Differences in new PicoCOMA5 board rev. 1.23

  • Hello,

    we recently received new PicoCOMA5 modules with a new board revision.

    What are the differences between this new and previous revision 1.20?

    It looks like the new one uses a different crystal because the system frequency has slightly changed.

    Could you provide us with current documentation for the new board/hardware?


    Thank you,

    Kamil

  • We are delivering the 'new' 1.23 revision since 2015.

    Where did you read the board revision? From the board or from nboot?

    nboot reports 1.23 since version V13.

    So maybe the 'new' board has a new version of the nboot.

    V15 ist the standard nboot since end of 2019.

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  • I'm developing fw on my old PicoCOMA5 and that is why I haven't noticed this "new" version until now.

    Version number is taken from NBoot:

    F&S Nand Loader VN15 built Jul 26 2019 09:29:43

    PicoCOMA5 Rev. 1.23


    Different version number is not the problem in itself. The reason why I'm checking versions is other: in this "new" board system frequency is slightly lower - 82534736 Hz while it used to be 83368421 Hz.

    This is not a big difference (about 1%) but it affects also our UART and SPI communication anyway.


    In addition, the new board also shows a kind of "jitter" when transmitting on UART/SPI - as if the new board had an unstable system frequency.

    Jitter is small, but noticeable on the oscilloscope.

    Is this also a consequence of any changes in NBoot? And is it possible to go back to some earlier version of NBoot?


    Thank you,

    Kamil

  • Spread Spectrum for PLL1 and PLL2 is enabled since V12 (2014)

    You can select another clock source for UART and SPI in Linux.


    You could use an older nboot, but we can't guarantee that is works on current production boards.

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