PINE H64 Model A full documentation
The PINE H64 Model A is a discontinued Single Board Computer by PINE64. It is powered by an Allwinner “H6” Quad-Core ARM Cortex A53 64-Bit Processor with a MALI T-722 GPU.
Board Features
Dimensions
Board dimensions: 133mm x 80mm x 19mm
Power
Input power: DC 5V @ 3A, 3.5mm OD/ 1.35mm ID DC jack connector, Euler connector
Video
- Digital Video 4KP60 (Type A - full)
Audio
- 3.5mm stereo earphone/microphone plug
Network
- 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet
- WiFi 802.11 b/g/n/ac with Bluetooth 4.0/4.1 (optional)
Storage
- microSD - bootable, support SDHC and SDXC, storage up to 256GB
- USB - 1 USB3.0 Host port and 2 USB2.0 Host port
Expansion Ports
- RTC - Real Time Clock Battery Connector
- Wifi/BT Module Header - SDIO 3.0 and UART
- 2x20 pins “Pi2” GPIO Header
- mini PCIe connector
SoC and memory specifications
The PINE H64 Model A is based on the Allwinner H6.
CPU Architecture
- Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 Processor@1488Mhz footnote:[see Cortex-A53 on arm.com]
- A power-efficient ARM v8 architecture
- 64 and 32bit execution states for scalable high performance
- Trustzone technology supported
- Support NEON Advanced SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) instruction for acceleration of media and signal processing function
- Support Large Physical Address Extensions(LPAE)
- VFPv4 Floating Point Unit
- 32KB L1 Instruction cache and 32KB L1 Data cache
- 512KB L2 cache
GPU Architecture
- ARM Mali T-720MP2 Dual-core GPU footnote:[see Mali-T720 on arm.com]
- Supports OpenGL ES 3.1/3.0/2.0/1.1, OpenCL 1.2/1.1
- Supports ATSC (Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression)
- Supports FAST(4x)FSAA, IO Coherency
- Floating point operation greater than 70 GFLOPS
System Memory
- RAM Memory Variants: 1GB, 2GB, and 3GB LPDDR3.
- Storage Memory: PINE H64 boards have a built-in 128Mb SPI Flash memory and can use bootable eMMC modules, bootable microSD cards or USB-attached storage.
Software
Armbian
Armbian is a Linux distribution designed for ARM boards. They are usually Debian or Ubuntu flavored.
Download:
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Linux BSP SDK
The Linux BSP Kernel version 4.9
Download:
Linux BSP Kernel ver 3.10 Lichee ver 1.1
- Direct Download from pine64.org
- MD5 (TAR-GZip file): AE6CA68A230923031680BCFABDD7FC89
- File Size: 2.76GB
Linux BSP Kernel ver 3.10 Lichee ver 1.0
- Direct Download from pine64.org
- MD5 (TAR-GZip file): 2D90557E63946A7DA64CD133EE57F206
- File Size: 2.40GB
Mali-T720 driver
A good DRM PowerPoint presentation by Free Electron here and the DRM video presentation by Free Electron here.
32-bit Wayland MALI Driver:
- MALI EULA document
- MALI-T720 32-bit server binary driver and binary download (3.4 MB MD5 F2186A4CAE505A76E0758735886FE682)
- MALI-T720 32-bit client binary driver and binary download (3.4 MB MD5 F316A78AFABE87E69C8F816D18F15D68)
Further information
Datasheets
Allwinner H6 SoC information:
- Allwinner H6 SoC Brief Introduction
- Allwinner H6 SoC Data Sheet V1.1 (Official Released Version)
- Allwinner H6 SoC User Manual V1.0 (Official Release Version)
X-Powers AXP805 PMU (Power Management Unit) information:
LPDDR3 (178 Balls) SDRAM:
eMMC information:
- PINE64 eMMC module schematic
- PINE64 USB adapter for eMMC module V2 schematic
- PINE64 USB adapter for eMMC module PCB in JPEG
- SanDisk eMMC Datasheet
- Hynix eMMC Datasheet
- Foresee eMMC Datasheet
SPI NOR Flash information:
Ethernet PHY information:
Wifi/BT module information:
miniPCIe SATA module information:
Enclosure information:
Remote control button mapping
Schematics and Certifications
PINE H64 Board Schematic:
PINE H64 Certification:
- [Not yet available]