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Aster Carrier Board

Aster Carrier Board Top

Aster Carrier Board Bottom

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Getting Started

Aster is a carrier board for the Colibri family of computer-on-modules. Aster carrier board has been designed primarily considering Colibri VFxx computer-on-modules, but the carrier board is compatible with all the products in the Colibri family.

Aster has been designed for students, makers and hobbyists. The Aster Carrier Board has headers compatible with Arduino Uno and Raspberry Pi (RPi) maker boards, thus enabling users to use a variety of 3rd party modules/add-on boards like Arduino Shields and Raspberry Pi adapter boards.

Recommendation for a first-time order

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

Any Colibri module
The Carrier Board Accessory Kit (please note that the power supply of the kit is not compatible with Aster)

All the products can be ordered online at Toradex Webshop.

Getting started for the first time?

For detailed step-by-step instructions about how to start with both, SoM and Carrier Board, please have a look at our step-by-step Getting-Started Guide:

Step-by-step Getting-Started Guide

Since Aster can be USB powered, the simplest setup possible requires only:

Cables: USB Micro-AB to Type-A (receptacle)
Jumper Wire to short-circuit JP1

Powering through USB will limit the total amount of power available. We recommend using an external power supply when using a lot of power for e.g. display or other peripherals, since this setup isn't USB compliant.

caution

Do not short-circuit the jumper JP1 if you are using an external power supply: it will cause the external supply and the USB supply to be shorted.

Having trouble?

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

Technical Support Channels

Features

I/O Support

Ethernet (1x 10/100 Mbit)
USB 2.0 (1x Host, 1x Host/Client)
SDIO/SD/MMC (1x 4 Bit)
CAN (up-to 2x, TX/RX)
VGA (1x, Shared with RGB)
RGB (1x)
Resistive Touch (1x)
Capacitive Touch (1x)
USB-to-Serial Transceiver (1x)
UART (2x TTL, 1x USB)
I2C (1x)
SPI (1x)
PWM (4x)
GPIO (up-to 39)
Analog Input (4x)
Analog Audio: Line in (1x)
Analog Audio: Mic in (1x)
Analog Audio: Headphone out (1x)

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