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Viola Carrier Board

Viola Carrier Board Top

Viola Plus Carrier Board Top

Viola Carrier Board Bottom

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Getting Started​

Viola is the smallest off-the-shelf carrier board and is compatible with the entire Colibri product family. Carefully selected features packed in a small form factor makes the Viola carrier board suitable for a wide range of embedded applications. The Viola carrier board is an ideal choice to create low cost embedded solutions. Viola carrier board is designed keeping production environment in mind. For evaluation and development purpose, customers are advised to use Colibri Evaluation Board or Iris Carrier Board.

The Viola V1.2 carrier board will be available in two assembly variants:

  • Viola
  • Viola Plus

Viola is not the best option for development. We recommend that you buy, in addition to Viola, another carrier board for your development team, and use Viola in production.

This section contains initial information needed to set-up the Viola Carrier Board for the first time.

Recommendation for a first-time order​

Toradex recommends to order the following additional products for your fist-time order:


All the products can be ordered online at Toradex Webshop.

Getting started for the first time?​

The step-by-step Getting-Started guide is not available for Viola Carrier Board, as Toradex does not recommend it for first steps or development purposes.

Product-specific information for the Viola Carrier Board:

Having trouble?​

Please contact our technical support. Various option of technical support are mentioned in the article below.

Features​

I/O Support​

The table below list down the main features available on the Viola V1.2 and Viola Plus V1.2 Carrier Boards.

✓ : Assembled by default.
✖ : Not Assembled.


Features
Viola V1.2
Viola Plus V1.2
Ethernet Connector (X5)
✓
✓
2x USB Host (X6, Dual Stacked Type-A)
✓
✓
USB Client (X4, Micro-AB Type)
✖
✓
Micro SD Card Connector (X8)
✓
✓
Unified Interface Display (X7)
✓
✓
Extension Connector (X9)
  • SPI, I2C, UART - A/B/C
  • PWM Output
  • CAN *
  • Parallel Camera Interface (CIF) signals *
  • Up-to 35 GPIOs
✖
✓
Audio Connector (X10)
  • Headphone, Mic In, Audio In
  • Parallel Camera Interface (CIF) signals *
✖
✓
Colibri VFxx Tamper Connector (X11)
✖
✖
Terminal Block Power Supply Connector (X3)
✓
✓
Barrel Power Supply Connector (X2)
✖
✓
Battery Holder (BAT1)
✓
✓
External RTC
✖
✓
LED Indication (3.3V Power)
✓
✓
  • CAN: This is module specific feature and may not be supported on all the modules in Colibri Family. Please refer Colibri module datasheets for more details.
  • Parallel Camera Interface (CIF) signals are connected to the connectors X9 and X10.

Block Diagram​


* Please note that these features are module-specific and may not be supported by all the computer-on-modules in the Colibri family. For more details, refer to the datasheet of Colibri computer-on-modules.

Datasheets​

Viola Carrier Board V1.2​

Viola Carrier Board V1.2 Datasheet

Viola Carrier Board V1.1​

Viola Carrier Board V1.1 Datasheet

Viola Carrier Board V1.0​

Viola Carrier Board V1.0 Datasheet

Components​

Design Resources​

Design data Viola Carrier Board V1.2​

Design data Viola Plus Carrier Board V1.2​

Design data Viola Carrier Board Archive​

Viola Carrier Board Mechanical Models​

Viola Plus​

A basic 3D model for the Viola Plus Carrier Board can be downloaded here:

Viola​

A basic 3D model for the Viola Plus Carrier Board can be downloaded here:

3D CAD model for previous versions of the Viola Carrier Board can be downloaded from the archive:

Altium Designer​

Compatible Products​

[1] Capacitive Touch Adapter is required.

Revision History​

Click to See the Product Numbering Scheme

Product Number (PID8) Format​

The format of the 8-digits Product Number (PID8) is the following:

Product Numbering Scheme

The below table describes the structure of the Product Number (PID8):

FieldDescription
PPPP4-digits number, indicating the Product Configuration (PID4) that describes the key properties of the product (e.g. Product Group, RAM capacity, etc.)
VV2-digits number, indicating the Major and Minor Version (in that order)
AA2-digits number, indicating the Assembly Variant

See the complete list of available combinations on the Revision History table of the corresponding product page.

Example​

Product number (PID8): 00291100:

0029: Apalis iMX6D 512MB
11: Major Version 1, Minor Version 1, Version V1.1 in short
00: Assembly Variant A

A specific product revision has a lifecycle defined by the product state. Learn more about it on the Product Change Notifications.

Viola Carrier Board​

PN: 0137

Product #Product DescriptionChanges from Previous VersionRelease DatePCN Document
01371000Viola Carrier Board V1.0ASample Version2014-07-01Sample Product, No PCN
01371100Viola Carrier Board V1.1ARearranged GPIO/PWM signals on Connector X9
USB Client assembly option added, etc.		2014-09-05PCN Viola Carrier Board V1.1A 2015-01-08
01371200Viola Carrier Board V1.2ASee Viola Comparison article for detailsQ3/Q4 2015PCN Viola Carrier Board V1.2A 2017-12-20
01371201Viola Carrier Board V1.2BFixed battery errata2017-12-20 

Viola Plus Carrier Board​

PN: 0142

Product #Product DescriptionChanges from Previous VersionRelease DatePCN Document
01421200Viola Plus Carrier Board V1.2ASee Viola Comparison article for detailsQ3/Q4 2015PCN Viola Carrier Board V1.2A 2017-07-10
01421201Viola Plus Carrier Board V1.2BSolving battery holder issue of Errata #1.July 2017 

Errata​

Viola Carrier Board Errata



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