Installing the Raspberry Pi 4B System and Schematic Overview

Installing the Raspberry Pi 4B+ system~ First, let’s compare 32-bit and 64-bit:

Installing the Raspberry Pi 4B System and Schematic Overview

The main reasons for the official push for 64-bit operating systems are twofold. Many closed-source applications are only compatible with arm64, while open-source applications have not been fully optimized for armhf. Additionally, from a performance perspective, the advantages of the A64 instruction set will become more apparent in the future.

Moreover, there is a theoretical issue where 32-bit pointers only allow you to address 4GB of memory. On the Raspberry Pi 4, using ARM Large Physical Address Extension (LPAE), you can access up to 8GB of memory, but any process is limited to accessing only 3GB (1GB of virtual address space is reserved for the kernel). Few processes require more memory than this. Fortunately, Chromium may be the most memory-intensive application in Raspberry Pi OS, generating a process for each tab. However, certain use cases would benefit from being able to allocate the full 8GB of memory from a single Raspberry Pi 4 process.

Installing the Raspberry Pi 4B System and Schematic Overview

I am actually using an older version of

Installing the Raspberry Pi 4B System and Schematic Overview

The new version can also use the old camera stack

Installing the Raspberry Pi 4B System and Schematic Overview

64-bit system supported boards

Installing the Raspberry Pi 4B System and Schematic Overview

Recent download volumes

Installing the Raspberry Pi 4B System and Schematic Overview

Download the official imager

Username: pi with password: raspberry

Default account credentials

Installing the Raspberry Pi 4B System and Schematic Overview

UPS

Installing the Raspberry Pi 4B System and Schematic Overview

Boards

Installing the Raspberry Pi 4B System and Schematic Overview

Look at this

Installing the Raspberry Pi 4B System and Schematic Overview

This one has three pins

Installing the Raspberry Pi 4B System and Schematic Overview

What is CC?

Installing the Raspberry Pi 4B System and Schematic Overview

Installing the Raspberry Pi 4B System and Schematic Overview

The function of the CC line seems to be a fully functional USB

Installing the Raspberry Pi 4B System and Schematic Overview

Interface definition

Installing the Raspberry Pi 4B System and Schematic Overview

Interface definition

Installing the Raspberry Pi 4B System and Schematic Overview

Another one

Installing the Raspberry Pi 4B System and Schematic Overview

Because it is a differential signal, each signal line requires two signal wires and one shield ground wire.

From the diagram, HDMI has a total of 3 TMDS differential signals, which are 1-3, 4-6, 7-9, corresponding to the RGB or YUV video components (transmitted in TMDS format), and audio signals are also transmitted within these 3 signals, along with horizontal (H) and vertical (V) signals (to accommodate CRT displays).

Pin 10-12 is the clock signal used for high-speed signal synchronization.

Pin 13 is CEC (Consumer Electronics Control), used for transmitting control signals, making it convenient to control multiple devices with one remote control; it is a reserved pin but not mandatory to use.

Pin 14 is a reserved pin, initially undefined, but after HDMI 1.4, it became an Ethernet signal pin that can be used for general data transmission.

Pins 15 and 16 are DDC, mainly used for mutual recognition between the display and output devices, allowing for plug-and-play.

Pin 17 is the ground for CEC and DDC. This shows that CEC and DDC are single-ended signals and cannot be very fast.

Pin 18 is +5V power supply, providing power support for certain devices (such as HDMI to VGA converters).

Pin 19 is for hot-plug detection. It can be seen that HDMI supports hot-plugging, but it should still be avoided as much as possible because the quality of HDMI cables and devices varies.

Installing the Raspberry Pi 4B System and Schematic Overview

You can use the remote control to control the device

Installing the Raspberry Pi 4B System and Schematic Overview

Actually, there are two

Installing the Raspberry Pi 4B System and Schematic Overview

IO, serial port + power

Installing the Raspberry Pi 4B System and Schematic Overview

Camera port

Installing the Raspberry Pi 4B System and Schematic Overview

DVP

Installing the Raspberry Pi 4B System and Schematic Overview

Headphone jack, I’m really drunk, just PWM pin

Ah, I lost the draft later… let’s leave it at that

Author: SasugaSetsuna https://www.bilibili.com/read/cv390622 Source: bilibili
https://datasheets.raspberrypi.com/rpi4/raspberry-pi-4-reduced-schematics.pdf
https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/imager/imager_1.7.2.exe
https://rpi-imager-stats.raspberrypi.com/
https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspios_oldstable_armhf/images/raspios_oldstable_armhf-2022-04-07/2022-04-04-raspios-buster-armhf.img.xz

Download links

https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/operating-systems/

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