PineNote
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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
- Build in stereo speaker
- 4x 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.
- Certifications:
- Not yet available
Datasheets for Components and Peripherals
- Rockchip RK3566 SoC information:
- Rockchip RK817 PMU (Power Management Unit) Information:
- LPDDR4 (200 Balls) SDRAM:
- ---
- eMMC information:
- E-ink Panel information:
- 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:
- G Sensor info:
- Audio Amplifier information:
Development Efforts
- Quartz64 Development for the mainlining status of various functions on the Rockchip RK3566 SoC
- RK3566 EBC Reverse-Engineering for the EBC (eInk Panel) driver
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