Asus Tinker Board

Tinker Your Way to the Future

Design Concept

Together We Make is Tinker Board’s underpinning concept:

the idea that technology and users work together in harmony to create great things. Tinker Board is the little PCB that taps into the revived obsession with DIY, offering a new generation of makers a way to realize their dreams.

Product Overview

Color Box Quick start guide ESD shielding bag

Power-in jack

HDMI with 4K content decode capability*

192K/24bitHD Audio

Gbit Ethernet 4 x USB 2.0

802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi & Bluetooth 4.0 + EDR with upgradable i-PEX antenna header

40-pins GPIO header

Other Package Contents:

RK3288 ARM A17 Quad-cores 1.8Ghz SoC + 2GB RAM

VCC33_IO 1 2 VCC_SYS

GP8A4_I2C1_SDA 3 4 VCC_SYS

GP8A5_I2C1_SCL 5 6 GND

GP0C1_CLKOUT 7 8 GP5B1_UART1TX

GND 9 10 GP5B0_UART1RX

GP5B4_SPI0CLK_UART4CTSN 11 12 GP6A0_PCM_CLK

GP5B6_SPI0_TXD_UART4TX 13 14 GND

GP5B7_SPI0_RXD_UART4RX 15 16 GP5B2_UART1CTSN

VCC33_IO 17 18 GP5B3_UART1RTSN

GP8B1_SPI2TXD 19 20 GND

GP8B0_SPI2RXD 21 22 GP5C3

GP8A6_SPI2CLK 23 24 GP8A7_SPI2CSN0

GND 25 26 GP8A3_SPI2CSN1

GP7C1_I2C4_SDA 27 28 GP7C2_I2C4_SCL

GP5B5_SPI0CSN0_UART4RTSN 29 30 GND

GP5C0_SPI0CSN1 31 32 GP7C7_UART2TX_PWM3

GP7C6_UART2RX_PWM2 33 34 GND

GP6A1_PCM_FS 35 36 GP7A7_UART3RX

GP7B0_UART3TX 37 38 GP6A3_PCM_SDI

GND 39 40 GP6A4_PCM_SDO

MIPI Display with 720P

Camera interface

Reserve for sensor, LED, switch, button, motor…peripherals

S/PDIF (Contact Point) 41 42 PWM (Contact Point)

OS:

Heatsink

*The max resolution is up 4K@30hz (up-scaled from FHD(1080P))

Suitable Scenario

- For MAKER • A powerful board that highly compatible with current solution

and peripherals available in the market

- For EDUCATION

• Electronics learning • Programming/coding study

- For Commercial • Low power consumption with high performance platform

How to Get it Start

Tinker Board is a capable little computer which can be used in electronics projects, and for many of the things that your desktop PC does

- Requirement: - 1 x Monitor with HDMI cable - 1 x Keyboard/Mouse set - 1 x MicroSD card with 8GB capacity - 1 x Micro USB AC adaptor*

- Download the available OS and burn into MicroSD card

- Connect HDMI Cable to Monitor

- Connect USB Keyboard & Mouse

- Connect USB Power Supply

- Boot UP

*Please select the USB adaptor with 5V/2A power rating and LPS marking.

Tinker OS and its Usage Scenarios

Debian KODI Android

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Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run.

The most popular mobile OS Coming Soon~

Learn More

Besides the entry product information, Tinker Board will also release the schematics, mechanical drawing, GPIO API for power users’ interesting creations.

Hardware Schematics 2D/3D Drawing C/Python/Scratch API

TINKER BOARD/2GB Processor Cortex-A17 Quad-core 1.8GHz

GPU ARM Mali-T764 GPU supports Support OpenGL ES1.1/2.0/3.0, OpenVG1.1, OpenCL, DirectX11

Display 1 x HDMI with 4K/30fps (upscaled from 1080p) 1 x 15-pin MIPI DSI supports up to HD

Memory Size Dual-CH LPDDR3 2GB Storage Micro SD(TF) card slot

Connectivity 1 x GB LAN 1 x wireless 802.11 b/g/n & BT 4.0 + EDR

Audio RTL HD Codec with 1 x 3.5mm audio jack USB 4 x USB 2.0 ports

Internal Headers

1 x 40-pin headers includes: - up to 28 x GPIO pins - up to 2 x SPI bus - up to 2 x I2C bus - up to 4 x UART - up to 2 x PWM - up to 1 x PCM/I2S - 2 x 5V power pins - 2 x 3.3V power pins - 8 x ground pins

1 x 2-pin contact points includes: - 1 x PWM signal - 1 x S/PDIF signal

Power Connector Micro USB (5V/2~2.5A) OS Support Debian/KODI Dimension 3.37" x 2.125"

Detail Product Specification

Comparison

CONFIDENTIAL - ASUS INTERNAL USE ONLY

Model

ASUS Tinker Board Raspberry Pi 3 Model B

Core Processor (SoC) Rockchip RK3288 Quad-Core 1.8Ghz Broadcom BCM2837 Quad-Core 1.2Ghz

Benchmark Score (tested by GeekBench)

3925 2092

RAM 2GB 1GB

Display HDMI with 4K decode capability HDMI with HD resolution

NIC Gb LAN 100M LAN

Audio Supports up to 192K/24bit sample rate 48K/16bit

Wi-Fi Yes, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n + swappable antenna Yes, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n

Bluetooth Yes, 4.0 + EDR Yes, 4.1 + LE

SDIO SDIO 3.0 SDIO 2.0

Official Supported OS Linux – Debian / KODI Linux – Debian

SPEC Comparison


Class Leading Performance

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GeekbenchScore

Integer FloatingPoint

Memory Stream

1. Download and install Geekbench on Tinker Board & RPi3, then run the test. Refer to http://support.primatelabs.com/kb/geekbench/geekbench-3-benchmarks for details 2. Video playback tested by VLC Player

Geekbench Test Result Video Playback Frame Rate

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H.264 30FPS MP4Content

H.264 60FPS MP4Content

(higher is better)

Robust CPU/Memory/iGPU Performance on Tinker Board!

Almost 2X faster!!

Tinker Board

Rpi 3

(higher is better)


http://support.primatelabs.com/kb/geekbench/geekbench-3-benchmarks






High Definition Audio

Audio sampling rate & bit depth

DAC supports up to 192K/24bit sample rate

- The sample rate determines how many samples per second a digital audio system uses to convert the analogue sound waves into digital.

- The more bits the more accurately the signal can be measured, so 16-bit to 24-bit can see a noticeable leap in quality.

Original Audio

Rpi 3

Tinker Board

Only 48K/16bit

Enjoy the Lossless sound with Tinker!


High Definition Audio

Want to have the lossless sound output on Rpi 3?

Retail Price from 3rd party peripheral manufacturer on Amazon.com https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B017L6WCZQ/ref=s9_acsd_hps_bw_c_x_5_w

Money saving for your small Hi-Fi station


Wider Functionality and Flexibility

More Flexible for Expansion & Your Innovative Creations!

More functionality & clear identify

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Rpi 3

S/PDIF

PWM3


Thank You!

Engineering

Asus Tinker Board