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This document describes the Intel® Edison breakout board.
The Intel® Edison breakout board is designed to expose the native 1.8 V I/O of the Intel® Edison module. The board
consists of power supply, battery recharger, USB OTG power switch, UART to USB bridge, USB OTG port, and I/O
header.
1.1 References
Table 1 Product-specific documents
Reference Name Number/location
331188 Intel® Edison Board Support Package User Guide
When the pin mode is chosen as GPIO, it can be programmed as an output or input. When programmed as an input,
a GPIO can serve as an interrupt or wake source. Inputs have programmable pullups or pulldowns. Pullup value can
be 2, 20, or 50 kohm. I2C pins also have an additional 910 ohm value.
When in general purpose mode, input GPIO signals enter a glitch filter by default, before reaching the edge
detection registers. To ensure that a pulse is detected by the edge detection register, the pulse should be five clock
cycles long.
• 100 ns for a 50 MHz clock when SoC is in S0 state.
• 260 ns for 19.2 MHz clock when SoC is in S0i1 or S0i2 State.
• 155.5 µs for 32 kHz clock (RTC) when SoC is in S0i3 State.
Most GPIO capable pins are configured as GPIO inputs during the assertion of all resets and they remain inputs
until configured otherwise.
As outputs, the GPIOs can be individually cleared or set. They can be pre-programmed to either state when
entering standby. Output drive is ±3 mA.
2.2 Intel® Edison breakout board expansion USB interface
The Edison module has a single USB 2.0 interface. This interface is the primary method for downloading code.
Edison is design to support OTG, using the ID signal. J16 is a microAB USB .
2.3 Intel® Edison breakout board expansion power supply
Intel® Edison is a low-power device. In general, it does not draw more than 200 mA with 600 mA short duration
spikes during Wi-Fi transmit. Therefore, an Intel® Edison device may run on USB power (when configured as a
device), or an external power adapter from 7 to 15 V.
Power from the external power adapter goes to a DC-DC converter and down-converted to 5 V. The 5 V rail is
diode ORed with the USB VBUS rail. This power goes to a battery recharger IC, which limits the output voltage to
4.4 V. This voltage is in the safe range for the Edison module VSYS. The VSYS power range is 3.15 to 4.5 V. This
allows VSYS to run off a standard lithium-ion battery. The charger IC is configured to limit the input power to 1. The
charger is programmed to charge at 190 mA. This charger is designed to charge standard lithium-ion batteries with
4.2 V maximum charging voltage. You are responsible for choosing a suitable battery and following all safety
precautions, to prevent overcharging or charging when the battery temperature is too high.
The drawback to this design is that the linear supply power drop places a limit on the total power through the Intel®
Edison board and the 3.3 and 1.8 V supplies. The power loss through the charger will be (4.4 to 5 V) • current. In this
CHARGING CURRENT = 190ma
TERMINATION CURRENT = 14ma
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case, you should attempt to limit average current through the Intel® Edison board and its power rails to
approximately 0.75 A.
The recharger IC on the Intel® Edison breakout board has input current limit and overtemperature shutdown.
Assure the end design does not trip these protection mechanisms.
Some considerations of the power distribution in the Intel® Edison breakout board:
1. USB host mode always requires use of an external power adapter.
2. You are responsible for choosing a suitable battery and following all safety precautions, to prevent
overcharging or charging when the battery temperature is too high. The battery should be at least
300 mAH capacity, due to the 100 mA charging current. Intel recommends battery packs with internal
protection circuits.
Figure 2 Intel® Edison breakout board expansion board power distribution network
Boot voltage selection – DCIN signal 2.3.1
DCIN is a signal that indicates whether Edison is being powered from a battery or from an external power source.
DCIN also sets the voltage level required on VSYS in order to boot. When DCIN is floating or tied to ground, the
voltage on VSYS must rise from 2.5 to 3.5 V in 10 ms; otherwise the boot is aborted. When the boot is aborted,
power must be cycled below 2.5 V. If DCIN is connected to VSYS, Edison will start to boot when VSYS is above 2.5 V
for 100 ms.
Note: When DCIN is connected to VSYS, boot will occur whenever the voltage is above 2.8 V for 100 ms. The
Note: The absolute minimum voltage to assure Wi-Fi and Bluetooth functionality is 3.15 V.
The Intel® Edison breakout board has the following buttons:
•Power button. SW1UI2 is the Intel® Edison power button. This button is configured by software. In general,
pressing and holding this button down will cause the Intel® Edison module to power down. (It will leave the
I/O configuration in the port expanders in its current state). Pressing this button momentarily when Edison is
powered down (power still applied) will cause Intel® Edison module to reboot. If Edison is running, then a
momentary press will cause Edison to go into low power sleep mode. Pressing the button momentarily when
Edison is asleep, will bring Edison into full power mode.
When attaching an Intel® Edison module to breakout board, handle the Intel® Edison module by the PCB edges.
Avoid holding or exerting pressure to the shields. To mate the Intel® Edison board to the breakout board, apply
pressure directly above the connector and to the left corner.
Figure 4 Inserting an Intel® Edison module to the breakout board
The Intel® Edison board has a known error on all UARTs. When Edison goes into low power sleep, the UART internal
FIFO and interface is powered down. Therefore, a two-wire UART (Rx/Tx) will lose the first received character
whenever Edison is in sleep mode. In order to avoid this condition, when sleep mode is enabled, a four-wire UART
(Rx, Tx, CTS, and RTS) is required.