Firefly ROC-RK3568-PC (Quad-core Cortex-A55)
Overview
The ROC-RK3568-PC is a Quad-Core 64-Bit Mini Computer, which supports 4G large RAM. M.2 and SATA3.0 interfaces enables expansion with large hard drives. Providing dual Gigabit Ethernet ports, it supports WiFi 6 wireless transmission. Control Port can be connected with RS485/RS232 devices.
RK3568 quad-core 64-bit Cortex-A55 processor, with brand new ARM v8.2-A architecture, has frequency up to 2.0GHz. Zephyr OS is ported to run on it.
Board features:
RAM: 4GB LPDDR4
Storage:
32GB eMMC
M.2 PCIe 3.0 x 1 (Expand with 2242 / 2280 NVMe SSD)
TF-Card Slot
Wireless:
Supports WiFi 6 (802.11 AX)
Supports BT5.0
USB:
One USB 3.0
Two USB 2.0
One Type-C
Ethernet
M.2 PCIe3.0 (Expand with NVMe SSD)
LEDs:
1x Power status LED
Debug
UART debug ports for board
Supported Features
The Zephyr roc_rk3568_pc board configuration supports the following hardware features:
Interface |
Controller |
Driver/Component |
|---|---|---|
GIC-v3 |
on-chip |
interrupt controller |
ARM TIMER |
on-chip |
system clock |
UART |
on-chip |
serial port |
Devices
System Clock
This board configuration uses a system clock frequency of 24 MHz. Cortex-A55 Core runs up to 2.0 GHz.
Serial Port
This board configuration uses a single serial communication channel with the CPU’s UART2.
Programming and Debugging
Use U-Boot to load the zephyr.bin to the memory and kick it:
tftp 0x40000000 zephyr.bin; dcache flush; icache flush; dcache off; icache off; go 0x40000000
Use this configuration to run basic Zephyr applications and kernel tests, for example, with the Basic Synchronization sample:
# From the root of the zephyr repository
west build -b roc_rk3568_pc samples/synchronization
west build -t run
This will build an image with the synchronization sample app, boot it and display the following ram console output:
*** Booting Zephyr OS build bc695c6df5eb ***
thread_a: Hello World from cpu 0 on roc_rk3568_pc!
thread_b: Hello World from cpu 0 on roc_rk3568_pc!
thread_a: Hello World from cpu 0 on roc_rk3568_pc!
thread_b: Hello World from cpu 0 on roc_rk3568_pc!
roc_rk3568_pc//smp support, use this configuration to run Zephyr smp applications and subsys tests,
for example, with the Basic Synchronization sample:
# From the root of the zephyr repository
west build -b roc_rk3568_pc//smp samples/synchronization
west build -t run
This will build an image with the shell_module sample app, boot it and display the following ram console output:
*** Booting Zephyr OS build bc695c6df5eb ***
I/TC: Secondary CPU 1 initializing
I/TC: Secondary CPU 1 switching to normal world boot
I/TC: Secondary CPU 2 initializing
I/TC: Secondary CPU 2 switching to normal world boot
I/TC: Secondary CPU 3 initializing
I/TC: Secondary CPU 3 switching to normal world boot
Secondary CPU core 1 (MPID:0x100) is up
Secondary CPU core 2 (MPID:0x200) is up
Secondary CPU core 3 (MPID:0x300) is up
thread_a: Hello World from cpu 0 on roc_rk3568_pc!
thread_b: Hello World from cpu 1 on roc_rk3568_pc!
thread_a: Hello World from cpu 0 on roc_rk3568_pc!
thread_b: Hello World from cpu 1 on roc_rk3568_pc!
References
More information can refer to Firefly official website: Firefly website.