A standard expansion board for SOMAM335x-MM(Part NO: MIni8600B) system-on-modules. Product ready solution, specially designed for medical and industrial control application. Board offers integrated feature rich peripheral like Gigabit Ethernet, USB2.0 (Host, OTG), LCD, Camera, Micro SD card, and 80pin header for further expansion of the processor signals.

The SOM-AM335x-MM with standard baseboard (Part NO:SBC8600B) comes with a rich set of communication peripherals including six serial ports (2*RS232, 3*TTL, 1*RS485), two 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet ports, two USB Host, USB OTG and CAN interfaces, providing an ideal solution for applications requiring remote control and monitoring or mass connectivity. The board also has LCD and touch screen interface, Audio input and output ports, RTC, Buzzer and more other interfaces. Embest offers 4.3 inch and 7 inch LCD panels for user options which contain a 4-wire resistive touch screen as well.

The SOM-AM335x-MM with standard baseboard (Part NO:SBC8600B) is a ready-to-run solution which is provided with Linux 4.1, Android 2.3 and WinCE 7 BSP. 

Top-View of SOM-AM335x-MM with standard baseboard (Part NO:SBC8600B)

Bottom-View of SOM-AM335x-MM with standard baseboard (Part NO:SBC8600B)

Additionally, Embest offers various optional modules for the SBC8600B which greatly enhanced the functions of this board. Target applications of theSOM-AM335x-MM with standard baseboard (Part NO:SBC8600B) include Industrial Automation, Building Automation, Home control, Consumer Electronics, Security and Instrumentation.

* = Provided with Source Code

 # = Not Provided with Source Code

The SOM-AM335x-MM with standard baseboard (Part NO:SBC8600B) Single Board Computer is based on TI’s AM3358 ARM Cortex-A8 processor and designed with a tiny CPU Module SOM-AM335x-MM (Part NO: Mini8600B) mounted directly onto an expansion board. The SOM-AM335x-MM with standard baseboard (Part NO:SBC8600B) is characterized as follows:

 Mechanical Parameters:

• Dimensions: 60.0 mm x 27.0 mm (8 layer PCB design)

• Working temperature: 0~70 Celsius

• Humidity Range: 20% ~ 90%

• Input Voltage: 3.3V

• Mini8600B
  

Processor:

• TI AM3358 ARM Cortex-A8 microprocessor

• 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 32-bit RISC MPU

• NEON™ SIMD Coprocessor

• 32KB/32KB of L1 Instruction/Data Cache with Single-Error Detection (parity)

• 256KB of L2 Cache with Error Correcting Code (ECC)

• SGX530 Graphics Engine

• Programmable Real-Time Unit Subsystem

  
  

  Memory:

• 2*256MByte DDR3 SDRAM

• 512MByte NAND Flash

 Expansion Interfaces and Signals Routed to Pins:

• Two 0.4mm space 2*40-pin board-to-board male expansion connectors

• TFT LCD Interface (support 24-bpp parallel RGB Interface LCD)

• Two USB 2.0 OTG Ports With Integrated PHY, High-Speed

• Three inter-integrated circuit (I2C) Bus interfaces

• Six UART interfaces;

• One SPI interface;

• Two 10/100/1000 Mb/s Ethernet MAC (EMAC) with Management Data Input/Output(MDIO) module;

• A multichannel audio serial ports (McASP);

• 8-channel 12-bit ADC interfaces;

• Two 4-line SD/MMC card interfaces;

• GPMC bus

Expansion Board of SBC8600B:

  Mechanical Parameters:

• Dimensions: 96 mm x 96 mm (6 layer PCB design)
  

• Input Voltage: +12V

• Temperature Range: 0~70 Celsius

• Humidity Range: 20% ~ 90%
  

 Audio/Video Interfaces:

• An Audio input interface (3.5mm audio jack)

• A two-channel audio output interface (3.5mm audio jack)

• A TFT LCD interface / 4 line Resistive Touch Screen interface (50pin FPC connector)
  

  
  

 Data Transfer Interfaces:

• Serial port:

• 1 x 3 line Debug serial port, RS232 voltage (UART0 brings out by DB9 connector)

• 1 x 3 line serial ports, RS232 voltage (UART2 brings out by DB9 connector)

• 3 x 3 line serial port, TTL voltage (UART3/4/5 brings out by J6 and J7 2.54mm pitch 2*5-pin expansion connectors)

• USB ports:

• 2 x USB2.0 Host ports with Integrated PHY (High-speed, 480Mbps, USB-A Type)

• 1 x USB2.0 OTG port with Integrated PHY (High-speed, 480Mbps, Mini-USB Type)TF card slot

• 2 x Ethernet: 10/100/1000 Mbps, RJ45 connector (only one Ethernet supported in WinCE)

• 1 x CAN2.0 interface (brings out by 8-pin Phoenix Connector)

• 1 x RS485 interface (brings out by 8-pin Phoenix Connector)

• GPMC Bus interface

Input Interfaces and Other Facilities:

• One RESET button

• Two User buttons (MENU and BACK)

• One Power indicator

• Two User LEDs

• One Buzzer

The board takes full features of TI’s AM3358 microprocessor and has exposed many hardware peripherals through connectors or headers. Embest has also designed various function modules to further enhance the performance of SOM-AM335x-MM with standard baseboard (Part NO:SBC8600B) including VGA, Camera, WiFi and 3G (with CDMA2000 or WCDMA standard) modules, which are flexible for user selections to meet their own needs. More other modules are under development and will be released continuously.

Note: The TF card slot is on the rear of the board.

SBC8600B Function Block Diagram

Dimension Chart of SBC8600B Single Board Computer

The SOM-AM335x-MM with standard baseboard (Part NO:SBC8600B) Single Board Computer is provided with Linux 4.1, Android2.3 and WinCE7 BSP, with steady-going drivers, many of which are all in source code. Please refer to below table.