Boardcon Delivers a RK3566 SBC for Raspberry Pi 3 B+

By Chad Cox

Production Editor

Embedded Computing Design

May 12, 2023

News

Boardcon Delivers a RK3566 SBC for Raspberry Pi 3 B+
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Boardcon’s Compact3566 is a single board computer (SBC) developed for IoT devices with identical ports as the e Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+. It is powered by Rockchip’s RK3566 Quad-core Cortex-A55 processor including 1.8 GHz with an ARM Mali-G52 2EE GPU.

Within the solution, users will receive four USB ports, M.2 PCIe 2.0 socket for NVMe SSD, and the general 40-pin Raspberry Pi header delivering 4x UART, SPI, I2C, PWM, SPDIF_TX, and GPIO.

Additional Specification:

System Memory

  • 2/4/8GB

Storage

  • 8/16/32/64/128GB eMMC flash
  • microSD slot

Video output & Display I/F

  • 1x HDMI 2.0 up to 4Kp60
  • 1x 30-pin MIPI DSI/LVDS display port

Audio

  • 1x 3.5mm audio jack
  • 1x differential MIC
  • ES8388 codec

Camera I/F

  • 1x 15-pin MIPI CSI connector

Connectivity

  • Gigabit Ethernet
  • 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac WiFi
  • Bluetooth 4.2

Debug

  • Via Micro USB port (also used for 5V/2A power)

Dimensions

  • 85 x 56mm

Weight

  • 50 grams

Miscellaneous

  • Recover button
  • 2x LED
  • RTC
  • PoE (requires separate PoE HAT)

For more information, visit armdesigner.com/Compact3566_SBC/.

Chad Cox is the Production Editor at Embedded Computing Design. His responsibilities are centered around content creation, writing and editing, and article research and development. Chad covers industry news and events and is known to interact with various industrial leaders via on-premise visits and online interviews. He is responsible for the digital footprint and dissemination of news via social media posts, advertising creation and the production of newsletters including the Embedded Computing Design’s Daily.

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Chad graduated from the University of Cincinnati with a B.A. in Cultural and Analytical Literature and holds a master’s in education.

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