 4 backlight connection with single cable LCD Signals BL Contro...

Page 14: ...A9 14 of 26 4 8 2 Solution with 2 cable with 2 connectors each Cable with 2 connector Figure 5 backlight connection with 2 cable LCD Signals armStone Power BL Power Control Power Supply Backlight converter Display armStone BL Control ...

Page 15: ...on the armStoneA9 module Pin 1 is marked on PCB Matching connector is a Hirose DF13 6S 1 25C with DF13 2630SCF crimping contacts Signals are shared with I2C interface on ESDCI RGB connector for the same functionality Unused signals should be left unconnected Pin PullUp Signal 1 VCC 3 3V 2 4 7k I2C data 3 3V TTL 3 4 7k I2C clock 3 3V TTL 4 Reset Output 3 3V TTL 5 I2C Interrupt Input 3 3V TTL 6 GND ...

Page 16: ...O12 ROW2 XGPIO13 ROW3 21 22 XGPIO14 ROW4 XGPIO15 ROW5 23 24 XGPIO16 ROW6 XGPIO17 ROW7 25 26 XGPIO18 J5 pin1 GND 27 28 PWMOUT0 ADC_IN0 29 30 PWMOUT1 ADC_IN1 31 32 PWMOUT2 ADC_IN2 33 34 Backlight On ADC_IN3 35 36 RXD2 rs232 GND 37 38 TXD2 rs232 VCC3 3 39 40 VCC5 MIC1 Audio pin 1 41 42 GND nc 43 44 LINEIN_R LINEOUT_R 45 46 GND GND 47 48 LINEIN_L LINEOUT_L 49 50 GND RESETBTN 51 52 VCC3 3 nc COM pin1 5...

Page 17: ...ction 4 11 2 RS232 COM port A 9 pin double row connector is mounted in pin 53 61 That allows attaching a standard 9pin to DSUB9 adapter cable for debug output of boot loader and kernel with TX and RX to a terminal An additional RX TX COM port pair is on pin 36 38 4 11 3 TTL COM port There is an additional serial ports with 3 3V TTL level on pin 13 15 ...

Page 18: ...ature Connector I2C Interfaces J1 Pin PullUp I2C Standard Optional 12 4 7k GPIO GPIO SPI_CLK 14 4 7k GPIO GPIO SPI_CS 16 2 4 7k Soft I2C_SCL I2C_SCL GPIO SPI_MOSI 17 2 4 7k Soft I2C_SDA I2C_SDA GPIO SPI_MISO 18 2 3 I2C1_SCL GPIO GPIO ROW0 26 2 3 I2C1_SDA GPIO GPIO Table 8 I2C SPI Interfaces 2 These IO Pins can be reconfigured as GPIO 3 Alternate pin configuration function in software Please refer ...

Page 19: ...e 4 7k pull ups on board 4 11 8 GPIOs GPIOs are programmable as Input or Output with 3 3V TTL level The default maximum driver current is 10mA sink and source XGPIO0 9 do have 4 7k pull up on module 4 11 9 MISC signals power RESETBTN 3 3V TTL low active RESET input use pushbutton to GND or open collector driver to pull low Don t drive with high level VCC3 3 VCC5 voltage outputs for external logic ...

Page 20: ...provide the CAN bus transmit and receive TTL signal without any termination in standard version CANRX CANTX Both signals are working with 3 3V level Needs a interface chip to the CAN bus showing below If not used please left signals unconnected Figure 7 CAN transceiver circuit ...

Page 21: ...e refer the connector manufacturer website Pin Function Description 1 n c 2 RTC Battery for RTC battery don t connect if not used 3 VCC In 5 0 V 5 V power supply 4 GND 5 VCC Out 3 3V 3 3V power output for external logic max current 50mA Table 9 Power Connector If an external 3 3V power supply is used for external logic we recommend to use the VCC Out 3 3V as enable signal for this power supply to ...

Page 22: ...PU Thermal design power summary all chips 6 Watt with 1GHz Solo CPU Maximum output current VLCD 300 mA Power consumption of connected devices like display USB devices SD card miniPCIe card has to be added for power calculation 5 2 DC electrical characteristics for 3 3V IO pins VDD 3 3V 5 Parameter Description Condition Min Max Unit Vih High Level Input Voltage 2 43 3 435 V Vil Low Level Input Volt...

Page 23: ...io the maximum power consumption is much lower This will save money on your cooling solution We recommend to measure this with your application We see values between max 4 and 7 Watt on different custom applications Because the different environments for air temperature airflow thermal radiation power consumption of the board on your application and the power consumption of other components like p...

Page 24: ...d by the European Chemicals Agency according to Article 59 1 10 of Regulation EC 1907 2006 REACH in a concentration above 0 1 mass Consequently the obligations in No 1 and 2 paragraphs in Annex are not relevant here Please understand that F S is not performing any chemical analysis on its products to testify REACH compliance and is therefore not able to fill out any detailed inquiry forms 8 Matrix...

Page 25: ... and all liability including without limitation any consequential or incidental damages Specific testing of all parameters of each device is not necessarily performed unless required by law or regulation Products are not designed intended or authorized for use as components in systems intended for applications intended to support or sustain life or for any other application in which the failure of...

Page 26: ... useable or fit for any particular purpose This warranty replaces all other warranties written or unwritten F S expressly disclaims any such warranties In no case shall F S be liable for any consequential damages Disclaimer of Warranty THIS WARRANTY IS MADE IN PLACE OF ANY OTHER WARRANTY WHETHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED OF MERCHANTABILITY FITNESS FOR A SPECIFIC PURPOSE NON INFRINGEMENT OR THEIR EQUIVA...

Reviews: