Embedded computing specialist Orange Pi has introduced a brand new service board for its Orange Pi CM5 system-on-module (SOM) household — concentrating on these seeking to construct battery-powered units a fir bit slimmer than its present carriers permit: the Orange Pi CM5 Pill Base Board.
“The Orange Pi CM5 pill base board is an official Orange Pi base board that can be utilized with the Orange Pi CM5 core board, with Wi-Fi 5 + [Bluetooth] 5.0, [Bluetooth Low Energy] help, and commonplace CM5 connectors,” the corporate explains of its newest launch, “and can be utilized as a CM5 improvement system or as an embedded board built-in into finish merchandise.”
Orange Pi is seeking to put its CM5 SOM into battery-powered portables with a brand new tablet-centric service board. (📷: Orange Pi)
The service, delivered to our consideration by CNX Software program, is designed to be used with Orange Pi’s in-house CM5 system-on-module units — to not be confused with the recently-launched Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5, additionally abbreviated to “CM5.” Whereas Orange Pi’s CM5 vary has two high-density connectors in the identical place as Raspberry Pi’s CM5 and earlier CM5, it additionally has a 3rd connector — and whereas it is potential to place a Raspberry Pi CM4 or CM5 into an Orange Pi CM5 service, you may miss out on performance offered over that bonus board-to-board connector.
The Orange Pi CM5 Pill Base Board is, because the identify implies, constructed to energy pill and tablet-like units. It consists of an built-in battery administration system with USB Sort-C charging at 5V 5A, full-size USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 ports, a full-size HDMI 2.1 port, and an extra USB 3.0 Sort-C port. There’s an analog audio connector, however no wired Ethernet — with community connectivity offered by way of an on-board Wi-Fi 5 and Bluetooth 5.0 radio module.
Different options of the board tailor-made for pill use embody stereo speaker connectors, an built-in microphone, bodily energy button, a four-lane MIPI Show Serial Interface (DSI) for connection to a flat-panel show with six-pin contact sensor interface, a four-lane MIPI Digital camera Serial Interface (CSI), and two two-lane MIPI D-PHY RX connectors. Apparently, 0.1″-spaced general-purpose enter/output (GPIO) header pins are included as commonplace — although on a 26-pin header, quite than the extra typical Raspberry Pi-style 40-pin header. There’s additionally an infrared receiver, and a devoted UART for debugging.
The board’s underside consists of room for microSD and M.2 NVMe storage — or a suitable AI accelerator. (📷: Orange Pi)
For storage, there is a microSD Card slot plus an M.2 M-key slot which supplies entry to a single PCI Specific Gen. 2 lane and mounting factors for 2230-, 2242-, and 2280-footprint M.2 modules — both Non-Risky Reminiscence Specific (NVMe) storage or high-speed accelerators for on-device machine studying and synthetic intelligence (ML and AI) workloads. Naturally, none of that is practical with out putting in an Orange Pi CM5 SOM — powered by a Rockchip RK3588S system-on-chip and delivering 4 Arm Cortex-A76 efficiency cores at as much as 2.4GHz, 4 Cortex-A55 effectivity cores at as much as 1.8GHz, and a neural coprocessor with as much as six tera-operations per second (TOPS) of compute at INT4 precision.
Extra data is on the market on the Orange Pi web site, whereas the service is up on the market on the corporate’s AliExpress retailer at $20 plus delivery.
