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

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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

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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

  • Certifications:
    • Not yet available

Datasheets for Components and Peripherals


Development Efforts

Software

Hardware

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

BSP Linux SDK

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

Android SDK

Android 11 eink SDK for PineNote and Quart64 model A SBC

Hardware troubleshooting guide

At present, nothing is available.