PineNote

The PineNote is the first hybrid notepad computer device combination of notebook, tablet and e-reader using an e-ink panel. It is derived from the Quartz64 model A SBC and powered by a Rockchip RK3566 quad-core ARM Cortex A55 64-bit processor with a MALI G-52 GPU.

Specification

General Information

• Dimensions: 191.1x232.5x7.4mm
• Weight: 438g

Core

• CPU: RK3566 1.8GHz 64-bit quad-core A55
• GPU: MALI G52 2EE
• System memory: 4GB LPDDR4
• Flash: 128GB eMMC

E-ink Display

• Size: 10.3"
• Resolution: 1404x1872
• DPI: 227
• Grayscale: 16
• Front Light: 36 level cold and warm
• Capacitive multi-touch panel
• EMR pen digitizer

Network

• WiFi: 2.4/5GHz 802.11a/b/g/n/ac
• Bluetooth: 5.0

Audio

• Built in stereo speakers
• 4 x DMIC microphone

Sensor

• G-Sensor for portrait and landscape sensing

Power

• 4000mAH LiPo battery
• DC 5V @ 3A USB-C connector

Accessories

• Optional EMR pen with magnetic attachment (included in the first production batch)
• Optional Cover (included in the first production batch)

Software and OS Image Downloads

• Not yet available

SoC and Memory Specifications

• Based on Rockchip RK3566

CPU Architecture

• Quad-core ARM Cortex-A55@1.8GHz
• AArch32 for full backwards compatibility with ARMv7
• ARM Neon Advanced SIMD (single instruction, multiple data) support for accelerated media and signal processing computation
• Includes VFP hardware to support single and double-precision operations
• ARMv8 Cryptography Extensions
• Integrated 32KB L1 instruction cache and 32KB L1 data cache per core
• 512KB unified system L3 cache
• TrustZone technology support
• 22nm process, believed to be FD-SOI

GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) Capabilities

• Mali-G52 2EE Bifrost GPU@800MHz
• 4x Multi-Sampling Anti-Aliasing (MSAA) with minimal performance drop
• 128KB L2 Cache configurations
• Supports OpenGL ES 1.1, 2.0, and 3.2
• Supports Vulkan 1.0 and 1.1
• Supports OpenCL 2.0 Full Profile
• Supports 1600 Mpix/s fill rate when at 800MHz clock frequency
• Supports 38.4 GLOP/s when at 800MHz clock frequency

NPU (Neural Processing Unit) Capabilities

• Neural network acceleration engine with processing performance of up to 0.8 TOPS
• Supports integer 8 and integer 16 convolution operations
• Supports the following deep learning frameworks: TensorFlow, TF-lite, Pytorch, Caffe, ONNX, MXNet, Keras, Darknet

System Memory

• RAM Memory : 4GB LPDDR4.
• Flash Memory: 128GB eMMC

PineNote Information, Schematics, and Certifications

• The early release schematic just for reference only and used by developers who received the prototype.
  • PineNote early released Schematic ver 1.1 20210726 PDF file
  • PineNote early released ver 1.1 20210726 PCB Connector placement PDF file

• Certifications:
  • Not yet available

Datasheets for Components and Peripherals

• Rockchip RK3566 SoC information:
  • Rockchip RK3566 ver 1.0 datasheet, already got release permission from Rockchip
• Rockchip RK817 PMU (Power Management Unit) Information:
  • Rockchip RK817 ver 1.01 datasheet
• LPDDR4 (200 Balls) SDRAM:
  • ---
• eMMC information:
  • Biwin 128GB eMMC model: BWCTASC41P128G
• E-ink Panel information:
  • E-Ink 10.3" 1872x1404 ES103TC2 Glass Panel Specification
  • TPS65185x PMIC for E-Ink Enabled Electronic Paper Display Datasheet
• Touch Screen information:
  • Cypress CYTMA448 multi-Point Capacitive Touch Controller Datasheet
  • Wacom Pen Digitizer Unit Model: SUDE-10S15MI-01X for 10.3" Display Module
• WiFi/BT module info:
  • Azurewave CM256SM 11AC WiFi + Bluetooth5.0 Datasheet]
• G Sensor info:
  • Silan SC7A20 3-Axis MEMS Accelerometer
• Audio Amplifier information:
  • Awinic AW87318 Class-K Audio Amp Datasheet

Development Efforts

Software

• Quartz64 Development for the mainlining status of various functions on the Rockchip RK3566 SoC
• RK3566 EBC Reverse-Engineering for the EBC (eInk Panel) driver

Hardware

This section includes discussions and their results regarding hardware changes to the PineNote.

• PineNote/Hardware_Changes/Closed_Case_UART

BSP Linux SDK

BSP Linux SDK ver 4.19 for PineNote and Quart64 model A SBC

• Direct Download from pine64.org
  • MD5 (TAR-GZip file): 24554419aec29700add97167a3a4c9ed
  • File Size: 32.67.00GB

Android SDK

Android 11 eink SDK for PineNote and Quart64 model A SBC

• This is the Android SDK build for 10.3" eink panel on Quartz64 model A SBC.
• Direct Download from pine64.org
  • MD5 (TAR-GZip file): 293a550584298de4fb95ceae18103672
  • File Size: 72.88GB
  • Just the boot blobs (<1MB): File:Rk35-blobs.tar.gz

Hardware troubleshooting guide

At present, nothing is available.