NanoPi NEO Core2
The NanoPi NEO Core2 as its name tells is an alternative NanoPi NEO2 that works like a CPU board with male pin-headers. It has the same form facotor as the NanoPi NEO2, same pin descriptions and works with all the OS images the NanoPi NEO2 supports. The connectors and ports on the NEO2 are populated to pin-headers on the NEO2 Core. In addition the NEO Core2 can have an optional onboard eMMC flash and ESD protection for connectors and ports. There features are highly preferred by industrial customers.
The NEO2 Core uses a popular Allwinner H5 SoC and has onboard 1G DDR3 RAM. FriendlyElec offers models with three eMMC options: 8GB(default)/16GB/32GB. FriendlyElec migrated UbuntuCore with mainline kernel 4.11 for it. It works with other OS such as Armbian as well. Compared to the NanoPi NEO2 the NanoPi NEO Core2 runs more reliably with much less overheat. It is a good platform for IoT applications, mornitoring systems, smart control systems, cluster computing and AI applications.
FriendlyElec develops a Mini Shield for NanoPi NEO Core/Core2 which has the same form factor as the RPi 3. When a NanoPi NEO Core2 is connected to this Mini Shield the whole assembled module can be well fit into a common RPi 3's case.
Link to purchase:NanoPi NEO Core2
- CPU: Allwinner H5, Quad-core 64-bit high-performance Cortex A53
- DDR3 RAM: 512MB/1GB
- Storage: 8GB/16GB/32GB eMMC
- Connectivity: 10/100/1000M Ethernet utilizing RTL8211E-VB-CG
- USB Host x 3(included in 2.54mm pitch pin header)
- MicroSD Slot x 1
- LED: x 2, one for power status and the other for system status
- GPIO1: 2.54mm pitch 12 x 2 pin header containing UART, SPI, I2C, GPIO and etc
- GPIO2: 2.54mm pitch 24 pin header containing SPI, IR, I2S, USB, serial debug port, audio and etc
- GPIO3: 2.54mm pitch 20 pin header containing USB, Gbps Ethernet, I2C and etc
- PCB Size: 40 x 40mm
- MicroUSB: OTG and power input
- OS/Software: u-boot,Ubuntu Core
- Weight: xxg(Without Pin-headers)
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GPIO Pin Spec
| Pin# | Name | Linux gpio | Pin# | Name | Linux gpio |
| 1 | SYS_3.3V | 2 | VDD_5V | ||
| 3 | I2C0_SDA / GPIOA12 | 12 | 4 | VDD_5V | |
| 5 | I2C0_SCL / GPIOA11 | 11 | 6 | GND | |
| 7 | GPIOG11 | 203 | 8 | UART1_TX / GPIOG6 | 198 |
| 9 | GND | 10 | UART1_RX / GPIOG7 | 199 | |
| 11 | UART2_TX / GPIOA0 | 0 | 12 | GPIOA6 | 6 |
| 13 | UART2_RTS / GPIOA2 | 2 | 14 | GND | |
| 15 | UART2_CTS / GPIOA3 | 3 | 16 | UART1_RTS / GPIOG8 | 200 |
| 17 | SYS_3.3V | 18 | UART1_CTS / GPIOG9 | 201 | |
| 19 | SPI0_MOSI / GPIOC0 | 64 | 20 | GND | |
| 21 | SPI0_MISO / GPIOC1 | 65 | 22 | UART2_RX / GPIOA1 | 1 |
| 23 | SPI0_CLK / GPIOC2 | 66 | 24 | SPI0_CS / GPIOC3 | 67 |
GPIO2 Pin Description
| Pin# | Name | Description | Pin# | Name | Description |
| 1 | VDD_5V | 2 | MOSI1 | SPI1-MOSI | |
| 2 | USB-DP1 | USB1 DP Signal | 4 | MISO1 | SPI1-MISO |
| 3 | USB-DM1 | USB1 DM Signal | 6 | CLK1 | SPI1-CLK |
| 4 | USB-DP2 | USB2 DP Signal | 8 | CS1 | SPI1-CS |
| 5 | USB-DM2 | USB2 DM Signal | 10 | MP | Microphone Positive Input |
| 6 | GPIOL11 / IR-RX | GPIOL11 or IR Receive | 12 | MN | Microphone Negative Input |
| 7 | SPDIF-OUT / GPIOA17 | GPIOA17 or SPDIF-OUT | 14 | LR | LINE-OUT Right Channel Output |
| 8 | PCM0_SYNC / I2S0_LRCK/I2C1_SCL | I2S/PCM Sample Rate Clock/Sync | 16 | LL | LINE-OUT Left Channel Output |
| 9 | PCM0_CLK / I2S0_BCK/I2C1_SDA | I2S/PCM Sample Rate Clock | 18 | RXD | UART_RXD0/GPIOA5/PWM0 |
| 10 | PCM0_DOUT / I2S0_SDOUT | I2S/PCM Serial Bata Output | 20 | TXD | UART_TXD0/GPIOA4 |
| 11 | PCM0_DIN / I2S0_SDIN | I2S/PCM Serial Data Input | 22 | VDD_5V | |
| 12 | GND | 0V | 24 | GND | 0V |
GPIO3 Pin Description
| Pin# | Name | Description | Pin# | Name | Description |
| 1 | LINK-LED | Ethernet Link LED | 2 | SPEED-LED | Ethernet Speed LED |
| 2 | TRD1+ | Ethernet TRD1+ Signal | 4 | TRD1- | Ethernet TRD1- Signal |
| 3 | TRD2+ | Ethernet TRD2+ Signal | 6 | TRD2- | Ethernet TRD2- Signal |
| 4 | TRD3+ | Ethernet TRD3+ Signal | 8 | TRD3- | Ethernet TRD3- Signal |
| 5 | TRD4+ | Ethernet TRD4+ Signal | 10 | TRD4- | Ethernet TRD4- Signal |
| 6 | GND | 0V | 12 | GND | 0V |
| 7 | USB-DP3 | GPIOA17 or SPDIF-OUT | 14 | GPIOA7 | |
| 8 | USB-DM2 | I2S/PCM Sample Rate Clock/Sync | 16 | I2C2-SDA | |
| 9 | VDD_5V | 5V Power Out | 18 | I2C2-SCL | |
| 10 | VDD_5V | 5V Power Out | 20 | VDD_3.3V | 3.3V Power Outt |
- SYS_3.3V: 3.3V power output
- VVDD_5V: 5V power input/output. When the external device’s power is greater than the MicroUSB's the external device is charging the board otherwise the board powers the external device. The input range is 4.7V ~ 5.6V
- All pins are 3.3V, output current is 5mA
- For more details refer to its schematic: NanoPi NEO Core2-1707-Schematic.pdf
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