RTimes Z506 User manual

Z506
User Manual
Realtimes Beijing Technology Co., LTD.
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District, Beijing 100013,P.R.China

Revision History
Revision
Date
Reason for change
Applicable hardware
version
Modified by
V1.0
2020.2
Initial release
V1.0
V2.0
2020.9
Add line package configuration
V1.0
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Electronic components and circuits are very sensitive to electrostatic discharge. Although our
company designs anti-static protection for the main interfaces on the card when designing circuit board
products, it is difficult to achieve anti-static safety protection for all components and circuits. Therefore,
it is recommended to observe anti-static safety precautions when handling any circuit board component
(including Z506). Anti-static safety protection measures include, but are not limited to the following:
a) The smart box should be placed in an anti-static bag during transportation and storage, and then the
board should not be taken out during installation and deployment.
b) Before touching the smart box, discharge the static electricity stored in the body: wear a discharge
grounding wrist strap.
c) Operate the smart box only within the safe area of the electrostatic discharge point.
d) Avoid moving smart boxes in carpeted areas.
Precautions and after-sales maintenance
matters needing attention
Before using the product, please read this manual carefully and keep it for future reference;
⚫Please pay attention to and follow all warning and guidance information marked on the product;
⚫Please use matching power adapter to ensure the stability of voltage and current;
⚫Please use this product in a cool, dry and clean place;
⚫Do not use this product in cold and hot alternate environment to avoid condensation damage
components;
⚫Do not splash any liquid on the product. Do not use organic solvent or corrosive liquid to clean the
product;
⚫Do not use the product in dusty and messy environment. If it is not used for a long time, please pack
the product;
⚫Do not use in the environment with excessive vibration, any dropping or knocking may damage the
circuit and components;
⚫Do not plug and unplug the core board and peripheral modules when power is on;
⚫Please do not repair or disassemble the product by yourself. In case of any fault, please contact our
company in time for maintenance;

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⚫Do not modify or use unauthorized accessories by yourself, and the damage caused will not be
warranted;
After sales maintenance
1) Warranty period
⚫Base plate, core plate : 3 year (non-human damage)
⚫Other peripherals sold by the company:1year(non-human damage)
2) Warranty description
⚫Within 7 days: the product (base plate, core module) is not damaged by human, our company will
replace / repair it free of charge, and bear the return freight; (because the core module needs NVIDIA to
confirm that it can meet the requirements of repair, it will take a long time, we will coordinate as soon
as possible, please forgive for the inconvenience)
⚫From 7 days to 36 months: the product (base plate, core module) is not damaged by human, our
company will repair it free of charge, and bear the return freight; (because the core module needs
NVIDIA to confirm that it can meet the requirements of repair, it will take a long time, we will
coordinate as soon as possible, please forgive for the inconvenience)
⚫Artificial damage in more than 3 year or 3 year: the product (carrier plate) shall be tested after it is
sent to the customer, and the customer shall be informed of whether it can be repaired and the
maintenance cost in detail. After reaching an agreement, the product shall be repaired and returned to
the customer, and the company shall bear the return freight;
⚫The starting time shall be subject to the date of express delivery receipt;
3) Contact information
Official website: www.raltimes.cn
Taobao website: https://shop340963258.taobao.com/
Address: 901, block B, Heping Xiyuan, Heping West Street, Chaoyang District, Beijing
Attention: RMA
Tel: [phone] 84280996
Mailing notice: contact with the company's sales department in advance, arrange technical support
personnel to check and eliminate errors caused by misoperation as soon as possible, fill in the product
after-sale return to factory maintenance form after verification, and send it to [e-mail] Mail
box, please attach the list of items to facilitate verification, so as to avoid loss and loss in the process of
express delivery. The company does not receive any delivery
Technical support and development customization
1. Scope of technical support
1) The company releases the electrical characteristics and use of industrial carrier boards and modules;
2) Physical dimension of hardware, relevant structure diagram and line sequence definition of specific
interface;
3) Burn in verification of all BSP support packages provided by the company;
4) The company released burn environment construction, entry-level use. ;
5) Various peripheral module drivers released by the company;
6) The company's product fault diagnosis and after-sales maintenance services;
2. Scope of technical discussion

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Due to the wide range of embedded system knowledge and various types of involvement, we can not
guarantee that all kinds of questions can be answered one by one. The following content is not available
for technical support, only suggestions can be provided.
1) Knowledge beyond the course published by our company;
2) Specific software program design;
3) Technical support for industrial carrier not issued by the company;
4) All kinds of driving support for industrial carrier board not issued by the company;
5) Hardware principle and drive design of peripheral module not issued by our company;
3. Technical support mode
1) Official website or email questions (recommended): http://www.realtimes.cn/cn/download.html
[e-mail]
2) Official Taobao through Alibaba Wangwang consultation: https://shop340963258.taobao.com/
3) Wechat group consultation (wechat Group No. consults Taobao customer service or sales, and
Taobao purchase order No. needs to be provided for verification);
4) Technical support email: [e-mail]
5) Tel: [phone]
4. Technical support time
Monday to Friday; 8:30-12:00 am; 1:00-17:30 PM;
The company arranges the rest according to the national legal holidays, during which it may not be able
to provide technical support, please send the problem to the technical support email. We will reply to
you as soon as possible on weekdays.
5. Complaints and suggestions
If you are not satisfied with us or have suggestions, you can send an email to yu.qin @ realtimes.cn For
feedback, please call 010-84284669 for further improvement.
6. Customized development services
The company provides the embedded operating system driver based on NVIDIA Jetson series and the
paid customized development service of hardware carrier board to shorten your product development
cycle.
Please email the request to [e-mail]
Data acquisition and subsequent update
1. Access to information
Download on our website
The company's website contains supporting information of its products, including product user
manual, NVIDIA Jetson series module data manual, BSP driver support package for carrier board,
supporting peripheral driver files, interface test verification method, FAQ, system burning guide,
etc. get into www.realtimes.cn , select "data download" in the navigation bar, find the data
you need, and click download.
2. . Subsequent updates
Updates of subsequent documents, BSP, driver files and other official account will be updated in time.
We will pay close attention to our developments in order to ensure that your information is up to date.
We will push through WeChat public.

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Table of Contents
1 COMPANY PROFILE AND PRODUCT INTRODUCTION............................................................................. 7
1.1 FEATURE.............................................................................................................................................................. 7
1.2 ORDERING INFORMATION.................................................................................................................................... 8
1.3 CABLE KITS AND ACCESSORIES...........................................................................................................................8
2 EXTERNAL INTERFACE FUNCTION AND LOCATION...............................................................................9
3 INSTALLATION AND USE................................................................................................................................. 10
3.1 HOW TO USE SMART BOX................................................................................................................................. 10
3.2 RECOVERY MODE.............................................................................................................................................. 10
4 CONNECTORS DESCRIPTION......................................................................................................................... 11
4.1 MINI HDMI CONNECTOR.................................................................................................................................. 11
4.2 ETHERNET CONNECTOR..................................................................................................................................... 11
4.3 USB3.0 CONNECTOR......................................................................................................................................... 11
4.4 SD CARD CONNECTOR....................................................................................................................................... 11
4.5 POWER INPUT PORT........................................................................................................................................... 12
4.6 OTG-USB2.0 CONNECTOR................................................................................................................................12
4.7 FDP-LINK III CONNECTOR...............................................................................................................................12
4.8 FUNCTION CONNECTOR......................................................................................................................................12
4.8 WIFI ANTENNA CONNECTOR.............................................................................................................................13
5 HARDWARE UPDATE HISTORY..................................................................................................................... 13
6 PRODUCT SIZE DIAGRAM................................................................................................................................14
7 SOFTWARE/BSP DETAILS.................................................................................................................................14
TERMS OF WARRANTY........................................................................................................................................15

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1 Product introduction
RTSS - Z506 to one based on NVIDIA Jetson ™ NANO series ™ module design of your new feiyun box,
built-in integration 128 nuclear Maxwel ™ architecture of GPU NANO module, Ubuntu 18.04 operating
system, with 0.5 TFLOPS the AI processing capacity of floating point arithmetic, using super strong light
aluminum alloy material design, transmitting heat, good heat dissipation ability, the overall size is small and
light, good structure of human body engineering, obligate has easy the wing structure of installation, It has the
stable operation capability of 7x24 ultra-long MTBF on site, which can be applied to autonomous machines
such as robots, unmanned delivery vehicles, intelligent gate machines and intelligent sales containers, etc. It is
an ideal carrier for deploying AI computing power for deep learning at the edge.
External interface resources provided by Z506 include: 1 X GbE,1 x Mini PCIE, 1 x USB3.0, 1 x USB2.0,
1 x USB OTG,2 x 3.3V UART, 1 x FPD-Link III,1 x MIPI,12 X GPIO(optional),1 X Mini HDMI,1 x Micro SD,
1 x Micro SIM,4G LTE(optional), the products have passed CCC certification and CE certification of EU.
1.1 Feature
Compatible with nvidia Jetson NANO module
GPU: NVIDIA Jetson ™ NANO 128 core with NVIDIA Maxwell ™ architecture (472 abbr.giga
floating-point operations per second),
CPU: ARM Cortex-A57 (quad-core)
Operating system: Linux pre-installed
Memory: 4GB LPDDR4
Storage: Built-in 16GB or expandable TF card slot
One USB3.0, One USB2.0,One USB2.0 OTG
One Micro SD port
One SIM card port
Two uart port compliance with 3.3V voltage level
One Gigabit Ethernet
Two I2C and two SPI
One Mini-PCIe (expandable: PAL / HD-SDI video capture, GPS / Beidou module, AD / DA module,
4G module, storage module, etc.) interface
One FPD-LINK III and one MIPI camera port
One Mini HDMI 2.0
Size: 109.1mm×77mm ×46mm
Power input: +5V
Temperature: -25℃~+55℃
Weight:406g

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1.2 Ordering Information
Model Options
Functional Description
Z506
NANO Fly cloud intelligence box guide cold version, built-in
NANO B01 module, pre-installed Ubuntu 18.04, built-in 16GB
eMMC; 1x USB 3.0,1 x USB 2.0,1 x USB OTG, 1x miniHDMI,
1x GbE, 1x Micro SD, 3x 3.3V UART, 2 x SPI, 2 x I2C, 1x
MiniPCIe, 4G module /mSATA optional; Power indicator light,
power switch button, -20 -- +55℃; Including cable package
(HDMI, serial port, SPI, I2C); Includes power adapter, provides
Ruitai new Era RTSO-6001B Linux4Tegra software support
package, passed THE 3C and CE certification
Z506-S
NANO Fly cloud intelligence box guide cold version, built-in
NANO B01 module, pre-installed Ubuntu 18.04, built-in 16GB
eMMC; 1x USB 3.0,1 x USB 2.0,1 x USB OTG, 1x miniHDMI,
1x GbE, 1x Micro SD, 3x 3.3V UART, 2 x SPI, 2 x
I2C,FPD-Link,1 x MiniPCIe, 4G module /mSATA optional;
Power indicator light, power switch button, -20 -- +55℃;
Including cable package (HDMI, serial port, SPI, I2C); Includes
power adapter, provides Ruitai new Era RTSO-6001B
Linux4Tegra software support package, passed THE 3C and CE
certification
RTS-NANO-AC/DC
Power Adaptor for Z506/-S, 100-240VAC/5V/4A,20W
RTS-IMX390-F120(optional)
FPD-LINK III camera
Cable-RTS-XF120(optional)
Cable for FPD-LINK III camera, length X=2,5,10(m)
Mini-pcie Video Capture Card
(optional)
RTSV-6911i (8-channel D1 NTSC/PAL video input),
RTSV-6901 (single-channel SDI video input), RTSV-6941
(single-channel HDMI Video Input)
Order online:
https://shop340963258.taobao.com
https://mall.jd.com/index-824786.html
1.3 Cable Kits and Accessories
Component
Number
Functional Description
HDMI connector
1
Convert Micro HDMI interface to HDMI interface

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2 External interface function and location
Z506 FRONT
Z506 BACK

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3 Installation and use
3.1 How to use Smart Box
a) Ensure that the voltage of all external systems is turned off
b) Install necessary external cables. (Such as: the display cable connected to the HDMI display, the
power input cable to power the system, the USB cable connecting the keyboard and mouse ...)
c) Connect the power cord to a power source.
d) Connect to the power supply of Z506, the system will start working after power on.
3.2 Recovery mode
Jetson NANO core module can work in normal mode and Recovery mode, under which file system
update, kernel update, Boot Loader update, BCT update and other operations can be carried out.
The steps to enter the Recovery mode are as follows:
a) Turn off the power supply to the system.
b) Use a USB cable to connect the OTG port of the Z506 and the USB port of the Jetson
development host.
c) Short connect 1 and 9 pins of Button connector and supply power to the system. The power
supply shall be maintained for more than 3 seconds, and then disconnect 1 and 9 pin short wiring
of Button connector.The system enters the Recovery mode, and subsequent operations can be
carried out at this point.

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4 Connectors Description
4.1 Mini HDMI connector
Function
HDMI output interface
marking
HDMI
Type
Mini HDMI connector
4.2 Ethernet connector
Function
Gigabit Ethernet connector
marking
Ethernet
Type
RJ45
4.3 USB3.0 connector
Function
USB3.0 connectors
marking
USB3.0
Type
UBS3.0 Type-A
4.4 SD card connector
Function
SD card interface
marking
TF CARD
Type
Micro SD（TF）

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4.5 Power input port
Function
Power input port
marking
Power Input
Type
2Pin interface
Pin define
Input voltage: +5V
4.6 OTG-USB2.0 connector
Function
USB2.0 connectors
marking
USB-OTG
Type
UBS3.0 Micro Type-B
4.7 FDP-LINK III connector
Function
FDP-LINK III camera input connectors
marking
FDP-LINK camera port
Type
4.8 Function connector
Function
Function port
marking
URT/I2C
Type
DB9
Pin define
Pin
Signal
Pin
Signal
1
UART2_TXD
2
UART2_RTS
3
UART3_TXD
4
UART3_RTS
5
GND
6
UART2_RXD
7
UART2_CTS
8
UART3_RXD
9
UART3_CTS

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Function
Function port
marking
Button
Type
DB9
Pin define
Pin
Signal
Pin
Signal
1
GND
2
GND
3
GND
4
GND
5
GND
6
DEV_3V3
7
DEV_3V3
8
BUTTON_PWR_O
N
9
FORCE_RECOV
ERY
4.8 WiFi antenna connector
Function
WiFi antenna interface
marking
AT1 AT2
Type
ipex to sma female
5 Hardware update history
Z506 hardware update history
edition
Updata description
V1.0
Initial release

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6 Product size diagram
7 Software/BSP Details
The Z506 board works on systems that burn using the official original NVIDIA Linux For Tegra
(L4T) ,HDMI, gigabit Ethernet, USB2.0, serial port, GPIO, SD card, I2C bus, fan interface, can be supported.
But Mini-PCIe, USB3.0, can't work normally.
The full support of Z506 rugged machine interface needs to load supporting driver patches.
NVIDIA LT4 package can be downloaded from the following link
https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/linux-tegra
RTSS-X501N patch support package download
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Terms of Warranty
Important note
Each embedded product provided by Realtimes Technology is free from any defects in material and
process,fully in line with the specifications officially issued by the original factory.
Realtimes Technology warranty covers the original products,If the parts configured by the dealer are out of
order, please consult with the dealer to solve the problem. All the baseplate and core modules provided by Ruitai
New Era (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd. are guaranteed for 3 years, while the other peripherals are guaranteed
for 1 year (life-long maintenance service is provided if the warranty period is beyond the warranty period).The
warranty period starts from the date of delivery, for the products repaired within the warranty period, the repair
parts shall be extended for 12 months.Unless notified by Realtimes Technology, the date of your original
invoice shall be the date of shipment.
How do I get warranty services
If the product does not work properly, Please contact Realtimes Technology or dealer for warranty service,
please show invoice when product warranty(this is the proof for you getting warranty service).
Warranty solution
When you ask for warranty service, please follow Realtimes Technology warranty process,You will need to
receive your first diagnosis from a technicial engineer by phone or by email,at that time,we need you to
cooperate with us to fill in all the questions on the RMA form provided by us. Once we accurately determine the
cause of the fault and the location of the damage ,we will provide the charge list for the out of warranty
products,which needs your confirmation.Realtimes Technology keep the right to repair or replace the products.
If the product is replaced or repaired, the replaced faulty product or the repaired and replaced faulty parts will be
returned to Realtimes Technology.
For products under warranty,the customer shall bear the freight when the product is returned to the
manufacturer,Realtimes Technology will bear the ship cost of the products after maintenance.
The following conditions are not covered by the warranty terms
a) Improper installation, improper use, misuse and abuse of products(Overloading, for example).
b) Improper maintenance and storage（Such as fire, explosion, etc）or natural disasters（such as lightning
stroke,earthquake,typhoon,etc）
c) Personal unauthorized changing the product(such as changing circuit characteristics, mechanical
characteristics, software characteristics,Conformal coating).
d) Other failures which are clearly due to misuse(such as overvoltage,polarity reversal, the pin bent or
broken,the wrong connection,drop damage,transportation damage,damage due to over operating
temperature and so on).
e) The logo and part number on the product have been deleted or removed.
f) The product is out of warranty.
Special concerns
If the same fault multiple occurrence for the products,in order to find out the reason causing the problem,we will
request the users to provide the specific documents or information of peripheral equipment,such as monitor,I/O
boards,cables,power supply, diagram and structure of the system,etc.If such documents or information are not
available,we have the right to refuse to perform the warranty, the repairments will be charged accordingly.
Rev.C 2/2020