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Carrier Board Design Guides

Carrier Board Layout Guideā€‹

The freely downloadable Layout Guide offers extensive details on:

  1. PCB Stack-Up
  2. Trace impedance
  3. Component placement and schematic optimizations
  4. High-speed designs and layout considerations
  5. How to avoid signal integrity and EMC issues on the carrier board
  6. Layout Requirements of Interfaces:
    • PCI Express
    • SATA
    • Ethernet
    • USB
    • Parallel RGB LCD Interface
    • LVDS LCD Interface
    • HDMI/DVI
    • Analogue VGA
    • Parallel Camera Interface
    • SD/MMC/SDIO
    • IĀ²C
    • Display Serial Interface (MIPI/DSI with D-PHY)
    • Camera Serial Interface (MIPI/CSI-2 with D-PHY)

It is available at the Carrier Board Layout Guide Doc.

Carrier Board Design Guidesā€‹

The freely downloadable Carrier Board Design Guides provide information about various interfaces and include reference schematics.

Custom Verdin Carrier Boardā€‹

Custom Apalis Carrier Boardā€‹

Custom Colibri Carrier Boardā€‹

Toolsā€‹

For Colibri modules, there is an additional compatibility guide. It is provided as an Excel file that contains a comparison of all SODIMM pin functions and the RGB display and camera input color mapping.

Also, make sure to check out the Pinout Designer Tool.

Upverterā€‹

Upverter is an online carrier board design tool that simplifies carrier board design and software support at the BSP level. The tool is available on the Toradex developer website:



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