1. Overview

1.1 Summary

Compact3566 is a credit card-sized single board computer (SBC) based on the Rockchip RK3566 Quad-core Cortex-A55 processor designed for IoT devices, such as home security system, Face Recognizing Robot, drones and HMI.

The small computing platform has a high-performance and low power processor with USB ports, Gigabit Ethernet, 2.4G/5G WiFi, M.2, micro-SD card slot, MIPI CSI camera connector, LVDS and HDMI port that support 4K monitors.

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1.2 Product Parameters

Basic Parameters

SoC

Rockchip RK3566

CPU

Quad-Core ARM Cortex-A55, 1.8 GHz

GPU

ARM Mali-G52 2EE GPU with support for OpenGL ES 1.1/2.0/3.2, OpenCL 2.0, Vulkan 1.1

NPU

1 TOPS

Video

Support 4K 60fps H.265/H.264/VP9 video decoding

Support 1080P 60fps H.265/H.264 video encoding

Memory

2/4/8GB LPDDR4 or LPDDR4X RAM

Storage

8/16/32/64/128GB eMMC flash

OS

Android, Debian, Buildroot

Electrical Parameters and Environmenta

Power Supply

5V/2A via Micro USB

5V DC via GPIO header

PoE – enabled (requires separate PoE HAT)

RTC

3V

Operating temperature

0 to 70°

Storage temperature

-40° to 85°

Mechanical Specifications

Dimension

85 x 56 x 19.5mm (Raspberry Pi 3-like form factor)

PCB layer

6 layers

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I/O and Network

USB

1x USB2.0 OTG (USB-AF)

2x USB2.0 Host

1x USB 3.0

Net working

Gigabit Ethernet RJ45 port via Realtek RTL8211F-CG controller

2.4G/5G WiFi(802.11 a/b/g/n/ac) with Bluetooth 4.2

Debug

Micro USB

Display

MIPI DSI/LVDS, HDMI2.0 output

Audio

ES8388 audio codec.

1x HDMI audio output

1x 3.5mm audio I/O jack, 1x differential MIC

Camera

MIPI CSI Camera module(Optional), 15-pin FPC connector.

M.2

M.2 PCIe 2.1 socket NVMe SSD

SD

Micro SD card slot

PoE

Power over Ethernet (requires separate PoE HAT)

Expansion

4x UART, SPI, I2C, PWM, SPDIF_TX and GPIO via 40-pin header

Misc

1x Recovery button, 2x LED, RTC