May is the month of our System On Modules π
Today our next SOM with RK3188 successfully was tested and OK.
This one is little beast comparing to A20 it have 4x Cortex-A9 vs 2x Cortex-A7 and runs on 1.6GHz vs. 1GHz so RK3188 makes total 16000 DMPIS vs. 3800 DMIPS for A20 (4.2 times faster) and vs. 965 DMIPS for RaspberryPi (16.6 times faster).
On the SOM there is:
- RK3188 running at 1.6Ghz
- 1GB DDR3 memory
- Power Managment Unit IC
- optional 4GB NAND Flash
- micro SD-card to boot Llinux or Android
- two buttons
- three status LEDs
- debug UART console
- 5 GPIO connectors 2×20 pins 0.05″ step
RK3188-SOM and RK3188-SOM-4GB will be available for sale in June. The price of RK3188-SOM will be EUR 40 / 1000 pcs, the price of RK3188-SOM-4GB will be EUR 45 / 1000 pcs
RK3188-SOM-EVB is also available with Eagle CAD files, so any one can tailor board to his needs:
The RK3188-SOM-EVB reference design have:
- RK3188-SOM-4GB module
- 4x USB Hosts
- 1x USB OTG
- HDMI output
- 100MB Ethernet
- RTC with backup battery
- LCD connector compatible with A13-LCDxx A10-LCDxx, A20-LCDxx displays we have
- 2x UEXT connectors
- 2x 40 pin GPIO connectors
RK3188-SOM-EVB will be available for sale in June too and the price is EUR 85.00
Android and Debian Linux will be provided.
cpuinfo:
root@rk3188-som:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo Processor : ARMv7 Processor rev 0 (v7l) processor : 0 BogoMIPS : 1631.46 processor : 1 BogoMIPS : 1631.46 processor : 2 BogoMIPS : 1631.46 processor : 3 BogoMIPS : 1631.46 Features : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 CPU implementer : 0x41 CPU architecture: 7 CPU variant : 0x3 CPU part : 0xc09 CPU revision : 0 Hardware : RK30board Revision : 0000 Serial : 0000000000000000
and meminfo:
root@rk3188-som:~# cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 856652 kB MemFree: 561600 kB Buffers: 13652 kB Cached: 200592 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 121004 kB Inactive: 137368 kB Active(anon): 44260 kB Inactive(anon): 456 kB Active(file): 76744 kB Inactive(file): 136912 kB Unevictable: 0 kB Mlocked: 0 kB HighTotal: 155648 kB HighFree: 8676 kB LowTotal: 701004 kB LowFree: 552924 kB SwapTotal: 0 kB SwapFree: 0 kB Dirty: 0 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 44168 kB Mapped: 21492 kB Shmem: 572 kB Slab: 13864 kB SReclaimable: 7552 kB SUnreclaim: 6312 kB KernelStack: 1592 kB PageTables: 1696 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB WritebackTmp: 0 kB CommitLimit: 428324 kB Committed_AS: 451232 kB VmallocTotal: 122880 kB VmallocUsed: 42728 kB VmallocChunk: 32636 kB
May 14, 2014 @ 18:25:11
No sata port ?
May 14, 2014 @ 18:28:59
unfortunately RK3188 have no native SATA:
Click to access Rockchip%20RK3188%20brief%20v1.0.pdf
May 14, 2014 @ 18:33:16
power consumption?
May 14, 2014 @ 18:43:42
when can we order this SoM ? any ETA
May 14, 2014 @ 19:20:37
quote from the page I assume you have read π
“RK3188-SOM and RK3188-SOM-4GB will be available for sale in June.”
May 14, 2014 @ 20:40:28
At last, enough power for my hobbyist, unoptimized, memory-eating computer vision programs! π Just in time for my birthday! π That’s way smaller than my laptop running OpenCV. Do I get both the EVB and the SOM for β¬ 85? Do you think it will run Picuntu? Thanks
May 14, 2014 @ 20:51:07
RK3188-SOM-EVB contain RK3188-SOM-4GB as written in the post above :), yes it will run Picuntu without problem
May 15, 2014 @ 11:24:50
Sorry, it’s not clear for me, but does all EVB boards (A20, AM3352, etc…) always include the respective SOM board ?
May 15, 2014 @ 11:32:07
EVBs always have SOM with NAND on them as they are development platform, just the EVB without the SOM make no sense as useless, this is why in the features we always list that it contains SOM
May 15, 2014 @ 11:42:22
https://www.olimex.com/Products/SOM/AM3352/AM3352-SOM-EVB/open-source-hardware
Here, i do not see the SOM board in the feature list (only SOM board matching connector). This is why i supposed that i have to buy the SOM board too.
May 15, 2014 @ 11:45:59
indeed this is omitted but we will fix it immediately
May 15, 2014 @ 02:48:44
Real Time kernel supported by Olimex?
May 15, 2014 @ 06:53:40
RK3188 is faster but also hotter than A20 and this might be a problem considering the current design of SoM+EVB where it is not possible to install even a passive cooler.
May 15, 2014 @ 07:13:42
we will do some power measurements today, but so far we didn’t noticed RK3188 to heats
Do not forget RK3188 is made on 28 nm proces while A20 uses 40 nm process
May 15, 2014 @ 12:42:22
Ok. I’ve noticed that alot of chips are very cool until you utilise the Mali core or try to run HD video decoding. And how about doing 3D graphics and playing HD movie AND running some multicore heavy load apps in backgroung? I think in small enclosure that could be a problem. Btw. I like to wach a movie while linux builds in background.
May 15, 2014 @ 16:38:30
Is there an I2S support? RK3188 has 2ch 16/24/32bit up to 192khz i2s
can we just pick a signal from gpio-s? what about software?
btw specs are great and price is ok.
May 16, 2014 @ 04:39:59
Now, it’s time for the quad-core Atom-based x86-OLinuXino for even more performance (and, finally, after all the Chinese SoCs, publicly available long processor data sheets and open source graphics with public GPU documentation)! π
May 16, 2014 @ 16:27:21
Need moar ram! MOAR!
But seriously, rk3188 allegedly supports up to 4gb, though 2gb is common.
May 16, 2014 @ 16:59:18
How is the linux situation on RK3188 compared with A20? Do we have all the sources?
May 16, 2014 @ 17:00:14
check linux-rockchip.info
May 19, 2014 @ 22:31:35
I need an EVB for a project. No other board in the market is both open and powerful enough for it. I’d like to be among the first to buy it. Can I preorder it? Does the first board have the number “1” printed on it? π
May 27, 2014 @ 17:38:29
What is the operating temperature range?
Jun 30, 2014 @ 19:10:04
When will this be available?
Jul 01, 2014 @ 00:11:06
Linux kernel 3.X support?
Jul 29, 2014 @ 10:15:07
Is it released? Will Linux OS be supported with hardware accelerated video codecs
Sep 29, 2014 @ 22:32:11
When it becomes a product?
Oct 12, 2014 @ 23:06:40
Is the full RK3188 Specification Datasheet Technical Reference Manual available anywhere yet?
Oct 24, 2014 @ 23:47:18
@RK Robots: It would appear so: http://rockchip.fr/
@Olimex: Will the naked Rockchip SoC and PMU ICs also be available in small quantities from your shop like you sell the Allwinner ICs?