Rockchip RK3576 castellated SoM powers development board with 12 analog camera inputs

Boardcon CM3576 is a system-on-module (SoM) Rockchip RK3576 with castellated holes that also powers the company’s EM3576 development board with 12 analog camera inputs among a range of other interfaces.

We covered a few Rockchip RK3576 platforms in recent weeks including the Firefly ROC-RK3576-PC and Banana Pi BPI-M5 SBCs, and another system-on-module with the Forlinx FET3576-C with four 100-pin board-to-board connectors. The Boardcon CM3576 offers another option as a solderable SoM with castellated edges.

Boardcon CM3576 SoM

Specifications:

• SoC – Rockchip RK3576
  • CPU
    • 4x Cortex-A72 cores at 2.3GHz, 4x Cortex-A53 cores at 2.2GHz
    • Arm Cortex-M0 MCU at 400MHz
  • GPU – ARM Mali-G52 MC3 GPU with support for OpenGL ES 1.1, 2.0, and 3.2, OpenCL up to 2.0, and Vulkan 1.1
  • NPU – 6 TOPS (INT8) AI accelerator with support for INT4/INT8/INT16/BF16/TF32 mixed operations.
  • VPU
    • Video Decoder – H.264, H.265, VP9, AV1, and AVS2 up to 8Kp30 or 4Kp120
    • Video Encoder – H.264 and H.265 up to 4Kp60, (M)JPEG encoder/decoder up to 4Kp60
• System Memory – 2GB, 4GB, 8GB, or 16GB LPDDR4 RAM
• Storage – 32GB, 64GB, or 128GB eMMC flash
• Networking – RealTek RTL8211F Gigabit Ethernet transceiver (Note: the development board specifications list the pin-compatible Motorcomm YT8531 instead)
• 218x castellated holes with
  • Storage – SATA, 2x SDMMC
  • Display I/F – HDMI, MIPI DSI, RGB/EBC, DP via USB 3.2
  • Camera I/F – 3x MIPI CSI
  • Audio – 2x SAI, SPDIF_RX
  • Networking – Gigabit Ethernet
  • USB – USB 3.2
  • Expansion – 2x PCIe
  • Low-speed I/Os – 5x UART, 4x I2C, PWM, GPIO, SPI, etc…
  • Analog – 2x ADC inputs
• Misc – HYM8663TS RTC
• Power Supply
  • Input Voltage – 3.4 to 5.5V DC
  • PMIC – RK806-5
• Dimensions – 57.5 x 44 mm (8-layer PCB)
• Weight – 11.7 grams
• Package – 218-pin, 0.9mm pitch QFN
• Temperature Range – -40°C to +85°C

Boardcon provides support for Android 14 with Linux 6.1.57 through a BSP providing all necessary drivers and a development environment (virtual machine image?) based on Ubuntu 22.04.

EM3576 Rockchip RK3576 development board

Evaluation and early software development can be performed on the EM3576 development board equipped with the CM3576 module described above and exposing a range of interfaces including twelve analog camera inputs.  The company, or its customers, appear to be a big fan of such camera inputs, as they also introduced the Boardcon EM3568-AV CAM SBC with a Rockchip RK3568 SoC and four  analog camera inputs.

Boardcon EM3576 specifications:

• SoM – Board CM3576 SoM described above with 2GB RAM and 32GB eMMC flash by default
• Storage – MicroSD card slot, M.2 PCIe socket for 2230/2242/2280 NVMe SSD, SATA port multiplexed with USB 2.0
• Display
  • HDMI 2.1 up to 4Kp120
  • 4-lane MIPI DSI connector up to 2Kp60
  • RGB connector (multiplexed with SPI & 2x UART)
• Audio
  • 2x 3.5mm audio jacks for Line in/Line out
  • 2-pin MIC connector
• Camera – 12x analog HD camera BNC connectors
• Networking
  • Gigabit Ethernet RJ45 via Motorcomm YT8531 controller
  • Dual-band WiFi 5 and Bluetooth 5.0 2×2 MIMO module with three IPEX antenna connectors
  • 10-pin connector for NFC
• USB – 1x USB 3.2 Type-C port with DisplayPort Alt mode, 1x USB 2.0 Host port (multiplexed with SATA)
• Serial
  • 2x 4-pin UART connectors
  • 3-pin debug connector
  • RS485 via 3-pole terminal block
  • CAN Bus via 2-pole terminal block
• Misc
  • Reset, Recovery, and Power buttons
  • RTC with battery connector
  • SPI connector
  • GPIO connector with 1x I2C, 3x GPIO
• Power Supply – 12V/3A via DC jack or 2-pin connector
• Dimensions – 170 x 120 mm

Boardcon says the CM3576 system-on-module and EM3576 development board are suitable for industrial HMI, motion control and robotics, multi-camera monitoring, driver and occupant monitoring systems (DMS, OMS), automatic vehicle identification, home security and surveillance, etc…

The company does not provide public pricing information and asks interested parties to contact them for pricing. Additional information may be found on the product page.

Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft)

Jean-Luc started CNX Software in 2010 as a part-time endeavor, before quitting his job as a software engineering manager, and starting to write daily news, and reviews full time later in 2011.

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