DShanPi-A1 AI Education Rockchip RK3576 SBC features HDMI input and output ports, dual GbE

DshanPi-A1 AI Education is a single board computer (SBC) powered by a Rockchip RK3576 octa-core Cortex-A72/A53 SoC, and paired with up to 8GB RAM and 64GB eMMC flash, which I first discovered in the Linux 6.19 changelog.

The board features HDMI 2.1 video output, a mini HDMI video input port, a MIPI DSI display interface, two MIPI CSI connectors for up to four cameras, dual GbE, an M.2 Key-E socket for WiFi and Bluetooth, a few USB ports, and a 40-pin GPIO header compatible with some Raspberry Pi HAT boards.

DShanPi-A1 specifications:

• SoC – Rockchip RK3576
  • CPU – Octa-core  CPU with 4x Cortex-A72 cores at 2.2 GHz, 4x Cortex-A53 cores at 2.0 GHz (1.6GHz for Industrial and Automotive)
  • GPU – Arm Mali-G52 MC3 GPU with support for OpenGL ES 1.1, 2.0, and 3.2, OpenCL 2.0, and Vulkan 1.2
  • NPU – 6 TOPS (INT8) AI accelerator with support for INT4, INT8, INT16, BF16, TF32 mixed operations.
  • VPU
    • Video Decoder
      • H.265, VP9, AV1, and AVS2 up to 8Kp30 or 4Kp120
      • H.264/AVC and MJPEG up to 4Kp60
    • Video Encoder – H.264, H.265, MJPEG up to 4Kp60
• System Memory – 2GB, 4GB, 6GB, or 8GB LPDDR4
• Storage
  • MicroSD card slot
  • Optional 32GB or 64GB eMMC flash
• Video Output
  • HDMI 2.1 up to 4Kp120
  • 4-lane MIPI DSI connector
• Video Input
  • Micro HDMI Input port via Rockchip RK628D chip
  • 2x 4-lane MIPI CSI connectors for up to 4x cameras
• Audio – 3.5mm earphone jack
• Networking
  • 2x Gigabit Ethernet ports
  • Optional WiFi and Bluetooth via M.2 module
• USB
  • 2x USB 3.0 Host Type-A ports
  • 1x USB Type-C OTG port with DisplayPort Alt mode
• Expansion
  • M.2 Key-E (PCIe 2.1 x1, USB 3.0) socket
  • 40-pin color-coded GPIO header, mostly compatible with the Raspberry Pi GPIO header pinout
• Misc
  • Recovery, user (k1, k2), and system burning keys
  • Fan connector
  • RTC battery connector
• Power Supply – USB PD (Power Delivery) input via USB Type-C port
• Dimensions – 97 x 77 mm

100ASK provides Armbian, Buildroot, OpenWrt, ArchLinux (for Arm), OpenEuler, and Fedora images for the DshanPi-A1 SBC. The “English” wiki has more details, but everything is in Chinese since it has not been translated just yet. I can see various tutorials about computer vision (OpenCV), LLMs and VLMs (DeepSeek-R1, Qwen-VL), Qt5, ROS2, and more, which must be explains which it’s promoted as an “Education” SBC.

Driver support varies between the operating systems, and only Linux images built with Buildroot support all features of the DshanPi-A1 board with Armbian and OpenWrt closely behind, only lacking MIPI CSI, as well as audio for the latter.

The DShanPi-A1 AI Education SBC is sold for $82.90 (6GB RAM, no eMMC flash) or $130.98 (8GB/64GB config) on AliExpress, in a new shop shared by DongshanPi on X. Alternatively, you can find a 2GB RAM version for $70 on a third-party shop. As a side note, the board shared by DonshanPi on X is the “DShanPi-R1+ industrial edge computing” board with a similar form factor but based on a Rockchip RK3568 system-on-module, and not listed on AliExpress just yet.

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