Boundary Devices i.MX6x Nitrogen6X Instructions for use

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Nitrogen6X Hardware User Manual
Revision History
Date
Revision
Description
03-05-2012
1.0
First Draft
12-27-2012
1.1
Nitrogen6X_Rev 2 change list
06-21-2013
1.2
Nitrogen6X_Rev 3 change list

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1 Contents
1 Contents ....................................................................................................................................... 2
2 Overview...................................................................................................................................... 3
3 Electrical Characteristics ............................................................................................................. 3
4 Connector Details......................................................................................................................... 4
5 Mounting.................................................................................................................................... 12

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2 Overview
Boundary Devices is excited to announce the availability of the i.MX6x Nitrogen6X Board, a
low-cost development platform featuring the powerful i.MX 6Quad Application Processor. The
hardware specifications for the Nitrogen6X board are the following:
Quad-Core ARM® Cortex A9 processor at 1GHz per core
1GByte of 64-bit wide DDR3 @ 532MHz
Three display ports (RGB, LVDS, and HDMI 1.4a)
Two camera ports (1xParallel, 1x MIPI CSI-2)
Multi-stream-capable HD video engine delivering H.264 1080p60 decode,1080p30
encode and 3-D video playback in HD
Triple Play Graphics system consisting of a Quad-shader 3D unit, and a separate 2-D and
separate OpenVG Vertex acceleration engine for superior 3D, 2D and user interface
acceleration
Serial ATA 2.5 (SATA) at 3Gbps
Dual SD 3.0/SDXC card slots
PCIe port (1 lane)
Analog (headphone/mic) and Digital (HDMI) audio
10/100/Gb Ethernet
10-pin JTAG interface
3 High speed USB ports (2xHost, 1xOTG)
1xCAN2 port
I2C
Real-Time Clock with battery backup
0-70C Operating Temperature (Industrial Temperature -40-+85C Versions Available)
General Purpose I/O for Device Control
CHANGES In REV 2 Board:
1. Modified components to be Industrial Temperature ready
2. Added external Real Time Clock with Battery (ISL1208)
3. Modified NVCC_MIPI to meet new Rev 1.2 Silicon specification
4. Modified PCIe connector to be board-to-board and added ability to use i.MX6
internal PCIe clock signals
CHANGES In REV 3 Board:
1. Added EMI Filters
2. Added 1.8V and 2.5V option for CSI Camera
3 Electrical Characteristics
Parameter
Min
Typ
Max
Unit
Main Input Voltage
TBD
5
TBD
V
Power Consumption*
-
1.5
TBD
W
CPU Clock
-
1.0
1.0
GHz
*The Power Consumption refers to a single board with no other peripherals plugged in.

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4 Connector Details

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4.1 Standard Connectors
The list of industry standard connectors with known pin outs is the following:
Ref Designator
Function
J3
USB OTG
J4
HDMI
J8
Headphone Jack
J10
DC Power Jack
J18
microSD Slot 1
J20
microSD Slot 2
J21
SATA
J24
2xUSB Host
J25
10/100/1G Ethernet
4.2 Custom Connectors
The Nitrogen6X board has a wide variety of peripheral interfaces available via custom
connectors.
J1: USB (Molex 53047-0410)
Pin#
Function
1
+5V
2
USBDN_DM3
3
USBDN_DP3
4
GND
J5: Camera (AVX 086210033340800)
Pin#
Function
1
GND
2
D19
3
D18
4
D17
5
D16
6
D15
7
D14
8
D13
9
D12
10
D11
11
D10
12
D9
13
D8
14
SCL
15
SDA
16
GND

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GPIO_3_CLKO2
18
GND
19
2.5V
20
2.5V
21
2.5V
22
2.5V
23
GND
24
CSI0_DATA_EN
25
GND
26
CSI0_RST
27
CSI0_VSYNC
28
CSI0_HSYNC
29
GND
30
CSI0_PIXCLK
31
GPIO_6
32
GND
33
GPIO1_16
J6: LVDS (Hirose DF14-20P-1.25H)
Pin#
Function
1
3.3V
2
3.3V
3
GND
4
GND
5
TX0_N
6
TX0_P
7
GND
8
TX1_N
9
TX1_P
10
GND
11
TX2_N
12
TX2_P
13
GND
14
CLK_N
15
CLK_P
16
GND
17
TX3_N
18
TX3_P
19
DISP0_CONTRAST
20
PWM4
J7: I2C/GPIO (Molex 53047-0710)
Pin#
Function
1
+5V
2
+5V

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+5V
4
GPIO9
5
I2C3_SDA
6
I2C3_SCL
7
GND
J9: MIC In (Molex 53047-0310)
Pin#
Function
1
GND_Analog
2
MIC In
3
MIC Det
J12: Boot Mode Switches (Molex 52991-0408)
Pin#
Function
1
EIM_A23
2
EIM_DA0
3
EIM_A22
4
EIM_DA1
5
EIM_A21
6
EIM_DA2
7
EIM_A20
8
EIM_DA3
9
EIM_A19
10
EIM_DA4
11
EIM_A18
12
EIM_DA5
13
EIM_A17
14
EIM_DA6
15
EIM_A16
16
EIM_DA7
17
EIM_EB3
18
EIM_DA8
19
EIM_EB2
20
EIM_DA9
21
EIM_RW
22
EIM_DA10
23
EIM_EB1
24
EIM_DA11
25
EIM_EB0
26
GND
27
EIM_LBA
28
EIM_DA12
29
GND
30
DSI_D1M

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EIM_WAIT
32
EIM_DA13
33
GND
34
GND
35
EIM_A24
36
EIM_DA14
37
+3.3V
38
GND
39
+3.3V
40
EIM_DA15
J13: JTAG (Molex 53047-0810)
Pin#
Function
1
+3.3V
2
JTAG_TMS
3
GND
4
JTAG_TCK
5
GND
6
JTAG_TDO
7
JTAG_MOD
8
JTAG_TDI
9
JTAG_nTRST
10
BRESET_N
J14: Android Buttons (Molex 53047-0810)
Pin#
Function
IMX6 Pad Name
1
ON/OFF
2
KEY_VOL_UP
GPIO_18
3
HOME
NANDF_D4
4
SEARCH
NANDF_D3
5
BACK
NANDF_D2
6
MENU
NANDF_D1
7
KEY_VOL_DN
GPIO_19
8
GND
J15: Parallel RGB (Omron XF2M-4015-1A)
Pin#
Function
1
GND
2
GND
3
GND
4
DISP0_CNTRST
5
R0
6
R1
7
R2
8
R3

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R4
10
R5
11
R6
12
R7
13
G0
14
G1
15
G2
16
G3
17
G4
18
G5
19
G6
20
G7
21
B0
22
B1
23
B2
24
B3
25
B4
26
B5
27
B6
28
B7
29
GND
30
DISP0_CLK
31
GND
32
DISP0_HSYNC
33
DISP0_VSYNC
34
DISP0_DRDY
35
I2C3_SCL
36
I2C3_SDA
37
PWM1
38
+5V
39
+5V
40
+5V
J16: MIPI (Molex 52991-0408)
Pin#
Function
1
CSI_D0M
2
+5V
3
CSI_D0P
4
+5V
5
GND
6
I2C2_SDA
7
CSI_D1M
8
I2C2_SCL
9
CSI_D1P
10
PWM3

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GND
12
MIPI_BAKLGT_ON
13
CSI_D2M
14
NANDF_D5
15
CSI_D2P
16
DSI_D0P
17
GND
18
DSI_D0M
19
CSI_D3M
20
GND
21
CSI_D3P
22
DSI_CLK0P
23
GND
24
DSI_CLK0M
25
CSI_CLK0M
26
GND
27
CSI_CLK0P
28
DSI_D1P
29
GND
30
DSI_D1M
J17: COM1 & COM2 (Molex 53047-0610)
Pin#
Function
1
UART1 TX
2
+5V
3
GND
4
UART2 TX
5
UART2 RX
6
UART1 RX
J19: SATA Power (Tyco 640457-3)
Pin#
Function
1
+3.3V
2
GND
3
+5V
J22: CAN Interface (Molex 53047-0310)
Pin#
Function
1
CANH
2
GND
3
CANL
J23: PCIe (FCI 20021321-00010C4LF)
Pin#
Function
1
PCIE_RXM

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GND
3
PCIE_RXP
4
CLK1_N
5
GND
6
CLK1_P
7
PCIE_TXM
8
GND
9
PCIE_TXP
10
+3.3V
J26: POE Output (Singatron SSW-1-04-01-T-S)
POE Output is meant to interface with BD POE module. If you need further details, please
contact us.

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5 Mounting
The overall dimensions of the Nitrogen6X board are 4.5” x 3”