User Guide

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2 Key features
The Developer Board 8 (hereinafter referred to as DB8) board is a 96Boards compliant community board based on
Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 820 processor.
The following table lists its key features:
Processor
Qualcomm Snapdragon 820
Quad-core Qualcomm® Kryo
™
at up to 2.15GHz per core
64-Bit capable
Qualcomm® Adreno
™
530 624MHz GPU for PC-class graphics with support for advanced
APIs, including OpenGL ES 3.1+, OpenCL, DirectX, and content security
Memory/
Storage
3GB LPDDR4 1866MHz
32GB UFS 2.0
SD 3.0 (UHS-I)
Video
4K UltraHD@30fps video playback and capture with H.264 (AVC) and H.265 (HEVC)
Camera Support
Integrated Dual ISP with support for 3 image sensors up to 28MP
Audio
PCM/AAC+/MP3/WMA, ECNS, Audio+ post-processing (optional)
Connectivity
WLAN 2x2 802.11 b/g/n/ac 2.4 and 5GHz with on-board dual band WLAN antennas
Bluetooth v4.1 with on-board antenna
GbE Ethernet connection
One USB 2.0 micro B (device mode only)
Two USB 3.0 (host mode only)
GPS with On-board GPS antenna
I/O Interfaces
MINI PCIe
One 40-pin Low Speed (LS) expansion connector
• UARTx2, SPI, I2S, I2C x2, GPIO x12, DC power
Primary 60-pin High Speed (HS) expansion connector
• 4L-MIPI DSI, USB, I2C x2, 2L+4L-MIPI CSI, SPI
Secondary 60-pin High Speed (HS) expansion connector
• 4L-MIPI DSI, DC power, 1.8V supply, I2C, Camera Flash control, Display control,
2 x GPIO,Sensor core SPI, 3 x UART, I2C
Audio support including:
• Stereo Speaker and Mono microphone via 3.5mm headset jack
•24 pin audio expansion connector
•3.3V supply, 2 x analog line in, 4 x analog line out, speaker amp control, 2 x
digital microphone links supporting a total of 4 microphones
•16 pin audio expansion connector
•stereo headset/line out, speaker and analog line in
Camera connector based upon 96boards camera interface addendum. 30 pin connector