Project Anakin

The Project “Anakin” - Phase 1 of PINE64 Smartphone “PinePhone” Development Kit

Project Anakin is a marsh-up kit for the PINE64 Smartphone dubbed “PinePhone”. It is used in the early stages of development as a starting point for affiliated projects.

PinePhone development has been broken down into three distinct phases:

  • First phase - Project Anakin
  • Second phase - purpose-built development kit code named “Don’t be evil”. It will be introduced at FOSDEM 2019
  • Lastly, the third phase which is the PinePhone itself - scheduled to be released in Q3 2019 (pending on software development).

The Anakin kit consists of following components:

  • SoPine Module
  • SoPine Model A baseboard
  • Pine A64 Wifi/BT module
  • 16GB eMMC module
  • 5 Mega Piixel CMOS Camera Sensor
  • 7" Touch Screen LCD Panel
  • Playbox Enclosure
  • Lithium Ion Battery case (note: battery not included, can accommodate 1-3 pieces of 18650 size Lithium Ion batter. In general, one is good enough)
  • Quectel EC20 R2.1 LTE Module (note: The SIM tray design not distinguish polarity well and all reverse slot in)

Accessories Step-by-Step Guides

Under ‘Guides for PINE A64(+) accessories’ you can find instructions and guides concerning:

  • Playbox Enclosure
  • Bluetooth and WiFi module
  • 7" Touch Screen LCD Panel

SoC and Memory Specification

  • Based on Allwinner A64/R18
  • R18 and A64 are identical SoC but R18 committed for 10 years supply by vendor.

CPU Architecture

  • Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 Processor@1152Mhz
  • A power-efficient ARM v8 architecture
  • 64 and 32bit execution states for scalable high performance
  • 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

System Memory

  • RAM Memory Variants: 2GB LPDDR3.
  • Storage Memory: SPI Flash and optional eMMC module from 16GB up to 64GB

Project Anakin, SOPine Module and Baseboard Information, Schematics, and Certifications

SOPine Module Schematic:

SOPine Model “A” Baseboard Schematic and PCB Board Resource:

SOPine (together with model “A” baseboard) Certification:

Datasheets for Components and Peripherals

Allwinner A64/R18 SoC information:

X-Powers AXP803 PMU (Power Management Unit) information:

LPDDR3 information:

eMMC information:

SPI NOR Flash information:

5MPixel Rear CMOS Camera module information:

LCD Touch Screen Panel information:

Ethernet PHY information:

Wifi/BT module information:

Enclosure information:

Connector information:

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LTE module information:

Other Resources