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User’s Guide
© 2014 Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. All rights reserved.
1 Introduction
This user’s guide details the setup and configuration of the
Freescale Automotive Evaluation Board (hereafter referred
to as the EVB). The EVB is intended to provide a mechanism
for easy customer evaluation of the heterogeneous dual-core
Vybrid family, and to facilitate hardware and software
development.
The SVF522R3K1CMK4 MCU used on the EVB has
following characteristics:
• 500 MHz 32-bit ARM® Cortex®-A5 core,
• Dual TFT display,
• Dual USB OTG with built-in HS / FS / LS PHY,
• Dual 10 / 100 MAC (Ethernet) with L2 switch,
• Advanced security,
• -40°C to 85°C operating temperature range.
The EVB as a whole, however, is intended for bench /
laboratory use and has been designed using commercial
temperature-range specified components (up to +70°C).
Document Number: EVBVF522R3UG
Rev. 0, 11/2014
Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
2. Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
3. Configuration overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. Power management scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
5. Clocking scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
6. MCU reset block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
7. Peripheral reset-control multiplexer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
8. MCU reset boot configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
9. Debug interfaces (P15, P16) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
10. On-board memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
11. Communication interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
12. Video interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
13. Audio blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
14. User I/O and control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
15. MCU I/O connections and pin usage . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
16. Configuration settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
17. Getting started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
18. Reference documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
19. Revision history . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
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CAUTION
The EVB contains components that may be damaged by electrostatic
discharge. Observe precautions for handling electrostatic-sensitive devices
when using this EVB.
1.1 Peripheral daughtercards
The EVB has connectors / headers for various daughtercards that provide additional peripheral
functionality (see Section 14, “User I/O and control” for details). These are not supplied with the EVB and
may be sourced separately.
CAUTION
Daughtercards are usually not hot-swappable; ensure that the EVB is
powered OFF prior to fitting or removing a daughtercard.
2Features
Shown in Figure 1, the EVB has the following features:
• Single 12V ± 2V / 2A DC external power supply input (via a 2.1 mm barrel-style power jack) with
on-board voltage regulators.
• LED status indication for all the power rails.
• Inherent “Enable” for the major power rails.
• Power-on, manual, and JTAG reset with status LED.
• Configurable reset multiplexer (controlled over SPI/I2C) providing reset control of the major
peripheral blocks.
• RCON (reset configuration) jumpers and full 32-bit switches.
• 20-pin JTAG and 10-pin ARM Cortex debug headers.
• Two incremental encoders and four dedicated station preset buttons.
• High-speed CAN transceiver routed to 4-pin header.
• SCI transceiver (routed to standard DB9 connector) and LIN transceiver (routed to Molex 4-pin
connector) on shared SCI0 channel.
• Board-to-board MAC (Ethernet) connector, e.g. for Ethernet daughtercard.
• Two MCU USB interfaces based on “On-The-Go Micro AB” and “Type A Host” connectors with
full 500 mA support each.
• 1G (64M x 16) DDR3 SDRAM IC.
• Three QuadSPI Flash ICs, 256 MB each.
• SD card slot.
• Four “Video In” (RCA “phono”) inputs with direct connection to MCU video ADC.
• Unified 24-bit DCU connector (QSH-060-01-L-D-A) with analog and I2C support for basic touch
screen operation; matches Freescale LCD and HDMI daughtercards.
• MLB daughtercard connector.

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• Potentiometer (variable resistor) on MCU ADC channel 0.
• Headers for all accessible, GPIO and analog, signals not used elsewhere on the EVB.
• “Aux in” audio connector (3.5 mm), with filter and standalone ADC IC.
• Left and right SPI-based microphones.
• Standalone DSP for audio processing.
• SPI Serial Flash IC, 32 MB (dedicated to DSP, optional usage).
• Twin DAC, filter, and headphone amplifiers for audio outputs (3.5 mm connectors).
• Radio tuner daughtercard connector.
•TwoI
2C daughtercard connectors.
• Bluetooth® daughtercard connector.
• Generic CD connector.
NOTE
To alleviate confusion between jumpers and headers, all EVB jumpers are
implemented as 2 mm pitch, whereas headers are 0.1” (2.54 mm). This
prevents inadvertently fitting a jumper to a header.
CAUTION
Before the EVB is used or power is applied, please, fully read this user
manual.
Failure to correctly configure the board may cause irreparable damage.
Power must be removed from the EVB prior to:
• Removing or installing daughtercards or other connectors.
• Reconfiguring the board jumpers or switches.
Figure 1. Freescale Automotive Evaluation Board (EVB) overview

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3 Configuration overview
The EVB has been designed with ease of use in mind; its functional blocks are shown in Figure 2 and
Figure 3 below. Explained are the power, reset, clocks, and debug configuration settings, which are the
minimum required to power on the EVB.
Figure 2. EVB functional blocks (top view)

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Figure 3. EVB functional blocks (top view)
4 Power management scheme
4.1 External power connector (P12)
The EVB requires a DC supply of 12V ± 2V capable of 2A, which allows easy use in a vehicle as well as
copying the design for automotive applications. A standard 2.1 mm barrel connector type is used. Care
must be taken to ensure the correct polarization as shown in Figure 4 below.
Figure 4. 2.1 mm power connector

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4.2 Switch-mode voltage regulator (U7)
An automotive-grade triple-output switch-mode voltage regulator generates:
• 1.5V to power the main MCU core voltage regulator (default), MCU DDR interface, and DDR
memory,
• 3.3V to power the main MCU core voltage regulator (to test low-power applications, e.g. without
DDR), main MCU supply, and EVB peripherals,
• 5V to power the MCU USB interface and EVB peripherals.
Each output has a “Power-Good” LED indicator as well as an inherent “Enable” feature.
4.3 Linear voltage regulators (U511, U1, U513)
Three voltages are generated using linear voltage regulators:
• Optional 1.2V to power the MCU analog 1.2V blocks (instead of using filtered MCU core supply),
• 1.8V to power the audio/DSP circuitry,
• Optional 3.3V to power the MCU analog 3.3V blocks and other EVB circuitry (instead of using
filtered MCU supply).
The 1.2V and 1.8V outputs have LED status indicators.
4.4 Power status LEDs (DS1 to DS6)
Five voltage outputs have green LED status indicators as shown in Table 1.
If no LEDs are illuminated when power is applied to the EVB, it is possible that the external power source
polarity is incorrect. The EVB will not be damaged, though, thanks to the series diode D500 on the power
input.
Although all the voltage regulators have output overload protection, it is strongly recommended to prevent
their outputs from being shorted. If this happens, damage is likely to occur to the EVB and/or components.
4.5 Backup battery (BT500)
When the external power supply fails, the Secure Real-Time Clock (SecureRTC) module of the MCU
operates from the on-board coin cell battery. Its holder accommodates a 20 mm diameter 3V lithium-ion
Table 1. Power status LEDs
LED Legend Description
DS1 1.8VL Linear 1.8V
DS3 1.2VL Linear 1.2V
DS4 1.5VS Switch-mode 1.5V “Power-Good”
DS5 3.3VS Switch -mode 3.3V “Power-Good”
DS6 5VS Switch -mode 5.0V “Power-Good”

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battery, for example 2032 or 2025, and the J8 header (see Table 15) selects if the MCU VBAT pin is
powered from it or the main MCU 3.3V rail (see Figure 5).
Figure 5. Backup battery
4.6 MCU supply routing
4.6.1 MCU core power
An external ballast transistor (Q2) is used to generate 1.2V for the MCU core (see Figure 6); depending
on the R28 configuration (see Table 15), its collector can be powered from one of the below rails:
• 1.5V (default),
• 3.3V (to test low-power applications without 1.5V rail, e.g. without DDR); in this case, the optional
diodes D2 and D3 shall be populated.
Refer to the AN4807 Application Note for details.
Figure 6. MCU core power

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4.6.2 Analog MCU power scheme
The four analog MCU power rails, VDD12_AFE, VCC_3V3_AFE, VCC_3V3_ADC, and VREF_3V3,
have two powering options (see Figure 7):
1. The default, cost-efficient option through a series ferrite bead filtering the relevant main power rail,
2. The optional, more expensive option when high-quality ADC and DAC performance required -
from the dedicated linear voltage regulators (unpopulated by default).
Details of using the option-selection components, FB504, R632, and R625, as well as J6, the ON/OFF
jumper for the optional linear 1.2V regulator (U511), are described in Table 15.
The optional linear 3.3V regulator (U513) does not have an ON/OFF feature
Figure 7. Analog MCU supplies
4.7 Measuring MCU power consumption
The EVB design provides means for measuring currents in the major MCU power rails.

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4.7.1 Measuring main 3.3V current
Header J9 (see Figure 8 and Table 15) is intended for measuring current in the MCU 3.3V power rail.
Diode DD2 in parallel to it guarantees the 3.3V power is uninterrupted even when J9 open.
Figure 8. Measuring MCU 3.3V rail current
4.7.2 Measuring USB PHY current
Headers J4 and J7 controlling power for the MCU USB PHYs (see Section 11.4, “Dual USB interface (P1,
P9)”) may also be used to measure current if their jumpers are replaced with an ammeter (see Figure 21
and Table 15).
4.7.3 Measuring 1.2V current
Due to layout constraints, there is no dedicated header to measure the MCU 1.2V current, but it can be
done if a 0-Ohm resistor in the R28 location (see Figure 6 and Table 15) is replaced with a current-sense
one. For user’s convenience, eight 0.02-Ohm 1% current-sense resistors are provided on the board (see
Figure 9).

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Figure 9. On-board current-sense resistors
4.7.4 Measuring currents in other power rails
Numerous power rails have series “shorts” (e.g., SH15 in the MPU SDRAM controller power
rail)–exposed copper footprints consisting of two pads shorted with a trace. If required, the trace can be
cut and a current-sense resistor soldered onto the pads.
Refer to the EVB-VF522R3 Schematic for details.
4.7.5 Powering EVB peripherals
The power-routing options detailed in Section 4.6, “MCU supply routing” only impact the voltage supply
to the MCU and not any of the EVB peripherals. Power domains used by the EVB peripherals are shown
in Table 2, which provides a reference to either disable a regulator or manually provide the voltage for that
power domain.
Table 2. EVB peripherals power
Power Domain Used On
12V MLB daughtercard connector
5V
Switch-Mode
CAN transceiver
Board-to-Board MAC (Ethernet) connector
USB circuitry
DCU daughtercard connector
Radio Tuner daughtercard connector
Generic CD connector
LCD connector (header)

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Clocking scheme
5 Clocking scheme
There are three on-board clock sources available–a crystal-based (Y4) 32.768 kHz MCU built-in oscillator
and two 24 MHz ones:
• Crystal-based (Y3) MCU built-in oscillator used on the EVB by default (with R621 configured as
per Table 15),
• Optional external oscillator (Y2), and Figure 10 demonstrates how its 3.3V-rated output is
connected to a 1.1V-rated MCU input for applications requiring a high-quality clock source.
When Y2 is used, the Y3-based circuit (Y3, C63, C66, and R640) shall be unpopulated.
3.3V
Switch-Mode
MCU reset circuitry
External 24 MHz oscillator (optional)
Peripheral reset-control multiplexer
Mode configuration (BOOTMOD[0..1] and RCON[0..31] pull-up resistors)
Debug (JTAG and Cortex) headers
CAN transceiver
LIN transceiver
SCI transceiver
Board-to-Board MAC (Ethernet) connector
USB circuitry
QuadSPI Flash
SD connector
DCU daughtercard connector
MLB daughtercard connector
Push button preset switches
Audio DSP circuitry (directly and via 3V3_Audio)
SPI Serial Flash (optional usage)
“Aux In” audio ADC circuitry (via 3V3_Audio)
Microphones Left & Right (via 3V3_Audio)
Audio DACs (via 3V3_Audio)
Radio Tuner daughtercard connector
Generic CD connector
Bluetooth daughtercard connector
I2C daughtercard connector
1.5V
Switch-Mode
DDR3 SDRAM circuitry
3.3V
Linear
ADC potentiometer
1.8V
Linear
DCU daughtercard connector
Audio DSP circuitry
Headphone amplifiers (via 1V8_Audio)
Table 2. EVB peripherals power

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MCU reset block
Figure 10. On-board clock options
The MCU device also features two fully internal reference clocks (IRC):
• Fast (24 MHz),
• Slow (128 kHz); the signal is divided by 4 by default to provide an internal 32 kHz clock to the
device.
6 MCU reset block
The MCU reset block has the following features (see Figure 11):
• Active-low open-drain output with status LED (DS2),
• 3.3V-based power-on reset with ~ 200ms active timeout (delay),
• Manual reset (using SW7),
• Reset caused by the JTAG TRST signal (see Section 9, “Debug interfaces (P15, P16)”).

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Figure 11. MCU reset block
7 Peripheral reset-control multiplexer
The EVB includes an 8-output multiplexer (U8) to reset the major peripherals (see Figure 12). Its outputs
are of a push–pull type (except for the unused open-drain Output 0).
When reset, all the outputs are in the high-impedance state; however, thanks to pull-down resistors on the
used outputs, the controlled peripherals are staying in the reset state until the outputs are actively driven
by the MCU over the I2C bus (address 0x30).

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MCU reset boot configuration
Figure 12. Peripheral reset-control multiplexer
8 MCU reset boot configuration
8.1 Boot mode selection (J14, J15)
Vybrid has two boot-mode pins (BOOTMOD[0..1]) routed to jumpers J14 and J15 to determine the EVB
boot behavior (see Table 15). By default, boot configuration will be read from the internal fuses.
8.2 RCON configuration (SW8 to SW11)
In addition, there are 32 switches (four 8-way miniature slide switches as per Figure 13), which can be
used to setup the Vybrid RCON pins behavior prior to blowing its internal boot fuses (see Table 3), the ON
switch position meaning “Logic High” on the RCON pin.
Reset configuration is read from the RCON switches when BOOTMOD[0..1] is set to 10 and ignored for
the rest of the values (see Table 15).
Figure 13. RCON slide switches

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Debug interfaces (P15, P16)
9 Debug interfaces (P15, P16)
Two debugging JTAG headers are provided on the EVB-VF522R3 board (pinout shown in Figure 14,
Table 4, and Table 5):
• Standard 20-pin (P15)
• Cortex 10-pin (P16)
Figure 14. Debug headers
Table 3. RCON switches
Switch RCON Bits
SW11[8..1] RCON[31..24]
SW10[8..1] RCON[23..16]
SW9[8..1] RCON[15..8]
SW8[8..1] RCON[7..0]
Table 4. Standard debug header (P15)
Signal Function Pin No Pin No Function Signal
3V3 VCC
(Debug VREF)
1 2 VCC
(Debug VREF)
3V3
--- nTRST 3 4 GND GND
JTDI TDI 5 6 GND GND
JTMS TMS 7 8 GND GND
JTCLK TCLK 9 10 GND GND
GND RTCK 11 12 GND GND
JTDO TDO 13 14 GND GND
JTAG-RST nSRST 15 16 GND GND
--- NC 17 18 GND GND
--- NC 19 20 GND GND

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On-board memory
10 On-board memory
This section details configuration of the on-board memories:
• DDR3 SRAM (U6)
• QuadSPI Flash (U507 to U509)
• SD card socket (P500)
10.1 DDR3 memory
• A single 1 Gb (64Mx16) DDR3 memory chip in the 96-ball FBGA package (e.g. MT41J64M16 by
Micron Technology) is installed on the EVB.
• It is powered from the above-mentioned (see Section 4.2, “Switch-mode voltage regulator (U7)”)
1.5V power rail (along with the ballast transistor Q2).
• A simple resistor divider is good enough to generate the 0.75V DDR3 reference (see Figure 15).
Figure 15. DDR3 0.75V reference supply
• The EVB is laid out so that it needs no external termination resistors, which simplifies its design
and lowers power consumption.
• DDR3 self-refresh (low-power) mode is supported even when Vybrid is in any of the LPSTOPx
modes, in which its I/Os are switched into a high-impedance mode. The on-board pull-up on
DDR_RESET and pull-down on DDR_CKE lines keep the DDR3 chip in self-refresh mode.
Table 5. Cortex debug header (P16)
Signal Function Pin No Pin No Function Signal
3V3 VCC
(Debug VREF)
12TMSJTMS
GND GND 3 4 TCLK JTCLK
GND GND 5 6 TDO JTDO
--- Key 7 8 TDI JTDI
--- --- 9 10 nSRST JTAG-RST

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10.2 QuadSPI memory
Three 256 Mb (32MB) Quad-I/O Serial Flash memory chips (e.g. S25FL256S by Spansion) are installed
on the EVB:
• Flash A connected to Vybrid QSPI0_A interface
• Flash B connected to Vybrid QSPI0_B interface
• Flash C connected to Vybrid QSPI1_A interface
The memory type installed does not use the Vybrid DQSx signal lines, so these are disconnected by default
and Vybrid uses them as GPIOs.
Refer to the EVB-VF522R3 Schematic for details.
The following Vybrid features can be implemented on the EVB:
• QuadSPI eXecute-In-Place (XiP) mode
• Both Single (SDR) and Dual Data Rate (DDR)
• Parallel QuadSPI operation in DDR mode
• Using QuadSPI memory as a boot device by the internal Boot ROM
NOTE
The QuadSPI memory reset input is connected to output 4 of the peripheral
reset-control multiplexer (see Section 7, “Peripheral reset-control
multiplexer”). When reset, its outputs are in the high-impedance state, but,
thanks to a pull-down resistor on the reset line, the QuadSPI memory is reset
until the line is actively driven by the MCU via the peripheral reset-control
multiplexer.
10.3 SD card interface
The EVB features an SD card interface:
• The Vybrid MCU device has two SD host controllers, SDHC0 & SDHC1.
• SDHC1 is connected to a SD card slot.
• SDHC0 is not used due to that some of its shared pins are already used for other functions.
• SD card detection is via a request on pin 2 rather than a mechanical switch.
• A SD card can be used as a boot device by the internal Vybrid Boot ROM.
11 Communication interfaces
11.1 CAN interface (P23, P24, P27)
The EVB features a high-speed CAN bus interface (see Figure 16):
• On the digital side, connected to MCU CAN0,
• On the media side:

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— Connected to a 4-pin 0.1” 1x4 header (P27),
— Optional on-board termination via a 2-pin header (P23 as per Table 15),
— Optional 12V power via a 2-pin header (P24 as per Table 15).
Figure 16. CAN physical interface connector
11.2 SCI/LIN interface (J16, J17, P21, P25, P26)
The Vybrid SCI0 channel is shared on the EVB by the two serial interfaces - SCI and LIN, selection being
provided by jumpers J16 and J17 (see Table 15).
11.2.1 SCI configuration (P26)
To provide signal translation, the EVB SCI interface has a RS232 transceiver (U10), which is:
• Connected to a standard 9-way female D-type connector (P26) allowing a direct connection to a
PC or terminal, pinout being shown in Figure 17,
• Providing no hardware flow control support.
Figure 17. RS232 physical interface connector

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11.2.2 LIN configuration (P21, P25)
To provide signal translation, the EVB LIN interface (see Figure 18) has a transceiver (U9), which is:
• Configured as Master by default (for Slave mode, remove resistor R79 as per Table 15),
• Connected to a standard 4-pin Molex connector (P25) shown in Figure 19 and used on most other
Freescale EVBs supporting LIN,
• Powered either from LIN line or from local 12V via the 2-pin header (P21 as per Table 15).
Figure 18. LIN physical interface
Figure 19. LIN Molex connector
11.3 MAC (Ethernet) interface (J10)
The installed Vybrid device features two MAC interfaces, #0 and #1, used as follows:
• #0 is used in the RMII (Reduced MII) mode and routed to a board-to-board connector (J10) with
type and pinout defined in the DOC-01898 document; a relevant daughtercard, e.g.
IMXAI2ETH-SMSC (see Figure 20), can be plugged into it,
• Pins of the other one are used for other functions