SBC8118,MINI8118

The SBC8118 Single Board Computer is an industrial board based on Texas Instruments’s AM1808 ARM9 processor and is well-suited for medical, industrial automation and control, communication products and many other applications which are cost-sensitive and require high-speed data transfer and high-capacity storage. It also has a flexible design with one tiny core board (Mini8118) interfacing to an expansion board through two 2.0mm pitch 3*27-pin dip header connectors.

The core board Mini8118 integrates an AM1808 processor, 128MB Mobile DDR2, 128MB Nand Flash and 8MB SPI Flash on board. The SBC8118 expansion board offers features in additional to those provided by the Mini8118 to allow users to further utilise the features of the AM1808. It has a SATA interface as well as an SD card interface to allow large storage capabilities. Up to four serial ports have been brought out by three DB9 connectors.

The board also has four USB hosts, Ethernet, LCD/Touch screen, Buzzer, Camera and supports RS485 networking. It has one 14-pin JTAG interface which can be used with multiProductLinkXDS100v2 emulator available from Embest. Embest also offers 4.3 inch and 7 inch LCD displays with touch screen, as optional modules for this board. The board is a ready-to-run solution which is provided by Linux 2.6.33 and WinCE 6.0 BSP.

Kit Features

Hardware Features

• Mechanical Parameters

  • Dimensions: 160mm x 100mm (expansion board)

  • 58mm x 45mm (CPU board Mini8118)

  • Working Temperature: -45~80 °C

  • Humidity Range: 20% ~ 90%

• CPU Board (Mini8118 for SBC8118)

• Processor

  • 375MHz TI AM1808 ARM926EJ-S Microcontroller, also supports 456MHz operation

• Memory

  • 128MByte Mobile DDR2

  • 128MByte NAND Flash (on the rear of the board)

  • 8Mbit SPI Flash

• Onboard Headers and Signals Routed to Pins

  • Multichannel buffered serial ports (McBSP) with FIFO buffers;

  • Four 64-bit general-purpose timers each configurable (one configurable as watchdog);

  • Two 4-line SD/MMC card interfaces;

  • GPIO (Up to 120 pins of general-purpose input/output with programmable interrupt/event generation modes, multiplexed with other peripherals)

  • TFT LCD Interface (support 16-bpp parallel RGB Interface LCD)

  • Two 8-bit Camera interfaces

  • JTAG Debugger Interface

  • USB 1.1 OHCI (Host) With Integrated PHY (USB1)

  • USB 2.0 OTG Port With Integrated PHY (USB0, Support High-/Full-/Low-Speed)

  • Two SPI interfaces (SPI0 multiplexed with MII);

  • Two inter-integrated circuit (I2C) Bus interfaces (I2C1 multiplexed with UART2)

  • Five UART interfaces;

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

  • Two 2.0mm space 3*27-pin dip connectors

• Expansion Board

• Audio/Video Interfaces

  • TFT LCD interface (50-pin FPC connector, RGB565)

  • 4 line resistive Touch Screen interface

  • Camera interface (30-pin FPC connector, supports CCD and CMOS cameras)

• Data Transfer Interfaces

  • USB2.0 (USB-A Type)

  • USB2.0 (2.0mm pitch 5-pin connector)

  • 5 line Debug serial port, RS232 voltage

  • 3 line serial ports (PRU serial port), RS232 voltage

  • 3 line serial port, TTL voltage (2.0mm pitch 5-pin connector)

  • Serial port:

  • USB Host ports:

  • SD card slot

  • Ethernet: 10/100Mbps, RJ45 connector

  • RS485 interface

  • Serial ATA connector, supports both SATA I (1.5 Gbps) and SATA II (3.0 Gbps)

  • 14-pin JTAG interface

•     Input Interfaces and Other Facilities

  • 4-pin SATA power interface (supports 2.5-inch hard disk)

  • 4-bit DIP switch (supports boot mode selection)

  • RESET button

  • User button

  • Power indicator

  • User LED

  • Buzzer

Software Features