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ROCK Pi S Core

SoM Introduction

ROCK Pi S Core is the SoM based on ROCK Pi S with CPU/RAM/Storage/Wireless in a small stamp footprint at 35mm x 35mm, it supports the following features:

Quad-core ARM Cortex-A35 CPU
Full implementation of the ARM architecture v8-A instruction set
ARM Neon Advanced SIMD (single instruction, multiple data) support for accelerated media and signal processing computation
ARMv8 Cryptography Extensions
Include VFP v3 hardware to support single and double-precision operations
TrustZone technology support
256MB/512MB RAM option
128M to 1GB storage option
802.11 a/b/g/n wifi Bluetooth 2.1/4.2(RTL8723DS)
support eMMC up to 128GB
support uSD card up to 128GB
120 PIN available

PINOUT

Check the SoM full 120 PINOUT definition.

Evaluation Carrier Board1: Shajin

Power Supply
- To power on Shajin board, you need DC 12V adapter or USB Type-C adapter.

Storage media
- Shajin board supports three storage medium, eMMC, SD Nand and TF card.

Ethernet
- One 10/100M Bit Ethernet port is provided.

Keys:
- Shajin boards presents three keys, Reset key, Maskrom key and ADC Key.
- Reset key: It serves as the hardware reset. Short press the key to reboot the system.
- Maskrom key: It is for firmware flash/upgrade.
- ADC key

LORA Module, optional

DBT50Q Module, optional

MIC Array

RS232

RS485

RTC

Touch Screen

USB
- USB 2.0 Type-A
  - Enables the attachment of peripherals such U Disk, keyboards, mice, USB dongle like USB camera, etc.
- USB Type-C with OTG
  - USB Type-C port support On-The-Go (OTG), which means that ROCK Pi S i recognized as an device. Thus USB gadget function including adb, USB RNDIS and so on are supported by software configuration.

Download

Shajin Carrier Board design files.

Shajin Hardware Revisions

V1.0

The first version of Shajin Carrier Board.

Getting Started

Essential Things

ROCK Pi S Core and Shajin board

One of the Storage media below:
- MicroSD card, larger than 8GB.
- SD Nand
- eMMC

DC 12V Adapter
- For power supply

USB Type-C to Type-A cable
- For both power and USB communication(adb/fastboot) with HOST PC.

PC/Laptop which has USB ports
- The ROCK Pi S can be powered from the PC/Laptop USB ports directly

Flash System Image

There are three kinds of storage media used as system storage. There are TF card, eMMC and SD Nand.

Download Shajin system image from here.

And choose one way to flash system image.

Method of installation on MicroSD.
Method of installation on SD NAND/eMMC.

Debug Console

When Debian system runs on Shajin board, the console baud rate is 115200n8.

See Serial Console for serial tool setting.

RockpiS/Core

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