The NanoPi Fire3 is a 7.5cm x 4cm Microcontroller (slightly larger than a Raspberry Pi Zero) using a 1.4GHz Octa-Core Cortex-A53 with 1GB DDR3 RAM, with its CPU being a S56818 (Samsung) SoC. The Fire3 has a CMOS interface to support cameras, 40-Pin GPIO, MicroHDMI, RGB LCD Connector, and Gbps Ethernet.

It can run FriendlyCore, Debian, Android and Armbian.

Specifications#

NanoPi Fire3 (click to enlarge)

• Octa-Core Cortex-A53 scaled up to 1.4GHz
• SoC (CPU): Samsung S5P6818
• Memory: 1GB DDR3 RAM
• Dynamic Voltage Control
• 1x MicroSD Slot
• 1x Debug Serial Port / UART0
• 1x USB 2.0 (Type-A)
• 1x 1080P60 1.4A HDMI / Micro HDMI Type-D
• 1x 0.54mm Pitch SMT FPC Seat that supports full-color (8-8-8) RGB LCD
• 1x Micro USB to support data transmission and power input
• 5mm Pitch FPC Socket supports DVP Camera (8-Bit ITU-R BT 601-658 / I/O, I2C included)
• 54mm pitch Raspberry Pi compatible 40-Pin GPIO / PWM, I2C, UART, I/O, and SPI included
• Power requirement: 5V/2A DC input power
• Cortex-M0 MCU Power Management Unit supports Software Power-Off and RTC Alarm Power-On functions
• Operating Temperature ranges from -20℃ to 70℃
• Supports Armbian (Focal or Buster), Debian, Android 7.1.2, Ubuntu 16.04, FriendlyCore 16.04 (with Qt5.9 and OpenGL ES 1.1/2.0)
• Supports Linux Kernel 4.4
• 1x System LED
• 1x Power Button
• 1x Power indicator LED
• 1x Reset Button
• 1x RTC Battery Seat
• passive heatsink included
• Dimensions: 7.5cm x 4cm / 75mm x 40mm

Fire3 GPIO Pinout#

While it claims to be, the Fire3's GPIO is actually not compatible with the Raspberry Pi, notably the I2C bus is different.

Links#

• NanoPi Fire3 product page
• NanoPi Fire3 home page on the NanoPi wiki
• Armbian for the NanoPi Fire3