Luckfox Lume – A compact Allwinner T153 SBC with dual GbE, PoE, GPIO header, and MIPI interfaces for industrial HMI applications

Luckfox Lume is a compact industrial SBC powered by an Allwinner T153 quad-core Cortex-A7 SoC with a low-power RISC-V core, and equipped with 128MB DDR3, 256MB SPI NAND flash, and dual Gigabit Ethernet

The board also features a microSD card slot, a USB 2.0 Type-A port, a USB Type-C port, MIPI DSI and CSI connectors, and a 40-pin GPIO header suitable for a range of HMI applications. By default, the board is powered through USB-C, but a PoE model is also available.

Luckfox Lume specifications:

• SoC – Allwinner T153 M3-QCX
  • CPU
    • 4x Arm Cortex-A7 cores @ up to 1.6GHz
    • XuanTie E907 RISC-V core @ up to 600MHz
  • GPU – 2D GPU only
  • No VPU, no NPU
  • System Memory – 128 MB built-in DDR3 (TBC)
• Storage
  • 256 MB SPI NAND flash (Winbond 25N02KVZEIR)
  • MicroSD card slot
• Display Interface – 4-lane MIPI DSI
• Camera Interface – 2-lane MIPI CSI
• Networking – 2x Gigabit Ethernet RJ45 ports via Maxio MAE0621A-Q3C transceivers, one with optional PoE support
• USB
  • USB 2.0 Type-C port
    USB 2.0 Type-A port
• Expansion – 40-pin GPIO header with up to 6x UART, 2x I2C, 1x SPI, 4x ADC, 5V, 3.3V, and GND
• Misc
  • Reset and FEL buttons
  • Dual-color status LED
  • 2-pin RTC battery header
• Power Input
  • 5V via USB-C port
  • Optional PoE support
• Dimensions – 68 x 55 mm

There’s some documentation to get started with a buildroot Linux image, but the wiki is currently only available in Chinese. The instructions also rely exclusively on Windows tools like Allwinner’s Phoenix Suite.

Optional PoE support is implemented through a Waveshare PoE Module (B), for which I can’t find details, but it should provide enough power for the board and accessories like a touchscreen display and a camera module.

I was somewhat confused by the 128 MB DDR3 RAM at first, since I could not find the chip anywhere on the Lume SBC, and the Forlinx FET153-S system-on-module clearly features both storage and memory chips along with the Allwinner T153 SoC. So I believe the Allwinner T153 M3-QSX is a system-on-package (SiP) with 128 MB on-chip DDR3 memory, while the Allwinner T153 MX-BCX found on the Forlinx SoM relies on external memory for higher capacities.

The Luckfox Lume can be purchased for $24.99/$29.99 on AliExpress, with the price depending on whether you need PoE. Strangely, the PoE version is cheaper, so I assume the company mixed up the two models, and they’ll probably fix that soon enough. Alternatively, you’ll also find both variants on the Waveshare shop for $20.99/$25.99.

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