VideoStrong VS-RD-RK3399 is Another Development Board Based on Rockchip RK3399 Processor

VideoStrong is better known for their Android set-top boxes with digital TV tuners, but they are making other hardware too, and their latest design is a Rockchip RK3399 development board named VS-RD-RK3399.

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VideoStrong VS-RD-RK3399 board specifications:

  • SoC – Rochchip RK3399 hexa-core big.LITTLE processor with two ARM Cortex A72 cores up to 2.0 GHz and four core Cortex A53 cores,  ARM Mali-T860 MP4 GPU with OpenGL 1.1 to 3.1 support, OpenVG1.1, OpenCL and DX 11 support
  • System Memory – Dual channel 2GB or 4GB DDR3
  • Storage – 16/32 GB eMMC 5.1 flash, micro SD card
  • Video Output & Display Interfaces
    • 1x HDMI 2.0 up to 4K @ 60 Hz
    • 1x DisplayPort up to 4K @ 60 Hz
    • 1x MIPI DSI dual channel interface up to 2560×1600 @ 60 Hz
    • 1x eDP (embedded DisplayPort) 1.3 with 4-lanes @ 10.8 Gbps
    • 1x I2C interface for touch panel
  • Video Decode – 4K VP9 and 10-bit H.265 video codec support up to 60 fps
  • Audio
    • Via HDMI or DisplayPort
    • 1x 3.5mm headphone jack with stereo audio output and mic input
    • 1x LINE out
    • 1x speaker output (1.8W 8Ω/3.1W 4Ω )
    • 2x speaker outputs (1.5W 8Ω/2.5W 4Ω )
    • 1x SPDIF digital audio output port
    • 1x microphone
    • 1x I2S interface up to 8 channels
  • Connectivity – Gigabit Ethernet (RJ45) port using RTL8211E transceiver, WiFi 802.11ac 2×2 MIMO and Bluetooth 4.1 (AP6356S module)
  • USB – 4x USB 2.0 host ports, 1x USB 3.0 port, 1x USB 3.0 type C port
  • Camera
    • 2x MIPI CSI interfaces up to 13MP or 2x 8MP
    • 1x DVP camera interface up to 5MP
  • Debugging – 3-pin serial header
  • Expansion
    • 42-pin GPIO female header with access to 1x I2S, 2x ADC, 2x I2C, 1x SPI/UART, 2x GPIO, 1x LINEOUT, 1x SPEAKER
    • 1x mini PCIe for LTE
    • 1x SIM card slot
  • Misc – Power and user LEDs; 1x IR receiver, 1x RTC battery port; reset, power, and upgrade buttons
  • Power Supply – 12V/3A DC via 5.5×2.1mm barrel connector or 2-pin header; RK808 PMIC
  • Dimensions – 12.4 x 9.5 mm (8-layer PCB)
  • Weight – Board: 89 grams; board + cooling fan and heatsink: 120 grams

The specifications are very similar to the ones for Firefly-RK3399 board, except a few tweaks here and there. You’ll find the header pinout in that document.

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The company will offer support for both Android 7.1 and Linux, but when asked about the SDK I was told that “SDK could be down load from our indicating link”. If you are confused, so I was, but after deep mediation, I saw the light, and it probably means that they’ll provide download links for the SDK to their customers only.

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The kit comes with an acrylic case, and antennas for WiFi and Bluetooth. I don’t have any confirmation about the price, but the board is listed on Alibaba for $149.99. We’ll soon find out more as the company intends to send a sample for review.

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crashoverride
crashoverride
6 years ago

> System Memory – Dual channel DDR3-1866/DDR3L-1866/LPDDR3-1866/LPDDR4

Surely its only one of them and not a mix of all?

Fossxplorer
Fossxplorer
6 years ago

Does it have 4GB of RAM?

hex
hex
6 years ago

ı think any closed source code binaries makes this useless

nobe
nobe
6 years ago

according to the alibaba link : 4GB/32GB and dual channel LPDDR3-1866

cortex-a72
cortex-a72
6 years ago

their site is down.

抱歉,网站暂时无法访问
Sorry, the site now can not be accessed.

don’t even know if this “closed source binaries” made it useless, or hordes of open sourced fans. xD

Jim st
Jim st
6 years ago

As I have switched to Armbian from a companies effort for another product, I will avoid closed efforts now if possible.

Too much on this for a small development team

Miranda Chen
Miranda Chen
6 years ago

@Fossxplorer
4GB+32GB
and 2GB+16GB optional

Robert
Robert
6 years ago

Went to the Videostrong website.
The VS-RD-RK3399 webpage mentions RK3288 several times. And also Mali-T764 and Mali-T760.
Downloads section is empty.
And the Community/forum is in Chinese only.
I gave up.
What am I missing ?

Robert
Robert
6 years ago

@Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) Thanks for the links. I checked them out. I was actually hoping to download source code of (patched) drivers to compile clfs and Arch Linux Arm. I’m positive that I can get AOSP to compile (not all hardware is needed). Is Mecool a Videostrong label, or maybe the other way around ? I can’t find a Mecool website (only Gearbest), so I guess that it’s a Videostrong label. You’re probably right though, that Videostrong is not targeting lone developers and tiny companies. I’m probably better of with a Rock960 or a HiKey 960. The HiKey 960 is… Read more »

Robert
Robert
6 years ago


Forgot this. Firefly is ignoring me big time. I sent them a tweet that I’m not getting the email with verification code to register at their website : https://twitter.com/BobbyBabes/status/955463979811426304 But it received no response.
Then, 2 days ago, I sent them an email through their website’s contact form. Again no response.
Eight hours later, I also sent emails to the email addresses starting with sales@ and service@ at their “Contact Us” page. Again no response.
This doesn’t look good.

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