Project Anakin
Setting Up Your device - What You’ll Need to Get Started
You will need the following to get started with using your PINE A64(+), SOPine/PINE A64-LTS, Pinebook or ROCK64 board:
- Windows / Linux PC or MAC with a SD Card Reader connected to the Internet.
- For PINE A64(+): Power Supply (PSU) and a micro usb cable. Please make sure to use a PSU rated at +5V @2A and a micro USB cable that is at least 26 AWG thick.
- For SOPine/PINE A64-LTS: Power Supply (PSU) with 3.5mm OD/1.5mm ID barrel DC Jack. Please make sure to use a PSU rated at +5V @2A.
- For Pinebook and ROCK64: Power Supply (PSU) with 3.5mm OD/1.5mm ID barrel DC Jack. Please make sure to use a PSU rated at +5V @3A.
- MicroSD card (8GB or higher capacity) rated 'class 10' or better.
- HDMI cable (unless you wish to run headless / without a monitor). On A64 Devices Android and Remix OS support 720p and 1080p, while Linux supports a wider range of resolutions.
- Input device(s) such as: keyboard, mouse, remote, pointer, etc.
A One-Step Solution to Flashing Your MicroSD Card
Please try our PINE64 Installer to easily select the PINE A64(+), SOPINE/PINE A64-LTS, Pinebook or ROCK64 OS of your choice and flash it to your MicroSD Card.
You can also flash an OS image manually; please follow the instructions below.
Software and OS Image Downloads
PINE A64-LTS / SOPINE
SOPine OS images are compatible with PINE A64-LTS
Under the 'SOPINE Software and OS Image Download Section' you can find a complete list of currently supported Operating System images that work with the SOPINE as well as other related software. The list includes OS images and descriptions of:
- Xenial Mate Ayufan's Linux images for SOPine are available from his GitHub
These images should be used at your own risk and are not fit for normal use
- longsleep BSP Linux
- ayufan Linux
- ayufan Android 7.1 | ayufan Android 6.0 | ayufan Android 5.1
- openSUSE
- SOPINE Armbian
- Arch Linux XFCE
- pine64.org Linux
- OpenMediaVault
Accessories Step-by-Step Guides
Under 'Guides for PINE A64(+) accessories' you can find instructions and guides concerning:
- Enclosures
- Bluetooth and WiFi module
- Real Time Clock (RTC) battery
- Real Time Clock (RTC) battery holder
- First and third party cases
- Featured 3D printed cases (and more)
SoC and Memory Specification
- Based on Allwinner A64/R18
- R18 and A64 are identical SoC but R18 committed for 10 years supply by vendor.
CPU Architecture
- Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 Processor@1152Mhz
- A power-efficient ARM v8 architecture
- 64 and 32bit execution states for scalable high performance
- Support NEON Advanced SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) instruction for acceleration of media and signal processing function
- Support Large Physical Address Extensions(LPAE)
- VFPv4 Floating Point Unit
- 32KB L1 Instruction cache and 32KB L1 Data cache
- 512KB L2 cache
GPU Architecture
- ARM Mali400MP2 Dual-core GPU
- Support OpenGL ES 2.0 and OpenVG 1.1 standard
System Memory
- RAM Memory Variants: 2GB LPDDR3.
- Storage Memory: SPI Flash and optional eMMC module from 16GB up to 64GB
PINE A64-LTS Board Features
Video
- Digital Video (Type A - full)
Audio
- 3.5mm stereo earphone/microphone plug
Network
- 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet(PINE A64+ version), 10/100Mbps Ethernet(PINE A64 version)
- WiFi 802.11 b/g/n with Bluetooth 4.0 (optional)
Storage
- microSD - bootable, support SDHC and SDXC, storage up to 256GB
- USB - 2 USB2.0 Host port
Expansion Ports
- DSI - Display Serial Interface, 4 lanes MiPi, up to 1080P
- CSI - CMOS Camera Interface up to 5 mega pixel
- TP - Touch Panel Port, SPI with interrupt
- RTC - Real Time Clock Battery Connector
- VBAT - Lithium Battery Connector with temperature sensor input
- Wifi/BT Module Header - SDIO 3.0 and UART
- 2x20 pins "Pi2" GPIO Header
- 2x17 pins "Euler" GPIO Header
- 2x5 pins "EXP" Console Header
Pine A64-LTS, SOPine Module and Baseboard Information, Schematics, and Certifications
- Model "A" Baseoard Dimensions: 133mm x 80mm x 19mm
- Input Power: DC 5V @ 2A, 3.7V Li-Ion battery connector, 3.5OD/1.35ID Barrel DC Jack connector, Euler connector
- PINE A64 Connector Layout @courtesy of norm24
- PINE A64 Connector List
- SOPine Module Pin Assignment ver 1.0
- PINE A64 Pi-2/Eular/Ext Bus/Wifi Bus Connector Pin Assignment (Updated 15/Feb/2016)
- Pine A64-LTS Schematic:
- SOPine Module Schematic:
- SOPine Model "A" Baseboard Schematic and PCB Board Resource:
- SOPine model "A" Baseboard is an hardware open source project but is not "OSH" compliance.:
- SOPine Model "A" Baseboard Schematic capture Rev B DSN source file
- SOPine Model "A" Baseboard Schematic Rev B PDF file
- SOPine Model "A" Baseboard PCB Job source file
- SOPine Model "A" Baseboard PCB Gerber file
- SOPine Model "A" Baseboard PCB Layout PDF file
- PINE A64-LTS / SOPine Stereo Audio Dac Board Schematic
- SOPine (together with model "A" baseboard) Certification:
Datasheets for Components and Peripherals
- Allwinner A64/R18 SoC information:
- R18 and A64 are identical SoC but R18 committed for 10 years supply by vendor.
- Allwinner A64 SoC Brief Introduction
- Allwinner R18 SoC Brief Introduction
- Allwinner A64/R18 SoC Data Sheet V1.1 (Official Released Version)
- Allwinner A64/R18 SoC User Manual V1.0 (Official Release Version)
- X-Powers AXP803 PMU (Power Management Unit) information:
- LPDDR3 information:
- eMMC information:
- SPI NOR Flash information:
- PINE A64, PINE A64+, PINE A64-LTS and SOPINE Related:
- 5MPixel CMOS Camera module information:
- LCD Touch Screen Panel information:
- Lithium Battery information:
- Ethernet PHY information:
- Wifi/BT module information:
- Enclosure information:
- Connector information:
- Remote control button mapping
Pine A64 POT
Pine64 Cluster Board Resource
- Cluster board is an hardware open source project and will be available at PINE64 store on late January 2018.
- Please note that this project is not "OSH" compliance.:
Other Resources
- Linux Sunxi Wiki page on PINE A64
- Collection of scripts to set up a minimal Xenial 14.04.3 / Debian 8 Jessie root filesystem Contributed By Uli Middelberg
- Linux Image created by Andre Przywara
- PINE A64 with HypriotOS by Dieter and Govinda
- H2testw 1.4 – Gold Standard In Detecting USB Counterfeit Drives
- F3 - an alternative to h2testw
- Benchmarking The Low-Cost PINE 64+ ARM Single Board Computer by Michael Larabel
- PINE64 Linux build scripts, tools and instructions by Longsleep
- PINE64 Linux image by Longsleep
- A series of Youtube video on PINE A64 Developers Board by Michael Larson
- PINE64 Quick Start Guide (with Gotchas)
- Shrinking images on Linux by FrozenCow