Torch S500 core board

Program features:

● Support dual (large and small) system architecture to meet the needs of fast-start application scenarios
● Dual 1080P resolution different display
● Multi-channel video decoding at the same time, up to 6 channels
● Support dual-channel DVP/MIPI-CSI camera simultaneous encoding

● Complete Linux distribution support, perfect solution to GPU acceleration and video codec library



Application areas:

● Smart Commercial Display Motherboard
● Robot
● Smart POS machine
● Game terminal
● Smart home appliances
● Video conference/video call
● Client/Cloud Terminal
● Industrial field control

● Security/Monitoring



Appearance and size indication:

Product basic functions:
● SOC: Torch Core S500 SOC, ARM Cortex-A9 R4 CPU, Imagination PowerVR SGX544 MP GPU
● Memory: Supports up to 2GB LPDDR3, which can be cut to 1GB or 512MB
● Storage: default 8GB eMMC, customized can support up to 64GB
● Wireless: Wifi 2.4GHz, 802.11 /b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0 (HS) BLE
● Power management: complete built-in power management circuit, support USB5V, DC5V, 3.7V main battery power supply
● Basic interface: vertical Micro USB port, 3-wire UART debugging port, battery interface, RTC battery interface, CVBS display Ipex socket, Wifi&BT Ipex socket, Power button, ADFU flashing button.
● Expansion interface: There are 16 E-PAD grounding points at the bottom, 150-pin stamp hole expansion Pin, the specific specifications are described in the next section of the expansion function.


Product expansion capabilities:
● Support extended USB3.0 OTG interface, support Device mode, and also support Host mode
● Support 2 native USB2.0 HOST interfaces, support first-level USB HUB secondary expansion
● Support external expansion 10/100 RJ45 Ethernet port
● Support external expansion HDMI 1.4b, compatible with DVI1.0; support CVBS video output
● Support LVDS, RGB, MIPI-DSI external LCD screen, the highest resolution 1920*1080
● Support external expansion SDIO3.0 high-speed data card
● Support DVP&MIPI-CSI external camera
● Support I2C, SPI, UART, PWM, LRADC and other common interfaces



Product software system:
● Support extended LVDS+MIPI-DSI interface for simultaneous display, which can realize dual-frequency simultaneous display, or dual-screen different display
● Support HDMI+LCD interface to display at the same time, which can realize dual-frequency simultaneous display, or dual-screen different display
● Supports two MIPI-CSI interfaces and two cameras, and supports dual-camera simultaneous recording applications.


Product software system:
Einstein-S500 is an independent working SOM module, but the core board itself has limited functions, so the development and maintenance of the SDK (software development kit) is based on the feature-rich CubieAIO-S500 hardware.


The official system mainly provides two systems for selection:
● Android system:
Adapting to CubieAIO-S500 hardware, deeply customized Android 5.1.1 system, Linux kernel 3.10, all conventional functions are realized, and the workload of downstream companies to develop products is significantly reduced. CubieAIO-S500 still has a large number of extended signals, which can facilitate debugging of unconventional functions involved in the project.
● Linux system:
Adapting to CubieAIO-S500 hardware, deeply optimized Debian8 system, Linux kernel 3.10, and lightweight LXDEX11 desktop. It has completed the deep optimization of GPU acceleration and VPU video codec, which has greatly exerted the hardware performance of SOC, and can reach commercial maturity. It is the main operating system of S500 for a long time.

Industry Classification: Smart Home

Development platform: Actions Actions

Delivery form: PCBA

Performance parameters:

  ● Support dual (large and small) system architecture to meet the needs of fast-start application scenarios

● Dual 1080P resolution different display ● Simultaneous decoding of multiple channels, up to 6 channels

● Support dual-channel DVP/MIPI-CSI camera simultaneous encoding

● Complete Linux distribution support, perfect solution to GPU acceleration and video codec

Application scenarios:

  ● Smart Commercial Display Motherboard

● Robot

● Smart POS machine

● Game terminal

● Smart home appliances

● Video conference/video call

● Thin client/cloud terminal

● Industrial field control

● Security/Monitoring