Radxa Rock 3A (RS117-D8)

Radxa Rock Pi 3 A (RS117-D8) V1.31
Availability: Currently Shipping

(Est.) release date: July 2021
Country of manuf.: China

Type: single-board computer

Power: 9 VDC, 2 A
Connector type: USB Female Type-C

CPU1: Rockchip RK3568 (2.0 GHz, 4 cores)
FLA1: 16 MiB16,777,216 B <br />131,072 Kib <br />16,384 KiB <br />128 Mib <br />0.0156 GiB <br /> (Macronix MX25U12832F)
RAM1: 8 GiB 8,192 MiB <br />8,589,934,592 B <br />67,108,864 Kib <br />8,388,608 KiB <br />65,536 Mib <br /> (SK hynix H9HCNNNFAMML-XRNEE)

Expansion IFs: Mini PCIe, NGFF (M.2), USB 2.0, USB 3.0
Mini PCIe slots: 2
USB ports: 4
Serial: yes, via GPIO header, (1500000 8N1)

ETH chip1: Rockchip RK3568
ETH chip2: Realtek RTL8211F
LAN speed: 1GbE
LAN ports: 1

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18V 5A Synchronous Step-Down DC/DC Converter;STC;SCT2250;;2;
2A 1MHz Synchronous Step-Down Regulator;Silergy;SY8089;;1;
5.5V 2A Low Loss Power Distribution Switch;Silergy;SY6280;;4;
High-PSRR 500mA LDO;Powtech;PT5108;;2;

Stock bootloader: U-Boot 2017.09

Stock FW OS: Linux 4.19.193 Debian 10

TPFirmware supported: Android 11, Armbian, Ubuntu 20.04, Manjaro ARM

Flags: MicroSD Card slot, HDMI 2.0, Audio out (3.5mm), RTC, eMMC module socket, PoE expansion header, ADC, MIPI DSI, MIPI CSI, SPI, I2C, UART, GPIO

Default IP address: acquired via DHCP
the IP acquired via DHCP is used by 206 additional devices
of which 15 are Radxa devices
Default login user: rock
Default login password: rock
rock:rock credentials used by 10 additional devices
of which 10 are Radxa devices

Ethernet OUI: none specified

	CPU1 brand	FLA1	RAM1
Radxa Rock 3A (RS117-D4)	Rockchip	16 MiB16,777,216 B <br />131,072 Kib <br />16,384 KiB <br />128 Mib <br />0.0156 GiB <br />	4,096 MiB4,294,967,296 B <br />33,554,432 Kib <br />4,194,304 KiB <br />32,768 Mib <br />4 GiB <br />
Radxa Rock 3A (RS117-D8)	Rockchip	16 MiB16,777,216 B <br />131,072 Kib <br />16,384 KiB <br />128 Mib <br />0.0156 GiB <br />	8,192 MiB8,589,934,592 B <br />67,108,864 Kib <br />8,388,608 KiB <br />65,536 Mib <br />8 GiB <br />

For a list of all currently documented Rockchip SoC's with specifications, see Rockchip.

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Single-board Computer

Product page

"ROCK 3A V1.31", "radxa" and "Toybrick" are silkscreened on board top.

See also: Radxa and List of Single-board computers

Hardware specification

• CPU: Rockchip RK3568 Quad-Core @2.0GHz

SoC: ARM (Cortex-A55); NPU: 0.8 TOPS

• GPU: Mali-G52 (OpenGL ES3.2, OpenCL 2.0)

VPU (with 4K VP9 and 4K 10-bit H265/H264 decoding)

• Storage: 16MB (SPI) Flash, eMMC module connector,

TF card (max.128GB)/MMC card, NVMe SSD (M.2) slot

• Memory: 8GB (LPDDR4) SDRAM @1560MHz (SK hynix)
• USB: 1x USB 3.0, 1x USB 3.0 (OTG), 2x USB 2.0 ports
• PCIe: 1x M.2 (M key) socket, 1x M.2 (E key) socket
• Network: 1x Gigabit Ethernet port (w/ PoE support)
• GPIO: 1x 40-pin headers
• Power Source: USB Type-C (supporting USB PD 2.0) and

Qualcomm Quick Charge 3.0 or 4-pin PoE expansion

Links

• Pi-like RK3568 SBC grows SATA out of its USB ports on LinuxGizmos
• ROCK 3A SBC brings M.2 slots for NVMe SSD, WiFi 6 on CNX|Software

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