Radxa ROCK 5 SBC

Radxa ROCK 5 SBC

16 August 2023 0 By Harshvardhan Mishra

Radxa Single Board Computer

Radxa SBCs are full computers with a microprocessor, memory, input/output (I/O), and other components built on a single circuit board. Radxa SBCs are small and potent devices that can be used for a variety of DIY projects, smart home control, and game machines. Radxa SBCs are completely open, and it is up to you how to use them. Radxa SBCs are the ideal all-in-one solution for any application requiring a full computer, offering the flexibility to modify software and connect a variety of peripherals.

Radxa ROCK 5 SBC

Radxa’s ROCK5 is the single board computer’s (SBC) of fifth generation. Linux, Android, BSD, and other operating systems can all run on it.

Rockchip RK3588(s) SoC powers the ROCK5 and features an Oct core ARM processor (4x Cortex-A76 + 4x Cortex-A55), up to 32GB 64bit LPDDR4X ram, up to 8K@60 HDMI, MIPI DSI, MIPI CSI, 3.5mm jack with mic, USB Port, GbE LAN, PCIe 3.0 x4, PCIe 2.0, 40-pin colour expansion header, RTC. Furthermore, ROCK5 supports USB PD power in display alternative mode.

ROCK 5 Model A

ROCK5 is a series of Rockchip RK3588(s) based SBC(Single Board Computer) by Radxa. It can run Linux, Android, BSD and other distributions.

ROCK5 comes in two models, Model A and Model B. Both models offer 4GB, 8GB and 16GB options. For detailed difference between Model A and Model B.

ROCK5 features a Octa core ARM processor(4x Cortex-A76 + 4x Cortex-A55), 64bit 3200Mb/s LPDDR4, up to 8K@60 HDMI, MIPI DSI, MIPI CSI, 3.5mm jack with mic, USB Port, 2.5 GbE LAN, PCIe 3.0, PCIe 2.0, 40-pin color expansion header, RTC. Also, ROCK5 supports USB PD and QC powering.

ROCK 5A Hardware Details

GPIO PI OF ROCK 5A

GPIO Pins of ROCK 5A

ROCK 5A has one 40-pin expansion header.

Hardware X1.2

GPIO number Function7 Function6 Function5 Function4 Function3 Function2 Function1 Pin# Pin# Function1 Function2 Function3 Function4 Function5 Function6 Function7 GPIO number
+3.3V 1 2 +5.0V
63 PWM15_IR_M3 UART1_CTSN_M1 I2C8_SDA_M2 GPIO1_D7 3 4 +5.0V
62 PWM14_M2 UART1_RTSN_M1 I2C8_SCL_M2 GPIO1_D6 5 6 GND
43 UART4_TX_M2 SPI0_CLK_M2 PDM1_CLK1_M1 GPIO1_B3 7 8 GPIO0_B5 UART2_TX_M0 I2C1_SCL_M0 I2S1_MCLK_M1 13
GND 9 10 GPIO0_B6 UART2_RX_M0 I2C1_SDA_M0 I2S1_SCLK_M1 14
139 CAN1_TX_M1 PWM15_IR_M1 I2S1_SDO2_M0 UART8_CTSN_M0 I2C7_SDA_M3 GPIO4_B3 11 12 GPIO4_A1 SPI0_MOSI_M1 UART9_CTSN_M1 I2S1_SCLK_M0 129
138 CAN1_RX_M1 PWM14_M1 I2S1_SDO1_M0 UART8_RTSN_M0 SPI0_CS0_M1 I2C7_SCL_M3 GPIO4_B2 13 14 GND
140 I2S1_SDO3_M0 SPDIF0_TX_M1 PWM11_IR_M1 UART9_TX_M1 GPIO4_B4 15 16 GPIO1_A5 SPI2_MOSI_M0 37
+3.3V 17 18 GPIO1_B0 PDM1_SDI1_M1 SPI2_CS1_M0 40
33 UART6_TX_M1 SPI4_MOSI_M2 I2C2_SCL_M4 GPIO1_A1 19 20 GND
32 UART6_RX_M1 SPI4_MISO_M2 I2C2_SDA_M4 GPIO1_A0 21 22 GPIO1_B5 SPI0_CS1_M2 UART7_TX_M2 45
34 PWM0_M2 UART6_RTSN_M1 SPI4_CLK_M2 I2C4_SDA_M3 GPIO1_A2 23 24 GPIO1_A3 I2C4_SCL_M3 SPI4_CS0_M2 UART6_CTSN_M1 PWM1_M2 35
GND 25 26 GPIO1_A4 SPI2_MISO_M0 36
23 SPI0_MISO_M0 I2S1_SDI2_M1 I2C6_SDA_M0 PDM0_SDI0_M1 UART1_RTSN_M2 PWM6_M0 GPIO0_C7 27 28 GPIO0_D0 PWM7_IR_M0 UART1_CTSN_M2 PDM0_SDI1_M1 I2C6_SCL_M0 I2S1_SDI3_M1 SPI3_MISO_M2 24
42 UART4_RX_M2 SPI0_MOSI_M2 PDM1_SDI3_M1 GPIO1_B2 29 30 GND
41 SPI0_MISO_M2 PDM1_SDI2_M1 GPIO1_B1 31 32 GPIO4_B0 I2C6_SDA_M3 SPI2_CS1_M1 UART8_TX_M0 I2S1_SDI3_M0 136
44 UART7_RX_M2 SPI0_CS0_M2 PDM1_CLK0_M1 GPIO1_B4 33 34 GND
128 I2S1_MCLK_M0 UART9_RTSN_M1 SPI0_MISO_M1 GPIO4_A0 35 36 GPIO4_A2 SPI0_CLK_M1 I2S1_LRCK_M0 130
SARADC_VIN2 37 38 GPIO4_A5 I2C3_SDA_M2 UART3_TX_M2 I2S1_SDI0_M0 133
GND 39 40 GPIO4_B1 I2C6_SCL_M3 SPI0_CS1_M1 UART8_RX_M0 I2S1_SDO0_M0 SPDIF1_TX_M1 137

 

Hardware X1.1

GPIO number Function6 Function5 Function4 Function3 Function2 Function1 Pin# Pin# Function1 Function2 Function3 Function4 Function5 Function6 Function7 GPIO number
+3.3V 1 2 +5.0V
32 UART6_RX_M1 SPI4_MISO_M2 I2C2_SDA_M4 GPIO1_A0 3 4 +5.0V
33 UART6_TX_M1 SPI4_MOSI_M2 I2C2_SCL_M4 GPIO1_A1 5 6 GND
43 PDM1_CLK1_M1 UART4_TX_M2 SPI0_CLK_M2 GPIO1_B3 7 8 GPIO0_B5 UART2_TX_M0 I2C1_SCL_M0 I2S1_MCLK_M1 13
GND 9 10 GPIO0_B6 UART2_RX_M0 I2C1_SDA_M0 I2S1_SCLK_M1 14
34 PWM0_M2 UART6_RTSN_M1 SPI4_CLK_M2 I2C4_SDA_M3 GPIO1_A2 11 12 GPIO4_A1 SPI0_MOSI_M1 UART9_CTSN_M1 I2S1_SCLK_M0 129
35 PWM1_M2 UART6_CTSN_M1 SPI4_CS0_M2 I2C4_SCL_M3 GPIO1_A3 13 14 GND
140 I2S1_SDO3_M0 SPDIF0_TX_M1 PWM11_IR_M1 UART9_TX_M1 GPIO4_B4 15 16 GPIO1_D6 I2C8_SCL_M2 UART1_RTSN_M1 PWM14_M2 62
+3.3V 17 18 GPIO1_D7 I2C8_SDA_M2 UART1_CTSN_M1 PWM15_IR_M3 63
37 SPI2_MOSI_M0 GPIO1_A5 19 20 GND
36 SPI2_MISO_M0 GPIO1_A4 21 22 GPIO1_B5 SPI0_CS1_M2 UART7_TX_M2 45
38 SPI2_CLK_M0 GPIO1_A6 23 24 GPIO1_A7 SPI2_CS0_M0 PDM1_SDI0_M1 PWM3_IR_M3 39
GND 25 26 SARADC_VIN5
139 CAN1_TX_M1 I2S1_SDO2_M0 PWM15_IR_M1 UART8_CTSN_M0 I2C7_SDA_M3 GPIO4_B3 27 28 GPIO4_B2 I2C7_SCL_M3 SPI0_CS0_M1 UART8_RTSN_M0 PWM14_M1 I2S1_SDO1_M0 CAN1_RX_M1 138
42 PDM1_SDI3_M1 UART4_RX_M2 SPI0_MOSI_M2 GPIO1_B2 29 30 GND
41 PDM1_SDI2_M1 SPI0_MISO_M2 GPIO1_B1 31 32 GPIO4_B0 I2C6_SDA_M3 UART8_TX_M0 I2S1_SDI3_M0 136
44 PDM1_CLK0_M1 UART7_RX_M2 SPI0_CS0_M2 GPIO1_B4 33 34 GND
128 I2S1_MCLK_M0 UART9_RTSN_M1 SPI0_MISO_M1 GPIO4_A0 35 36 GPIO4_A2 SPI0_CLK_M1 I2S1_LRCK_M0 130
40 PDM1_SDI1_M1 SPI2_CS1_M0 GPIO1_B0 37 38 GPIO4_A5 I2C3_SDA_M2 UART3_TX_M2 I2S1_SDI0_M0 133
GND 39 40 GPIO4_B1 I2C6_SCL_M3 SPI0_CS1_M1 UART8_RX_M0 SPDIF1_TX_M1 I2S1_SDO0_M0 137

ROCK 5 Model B

ROCK5 is a series of Rockchip RK3588(s) based SBC(Single Board Computer) by Radxa. It can run Linux, Android, BSD and other distributions.

ROCK5 comes in two models, Model A and Model B. Both models offer 4GB, 8GB and 16GB options. For detailed difference between Model A and Model B.

ROCK5 features a Octa core ARM processor(4x Cortex-A76 + 4x Cortex-A55), 64bit 3200Mb/s LPDDR4, up to 8K@60 HDMI, MIPI DSI, MIPI CSI, 3.5mm jack with mic, USB Port, 2.5 GbE LAN, PCIe 3.0, PCIe 2.0, 40-pin color expansion header, RTC. Also, ROCK5 supports USB PD and QC powering.

GPIO Pins of ROCK 5B

ROCK 5B has one 40-pin expansion header.

GPIO number Function8 Function7 Function6 Function5 Function4 Function3 Function2 Function1 Pin# Pin# Function1 Function2 Function3 Function4 Function5 Function6 Function7 Function8 GPIO number
+3.3V 1 2 +5.0V
139 I2S1_SDO2_M0 I2C7_SDA_M3 PWM15_IR_M1 CAN1_TX_M1 GPIO4_B3 3 4 +5.0V
138 I2S1_SDO1_M0 I2C7_SCL_M3 PWM14_M1 CAN1_RX_M1 GPIO4_B2 5 6 GND
115 SPI1_CS1_M1 I2C8_SDA_M4 UART7_CTSN_M1 PWM15_IR_M0 GPIO3_C3 7 8 GPIO0_B5 UART2_TX_M0 I2C1_SCL_M0 I2S1_MCLK_M1 13
GND 9 10 GPIO0_B6 UART2_RX_M0 I2C1_SDA_M0 I2S1_SCLK_M1 14
113 SPI1_CLK_M1 UART7_RX_M1 GPIO3_C1 11 12 GPIO3_B5 CAN1_RX_M0 PWM12_M0 UART3_TX_M1 I2S2_SCLK_M1 109
111 SPI1_MOSI_M1 I2C3_SCL_M1 GPIO3_B7 13 14 GND
112 SPI1_MISO_M1 I2C3_SDA_M1 UART7_TX_M1 GPIO3_C0 15 16 GPIO3_A4 100
+3.3V 17 18 GPIO4_C4 PWM5_M2 SPI3_MISO_M0 148
42 SPI0_MOSI_M2 UART4_RX_M2 GPIO1_B2 19 20 GND
41 SPI0_MISO_M2 GPIO1_B1 21 22 SARADC_IN4
43 SPI0_CLK_M2 UART4_TX_M2 GPIO1_B3 23 24 GPIO1_B4 UART7_RX_M2 SPI0_CS0_M2 44
GND 25 26 GPIO1_B5 UART7_TX_M2 SPI0_CS1_M2 45
150 SPI3_CLK_M0 I2C0_SDA_M1 PWM7_IR_M3 GPIO4_C6 27 28 GPIO4_C5 PWM6_M2 I2C0_SCL_M1 SPI3_MOSI_M0 149
63 UART1_CTSN_M1 PWM15_IR_M3 GPIO1_D7 29 30 GND
47 SPDIF_TX_M0 UART1_RX_M1 PWM13_M2 GPIO1_B7 31 32 GPIO3_C2 PWM14_M0 UART7_RTSN_M1 I2C8_SCL_M4 SPI1_CS0_M1 114
103 PWM8_M0 GPIO3_A7 33 34 GND
110 I2S2_LRCK_M1 UART3_RX_M1 PWM13_M0 CAN1_TX_M0 GPIO3_B6 35 36 GPIO3_B1 PWM2_M1 UART2_TX_M2 105
37 38 GPIO3_B2 PWM3_IR_M1 UART2_RX_M2 I2S2_SDI_M1 106
GND 39 40 GPIO3_B3 I2S2_SDO_M1 107

 

If you are interested in Radxa OR ROCK SBCs please visit : https://radxa.com/

CategoryElectronics & IoT IoT PCB
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