Freescale Semiconductor i.MX 6UltraLite Hardware User's Manual

Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.

User’s Guide

Document Number: IMX6ULEVKHUG

Rev. 1, 03/2016

i.MX 6UltraLite EVK Board Hardware
User’s Guide

1 Introduction

This document is the Hardware User’s Guide for the i.MX
6UltraLite Evaluation Kit (EVK) based on the Freescale
Semiconductor i.MX 6UltraLite Applications Processor.
This board is fully supported by Freescale Semiconductor.
This Manual includes system setup and debugging, and
provides detailed information on the overall design and
usage of the EVK board from a Hardware Systems
perspective.

1.1 Board overview

This EVK board is a platform designed to showcase many of
the most commonly used features of the i.MX 6UltraLite
Applications Processor in a small, low cost package. The
i.MX 6UltraLite EVK board is an entry level development
board, which gives the developer the option of becoming
familiar with the processor before investing a large amount
or resources in more specific designs.

Features of the i.MX 6UltraLite EVK board are:

Contents

1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

2. Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

3. PCB information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

4. EVK Design Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

5. Contents of the Evaluation Kit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

6. Revision history . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

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Introduction

Table 1. Features

Processor:

DRAM Memory:

DCDC:

LDO

Mass storage

Display interface

Ethernet

USB

Freescale Applications Processor MCIMX6G2CVM05AA
Micron 4Gb DDR3L SDRAM MT41K256M16HA-125:E
MPS MP2144GJ & MP2159GJ
RICHTECK RT9169-33GVL

RT9169-18GVL

RT9193-33GB
UNION UM1750S-00
MicroSD card connector
256Mbit QSPI Flash
32Gb NAND Flash (unpopulated)
32 Gb eMMC (unpopulated)
LCD connector
HDMI connector (no function by default)
Dual RJ45 Connector for 10/100 Base-T

One USB 2.0 Standard-A host connector
One USB 2.0 Micro-B OTG connector

Audio connectors:

Power connector:

Debug connectors:

Sensor

Camera

CAN

Bluetooth

EMV SIM

User Interface Buttons

3.5 mm Stereo Headphone output
Mono-Microphone input on board
Left & Right Speaker Out connectors
5V DC-Jack, 2.0mm (Power supply: DC5V/3.5A, 2.1mmX5.5mm)

UART to USB connector
RJ-45 connector for 10/100 Base-T
20-pin Standard JTAG connector
eCOMPASS
Accelerometer
Gyroscope (unpopulated)
CMOS Camera connector

CAN bus connector
20-pin Bluetooth Connector
14-pin EMV SIM connector
ON/OFF, Reset button

LED Indicators

Power status, UART

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Table 1. Features (continued)

Introduction

Coin Cell

Expansion Port

PCB

Connection point for ML414 Coin Cell (unpopulated) for RTC Operation
ARDUINO Headers
Main board: 2.66 inch x 1.27 inch (6.76cm x 4.24 cm), 4-layer board

Base board: 5.12 inch x 4.25 inch (13.0cm x 10.8 cm), 4-layer board

1.2 i.MX 6UltraLite EVK contents

The i.MX 6UltraLite EVK contains the following items:

• i.MX 6UltraLite Main board & Base board

• Quick Start Guide

1.3 i.MX 6UltraLite EVK board revision history

• Rev A—Proof of Concept

• Rev B—Prototype (Internal Freescale Development)

• Rev C—Production (For Customer)

The board assembly version will be printed on a label, usually attached to the bottom side. The assembly
version will be the letter designation following the schematic revision: base board is 700-28616 REV C,
main board is 700-28617 REVC2.

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Specifications

2 Specifications

This chapter provides detailed information about the electrical design and practical considerations of the
EVK board, and is organized to discuss each block in the following block diagram of the EVK board.

The overview of the i.MX 6UltraLite EVK board is shown in the following figure.

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Figure 1. Block diagram

Specifications

i.MX6UltraLite

DDR3L

MicroSD/eMMC

DC IN:5V/5A

Power Switch

Reset

ON/OFF

CAN

Debug USBSpeaker

Audio Jack

USB OTG

USB HOST

Ethernet x2

Camera EMV SD

JTAG

SODIMM
Interface

Boot Mode
Select Switch

Boot Device
Select Switch

Back Side

MIC

LCD

BlueTooth

ARDUINO

NAND/QSPI Nor

Figure 2. Overview of the i.MX 6UltraLite EVK board

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Specifications

Figure 3. Overview of the i.MX 6UltraLite EVK board connection

2.1 i.MX 6UltraLite processor

The i.MX 6UltraLite processor represents Freescale Semiconductor’s latest achievement in integrated
multimedia-focused products offering high performance processing with a high degree of functional
integration, targeted towards the growing market of connected devices. The i.MX 6UltraLite processor
features Freescale’s advanced implementation of the single ARM®Cortex®-A7 core, which operates at
speeds up to 528 MHz. The i.MX 6UltraLite includes integrated power management module that reduces
the complexity of external power supply and simplifies the power sequencing. Each processor provides a
16-bit DDR3/LVDDR3/LPDDR2 memory interface and a number of other interfaces for connecting
peripherals, such as WLAN, Bluetooth, GPS, displays, and camera sensors.

The more detail information about the processor can be found in the datasheet and the reference manual,
which can be obtained from the Freescale website.

2.2 Boot mode configurations

BOOT_MODE[1:0] are used to select system boot mode. On the i.MX 6UltraLite EVK board, a
dual-switch (SW602) is used to select the input voltage of these two pins, either 0 or 3.3 V.

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Table 2. SW602 boot mode pin settings

D1/MODE1 D2/MODE0 Boot Mode

OFF OFF Boot From Fuses
OFF ON Serial Downloader

ON OFF Internal Boot

ON ON Reserved

Specifications

Figure 4. SW602 boot mode settings

Typically, internal boot is selected for normal boot, which is configured by external BOOT_CFG GPIOs.
Then the developer must set the switch SW602: D2(MODE0) to OFF, D1(MODE1) to ON, and use
SW601 to select the boot device. This is shown in the following table and figure.

Table 3. SW601 boot device settings

D1 D2 D3 D4 Boot Device

OFF OFF ON OFF MicroSD

OFF OFF OFF OFF QSPI
OFF ON ON OFF EMMC

ON ON OFF ON NAND

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