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PINE H64 Model A full documentation



The PINE H64 Model A

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:

Default credentials
root1234

Linux BSP SDK

The Linux BSP Kernel version 4.9

Download:

Linux BSP Kernel ver 3.10 Lichee ver 1.1

Linux BSP Kernel ver 3.10 Lichee ver 1.0

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:


Further information

Datasheets

Allwinner H6 SoC information:

X-Powers AXP805 PMU (Power Management Unit) information:

LPDDR3 (178 Balls) SDRAM:

eMMC information:

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]