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04 Jul 2012 46 Comments
in olinuxino Tags: A13, board, computer, Cortex-A8, Liinux, oshw, single
We decided to re-format the PCB in standard Nano-ITX form factor 120×120 mm.
The high speed DDR3 memory part is completely routed now, the board will be 4 layers, so generally most of the work is done.
Now the peripherials have to be routed and next week we may be ready for prototype PCB run.
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olimex 
Jul 04, 2012 @ 18:04:11
Looking good. Thanks for the update.
Just for interest, any plans for a mini/micro version of the A13-OLinuXino board in the future?
Jul 04, 2012 @ 18:38:46
we’ll think about this 😉
Jul 04, 2012 @ 18:42:07
Would it hurt to add HDMI output and ethernet in the next version? A13 should have HDMI on chip, no?
Jul 06, 2012 @ 09:07:25
A13 does not have HDMI, it seems you’ll have to wait for an A10 version, which should be even more popular than this one and will definitely crush the Raspberry Pi … until someone decides to do a similar board with a dual-core, then a quad-core, or use a cell-phone CPU so the board can support 3G or HSPA, then … then ….
Jul 04, 2012 @ 19:47:44
My dream is; Debian, A13 and me 🙂
We are waiting this board.
Erdogan / TURKEY
Jul 04, 2012 @ 20:01:51
New Project: A13 XL 😉
hdmi, sd, Linux (debian, fedora … ) 2xEth0-1(firewall project), sound in- out,
2xUsb, (opti. wifi)
Jul 04, 2012 @ 21:58:25
At a point, if you want so many options ,better use the A10 instead of A13 !
Jul 04, 2012 @ 20:03:12
What will the price of this version of the board?
Jul 04, 2012 @ 22:07:45
Looks nice !! In 3 weeks, I will go and live in Shenzhen for 2 years, hopefully I can get the A13 at a good price. At this point of the routing do you confirm the board is 4 layers ? Is the DDR3 easy to route ? It seems the only real difficulty of this board…
Jul 05, 2012 @ 11:13:41
huh I see the answer to my questions, sorry for asking 😉
Jul 05, 2012 @ 14:24:27
No ethernet ?
Jul 05, 2012 @ 14:33:45
no wired Ethernet, only WIFI
if you need wired Ethernet you can use these low cost USB-to-10/100Mbit converters http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ethernet-External-USB-to-Lan-RJ45-Network-Card-Adapter-10-100-Mbps-for-Laptop-PC-/280912775281?pt=US_Internal_Network_Cards&hash=item4167b4c871
Jul 05, 2012 @ 14:48:45
Sorry, that’s really disappointing 😉
Why sacrificing a wired, true, reliable ethernet to wifi?
Jul 05, 2012 @ 14:51:35
sorry to disappoint you, but A13 have no wired Ethernet interface 🙂
Jul 05, 2012 @ 14:51:48
Thanks for the info.
Your project really took my attention. Can you give any estimations for the availability ?
You guys should hype this product little a bit more 😉 Nobody knows this project. RBi is getting hurt when this is out !
Jul 05, 2012 @ 14:58:00
it’s written about 10 times on this blog that A13-OLinuXino board is planned to be in production in September but each time I post about it I got at least 10 e-mails with this question and several posts on the blog message, why you guys do not read 🙂 , I will disagree that “nobody” knows this project, the day 1 when I anounced the A13 board project started got about 6000 hits alone (about 600 reads every hour accourding to wordpress), the number of reads since then is about 100 000, so lot of people are aware that this board is coming and just wait patiently 😉
Jul 05, 2012 @ 15:52:46
How about the FAQ ? 😉
Jul 05, 2012 @ 16:19:09
good point 🙂
Jul 05, 2012 @ 18:32:01
done! 😉 https://www.olimex.com/dev/a13-olinuxino.html
Jul 05, 2012 @ 19:30:32
Jul 05, 2012 @ 15:53:58
I left a line about this project directly to the RBi’s message board. You should get 10x hits very soon 😉
Jul 05, 2012 @ 19:34:17
EVERYBODY! Spread the link to this plog. Lets put this thing to FLY ! By the community advertising 🙂
Jul 07, 2012 @ 03:40:48
Will there be NFC on this?
Jul 09, 2012 @ 12:31:16
this board have UEXT connector you can see what you can connect to UEXT here -> https://www.olimex.com/dev/OTHER/UEXT.pdf
Sep 13, 2012 @ 14:31:40
Hi Olimex
This is an awesome project .The thing that make it more beautiful is that its open source . I am a circuit designer never had any experience in designing 4 layer PCB But i do 2 layer and all.
I would like to design a simple board editing your PCB . Could you tell me which are the four layers and whats its color i got top as red and bottom as blue
But i have a doubt for other two layers could you help me ?
Sep 13, 2012 @ 14:40:18
layer 2 and 15 are the internal layers
Sep 13, 2012 @ 14:45:58
Thank you for your reply In eagle i selected option view<<display/hide layers and enabled 15 th layer and disabled all other layers its showing nothing other than a green border
My doubt is that is it ground layer or power layer ??
Pardon if i am asking something rubbish 🙂
Sep 13, 2012 @ 14:52:54
as Layer 2 is GND plane this is exactly what you have to see
Sep 17, 2012 @ 13:34:53
hi can you please do help me by telling how to generate gerber files for this PCB layout
Sep 17, 2012 @ 13:39:24
on our web there is PCB section with tutorial how to generate gerbers from Eagle files, read and follow
Sep 21, 2012 @ 10:06:58
hi can you tell me the board thickness, surface finishing for the pcb ??
Sep 21, 2012 @ 10:09:47
1.6 mm, gold
Sep 21, 2012 @ 13:43:22
I generated
A13-OLinuXino_Rev_B.cmp
A13-OLinuXino_Rev_B.drd
A13-OLinuXino_Rev_B.drl
A13-OLinuXino_Rev_B.plc
A13-OLinuXino_Rev_B.sol
A13-OLinuXino_Rev_B.stc
A13-OLinuXino_Rev_B.sts
using the tutorial link on olimex site . i hope these are the only gerber files for 4 layer board
Am i correct or shall i missed anythng
Sep 21, 2012 @ 13:50:39
just send the Eagle files to your manufacturer, the tutorial on our web is for 2 layer Pcbs!
Sep 21, 2012 @ 14:15:41
oh that means there is no need to edit excellon in eagle.def file . And regular procedure of generating 4 layer PCB . ya i would send eagle files to manufacturer but i wish i could learn that procedure that is why asked . Thank you 🙂
Sep 21, 2012 @ 14:33:06
to generate the inner layers use same script as for the top/bottom layers, but select the inner2 and inner3
it’s simple and straight forward, then check with gerber viewer what you generated and compare with the CAD files, that’s all folks 🙂
Sep 21, 2012 @ 14:35:12
yeah i did it thanks a lot sir 🙂
Sep 22, 2012 @ 06:12:26
my pcb manufacturer is asking me copper thickness too . what should be the ideal thickness of this board
Sep 22, 2012 @ 09:04:59
1 oz
Sep 26, 2012 @ 21:09:47
i would like to buy A13 olinuxino boards in your site its written you will be able to supply A13 chips tooo….So is it possible for you to ship whole components for manufacturing A13 boards (atleast 5 boards )
Sep 26, 2012 @ 21:12:29
i actually meant two A13 Olinuxino boards + components for making five A13 Olinixino boards
Sep 27, 2012 @ 09:22:02
you can use our online shop at http://www.olimex.com, send me e-mail for the A13 chips
Sep 27, 2012 @ 09:26:02
hi olimex where i could get your email and as i said i need all components including A13 chips i mean ram resistors capacitors etc all of them
Sep 27, 2012 @ 10:18:34
http://www.olimex.com?
Nov 03, 2013 @ 15:23:27
hi olimex
i see your schematic for A13-OLinuXino and in tracks that is for u2 component (H5TQ2G83CFR-H9C) why nets that is for data (D8…..D15) is not respectively connected to DQ0 …. DQ7
your connect is :
DQ0 ———-> D15
DQ1 ———-> D12
DQ2 ———-> D13
DQ3 ———-> D8
DQ4 ———-> D11
DQ5 ———-> D10
DQ6 ———-> D9
DQ7 ———-> D14
shell it be like this ?????
DQ0 ———-> D8
DQ1 ———-> D9
DQ2 ———-> D10
DQ3 ———-> D11
DQ4 ———-> D12
DQ5 ———-> D13
DQ6 ———-> D14
DQ7 ———-> D15
in ddr3 sdram u1 data pin is correct but in ddr3 sdram u2 confuse and data pin is unregular please help me