LicheePi One Allwinner A13 ARM Linux Board is Equipped with LCD Display and Camera Interfaces

Allwinner A13 – repackaged as Allwinner R8 – single core Cortex A8 processor is used in $9 C.H.I.P board with 512MB, 4GB storage, WiFi and Bluetooth, and I/Os. Now a Chinese company has created a new Allwinner A13 board called Lichee Pi that appears especially suited to drive LCD displays thanks to its 40-pin LCD RGB connector, but it also comes with WiFi & Bluetooth, a micro SD slot, and some I/Os.

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Lichee Pi One board (preliminary/tentative) specifications:

  • SoC – Allwinner A13 ARM Cortex A8 processor @ 1.0 GHz with Mali-400 GPU
  • System Memory – 512MB DDR3 RAM
  • Storage – 2x micro SD slot
  • Display Interface – 40-pin RGB LCD connector, with 8080 interface, VGA and LVDS supported via add-on board
  • Camera – 24-pin CSI interface
  • Audio – 3.5mm audio jack
  • Connectivity – Optional 802.11 b/g/n WiFi and Bluetooth via RTL8723BU module (Multiplexed with USB 2.0 host port)
  • USB – 1x USB 2.0 host port, 1x micro USB OTG port, 1x micro USB port for power only
  • Expansion – Two 20-pin headers with 9x GPIO, 3x I2C, 3x UART, 3x SPI, etc…
  • Misc – RGB LED
  • Power Supply – 5V via micro USB port or 2-pin header, LiPo battery via miniJST connector
  • Dimensions – Est. 75 x 55 mm

The board can run Android or Linux distributions like Debian or Ubuntu, and you’ll find some information such as schematics and some documentation on Github.
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You’ll find soon info in English on Linux-Sunxi website, as well as elecfans.com with more info, but in Chinese only. The price of the board was  as low as 39 CNY ($5.6) in Elecfans crowdfunding (most components not soldered), and a complete kit with a 4.3″ display (800×480) a 3MP camera went for 168 CNY (~$24). Shipping costs were not included. It’s not available for sale right now. The company has also registered ilichee.cc, but the site is not accessible for now as it’s waiting for an ICP license.

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21 Replies to “LicheePi One Allwinner A13 ARM Linux Board is Equipped with LCD Display and Camera Interfaces”

  1. IIRC LicheePi is not supposed to be available outside of Mainland China?

    BTW: Regarding both Micro USB ports information in linux-sunxi wiki page should be used (since based on real findings since Icenowy has this device already).

  2. Has anyone got a taobao link or something? My girlfriend is going to China next week, and I wanna order one; finally a flat sbc.

    If anyone has recommendations apart from OrangePis and NanoPis, I would be happy!

  3. @henry_wu001
    Is “spond prise” a mistranslation or “crowdfunding campaign” ?

    @Daniel
    The elecfans page linked inthe post has a price list for the board with some options to select which connectors you want soldered. Maybe it’s a crowdfunding campaign. If you have know who can read Chinese they may help you.

    1. My girlfriend is chinese, so she had a look. According to her it’s a successful crowdfunding campaign, but no option to preorder yet.

      I guess I’ll have to wait a little.

  4. ( if this is misposted forgive me)

    Can anyone direct me to a beginner’s guide for how to assemble or add components to pcba boards. I’m used to buying out of the box, software guy here, but really eager to learn. Thx

    1. @cnx yes, id like to learn how to use gpio pins attach modules etc even to know what the components are. Saw that the A13 board needs an hdmi or vga connection to be added so figured id finally ask lol if there’s a manual but Thanx for the link its much appreciated

  5. other old news

    Quote ”

    On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 04:02:33AM +0800, Icenowy Zheng wrote:
    > Lichee Pi is a new “Pi”-named development board series.
    >
    > Currently available device, Lichee Pi One, is by only one person as
    > night job, so the device series name is chosen to be the vendor prefix.
    >
    > Signed-off-by: Icenowy Zheng

    Applied, thanks!
    Maxime


    Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
    Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering

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