iMX6 Development Baseboard

Designed to support all the i.MX6 Rex peripherals. Adds extra wireless support.

Status

Available. Purchase Development Baseboard from VOIPAC >

iMX6 Rex Development Baseboard specification

• Back panel

  • - 1Gb Ethernet

  • - HDMI with Audio

  • - 2x USB

  • - RS232

  • - Power 7-24 DC (or single +5V)

• Front panel

  • - Audio: Mic in, Line in, Line out, Headphones

  • - Micro SD card

  • - Buttons: RESET, ON / OFF, User Button

  • - LEDs: Power LED, User LED

• Side panels

  • - 2x SIM card

  • - CFAST (for SSD SATA Disk)

• Bottom

  • - 1x full PCIE mini card socket (PCIE & USB & SIM)

  • - 1x USB only PCIE mini card socket with SIM & VOICE support

• Connectors and headers

  • - LVDS, Backlight

  • - Touchscreen

  • - USB

  • - Modem Speakers & Microphone

  • - Serial port (CMOS)

  • - SPI

  • - 8x GPIO (can be used for Buttons, LEDs, …)

• Second SD socket with Activity LED (not accessible from panel – can be used for OS and can be sealed with a protection label)

• On board RTC clock backed up with battery

• EEPROM

• Debugging (Optional): PCIE slot, SATA connector, micro USB OTG A/B

• JTAG

• ATX power support (optional)

• Four additional holes for heatsink (if required)

• Size: 135 x 110mm

How the PCIE mini card sockets can be used?

• The base board includes 1x full PCIE mini card socket (PCIE & USB & SIM). This can be used for any standard PCIE mini card (WIFI, Ethernet, Modem, … )

• The base board includes additional 1x PCIE socket with USB & SIM & VOICE support. This can be used for HSPA+ Wireless modem such Telit HE910 (GSM / GPRS / EDGE / UMTS / HSPA data + voice + GPS).

Getting started

How to connect your Development board for the very first time? Read here >>

3D PDF Document - This is the iMX6 Rex Development Baseboard 3D PDF (use Adobe Reader to open it)

Project status

When we test a new peripheral, we also update this table. More details about the tests can be found here >>

Description Status Note

DDR3 OK Running memory test for 3 weeks

1Gb Ethernet (J24) OK A large packet ping test run over 3 days, a large file transfer tested

HDMI (J16) OK A video file played on a monitor

LVDS (J41) OK A video file played on an LVDS display

CFAST SATA (J15) OK Filesystem running from a CFAST disk

SATA (J14) OK Filesystem running from a SATA disk

PCIE mini – PCIE (J4) OK Wifi Intel 4965AGN tested

PCIE mini – USB (J9) OK Wireless modem HE910 tested

SIM2 (J7) OK Tested with modem

Modem audio (J10, J11, J12) OK Calling Rex via modem

PCIE (J3) OK A PCIE Ethernet card with RTL8168E tested

SPI OK Boots from the SPI & can be reflashed

SD (Slot J29) OK A video copied to & played from an SD card

SD (Slot J39) OK A video copied to & played from an SD card

USB OTG (J21) OK A firmware uploaded to the module

2x USB (J22) OK A video copied to & played from an USB memory stick

USB1 Header (J20) OK USB to Serial port device tested

COM1 RS232 (J30) OK Console output

COM2 UART – CMOS (J31) OK RX <-> TX loopback working oki

Touchscreen (J40) OK Display with touchscreen tested

GPIO (J34) OK Input <-> Output loopback tested

Microphone (J28) OK Records from headphones microphone

Line In (J26) OK Records through loopback Line out -> Line in

Line Out (J27) OK Plays a wav file

Headphones (J25) OK Plays a wav file

RTC (U17) OK Set up Date & Time, reads back correctly

Power LED (D18 Green) OK Shows the status of power supplies

User LED (D18 Red) OK Tested under Linux with I2C-tools

Reset button (SW2) OK The board resets when this button is pressed

User button (SW3) OK A small application reads the status correctly

Boot mode selection (JP2) OK If fitted, boots from USB OTG

Power Input (J37) OK Board powers up ok

ATX Power Input (J38) OK Board powered from an ATX power supply

Max/Min Input Power OK Tested from +7V to +24V

Powers +3V3 & +5V (U22) OK Measured, ok

Power +1V5 (U1) OK Measured, ok

Power +1V8 (U3) OK Measured, ok

Related posts

• iMX6 Rex EMC Testing – Pass

• iMX6 Rex + Wireless modem + Voice support

• PCI Express and Second Ethernet is working

• User friendly GUI + Mouse + Keyboard working ok

• iMX6 Rex – LVDS and Audio codec are working

• The iMX6 Rex HDMI & USBs & SDs are working

• First pictures of the iMX6 Rex Development Baseboard – running Linux

• A paper PCB – Checking if everything fits ok :)

• The first 3D model of iMX6 Rex Development baseboard

… read more …

License

This Development Baseboard design is completely free for personal and commercial use. Feel free to download and modify these Baseboard files for your projects. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.