Apalis Carrier Board Design Guide
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3.5 Reference Schematics
Place enough power supply bypass capacitors on the voltage inputs of the peripheral devices (see
Toradex Layout Design Guide). Place a bypass capacitor on each power input pin of the Apalis
module. Be aware of the total capacity on a voltage rail when switching the voltage. If the rails are
switched on too fast, the current peaks for charging all the bypass capacitors can be very high. This
can produce unacceptable disturbances or can trigger an overcurrent protection circuit. In such
cases, the slew rate of switching circuits speed may need to be limited. The following figure shows
a simple voltage rail switch circuit. C1 and R1 limit the switching speed. The values need to be
optimized according to the requirements. It is recommended that a bypass capacitor (C2) is placed
close to the switching transistor.
Figure 62: Simple voltage switch circuit
It is possible to reach a suitable power up sequence by cascading the power good (e.g. PGOOD)
output signals of the buck regulators with enable signal of the next regulator. A pull-down resistor
can be optionally placed on the carrier board on the POWER_ENABLE_MOCI signal. This pull-up
resistor is only needed to prevent unwanted enabling of the peripheral voltages if the module is
not inserted. For designs in which the module is never removed, this pull-up is not required. A
100k
Ω
resistor is recommended.
The RESET_MICO# and RESET_MOCI# do not need any pull-up resistors on the carrier board as
these resistors are implemented on the module. The WAKE1_MICO# requires a pull-up resistor on
the carrier board if the wake function is implemented.
In order to design the buck converters, it is necessary to make a current consumption budget.
Especially, the maximum current capability for the 3.3V needs to be calculated carefully. Check the
maximum current consumptions of the Apalis modules that are intended to be used with the carrier
board. Also take the maximum current consumption of the peripheral devices on the 3.3V rail into
the budget. The reference schematic below has been designed for peak current of 5A at the 3.3V
rail. This is well enough for the Apalis T30 and Apalis iMX6 modules. Since the peak current of the
Apalis TK1 and iMX8 in some circumstances can be higher than 5A, the power supply should be
designed for higher current in order to be able to host this module.
T2
SI1016CX
6
2
1
R1
47K
R2
100K
10nF
16V
C1
GND
C2
16V
100nF
T1
IRLML6401
3
1
2
+V3.3_SWITCHED
GND
+V3.3
ENABLE_V3.3_SWITCHED