Development Platform for i.MX 6Quad Built to Freescale
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1. J16 Pin Signal Function 1 CSI DOM CSI differential pairs data0 2 5VIN 5V 3 CSI_DOP CSI differential pairs data0 4 5VIN 5V 5 GND GND 6 12C2_SDA IIC2 serial data 7 CSI_D1M CSI differential pairs data1 8 12C2_SCL IIC2 serial clock 9 CSI_D1P CSI differential pairs data1 10 PWM3 PWM3 11 GND GND 12 MIPI_BAKLGT_ON backlight power enable 13 CSI_D2M CSI differential pairs data2 14 NANDF D5 GPIO 15 CSI D2P CSI differential pairs data2 16 DSI DOP DSI differential pairs data0 17 GND GND 18 DSI DOM DSI differential pairs data0 19 CSI D3M CSI differential pairs data3 20 GND GND 21 CSI_D3P CSI differential pairs data3 22 DSI CLKOP DSI differential pairs clockO 23 GND GND 24 DSI CLKOM DSI differential pairs clockO 25 CSI CLKOM CSI differential pairs clockO 26 GND GND 27 CSI_CLKOP CSI differential pairs clockO USER MANUAL v1 2 MCIMX6Q SL element14 development platform for i MX 6Quad Built to Freescale SABRE Lite design 28 DSI_D1P DSI differential pairs data1 29 GND GND 30 DSI_D1M DSI differential pairs data1 3 3 24 PCle Interface Table 3 26 PCle Interface J23 Pin Signal Function 1 3P3V 3 3V 2 PCIE_RXM PCIE receive differential pairs data 3 PCIE_RXP PCIE receive differential pairs data 4 PCIE_TXM PCIE transmit differential pairs data 5 PCIE_TXP PCIE transmit differential pairs data 6 GND GND 7 GND GND2. Sw4 Pin Signal Function 1 NC NC 2 GND GND 3 RESET_N System Reset 4 NC GND Table 3 21 Boot Switch Sw1 Pin Signal Function BOOT_MODE1 Boot mode detect BOOT MODEO Boot mode detect 3P3V 3 3V 3P3V 3 3V B DI N e USER MANUAL v1 2 MCIMX6Q SL element14 development platform for i MX 6Quad Built to Freescale SABRE Lite design 3 3 20 TF MMC Card Interface The micro SD Card Connector J20 connects a 4 bit parallel data bus to the SD4 port of the i MX 6 processor The micro SD Card is inserted facing up at the location shown in Figure 3 12 Figure 312 TF MMC Card Interface Micro TF Card ESSA Table 3 22 TF MMC Card Interface J20 Pin Signal Function 1 SD4 DAT2 Card data 2 2 SDA DAT3 Card data 3 3 CMD Card command signal 4 3P3V 3P3V 5 SD4_CLK Card clock 6 VSS GND 7 SDA DATO Card data 0 8 SD4_DAT1 Card data 1 9 NC NC 11 GND GND 12 SD4_CD Card detect 3 3 21 HDMI Interface Table 3 23 HDMI Interface J4 Pin Signal Function 1 HDMI_D2P HDMI differential pairs data2 2 GND GND 3 HDMI_D2M HDMI differential pairs data2 USER MANUAL v1 2 MCIMX6Q SL element14 development platform for i MX 6Quad Built to Freescale SABRE Lite design 4 HDMI D1P HDMI differential pairs data1 5 GND GND 6 HDMI D1M HDMI differential pairs data1
3. USER MANUAL v1 2 MCIMX6Q SL element14 development platform for i MX 6Quad Built to Freescale SABRE Lite design 4 Software Description Timesys has developed a board support package BSP for the element14 i MX GO SABRE Lite platform The BSP comes pre loaded on the MicroSD card provided with the board This BSP demonstrates a number of features on i MX GO based platforms including hardware video acceleration 3D graphics GUI software camera support and Web use The following table contains the software features of the board Items Notes OS Linux Version 3 0 15 Android Version 4 0 4 Serial Series driver RTC Hardware clock driver Network 10 100 Gb IEEE1588 Ethernet Flash SPI flash driver Display Three display ports RGB LVDS and HDMI 1 4a MMC SD Dual SD 3 0 SDXC card slots Device Driver SATA Serial ATA 2 5 SATA at 3Gbps USB 3 High speed USB ports 2xHost 1xOTG Audio Analog headphone mic and Digital HDMI Camera Two camera ports 1xParallel 1x MIPI CSI 2 PCle PCle port 1 lane CAN 1xCAN2 port Keypad GPIO keyboard driver LED User LEDs driver 4 1 Software Overview Linux 4 1 1 System Development The instructions below assist the user with setting up the i MX 6Q SABRE Lite platform distributed with the Timesys BSP including how to navigate and operate the BSP demo programs 4 1 1 1 Preparing the Board To benefit from using the demos a
4. your image files and serve another purpose e Execute MfgTool exe and power on the board If this is the first time connecting an i MX6Q board with the MFG tool System will automatically install HID driver for you f Select the appropriate USB port in the sheet USB Ports Or Click Scan button g Under the Options menu choose Configuration Select the appropriate profile under the tab labeled Profiles In the Operations section there is a column labeled Options h Select Android Sabrelite SPI_NOR TF to program images to SPINOR amp TF card USER MANUAL v1 2 MCIMX6Q SL element14 development platform for i MX 6Quad Built to Freescale SABRE Lite design i Start the downloading process by pressing the green Start button You will see the progress bar as well as the current task in the notification bar as shown in Figure below When you see Update Complete in the notification bar press the red Stop button to finish NOTE The manufacturing tool may sometimes report an error message when it is downloading the file system in an SD card This can be caused by insufficient space in the SD card due to a small partition size To fix this unzip the file Profiles MX6Q Linux Update OS Firmware mksdcard android sh tar and then modify the script to increase the size of the partition and create more partitions according to your file system requirements After the modification is done tar the script again 2
5. The linux utility dd on Linux PC can be used to download the images into the MMC SD TF card Before downloading make sure your TF card partitions are created as described in Storage Partitions All partitions can be recognized by Linux PC To download all images into the card please use the following instructions Download the uboot image sudo dd ifzu boot bin of dev sdx bs 1K skip 1 seek 1 sync Download the boot image sudo dd if boot img of dev sdx1 sync Download the android system root image sudo dd if system img of dev sdx5 sync Download the android recovery image sudo dd if recovery img of dev sdx2 sync Because sabrelite cannot directly boot from SD MMC but needs to boot from SPI NOR first We need to reflash the spi flash with the new bootloader image from the TF card Power up the SABRE Lite press space to enter command mode in uBoot and enter the following commands MX6Q SABRELITE U Boot gt mmc dev 1 MX6Q SABRELITE U Boot gt mmc read 0x10800000 0 200 MX6Q SABRELITE U Boot gt sf probe 1 MX6Q SABRELITE U Boot gt sf erase 0 0x40000 MX6Q SABRELITE U Boot gt sf write 0x10800000 0 0x40000 4 2 2 2 System on NFS Android system can work with NFS root filesystem We can put the entire android root system into NFS and download kernel image from TFTP server You need a PC which has NFS and TFTP server with correct root directory setup e g opt tftproot for TFTP root and opt nfsro
6. 3 319 LG EE 28 3 3 20 TF MMC Card EE 29 3 3 21 HDMI Interface iia iio oia 29 3 3 22 IVDS e EE 30 3 3 23 MIPl Interf ce ona nas 3l 3 3 24 PCle Interf Ce e ORE RR RS MIN 32 PEMEIOUd7uid 33 4 1 SOFTWARE OVERVIEWSILINUX 5 cot ee ai n ka ea nak h Kik WER ERA RE EYE PEEL PRU E RU LO Dri e enit ir E late 33 ALI System Development ca sira ca e anos antt ode tr este i D RR t v EEG ea a x n lata 33 4 1 1 1 Preparing the Board 33 4 1 1 2 Booting your le EE 34 4 1 1 3 Using the Demo ME 34 43 2 ForMore Information irae e XDX peDeDerreeeE EeEeKEEE nn 35 4 2 ANDROID sasea 37 42 DD EE 37 4 2 1 1 How to Boot the i MX 6Dual Quad SABRE Lite Board 37 4 2 1 2 Setup Ta EE 38 4 2 2 Download IMAGES E 39 4 2 2 1 System On TE Cand EE 39 4 2 2 2 System ON NES ses eege tes rM ez odc a AEN a ua dada XR EY REY ER NET 43 4 2 3 Running the Image on the Jorge 44 4 2 3 1 Running the Image from MMC SD mn a A N A ee 44 4 2 3 2 Runninpthe 1ma se from NES 5 oso ana inta o ERE NES a a Ta na Doo da Cd dana na a at 45 LU MESI m ia 45 4 2 4 1 daer ee 45 4 2 4 2 EE 45 4 2 4 3 A RR A 46 4 2 4 4 Build Android for 3 MX etti rt ede eet cete aia a er en ee seaca geed E 46 5 APPENDIX 49 USER MANUAL v1 2 MCIMX6Q SL element14 development plat
7. MX 6Dual 6Quad processors use dedicated HW accelerators to meet the targeted multimedia performance The use of HW accelerators is a key factor in obtaining high performance at low power consumption numbers while having the CPU core relatively free for performing other tasks The i MX 6Dual 6Quad processors incorporate the following hardware accelerators e VPU Video Processing Unit e PUv3H Image Processing Unit version 3H 2 IPUs e GPU3Dv4 3D Graphics Processing Unit OpenGL ES 2 0 version e GPU2Dv2 2D Graphics Processing Unit BitBlt e GPUVG Open VG 1 1 Graphics Processing Unit e ASRC Asynchronous Sample Rate Converter e Security functions are enabled and accelerated by the following hardware e ARM TrustZone including the TZ architecture separation of interrupts memory mapping etc e SJC System JTAG Controller Protecting JTAG from debug port attacks by regulating or blocking the access to the system debug features e CAAM Cryptographic Acceleration and Assurance Module containing 16 KB secure RAM and True and Pseudo Random Number Generator NIST certified e SNVS Secure Non Volatile Storage including Secure Real Time Clock e CSU Central Security Unit Enhancement for the IC Identification Module IIM Will be configured during boot and by eFUSEs and will determine the security level operation mode as well as the TZ policy e A HAB Advanced High Assurance Boot Hv4 with the new embedded enhancements e
8. config according to default config file under arch arm configs make ulmage After the buiding process in either of the above cases is complete the generated kernel image ulmage can be saved under android imx6 r13 3 kernel imx arch arm boot 4 Building Android Image After applying all i MX patches you can build the uboot kerneland Android image by following the steps listed below cd android imx6 r13 3 source build envsetup sh lunch sabrelite 6q user make sabrelite_6q is the product names see android imx6 r13 3 device fsl product After build check build android log to make sure no build error USER MANUAL v1 2 MCIMX6Q SL element14 development platform for i MX 6Quad Built to Freescale SABRE Lite design For i MX60Q Sabrelite the following outputs are generated by default under android imx6 r13 3 out target product sabrelite Go root root file system including init init rc etc Mounted at system Android system binary libraries Mounted at system data Android data area Mounted at data recovery root file system when booting in recovery mode Not used directly boot img a composite image which includes the kernel zimage ramdisk and boot parameters ramdisk img Ramdisk image generated from root Not directly used system img EXT4 image generated from system Can be written to SYSTEM partition of SD eMMC card with dd userdata img EXT4 image generated f
9. micro USB high speed 480Mbps Two USB2 0 HOST Type A high speed 480Mbps USB2 0 HOST connector high speed 480Mbps TF card interface SD card interface SATA II interface 3 0 Gbps 10M 100M Gb Ethernet Interface RJ45 jack 1 channel I2C interface 1 channel PCIE X1 interface o CAN bus e Input Interfaces o Android keyboard interface o 10 pin JTAG interface o 2bit DIP switch for boot mode selection o Boot configuration interface e Others o PowerLED o DC Jack o Reset button O O 0 0 0 0 USER MANUAL v1 2 MCIMX6Q SL element14 development platform for i MX 6Quad Built to Freescale SABRE Lite design 2 Quick Start Guide This section describes how to use the SABRE Lite and associated components 2 1 Unpacking the Kit The SABRE Lite development kit is shipped with the items listed in Table 1 Remove the circuit board from the conductive bag and perform a visual inspection Table 1 SABRE Lite Kit Contents Item Description Circuit Board SABRE Lite Board USB cable Micro B to standard A cable RS 232 cable Custom serial cable Serial cable Crossover cable DB9 female to DB9 female Ethernet cable Crossover cable to connect the board to host computer Power Supply 5VDC 4 A power supply Documentation Quick Start Guide MicroSD Card The kit includes a MicroSD Card pre loaded with the LinuxLink BSP from TimeSys 2 2 Web Based Contents Please refer to www element14 com
10. the root file system is mounted from uramdisk In recovery mode the root file system is mounted from the RECOVERY partition USER MANUAL v1 2 MCIMX60 SL element14 development platform for i MX 6Quad Built to Freescale SABRE Lite design Partition Name Start Size File System Content Type Index Offset BOOT N A ne 0 1MB N A bootloader Loader boot img f Primary 1 Boot 8M 8MB JEN boot img kernel ramdisk boot img Primary 2 Recover ER 8MB tormata recovery im y y Boot kernel ARE ramdisk Eagle Follow ENS uM Extended SYSTEM 512MB Mount as y 3 Recovery Jsystemi under system dir FORCO follow EAE SE e Extended CACHE 256MB Mount as 3 SYSTEM fisa image store e for OTA HEB follow AUN oo DATA gt 1024MB Mount at Extended CACHE S Beli for system data Am 3 application Logic 8 Ext4 For Store Vendor EH 8MB MAC address Extended DATA Mount at files 3 vender A For recovery Logie Follow store Extended Misc 4M N A bootloader 3 DATA message reserve For internal Peif Total media Primary 4 MEDIA Misc Other VFAT partition in images mnt sdcard dir To create these partitions you can use MFGTool or use format tools in prebuild dir USER MANUAL v1 2 MCIMX6Q SL element14 development platform for i MX 6Quad Built to Freescale SABRE Lite design 1 Downloading Images using MFG Tool This chapter describes the procedure for using the MFG
11. CHIP INTRODUCTION e 13 CP MEN e HER RD Lem 13 3 22 E MER 13 3 2 3 CASE eases 13 3 2 4 USB2513B AEZG for USB 2 0 High Speed 3 Port Hub 14 3 2 5 E ET 14 3 20 JE 2C Lona aio i a ete Re kek k kd D p k Hav ne VE SR E a KU KA Hu sr E DER VA KU reines te ab eb di Hes Ut SS 14 3 2 7 TIJAIOAOT E 14 3 3 HARDWARE INTERFACE ZM deni D o erarXdrdrd ee 15 3 341 Ja Ne E 15 NEE 15 3 3 3 SATAD t IHterfOCE nct 16 3 3 4 TT 17 3 3 5 Parallel RGB Interface eoe CER Cil Ra kun Ye Ve WW AM N MNA V UD Ay RA VA a do Eta data pda edu 17 3 3 6 e A eio e uei eee re e Cree D Ra FECE HU ER Pr tiers Ert rre RHET 19 3 3 7 Microphone Input JOCK su uisi nasa amiet i rea cile sada NO 20 Ee Eege 20 USER MANUAL v1 2 MCIMX6Q SL element14 development platform for i MX 6Quad Built to Freescale SABRE Lite design 3 3 9 RS232 Serlal EE 22 EE ET E EE 22 3 3 11 USB Host Interface sas cascata M 23 3 3 12 Micro USBinter EE 24 3 3 13 SD Card Interface 25 3 3 14 JTAGunterface oooe zZ nmmaa o e ea A A 25 3 3 15 Expansi n Interface 26 3 3 16 Boot Configuration Select 26 3 3 17 ANDROID KEYBOARD INTERFACE eene eke ake ka keka Kek ense nes etes eres nns ener KHE KHK KHK HA enteras eerte HKH KA HARA A 27 3318 VED EE 28
12. CSIO pixel clock 31 GPIO6 GPIO 32 GND GND 33 GPIO1_16 GPIO USER MANUAL v1 2 MCIMX6Q SL element14 development platform for i MX 6Quad Built to Freescale SABRE Lite design 3 3 9 RS232 Serial Port Figure 3 9 RS232 Serial Port Table 3 9 RS 232 Serial Port J17 Pin Signal Function 1 UART1_TXD UART1 Transmit data 2 5VIN 5V 3 GND GND 4 UART2_TXD UART2 Transmit data 5 UART2_RXD UART2 Receive data 6 UART1_RXD UART1 Receive data 3 3 10 RGMII LAN Interface A standard CAT V Ethernet cable is attached to the Quick Start board at the Ethernet Dual USB connector J24 The connector contains integrated magnetics which allow the Ethernet IC to auto configure the port for the correct connection to either a switch or directly to a host PC on a peer to peer network It is not necessary to use a crossover cable when connecting directly to another computer The Ethernet Dual USB connector is shown in Figure 3 10 Figure 3 10 RGMII LAN Interface RJ45 Dual USB USER MANUAL v1 2 MCIMX6Q SL element14 development platform for i MX 6Quad Built to Freescale SABRE Lite design Table 3 10 RGMII LAN interface J24A Pin Signal Function 9 NC NC 10 TXRXP A differential pair TXRX 11 TXRXM A differential pair TXRX 12 TXRXP B differential pair TXRX 13 TXRXM B differential pair TXRX 14 T
13. Lite board is capable of communicating with any standard SATA device such as a hard drive or optical DVD CD reader The SATA data cable is plugged into the SABRE Lite board at the location shown in Figure 3 4 Figure 3 4 SATA connector Table 3 3 SATA Connector J21 Pin Signal Function 1 GND GND 2 SATA_TXP SATA receive data positive 3 SATA_TXN SATA receive data negative 4 GND GND 5 SATA_RXN SATA transmit data negative 6 SATA_RXP SATA transmit data positive 7 GND GND USER MANUAL v1 2 MCIMX6Q SL element14 development platform for i MX 6Quad Built to Freescale SABRE Lite design 3 3 4 CAN Interface Figure 3 5 CAN Interface CAN interface Table 3 4 CAN Interface J22 Pin Signal Function 1 CANH CAN differential pairs high level 2 GND GND 3 CANL CAN differential pairs low level 3 3 5 Parallel RGB Interface Figure 3 6 Parallel RGB Interface RGB connector USER MANUAL v1 2 MCIMX6Q SL element14 development platform for i MX 6Quad Table 3 5 Parallel RGB interface Built to Freescale SABRE Lite design J15 Pin Signal Function 1 GND GND 2 GND GND 3 GND GND 4 DISPO CNTRST GPIO 5 RO DISPO data bit16 6 R1 DISPO data bit17 7 R2 DISPO data bit18 8 R3 DISPO data bit19 9 RA DISPO data bit 20 10 R5 DISPO data
14. active in parallel o One Parallel 24 bit display port up to 225 Mpixes sec for example WUXGA at 60 Hz or dual HD1080 and WXGA at 60 Hz o LVDS serial ports One port up to 165 Mpixels sec or two ports up to 85 MP sec for example WUXGA at 60 Hz each o HDMI 1 4 port o MIPI DSI two lanes at 1 Gbps o e Camera sensors o Parallel Camera port up to 20 bit and up to 240 MHz peak o MIPI CSI 2 serial camera port supporting up to 1000 Mbps lane in 1 2 3 lane mode and up to 11 USER MANUAL v1 2 MCIMX60 SL element14 development platform for i MX 6Quad Built to Freescale SABRE Lite design 800 Mbps lane in 4 lane mode The CSI 2 Receiver core can manage one clock lane and up to four data lanes Each i MX 6Dual 6Quad processor has four lanes e Expansion cards o Four MMC SD SDIO card ports all supporting o 1 bit or 4 bit transfer mode specifications for SD and SDIO cards up to UHS I SDR 104 mode 104 MB s max o 1 bit 4 bit or 8 bit transfer mode specifications for MMC cards up to 52 MHz in both SDR and DDR modes 104 MB s max e USB o High Speed HS USB 2 0 OTG Up to 480 Mbps with integrated HS USB PHY o Three USB 2 0 480 Mbps hosts o OneHS host with integrated High Speed PHY o Two HS hosts with integrated HS IC USB High Speed Inter Chip USB PHY e Expansion PCI Express port PCle v2 0 one lane o PCI Express Gen 2 0 dual mode complex supporting Root complex operations and Endpoint operations Uses x1 PHY configuration e M
15. initializing html for detailed infromation 4 2 4 3 Prebuilt image To test Android before building any code use the prebuilt images under image and directly go to Download Images and Running the Image on the Target For i MX6Q Sabrelite platform 1 Uboot image u boot bin 2 Android system images for TF card System root TF system img Data Not provided since it s empty Boot image TF boot img Recovery image TF recovery img 3 Android system images for TFTP NFS NFS android_fs tar gz 4 Kernel image for TFTP NFS NFS ulmage 4 2 4 4 Build Android for i MX 1 Getting Android Source Code cd tar jxvf android imx6 r13 3 tar bz2 2 Building uboot Images cd android imx6 r13 3 bootable bootloader uboot imx export ARCH arm export CROSS_COMPILE android imx6 r13 3 prebuilt linux x86 toolchain arm eabi 4 4 3 bin arm eabi Command to build for i MX60Q Sabrelite board is make distclean make mx6q sabrelite android config make u boot bin will be generated after the above instructions are executed The u boot bin has 1024KB padding at the head of the file for example first executable instruction is at the offset 1KB USER MANUAL v1 2 MCIMX60 SL element14 development platform for i MX 6Quad Built to Freescale SABRE Lite design NOTE Any image which should be loaded by uBoot must have an unique image head for example some data must be added at the head of the loaded image to te
16. interface cca ceea i deer oer e ret bete bd epe dre edt esl cb nee c d Ue ba e e nie retenue 18 Table 36 Audio Output Jack uci tt a a m Ie nv yb aw a k aw e a i due xwan b e di al 19 Table 37 MIC NN le oe E Eee aa li a tet tani tte den ata Fia e etm IMS 20 Table 38 Camera Interface iiie ire a aa a ee bera e OE DO BR ARE DE a a yee wala t U DAB ke eine ee B i eR aa 20 Table 39 RS 232 Serial POTE ecrit eee eben dne dene aka daa 22 Table 310 RGMIILANiihterface c eebe eet ope eer ver EE ii 23 Table 311 USB Host Interface esie ote erre oo Pe E e al a dota e e e eoe Ro a E Pe eR oe GRE ER e 23 Table 312 USB Host Interface aici een ac a cannot a esl cat d adina eere de Yun 24 Table 313 Micro USB Interface 24 Table 314 5D Card lut ET 25 Tabl 315 SR G Ute ET 25 Table 316 IIC exparision interface sise cessent datini o a Ga Weka s daia Va One ed aa ases ae du b r u w k li dei kn 26 Table 317 Boot Configuration Select 26 Table 318 ANDROID BUTTONS ac aa eoliana ta at o ala lo oa a cala it o at a ta 0 bae 27 A a a a E E E E E E EN EEN ANAE 28 Table NG e E E E ata d ef di Cd a rd oi 90 ebraica 28 Fable e Reie e m 28 Table 322 TF MMC Card Interface silal kal sa k d bar ini kane xi kanalan k Fia ka aska ak bada d atei Padus a n na b bed kaka b d k l b LA a ka a dika 29 Table 323 HD MI n tek oe yyy sina eoe reis ee 29 Fable 324 LVDS lun E 30 Table 325 MIPI et TEE 31 Table 326
17. tool to download Android images 1 Installing the MFG Tools Please download Android Image Programming tools Mfgtools Rel 12 04 01 ER MX6Q UPDATER into your windows PC from www element14 com iMX6 2 Usage Read the MFG tool documentation in the Document folder before using the MFG tool The MFG tool follows the instructions in Profiles MX6Q Linux Update OS Firmware ucl xml to execute program operations The user can read and update ucl xml to understand the operations before using the MFG tool Follow these instructions to use the i MX 6Dual Quad SABRE Lite MFG tool a Connect a USB cable from a PC to the USB OTG port on the board b Connect UART to PC for console output Open a Terminal emulator program C Set boot pin to Mfgtools mode Refer to How to Enter Serial Download Mode for MFG Tool d You can specify your images in two ways The first is by editing Profiles MX6QLinux UpdateVOS Firmwarelucl xml to modify the file path or flash operations according to your usage You can modify them for i MX 6Dual Quad SABRE Lite programming After the modification is completed save the changes and exit Another way is by copying your files in Profiles MX6Q Linux Update OS Firmware files android directory You can replace the files inside this folder NOTE You will find u boot board bin and ulmage binaries in Profiles MX6Q Linux Update OS Firmware folder These files should not be replaced They are different from
18. 4 8 EIM DA3 BOOT CFG1 3 9 EIM A19 BOOT CFG3 3 10 EIM_DA4 BOOT_CFG1 4 11 EIM_A18 BOOT_CFG3 2 12 EIM_DAS BOOT_CFG1 5 13 EIM_A17 BOOT CFG3 1 14 EIM DA6 BOOT CFG1 6 15 EIM A16 BOOT CFG3 0 16 EIM DA7 BOOT CFG1 7 17 EIM EB3 BOOT CFG4 7 18 EIM DAS BOOT CFG2 0 19 EIM EB2 BOOT CFGA4 6 20 EIM DA9 BOOT CFG2 1 USER MANUAL v1 2 MCIMX6Q SL element14 development platform for i MX 6Quad Built to Freescale SABRE Lite design 21 EIM RW BOOT_CFG4 5 22 EIM_DA10 BOOT CFG2 2 23 EIM ER BOOT CFG4 4 24 EIM DA11 BOOT CFG2 3 25 EIM EBO BOOT CFG4 3 26 GND GND 27 EIM LBA BOOT CFG4 2 28 EIM DA12 BOOT_CFG2 4 29 GND GND 30 GND GND 31 EIM_WAIT BOOT CFGA4 1 32 EIM DA13 BOOT CFG2 5 33 GND GND 34 GND GND 35 EIM A24 BOOT_CFG4 0 36 EIM_DA14 BOOT_CFG2 6 37 3P3V 3 3V 38 GND GND 39 3P3V 3 3V 40 EIM_DA15 BOOT_CFG2 7 3 3 17 ANDROID KEYBOARD INTERFACE Table 3 18 Android Buttons J14 Pin Function 1 ON_OFF GPIO 2 KEY_VOL_UP GPIO 3 HOME GPIO 4 SEARCH GPIO 5 BACK GPIO 6 MENU GPIO 7 KEY_VOL_DN GPIO 8 GND GND USER MANUAL v1 2 MCIMX6Q SL element14 development platform for i MX 6Quad Built to Freescale SABRE Lite design 3 3 18 LED Table 3 19 LED LED Pin Signal Function D1 Power led 5V power indicator 3 3 19 Switch Table 3 20 Reset Switch
19. 4bit general purpose registers o NEON Integer execute pipeline ALU Shift MAC o NEON dual single precision floating point execute pipeline FADD FMUL o NEON load store and permute pipeline e The memory system consists of the following components o Level 1 Cache 32 KB Instruction 32 KB Data cache per core o Level 2 Cache Unified instruction and data 1 MByte o On Chip Memory o Boot ROM including HAB 96 KB o Internal multimedia shared fast access RAM OCRAM 256 KB o Secure non secure RAM 16 KB USER MANUAL v1 2 MCIMX6Q SL element14 development platform for i MX 6Quad Built to Freescale SABRE Lite design Raw ONFI 2 2 4x Camera 1 S Nand Flash Parall MIPI WUXG4 Application Processor unt HDMI in AD Digital eut External Domain AP Audio D J Memory I F i se Crystals Internal WEIM RAN Image Processing E amp Clock sources Subsystem 2x IPUv3H 2 ROM 4 ATA 96KB SATA II Smart DMA ARM Cortex A9 3 0Gbps SDMA MPCore Platform XTALOSC Debug 4X A9 Core OSC32K DAP LI I D Cache TPIU Timer Wdog CTIs SIC MMC SD AP Peripheral eMMC eSD MB L2 cache SCU Timer uSDHC 3 PTM s CTI s uSDHC Security OP ia SSTG eCSPI 3 CAAM Video Te SxFastUART ESAT 16KB Ram n xFast UAl s VPU Cache PYME Ez ASRC SNVS SPDIF RX T
20. 7 HDMI DOP HDMI differential pairs data0 8 GND GND 9 HDMI DOM HDMI differential pairs data0 10 HDMI CLKP HDMI differential pairs clock 11 GND GND 12 HDMI CLKM HDMI differential pairs clock 13 NC NC 14 NC NC 15 BI2C2 SCL IIC2 serial clock 16 BI2C2 SDA 11C2 serial data 17 GND GND 18 5Vin 5V 19 HDMI HPD HDMI detect 20 GNF DVI GND 3 3 22 LVDS Interface Table 3 24 LVDS Interface J6 Pin Signal Function 1 3P3V 3 3V 2 3P3V 3 3V 3 GND GND 4 GND GND 5 LVDSO TXO N LVDSO transmit differential pairs data0 6 LVDSO TXO P LVDSO transmit differential pairs data0 7 GND GND 8 LVDSO TX1 N LVDSO transmit differential pairs data1 9 LVDSO TX1 P LVDSO transmit differential pairs data1 10 GND GND 11 LVDSO TX2 N LVDSO transmit differential pairs data2 12 LVDSO TX2 P LVDSO transmit differential pairs data2 13 GND GND 14 LVDSO CLK N LVDSO transmit differential pairs clock 15 LVDSO CLK P LVDSO transmit differential pairs clock USER MANUAL v1 2 MCIMX6Q SL element14 development platform for i MX 6Quad Built to Freescale SABRE Lite design 16 GND GND 17 LVDSO TX3 N LVDSO transmit differential pairs data3 18 LVDSO TX3 P LVDSO transmit differential pairs data3 19 DISPO CONTRAST GPIO 20 PWMA Backlight brightness control 3 3 23 MIPI Interface Table 3 25 MIPI Interface
21. Demo The demo begins in the Qt application called fluidlauncher A number of demos can be launched from here In order to navigate through the menu click on with the USB mouse on a side of the window in the direction you wish to cycle the application thumbnails For instance if you wish to access an application whose thumbnail is to the left of center position your mouse on the left side of the screen over black space and click several times until the thumbnail for your application is moved to center Once the thumbnail for the desired application is centered click on it to launch the demo 1 Timesys Theatre Timesys theatre showcases a number of the unique capabilites of the i MX 6Q hardware most notably e Hardware video acceleration e Multi core processing e Video streaming from camera The main menu for the theatre provides four options e Accelerated Video Play a video using Freescale accelerated codecs e Non accelerated Video Play same video with standard unaccelerated gstreamer and ffmpeg codecs e Camera see the video capture stream from an attached camera Includes non accelerated gstreamer pipeline elements USER MANUAL v1 2 MCIMX6Q SL element14 development platform for i MX 6Quad Built to Freescale SABRE Lite design 2 4 1 2 e Exit leave this demo When selecting any of the first three menu options you may stress test the video pipeline to see the impact of additional computational work on video that
22. PCle Interface nenea ea eee ea en HHHH m 32 USER MANUAL v1 2 MCIMX60 SL element14 development platform for i MX 6Quad Built to Freescale SABRE Lite design 1 Board Overview 1 1 Product Introduction The element14 development kit for i MX 6Quad built to Freescale SABRE Lite design hereafter refered to as SABRE Lite is an evaluation platform featuring the powerful i MX GO a multimedia application processor with Quad ARM Cortex A9 cores at 1 GHz from Freescale Semiconductor The platform helps evaluate the rich set of peripherals and includes a 10 100 Gb Ethernet port SATA II HDMI v1 4 LVDS parallel RGB interface touch screen interface analog headphone microphone micro TF and SD card interface USB serial port JTAG camera interface and input keys for Android as shown in Figure 1 The SABRE Lite can be used in the following applications e Netbooks web tablets e Nettops Internet desktop devices High end mobile Internet devices MID High end PDAs High end portable media players PMP with HD video capability Portable navigation devices PNDs e Industrial control and Test and measurement T amp M e Single board computers SBCs Figure 1 Functional Block Diagram of SABRE Lite Board USER MANUAL v1 2 MCIMX6Q SL element14 development platform for i MX 6Quad Built to Freescale SABRE Lite design 1 2 Features The SABRE Lite Board is based on the i MX 6 Quad core processor from Freescal
23. SHA 256 2048 bit RSA key version control mechanism warm boot CSU and TZ initialization 3 2 Expanded Chip Introduction 3 2 1 H5TQ2G63BFR H9C The board has 1GB of SDRAM 4x256MB The H5TQ2G63BFR is a 256MB DDR3 Synchronous DRAM ideally suited for the main memory applications which require large memory density and high bandwidth 3 2 2 SST25VFO16B The serial EPROM SST25VFO16B is a 16Mb SPI Serial Flash used for boot code storage Booting from serial EPROM is recommended 3 2 3 KSZ9021RN The KSZ9021RN is a single port 10 100 1000Base T Gigabit transceiver in industry s smallest footprint supporting data transfer over standard CAT 5 unshielded twisted pair cable This device offers robust performance and low power consumption On chip integration of termination resistors and LDO controller along with built in diagnostic features significantly reduces the cost and the complexity of Gigabit Ethernet applications This device is ideal for enabling Gigabit Ethernet performance in SOHO and SMB networking applications such as SOHO media center wired wireless Gigabit SOHO SMB router and VoIP gateway The SABRE Lite can be connected to a network hub directly through a cable It also can be directly connected with a computer through a crossover cable which is provided with the kit USER MANUAL v1 2 MCIMX6Q SL element14 development platform for i MX 6Quad Built to Freescale SABRE Lite design 3 2 4 USB2513B AEZG for USB 2 0 High Sp
24. USER MANUAL e 22 freescale Enabled Development Platform for MX 6Quad Built to Freescale SABRE Lite design Exclusively from elementiu USER MANUAL v1 2 MCIMX6Q SL element14 development platform for i MX 6Quad Built to Freescale SABRE Lite design Table of Contents 1 BOARD OVERVIEW 9 5 1 1 PRODUCT INTRODUCTION EE 5 1 2 pz I ed tessa este 6 2 QUICK START CU 8 2 1 UNPACKING THE KITA 4 si acas ace daca ca ebe a duo tiens rite een ten die etape Deeg eege 8 2 2 WEB BASED CONTENTS unirlos dai 8 2 3 SETTING UP THE SYSTEM EE 8 2 3 1 Inserb MicroSD Card EE 8 2 3 2 EE 8 2 3 3 Connect USB OTG optional 9 2 3 4 TARA RAN AA AA 9 3 HARDWARE DESCRIDTION e hn n Henne Heeeeke neke keke HK KHK KH HK KH NAKA HKH HKH HHHH HAKAN NAKA HEWA HA HA HEKA HK K HNH KANA KANA KA HAKAN KA HEKA HHHH HK K KHK KK HE 10 3 1 PROCESSOR MM YV 10 3 1 4 ee 10 3 1 2 External memory AAA 11 3 1 3 Interface to external devices cmc anna nenea aaa nea nana WESA a nana ORA W nea n a d n k 11 3 1 4 Advanced Power Management unit esses eene eene enne nana wun U WO Hu B U v w WEDE e We naar ERES 12 3 1 5 Hardware Accelerator oe 13 3 2 EXPANDED
25. Using a Linux Host to Make a booting SD MMC Card This chapter describes the steps to make an TF card that can be used boot up an i MX 6Dual Quad SABRE Lite board 1 Requirements A SD MMC card reader such as a USB card reader is required It will be used to transfer the bootloader and kernel images initialize the partition table and copy the root file system To simplify the instructions a 4GB TF card is used hereafter The Linux kernel running on the Linux host will assign a device node to the TF card The kernel might The device node name might be given by the kernel or udev rules udev is not used in the following instructions To identify the device node assigned to the TF card please enter the following instructions S cat proc partitions major minor blocks name 8 0 78125000 sda 8 1 75095811 sda1 8 2 1 sda2 8 5 3028221 sda5 8 32 488386584 sde 8 33 488386552 sdc1 8 16 3921920 sdb 8 18 3905535 sdb1 In this example the device node is dev sdb 1kB per block 2 partitioning The following instruction can be used to partition a sdcard sudo prebuilt linux x86 fsl fsl sdcard partition sh dev sdX USER MANUAL v1 2 MCIMX6Q SL element14 development platform for i MX 6Quad Built to Freescale SABRE Lite design NOTE 1 The minimum size of TF card is 2G bytes 2 The letter x in dev sdxN is the disk index from a to z It may be different on each Linux PC 3 Downloading Images with dd utility
26. XRXP C differential pair TXRX 15 TXRXM C differential pair TXRX 16 TXRXP D differential pair TXRX 17 TXRXM D differential pair TXRX 18 YEL Link LED 19 GRN Speed LED 20 3P3V 3 3V 21 YEL Link LED 22 3P3V 3 3V 23 GND_DVI GND 3 3 11 USB Host Interface Table 3 11 USB Host Interface J24B Pin Signal Function 1 USB1_VBUS 5V 2 USB1_D USB Data 3 USB1_D USB Data 4 GND GND 5 USB2_VBUS 5V 6 USB2_D USB Data 7 USB2_D USB Data 8 GND GND USER MANUAL v1 2 MCIMX6Q SL element14 development platform for i MX 6Quad Built to Freescale SABRE Lite design Table 3 12 USB Host Interface J1 Pin Signal Function 1 5VIN 5V 2 USBDN_DM3 USB Data 3 USBDN_DP3 USB Data 4 GND GND 3 3 12 Micro USB Interface The micro connector is connected to the high speed HS USB 2 0 OTG module of the i MX 6 processor and is cross connected with the lower USB Host port on J3 When a 5V supply is seen on the micro connector from the USB Host the i MX 6 processor will configure the OTG module for device mode which will prevent the lower USB Host port from operating correctly Figure 3 11 Micro USB Interface Table 3 13 Micro USB Interface J3 Pin Signal Function 1 USBO VBUS 5V 2 USBO_D USB Data 3 USBO_D USB Data 4 ID USB ID 5 GND GND USER MANUAL v1 2 3 3 13 SD Card Interface MCIMX60 SL element14 development platform for i MX 6Quad Bui
27. are for this platform Qt is a toolkit that provides the ability to construct complex and rich GUI environments for your applications The two demos above show a wide range of GUI elements available to the Qt developer For More Information The Linux kernel and software for this BSP was built using the Timesys Factory The Factory provides a toolchain sources and build infrastructure that can be used for rapid development and customization of an embedded Linux OS for your target platform At this time over 100 reference boards and 1300 packages are integrated into the Factory build system USER MANUAL v1 2 MCIMX6Q SL element14 development platform for i MX 6Quad Built to Freescale SABRE Lite design To build your own free Linux BSP for your element A i MX GO SABRE Lite visit http www timesys com embedded linux resources dev center imx6 From here you can find further instructions on building a custom Linux distribution using Timesys s LinuxLink documentation on booting your board and other materials to help you support Linux for your platform USER MANUAL v1 2 MCIMX6Q SL element14 development platform for i MX 6Quad Built to Freescale SABRE Lite design 4 2 Android 4 2 1 Quick Guide 4 2 1 1 How to Boot the i MX 6Dual Quad SABRE Lite Board The boot modes of the i MX 6Dual Quad SABRE Lite board are controlled by the boot configuration DIP switches on the board To locate the boot configuration switches r
28. bit 21 11 R6 DISPO data bit 22 12 R7 DISPO data bit 23 13 GO DISPO data bit 8 14 G1 DISPO data bit 9 15 G2 DISPO data bit10 16 G3 DISPO data bit 11 17 G4 DISPO data bit 12 18 G5 DISPO data bit 13 19 G6 DISPO data bit 14 20 G7 DISPO data bit 15 21 BO DISPO data bit 0 22 B1 DISPO data bit 1 23 B2 DISPO data bit 2 24 B3 DISPO data bit 3 25 B4 DISPO data bit 4 26 B5 DISPO data bit 5 27 B6 DISPO data bit6 28 B7 DISPO data bit 7 29 GND GND 30 DISPO_CLK Pixel Clock 31 GND GND 32 DISPO_HSYNC DISPO HSYNC 33 DISPO_VSYNC DISPO VSYNC 34 DISPO_DRDY DISPO enable chip select 35 I2C3 SCL IIC master serial clock USER MANUAL v1 2 MCIMX6Q SL element14 development platform for i MX 6Quad Built to Freescale SABRE Lite design 36 DCH SDA IIC serial bidirectional data 37 PWM1 Backlight brightness control 38 5VIN T5V 39 5VIN T5V 40 5VIN T5V 3 3 6 Audio Output Jack A headphone with a standard 3 5mm stereo jack can be connected to the Audio Output jack at the point shown in Figure3 7 Figure 3 7 Audio Output Jack Table 3 6 Audio Output Jack J8 Pin Signal Function 1 GND ANALOG ANALOG GND 2 HPL Left output 3 HP R Right output 10 Default set Pull down 10k resistor USER MANUAL v1 2 MCIMX6Q SL element14 development platform for i MX 6Quad Built to Freescale SABRE Lite design 3 3 7 Microphone Input Jack The SABRE Lite board provides a 3 5mm stereo connec
29. d metal chassis e f possible use antistatic devices such as wrist straps and floor mats e Always hold a evaluation board by its edges Avoid touching the contacts and components on the board e Take care when connecting or disconnecting cables A damaged cable can cause a short in the electrical circuit e Prevent damage to the connectors by aligning connector pins before you connect the cable Misaligned connector pins can cause damage to system components at power on e When disconnecting a cable always pull on the cable connector or strain relief loop not on the cable itself
30. e integrating all the functionalities of this multimedia application processor with the following features e Mechanical Parameters o Working Temperature 0 C 70 C o Humidity Range 2096 9096 o Dimensions 82 55mm x 82 55mm o Input Voltage 5V e Processor o ARM Cortex AO MPCore 4xCPU Processor at 1GHz o Multi stream capable HD video engine delivering H 264 1080p60 decode 1080p30 encode and 3 D video playback in HD o Triple Play Graphics System consisting of a Quad shader 3D unit capable of 200MT s and a separate 2 D and separate OpenVG Vertex acceleration engines for superior 3D 2D and user interface acceleration e Memories o 1GByte of 64 bit wide DDR3 532MHz o 2MB SPI FLASH J20 J21 J24 MicroSD SATA J14 BE RJ45 ANDROID DUAL USB BUTTONS J17 ia UART USB OTG SW1 BOOT J4 4 HDMI B RGB J19 J6 SATA LVDS SwW4 _ RESET gen J10 Power J8 J13 JTAG R ch e Audio out MIC In LED e Media Interfaces o Analog headphone microphone 3 5mm audio jack LVDS interface HDMI interface Parallel RGB interface Camera interface Support CCD or CMOS camera MIPI lanes at 1 Gbps O 0 0 0 0 USER MANUAL v1 2 MCIMX60 SL element14 development platform for i MX 6Quad Built to Freescale SABRE Lite design J16 J12 MIPI Boot Configuration Ji5 Camera e Data Transfer Interfaces o Serial Ports UART1 3 line serial port RS232 Logic UART2 3 line serial port RS232 Logic o USB Ports USB2 0 OTG
31. e interface between the Controller Area Network CAN protocol controller and the physical bus It is primarily intended for high speed applications up to 1MBaud in passenger cars The device provides differential transmit capability to the bus and differential receive capability to the CAN controller USER MANUAL v1 2 MCIMX6Q SL element14 development platform for i MX 6Quad Built to Freescale SABRE Lite design 3 3 Hardware Interface 3 3 1 Power Input Jack The 5V 4A AC to DC power supply that comes with the board is plugged into the Power Jack J10 on the board t is not recommended to use a higher voltage since possible damage to the board may result due to failure of the protection circuitry Figure 32 SABRE Lite Board Table 31 Power Interface J10 Pin Signal Function 1 GND GND 2 NC NC 3 5V Power supply 5V 4A Type 3 3 2 SATA Power Interface A 3 pin SATA power connector for 2 5 inch SATA hard disk is shown in Figure 3 3 below Figure 3 3 SATA Power Interface USER MANUAL v1 2 MCIMX6Q SL element14 development platform for i MX 6Quad Built to Freescale SABRE Lite design Table 32 SATA Power Interface J19 Pin Signal Function 1 3 3V 3 3V output 2 GND GND 3 5V 5V output 3 3 3 SATA Data Interface A SATA 7 pin data connector J21 is provided on the Quick Start Board and is connected to the SATA module of the i MX6 processor The SABRE
32. eed 3 Port Hub The USB2513 hub is a family of low power OEM configurable MTT multi transaction translator hub controller IC with 3 downstream ports for embedded USB solutions The SMSC hub supports low speed full speed and hi speed if operating as a hi speed hub downstream devices on all of the enabled downstream ports 3 2 5 SGTL5000 The SGTL5000 is a low power stereo Codec with Headphone Amp from Freescale and is designed to provide a complete audio solution for portable products needing line in mic in line out headphone out and digital I O Deriving its architecture from best in class Freescale integrated products currently on the market the SGTL5000 is able to achieve ultra low power with very high performance and functionality all in one of the smallest footprints available Designed with features such as capless headphone and an integrated PLL to allow clock reuse within the system it helps customers achieve a lower overall system cost 3 2 6 ICL3232CVZ The Intersil ICL32XX X interface ICs operate from a single 3V to 5 5V supply guarantee a 250kbps minimum data rate require only four small external 0 1uF capacitors feature low power consumption and meet all EIA RS 232C and V 28 specifications Targeted applications are PDAs Palmtops and notebook and laptop computers where the low operational and even lower standby power consumption is critical 3 2 7 TJA1040T The TJA1040 a High Speed CAN transceiver is th
33. efer to the 3 3 19 Switch The following sections list basic boot setup configurations only 1 How to Enter Serial Download Mode for MFG Tool Table below shows the boot switch settings which are used to enter serial download mode for MFG tool If bootimage is not validated in boot media system will enter serial download mode SW1 ON OFF Switch D1 D2 the boot switch setup for MFG tool 2 How to Boot From SPI NOR Table below shows the boot switch settings to boot from SPI NOR Switch D1 D2 SW1 OFF OFF the boot switch setup for SPI NOR boot SW1 Description USER MANUAL v1 2 MCIMX6Q SL element14 development platform for i MX 6Quad Built to Freescale SABRE Lite design 4 2 1 2 Setup Terminal The i MX 6Dual Quad SABRE Lite board can communicate with a host server Windows or Linux using the serial cable Common serial communication programs such as HyperTerminal Tera Term or PuTTY can be used The example below describes the serial terminal setup using HyperTerminal on a Windows host 1 Connect the target and the Windows PC using a serial cable 2 Open HyperTerminal on the Windows PC and select the settings as shown in figure below COM1 Properties Port Settings Bits per second 115200 Data bits Parity Stop bits Flow control HyperTerminal Settings for Terminal Setup 3 Connect the power supply to pow
34. er up the board The bootloader prompt is displayed on the terminal screen USER MANUAL v1 2 MCIMX6Q SL element14 development platform for i MX 6Quad Built to Freescale SABRE Lite design 4 2 2 Download Images i MX Android can be booted up in two ways 1 Boot from TF card 2 Boot from NFS networking Before boot you should program the bootloader kernel ramdisk and rootfs images into the main storage device TF card or unpack the NFS root filesystem into the NFS server root The following download methods are supported for i MX6Q Sabrelite 1 MFGTool to download all images to TF card 2 Using dd command to download all images to TF card 4 2 2 1 System on TF card The images needed to create an android system on TF card are listed below 1 u boot image u boot bin 2 boot image boot img 3 Android system root image system img 4 Recovery root image recovery img The images can be obtained from the release package or they can be built out Storage Partitions The layout of the TF card for Android system is shown below 1 Partition type index is which defined in the MBR 2 Name is only meaningful in android You can ignore it when creating these partitions 3 Start Offset shows where partition is started unit in MB The SYSTEM partition is used to put the built out android system image The DATA is used to put applications unpacked codes data system configuration database etc In normal boot mode
35. form for i MX 6Quad Built to Freescale SABRE Lite design 5 1 ESD PRECAUTIONS AND PROPER HANDLING DROCEDURES eene aka EEE kak Kek esses sais sans eaae HA KA KA 49 LIST OF FIGURES Figure 11 Functional Block Diagram of SABRE Lite Board 5 Figure 31 Block Diagram of i MX GDual GOuad eee keke nana keke nnns 11 Figure 32 SABRE Lite Board eerte EE 15 Figure 33 SATA Power Interface oie Data cada oi d wuna Hel r i de ii HER ii dat ati VOA Ke Pena Pa GER 15 ARS ET 16 Figure 35 CAN Iterface rero anln ban kan banke Gav n kab an dek buke buk iu pida ter eere rah banke e G a td 17 Figure 36 Parallel RGB Interface isa citare ettet te re B ata a EENS Eed 17 Figure 37 Audio Output Jack etc ane coal erre rre col deren Von Rev dee eae cc i doliu 19 REI CN lC jln Jack s ceea aaa a 20 Figure 39 RS232 Serial Port issa cerea ara aaa eat M 22 Figure 310 RGMIILAN Interface orte eere a a ata EE d avi a Ed 22 Figure 311 Micro USB Interface A sente da kla dancin oa a aa IRR TER a d aia dn ata 24 Figure 312 TE MMC Card Interface oiii ie erepta te eerie el edes eer aae o j Ve an War erar conc R p k 8 h n Hek A 29 LIST OF TABLES Table 21 SABRE Lite Kit CONTENTS ose denti kel ebr en tete etes tias 8 Table 31 Powerilnt EE 15 Table 32 SATA Power Interface E 16 Table 33 SATA CONNECtON qan TT ia a ca OU I D UU UEM 16 Table 34 CAN Wl le 17 Table 35 Parallel RGB
36. iMX6 for the latest documents and software including Schematics Board layout Bill of Materials BOM Board Support Packages BSPs 2 3 Setting Up the System 2 3 1 Insert MicroSD Card Insert the supplied MicroSD card into the CPU Card s MicroSD card socket J20 Note MicroSD Card included if ready at date your kit was shipped For the latest version of the BSP please visit www element14 com iMX6 2 3 2 Connect RS 232 cable Connect the custom serial cable provided to serial port J17 and then use crossover serial cable to connect to the host computer Open a terminal window on the host eg Hyperterminal with serial port configuration 115 2 kbaud 8 data bits 1 stop bit with no parity USER MANUAL v1 2 MCIMX6Q SL element14 development platform for i MX 6Quad Built to Freescale SABRE Lite design 2 3 3 Connect USB OTG optional Connect the cable from the kit to micro USB connector J3 on the board 2 3 4 Connect the Power Supply Plug in the 5VDC supply to power jack J10 the power LED D1 should illuminate To reboot press the reset button SW4 USER MANUAL v1 2 MCIMX60 SL element14 development platform for i MX 6Quad Built to Freescale SABRE Lite design 3 Hardware Description 3 1 Processor The i MX 6Dual 6Quad processors represents Freescale Semiconductor s latest achievement in integrated multimedia applications processors which are part of a growing family of multimedia focused products
37. is accelerated and non accelerated In order to do this e Select Accelerated Video Non accelerated Video or Camera e Click anywhere on the screen to bring up the Qt GUI overlay e Add additional computational load with the Add CPU Load button e View the per core CPU usage in the top left corner of the screen Note that you will see notable video slowdown when adding CPU load for the non accelerated video pipeline Alternatively you should see nearly no slowdown if any for the accelerated pipeline To return to the main menu from any of the video streams hit the Stop button in the lower right corner of the Qt GUI overlay Vivante GPU demos Vivante provides a binary package of OpenGLES libraries to make 3D graphics acceleration available to the developer on an i MX GO based platform Two Vivante developed demos 3D Spinning Orb and 3D Spinning Block show the SABRE Lite s 3D graphics acceleration capabilities in a number of simple tests with texturized 3D objects Timesys website If your element14 i MX 6Q SABRE Lite is connected to a DHCP and DNS server through an ethernet cable you can access the Web via the Ot application called fancybrowser This demo will route you to the Timesys website after which you may navigate about the Web as you would with a standard Web browser Qt applications Two Qt demos Vector Deformation and Path Stroking have been included to demonstrate the capabilities of Qt softw
38. iscellaneous IPs and interfaces o Three 12S SSI AC97 up to 1 4 Mbps each o Enhanced Serial Audio Interface ESAI up to 1 4 Mbps per channel o Five UARTS up to 4 0 Mbps each o Providing RS232 interface o Supporting 9 bit RS485 multidrop mode o One of the five UARTs UART1 supports 8 wir while others four supports 4 wire This is due to the SoC IOMUX limitation since all UART IPs are identical o Five eCSPI Enhanced CSI up to 52 Mbps each o Three 12C supporting 400 kbps o Gigabit Ethernet Controller IEEE1588 compliant 10 100 1000 Mbps o Four Pulse Width Modulators PWM o System JTAG Controller SJC o GPIO with interrupt capabilities o 8x8 Key Pad Port KPP o Sony Philips Digital Interface SPDIF Rx and Tx o Two Controller Area Network FlexCAN 1 Mbps each o Two Watchdog timers WDOG o Audio MUX AUDMUX 3 1 4 Advanced Power Management unit The i MX 6Dual 6Quad processors integrate advanced power management unit and controllers e Provide PMU including DCDC and LDO supplies for on chip resources e Use Temperature Sensor for monitoring the die temperature e Support DVFS techniques for low power modes e Use SW State Retention and Power Gating for ARM and MPE e Support various levels of system power modes e Use flexible clock gating control scheme USER MANUAL v1 2 MCIMX6Q SL element14 development platform for i MX 6Quad Built to Freescale SABRE Lite design 3 1 5 Hardware Accelerators The i
39. ll uboot about the image i e it s a kernel or ramfs etc and how to load the image i e load execute address Before you can load any image into RAM by uboot you need a tool to add this information and generate a new image which can be recognized by uboot Fortunately this tool is delivered together with uboot After you set up uboot though the steps above you can find the tool mkimage under tools The process of how to use mkimage for generating the image for example kernel image ramfs image which is to be loaded by uboot is outlined in the subsequent sections of this document 3 Building Kernel Image Kernel image will be built when building the android root file system If you do not need to build the kernel image you can skip to the next section To run Android using NFS or from TF card build the kernel with the default configuration as described below Assume you had already built uboot mkimage was generated under android imx6 r13 3 bootable bootloader uboot imx tools and it s in your PATH export PATH android imx6 r13 3 bootable bootloader uboot imx tools SPATH cd android imx6 r13 3 kernel_imx echo SARCH amp amp echo SCROSS_COMPILE Make sure you have those 2 environment variables set If the two variables have not set please set the as export ARCH arm export CROSS COMPILE android imx6 r13 3 prebuilt linux x86 toolchain arm eabi 4 4 3 bin arm eabi make imx6 android defconfig Generate
40. loadaddr 0x10800000 U Boot setenv bootfile ulmage U Boot gt setenv serverip your server ip U Boot gt setenv nfsroot your rootfs gt U Boot gt setenv bootcmd dhcp bootm U Boot gt setenv bootargs console ttymxc1 115200 init init rw video mxcfbO dev hdmi 1920x1080M 960 if RGB24 ip dhcp fhmem 10M nfsroot S serverip S nfsroot vmalloc 400M androidboot console ttymxc1 U Boot saveenv After you finish the configuration reboot the board to enter bootcmd environment of u boot and then load the kernel If it is the first time to boot up it will take a while to enter the Android UI 424 BSPs 4 2 4 4 Introduction The i MX 6Dual Quad SABRE Lite Android BSP is a collection of binary source code and support files that can be used to create a U boot bootloader Linux kernel image and Android file system for i MX 6Dual Quad SABRE Lite board 4 2 4 2 PC Setup To build the Android source files you will need to use a PC installed with a Linux system The Ubuntu of 10 10 or 11 04 64 bit version is recommend because these versions have been proved working well for building Android 4 0 4 USER MANUAL v1 2 MCIMX60 SL element14 development platform for i MX 6Quad Built to Freescale SABRE Lite design After installing Linux PC you need to check whether you have all the necessary packages installed for building an Android Please refer to Setting up your machine on the Android web site http source android com source
41. lt to Freescale SABRE Lite design Table 3 14 SD Card Interface J18 Pin Signal Function 1 SD3 DAT3 Card data 3 2 SD3 CMD Command Signal 3 GND GND 4 3P3V 3P3V 5 SD3 CLK Clock 6 VSS GND 7 SD3 DATO Card data 0 8 SD3 DAT1 Card data 1 9 SD3 DAT2 Card data 2 10 SD3 CD Card detect 11 SD3 WP Card write protected 12 GND GND 13 GND GND 14 GND GND 15 GND GND 3 3 14 JTAG Interface Table 3 15 JTAG Interface J13 Pin Signal Function 1 3P3V 3 3V 2 JTAG TMS Test mode select 3 GND GND 4 JTAG TCK Test clock 5 GND GND 6 JTAG TDO Test data output 7 JTAG MOD Test mode 8 JTAG TDI Test data input 9 JTAG nTRST Test system reset 10 RESET N RESET for TPS3808 USER MANUAL v1 2 MCIMX60 SL element14 development platform for i MX 6Quad Built to Freescale SABRE Lite design 3 3 15 Expansion Interface Table 3 16 IIC expansion interface J7 Pin Signal Function 1 5VIN 5V 2 5VIN 5V 3 5VIN 5V 4 GPIO9 GPIO 5 12C3_SCL 11C3 serial clock 6 12C3_SDA IIC3 serial data 7 GND GND 3 3 16 Boot Configuration Select Table 3 17 Boot Configuration Select J12 Pin Function 1 EIM_A23 BOOT_CFG3 7 2 EIM_DAO BOOT_CFG1 0 3 EIM_A22 BOOT_CFG3 6 4 EIM_DA1 BOOT_CFG1 1 5 EIM_A21 BOOT CFG3 5 6 EIM DA2 BOOT CFG1 2 7 EIM A20 BOOT CFG3
42. ot for NFS root Seting Up the TFTP and NFS root After you set up a TFTP NFS server please put the kernel image into the tftp server root directory and Android file system files into the NFS server root directory USER MANUAL v1 2 MCIMX6Q SL element14 development platform for i MX 6Quad Built to Freescale SABRE Lite design Please use ulmage instead of zlmage as the kernel 1 If you are using a prebuilt image make sure you select the correct ulmage see 4 2 4 3 Prebuild image 2 If you are building your own image make sure you generated an ulmage see 4 2 4 4 Build Android for i MX Copy ulmage to the TFTP server root directory For example cp your ulmage opt tftproot Seting up the Android file system 1 Ifyou are using a prebuilt image unzip the android zip file see 4 2 4 3 Prebuild image to the NFS server root For example cd opt image NFS tar xzvf android fs tar gz cd android fs rm rf opt nfsroot cp r opt nfsroot 2 If you build your own Android image copy the generated Android files to the NFS root manually For example cd myandroid rm rf opt nfsroot cp r out target product sabrelite 6q root opt nfsroot cp r out target product sabrelite_6q system opt nfsroot system NOTE The system and cache files of NFS are saved under opt nfsroot To disable automatic mounting of NFS corresponding script can be added into the file init rc saved under o
43. pt nfsroot 4 2 3 Running the Image on the Target This chapter explains how to load an image from a specific device on the target Sabrelite cannot directly boot from SD MMC but needs to boot from SPI NOR first Please refer to How to Boot From SPI NOR and set up the boot switch 4 2 3 1 Running the Image from MMC SD Seting up the u boot environment for booting from TF card after the u boot shell is loaded U Boot gt setenv bootargs console ttymxc1 115200 init init rw video mxcfb0 dev hdmi 1920x1080M 60 if RGB24 fbmem 10M vmalloc 400M androidboot console ttymxc1 U Boot gt setenv bootcmd booti mmc1 USER MANUAL v1 2 MCIMX6Q SL element14 development platform for i MX 6Quad Built to Freescale SABRE Lite design U Boot gt saveenv Some SoCs on sabrelite boards do not have MAC address If you want to use FEC in uboot please set up the following environment U Boot setenv ethaddr 00 04 9f 00 ea d3 setup the MAC address U Boot setenv fec addr 00 04 9f 00 ea d3 setup the MAC address If you want to use FEC after booting from eMMC SD card you need to specify a MAC address to kernel as follows U Boot gt setenv bootargs console ttymxc1 115200 init init rw video mxcfb0 fbmem 10M vmalloc 400M fec macz00 04 9f 00 ea d3 4 2 3 2 Running the image from NFS Set up the u boot environment for downloading kernel from TFTP and mounting NFS as root filesystem after the u boot shell is loaded U Boot gt setenv
44. rom data recovery img EXTA image generated from recovery Can be written to RECOVERY partition of SD eMMC card with dd u boot bin uboot image with padding For production release the android image should be built in user mode The user mode is different from eng mode as shown below 1 It has limited access due to security reason and it lacks many debug tools 2 It tags modules installed as user and installs APKs amp tools according to product definition files which is in PRODUCT PACKAGES in device fsl imx6 imx6 mk 3 Set ro secure 1 ro debuggable 0 and disable adb For more information about building android Please refer to http source android com source building html 5 Building boot img We use boot img and booti as default instructions to boot rather than the uramdisk and ulmage we used before You can use the following instructions to generate boot img under android environment source build envsetup sh lunch sabrelite 6q user make bootimage USER MANUAL v1 2 MCIMX6Q SL element14 development platform for i MX 6Quad Built to Freescale SABRE Lite design 5 APPENDIX 5 1 ESD PRECAUTIONS AND PROPER HANDLING PROCEDURES e Avoid carpets in cool dry areas Leave development kits in their anti static packaging until ready to be installed e Dissipate static electricity before handling any system components development kits by touching a grounded metal object such as the system unit unpainte
45. t a minimum you must have 1 element14 SABRE Lite for i MX 6Q board 2 Power supply 3 Video display 4 USB mouse The following additional peripherals can be used to enhance your experience USER MANUAL v1 2 MCIMX60 SL element14 development platform for i MX 6Quad Built to Freescale SABRE Lite design 5 Ethernet cord 6 Camera 7 RS 232 serial cable 8 USB keyboard Connect the display USB mouse and optionally the ethernet cord camera and serial cable to your SABRE Lite board Then insert the power supply plug into the power port on your board 4 1 1 2 Booting your Board Several seconds after supplying power to the SABRE Lite you will see the Timesys logo displayed on your video display Wait for around 30 seconds for the boot process to complete At the conclusion of the boot the Qt demo launcher application will begin characterized by a number of application thumbnails arranged in a horizontal line with a mouse positioned at center screen NOTE A number of displays are supported as defaults for the BSP distributed with your board If you are using a non default display then you may have to manually set the U Boot environment for your board in order to see the desired graphical output For information on how to do this sign up for your free LinuxLink account at http linuxlink timesys com and see the SABRE Lite Getting Started Guide at https linuxlink timesys com docs gsg i MX6QSABRELite 4 1 1 3 Using the
46. that offer high performance processing and are optimized for lowest power consumption The processor features Freescale s advanced implementation of the quad ARM Cortex A9 core which operates at speeds up to 1GHz They include 2D and 3D graphics processors 3D 1080p video processing and integrated power management Each processor provides a 64 bit DDR3 LVDDR3 1066 memory interface and a number of other interfaces for connecting peripherals such as WLAN Bluetooth GPS hard drive displays and camera sensors 3 1 1 Core Features The i MX 6Dual 6Quad processors are based on the ARM Cortex A9 MPCore platform with the following features e ARM Cortex A9 MPCore 4xCPU Processor with TrustZone e The core configuration is symmetric where each core includes o 32 KByte L1 Instruction Cache o 32 KByte L1 Data Cache o Private Timer and Watchdog o Cortex A9 NEON MPE Media Processing Engine Co processor e The ARM Cortex A9 MPCore complex includes o General Interrupt Controller GIC with 128 interrupt support o Global Timer o Snoop Control Unit SCU o 1 MB unified I D L2 cache shared by two four cores o Two Master AXI 64 bit bus interfaces output of L2 cache o Target frequency of the core including Neon and L1 cache is o 1 GHz overdrive over the specified temperature rang o 900 MHz non overdrive over the specified temperature range o NEON MPE coprocessor o SIMD Media Processing Architecture o NEON register file with 32x6
47. tor for a microphone input as shown in Figure3 8 A mono microphone will input its signal though the tip of the 3 5mm plug Figure 3 8 MIC in Jack input Table 3 7 MIC in Jack J9 Pin Signal Function 1 GND ANALOG ANALOG GND 2 MIC IN P MIC input 3 NC NC 10 MIC DET MIC input Jack detect 3 3 8 Camera Interface Table 3 8 Camera Interface J5 Pin Signal Function 1 GND GND 2 CSIO DAT19 CSIO capture data bit 19 3 CSIO_DAT18 CSIO capture data bit 18 4 CSIO_DAT17 CSIO capture data bit 17 5 CSIO_DAT16 CSIO capture data bit 16 6 CSIO_DAT15 CSIO capture data bit 15 7 CSIO_DAT14 CSIO capture data bit 14 USER MANUAL v1 2 MCIMX6Q SL element14 development platform for i MX 6Quad Built to Freescale SABRE Lite design 8 CSIO_DAT13 CSIO capture data bit 13 9 CSIO_DAT12 CSIO capture data bit 12 10 CSIO DAT11 CSIO capture data bit 11 11 CSIO_DAT10 CSIO capture data bit 10 12 CSIO_DAT9 CSIO capture data bit 9 13 CSIO_DAT8 CSIO capture data bit 8 14 I2C2 SCL 12C2 serial clock 15 12C2_SDA 12C2 serial data 16 GND GND 17 GPIO_3_CLKO2 GPIO 18 GND GND 19 2P5V 2P5V 20 2P5V 2P5V 21 2P5V 2P5V 22 2P5V 2P5V 23 GND GND 24 CSIO_DATA_EN CSIO DATA enable 25 GND GND 26 CSIO_RST CSIO Reset 27 CSIO_VSYNC CSIO VSYNC 28 CSIO_HSYNC CSIO HSYNC 29 GND GND 30 CSIO_PIXCLK
48. x m SD Graphics OCOTP 3 Proc Unit TOMUXC sau GPU3D Fuse Box RPF 2D Graphics Proc Unit GPIO GPU2D TAN Timers Control 1 CAN 2 WDOG 2 OpenVG 1 1 1 Gbps ENET est Proc Unit GPUVG MI Ra Audio Gage IN Ethernet 1 Gbit Power USBOTG 10 100 1000 Mngmnt anp Monto OTG PHY j usc 3 HS Ports Mbps xHSI WostPHY2 an Shared Peripherals AXI and AHB Switch Fabric USB OTG dev host Figure 31 Block Diagram of i MX 6Dual 6Quad 3 1 2 External memory interfaces o 16 bit 32 bit and 64 bit DDR3 1066 LV DDR3 1066 and 1 2 LPDDR2 1066 channels supporting DDR interleaving mode for 2x32 LPDDR2 1066 o 8 bit NAND Flash including support for Raw MLC SLC 2 KB 4 KB and 8 KB page size BA NAND PBA NAND LBA NAND OneNAND and others BCH ECC up to 32 bit o 16 bit NOR Flash All WEIMv2 pin are muxed on other interfaces o 16 bit PSRAM Cellular RAM 3 1 3 Interface to external devices Each i MX 6Dual 6Quad processor enables the following interfaces to external devices some of them are muxed and not available simultaneously o Hard Disk Drives SATA II 3 0 Gbps o Displays Total five interfaces available Total raw pixel rate of all interfaces is up to 450 Mpixels sec 24 bpp Up to four interfaces may be
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