Embedded Open Modular Architecture/EOMA-26

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EOMA-26 Specification

This page describes the specification of EOMA-26. The number of pins on the interface is 26; the physical form-factor is the 34x75x5mm ExpressCard format.

Re-purposing of the ExpressCard interface and form-factor has been chosen to create portable mass-volume (100 million units and above) ultra-low-cost Embedded Computing Modules (Computer on Module).

The interfaces are:

  • 3-channel LVDS (covering up to approximately 1280x800 @ 18-bit colour)
  • I2C
  • USB (Low Speed, Full Speed, and optionally Hi Speed/480 Mbit/s)
  • RS232 UART (Tx and Rx only)
  • 4-pin SD/MMC (which must automatically support 2-pin, 1-pin and SPI mode)
  • 2 dedicated pins of General-purpose Digital I/O (GPIO) with a mandatory 5 further multiplexed GPIO (covering UART and SD/MMC)

These interfaces are NOT OPTIONAL for CPU Cards. All CPU Cards MUST provide all interfaces. I/O Boards on the other hand are free to implement whichever interfaces are required for the device. The only exception is I2C (due to the EOMA-68 identification EEPROM), which MUST be provided by all I/O Boards

Exactly like ExpressCard Cards, EOMA-26 CPU Cards may have absolutely any functions, any additional connectors, peripherals and so on without limitation, except for compliance with the EOMA-26 pinouts and physical size constraints. These additional functions, which may include access ports in the casework, may extend outwards from the user-facing end of the CPU Card to any practical extent, exactly as with ExpressCard.

Target Market for EOMA-26

The target market for EOMA-26 is smaller or lower-cost devices than EOMA-68. Tablets and Laptops up to 11in in size in particular would ideally make use of EOMA-26. In essence, the EOMA-26 form-factor was designed to take advantage of the decreasing cost and increasingly-high specification of lower-end SoCs such as the A10S, AM3359 [1] and so on.

Pinouts (version 1.0)

These pinouts make no attempt to be electronically or electrically compatible with ExpressCard. Power is deliberately placed on or received from different pins such that EOMA-26 CPU Cards do not power up when accidentally plugged into ExpressCard sockets, nor ExpressCards power up when accidentally plugged into EOMA-26 I/O Boards.

Notes:

  • Two Ground and two 5V pins are provided.
  • Power is therefore limited to around 2.5 to 3.0 watts (note: heat is dissipated passively).
  • USB and LVDS are balanced / differential pairs.
  • The UART Tx and Rx lines can also be GPIO
  • The SD/MMC's data lines 0 to 2 can also be GPIO
  • As the GPIO pins can be reconfigured individually bi-directional for any digital purposes, they must be made to be 5 V TTL tolerant and tri-state isolated, and I/O boards also must be 5.0 V TTL tolerant as well as tri-state isolated. Levels when any GPIO pin is used either as an input or as an output should again operate at nominal 3.3 V TTL levels, thus expect "high" voltage of 2.0 volts, threshold of 1.4 V and "low" voltage of 0.8 V, but must accept voltages from 0–5 V.

Table of EOMA-26 pinouts

Row 1 Row 2
* 1 GROUND * 14 RIN 0- Negative LVDS differential data output
* 2 USB2 (Data-) * 15 RIN 1+ Positive LVDS differential data output
* 3 USB2 (Data+) * 16 RIN 1- Negative LVDS differential data output
* 4 PWR (5.0V) * 17 RIN 2+ Positive LVDS differential data output
* 5 GPIO2 / UART_TX * 18 RIN 2- Negative LVDS differential data output
* 6 GPIO3 / UART_RX * 19 PWR (5.0V)
* 7 I2C Clock (SCL) * 20 SDC-CMD
* 8 I2C Data (SDA) * 21 SDC-CLK
* 9 GPIO0 * 22 GPIO4 / SDC-3
* 10 GPIO1 * 23 GPIO5 / SDC-2
* 11 CLKIN+ Positive LVDS differential clock output * 24 GPIO6 / SDC-1
* 12 CLKIN- Negative LVDS differential clock output * 25 SDC-0
* 13 RIN 0+ Positive LVDS differential data output * 26 GND