Digi ConnectCore Kurzanleitung

ConnectCore®

for i.MX51

Hardware Reference Manual

Revision history—90001128

Revision Date Description

M May, 2014 Correct inaccuracy and sharpen clarity on the high temp start up issue.

N November,

2014

Miscellaneous editorial updates. Updated the voltages for the table in Coin

cell input (VCC_COINCELL). Added a table of related publications.

P June, 2017 Updated branding and added statements for RED compliance.

R April, 2018 Added coin cell input topic.

S January,

2019

Added backdrive caution.

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Contents

About the module

Features and functionality 9

Module variant 10

Block diagram 11

CPU 11

Module 11

Module pinout 13

Pinout legend 13

Pinout definitions 13

J1 pinout 14

J2 pinout 27

Power 41

Module power supplies 41

Supply inputs 41

Supply outputs 42

MC13892 power management 43

Memory 44

DDR2 SDRAM memory 44

NAND flash memory 44

Chip selects 45

Chip select memory map 45

Multiplexed GPIO 46

GPIO multiplexing table 46

Interfaces 51

1-Wire 51

Accelerometer 51

ADC and touch screen 51

Synchronous Serial Interface (SSI) 52

External Memory Interface (EMI) 53

Ethernet 1 53

Ethernet 2 54

I2C 54

Video subsystem 55

Video Processing Unit (VPU) 55

Image Processing Unit (IPU) 56

Keypad 57

Memory cards 58

PWM 59

RTC 59

SPDIF 59

SPI 60

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Watchdog timer 60

UART 60

USB Host and USB OTG 61

WLAN 61

About the development board

About the development board 65

The development board 66

Switches and push-buttons 67

Power switch, S2 67

Reset button, S4 67

Power button, S11 67

User buttons, S3 and S5 68

Ident button, S10 68

Legend for multi-position switches 68

UART 1 switch, S6 68

UART 2 switch, S7 69

Boot configuration switches, S8 and S9 69

Jumpers 71

Battery enable, J5 71

Module power source, P29 71

LED 1, J16 71

LED 2, J9 72

Button 1, J28 72

Button 2, J29 72

UART3 / XBee selection, J30 and J31 72

WLAN disable, J17 72

Touch selection, J20 72

Coincell enable, J3 72

JTAG mod., J4 72

LEDs 73

WLAN, LE12 73

Power LEDs, LE3, LE4, LE6 and LE7 73

User LEDs, LE49 and LE51 74

Serial status LEDs 74

UART 1 status LEDs 74

UART 2 status LEDs 74

XBee Associate, LE50 74

Audio interface 75

Line-out connector pinout, J18 76

Line-in connector pinout, J12 76

Microphone connector pinout, J15 76

Coin cell battery 77

Camera interfaces 78

X15 pinout 79

X17 pinout 79

Digital IO interface 80

Digital I/O connector, X45 80

Ethernet 1 interface 81

Ethernet 1, RJ-45 connector X7 82

Ethernet 2 interface 83

Ethernet 2, connector J17 83

HDMI interface 85

HDMI connector, J19 85

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I2C interface 87

I2C header, P22 87

JTAG interface 89

Standard JTAG ARM connector, X13 89

LCD interfaces 90

LCD 1 connector, P1 91

P1 pinout 91

LCD 2 connector, P2 92

P2 pinout 93

MicroSD™ card interface 95

MicroSD connector, X14 95

Module connectors and signal rails 97

Module connectors 97

Signal rails, J25 and J26 97

J25 pinout 98

J26 pinout 100

Peripheral application header 104

Peripheral application header, P21 104

Power-Over-Ethernet (PoE) - IEEE802.3af 106

The PoE module 107

PoE connector (power in), P17 107

PoE connector (power out), P18 107

Main power connector 108

SD-card interface 109

SD/MMC connector, X18 109

SPI interface 111

SPI header, P24 111

UART interface 113

Serial port 2, RS232, X27 113

Serial port 1, MEI interface, X30 114

Serial port 3, TTL interface, X19 114

USB host interface 116

USB host connectors, J8 and J10 116

USB OTG interface 117

USB OTG connector, J11 117

User interface 118

Analog video interface 119

Analog video connector, X32 119

WLAN interface 121

Antenna connectors (WLAN) 121

Digi XBee interface 123

Digi XBee module connectors, X28 and X29 123

Module specifications

Mechanical specifications 126

Fasteners and appropriate torque 126

Environmental specifications 126

Network interface 126

Antenna specifications: 802.11 a/b/g antenna 126

Antenna specification: 802.11b/g antenna 127

Ethernet 1 128

Ethernet 2 129

WLAN 129

Electrical characteristics 131

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Charger vs. battery 131

Supply voltages 132

Supply current 132

On-module power supplies 133

I/O DC parameters 134

Module dimensions

Top view 139

Bottom view 140

Side view 141

Connectors 141

Regulatory information

Federal Communication (FCC) regulatory information (USA only) 142

RF exposure 142

Modifications (FCC 15.21) 143

Industry Canada 143

Indoor/outdoor 143

Japan certification 143

Declaration of Conformity (DoC) 144

CE mark (Europe) 144

International EMC standards 145

Maximum power and frequency specifications

About the module

The network-enabled ConnectCore for i.MX51 is a highly integrated System-on-Module (SOM) solution

based on the new Freescale®i.MX51X application processor with a high-performance ARM®Cortex-A8®

core, powerful multimedia options, and a complete set of peripherals.

The module combines the fast integration, reliability and design flexibility of an off-the-shelf SOM with

complete out-of-the-box software development support for platforms such as Microsoft®Windows®

Embedded CE 6.0, Windows Embedded Compact 7Digi®Embedded Linux®and Timesys®LinuxLink®.

With industry-leading performance and key features like a dual-display interface and a hardware

encryption engine, the module is the ideal choice for a broad range of target markets including

medical, digital signage, security/access control, retail, industrial/building automation, transportation

and more.

Complete and cost-efficient Digi JumpStart Kits™ for Microsoft Windows Embedded CE 6.0 and Linux

allow immediate and professional embedded product development with dramatically reduced design

risk and time-to-market.

Features and functionality 9

Block diagram 11

Module pinout 13

Power 41

Memory 44

Chip selects 45

Multiplexed GPIO 46

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Features and functionality

The ConnectCore for i.MX51 module is based on the i.MX51 processor from Freescale. This processor

offers a high number of interfaces. Most of these interfaces are multiplexed and are not available

simultaneously. The module has the following features:

nHigh-end, low-power 32-bit System-on-Module

n600/800 MHZ ARM Cortex-A8 core

l32 kB L1 instruction and 32 kB L1 data cache

l256 kB L2 cache

lNEON co-processor

lVector Floating Point (VFP) unit

nSLC and MLC NAND flash support on module

nUp to 512 MB 32-bit/200 MHZ DDR2-400 memory

nDebug interfaces

lJoint Test Action Group (JTAG)

lEmbedded Trace Macrocell™ (ETM) / Embedded Trace Buffer (ETB)

nReal Time Clock (RTC)

nSecurity co-processor

lEncryption: Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), Data Encryption Standard (DES), 3DES and

RC4

lHashing algorithms: Message Digest (MD)5, Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA)-1, SHA-224 and

SHA-256

nTimer

nWatchdog

nUp to three universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter (UART) ports, up to 4 Mb/s each

nUp to three Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI), two of them up to 54 Mb/s each

nTwo Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C) (up to 400 kb/s)

nThree memory card interfaces (two for the wireless version of the module)

lSD/Secure Digital Input Output (SDIO) - 1 and 4-bits (up to 200 Mb/s)

lMultiMediaCard (MMC) - 1, 4 and 8-bits (up to 416 Mb/s)

nUSB

nUp to 3x USB 2.0 High-Speed USB Host ports

nOne USB 2.0 On-The-Go USB port with integrated Physical Layer (PHY) on the module

n1-wire

nKeypad 6x4

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nTwo independent pulse-width modulation (PWM) interfaces

n8, 16-bit External Memory interface

nGeneral-purpose input/output (GPIO) with interrupt capabilities

nUp to 3x 10-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC) channels

nMultimedia

l2x Camera ports

l2x Display ports

l4-wire touch screen

nSony/Philips Digital Interface Forma (SPDIF) output

nThree I2S / Audio Codec '97 (AC’97) / Synchronous Serial Interfaces (SSI), up to 1.4Mb/s each

nOn-module three axis accelerometer (optional)

nOn-module 10/100 Ethernet controller (optional)

nSecond on-module 10/100Mb Ethernet interface (optional)

n2.4 GHz and 5 GHz Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11a/b/g/n

wireless local area network (LAN) interface (optional)

nComplete Microsoft Windows Embedded CE 6.0 and Linux platform support with full source

code

Module variant

The ConnectCore for i.MX51 module is available with various population options such as network

interfaces (Ethernet, wireless local area network [WLAN]), memory (flash, random-access memory

[RAM]), processor (speed grade/operating temperature) and others.

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