Specs and I/O Ports

Form factorMini ITX
Dimensions17 × 17 cm (6.7 × 6.7 in)
Power ConnectorsStandard ATX 24 Pin socket
Switch1Gbps Switch (RTL8370MB-CG +)
Data Rate 10 Mb/s, 100 Mb/s, 1 Gb/s
Duplex Full Duplex, Half Duplex
VLAN Support
Storage Interfaces2x SATA 3 - Standard SATA 6 connectors, up to 6Gbps per port*
4x M.2 Slots (2260 or 2280 NVMe drives)
SD Card slot - Additional storage for custom scripts/tools. Available for BMC Operating System.
USB PortsUSB 3.0 Front Panel 2 (20 pin USB header)
2x USB 3.0
CM4 USB Mode
I/O InterfacesFront IO
Display Interfaces1x DSI
1x HDMI
Expansion Slots2x Mini PCIe
Ethernet Ports2x 1Gbps Ethernet - In bridge mode by default
Nodes slots4x DDR4 - 260-pin
Fan Connectors4x FAN Header - Micro JST 1.25 mm 4 Pin Male Connector
1x Case FAN header - 2 Pin small Molex Fan Power Connector
GPIO InterfaceGPIO 40 Pin (Standard GPIO same as on Raspberry Pi)
RTCCR2032 (CR1220 for Turing Pi V2.4)
BMC InterfacesBMC Micro USB - USB port for flashing BMC
BMC Serial Console - serial communication port for BMC
Serial PortsUART2 DEBU2-4 - serial communication ports attached to Node2-4. (For Node1, use UART pins in the GPIO 40pin header)
Switches and ButtonsSW1 - HDMI circuit switch
Key1 - Power button to turn Module1-4 on and off,
BMC Reset - Reset button for Baseboard Management Controller

Front Side

Back Side

Interconnections

Node 1• GPIO 40-pin
• Mini PCIe with SIM card slot
• HDMI
• DSI
• M.2 T1 (on the back)
• USB 2.0 (this can be switched between all Nodes)
Node 2• M.2 T2 (on the back)
• Mini PCIe
Node 3• M.2 T3 (on the back)
• 2x SATA 3
Node 4• M.2 T4 (on the back)
• 4x USB 3.0

mPCIe, M2 (NVMe), SATA, USB ports mapping

VendorModelmPCIeM2 (NVMe)SATAUSB 3USB 2*
TuringRK1✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️
Raspberry Pi CM4✔️✔️✔️✔️
Nvidia JetsonOrin NX
Orin Nano
Xavier NX
TX2 NX
✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️
Nvidia JetsonNano (B01)✔️✔️

*Each node can connect to the system's USB 2.0 port, but only one node can do so at any given moment.

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Please be aware that the Raspberry Pi CM4 does not support connections via an M.2 (NVMe) port.

UART

Turing Pi 2 contains multiple UART pin outs that allow serial connection not only to BMC, but to each individual Node1-4 slot as well.

Node 1

This is part of the 40 Pin GPIO, refer to the Compute Module pinout. For example, Raspberry Pi:

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Please note that there are 2 differences compared to the Raspberry Pi and the Nvidia Jetson header pinouts:

  • because the debug UART is connected to the BMC, the UART header exposed through pins 8 and 10 is an additional UART in the case of the Nvidia Jetson modules and these pins are not connected in the case of the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4
  • pin 17 is connected to the GROUND instead of 3.3V - please make sure this does not conflict with your use case for the GPIO header

Node 2-4

These pins are located on the top side of the board, near HW buttons for BMC and micro USB. They are marked with "UART2 DEBUG" 2 to 4 and are only utilized by the Nvidia Jetson modules and upcoming Turing RK1 modules (Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 does not expose the additional UART).

BMC

BMC UART pins are also located on top of the board near the hardware buttons. Since BMC is running Linux OS, you can use this serial interface to connect to it directly.

HDMI Circuit Switch

Since the HDMI output between Raspberry Pi and Nvidia Jetson compute modules is different, we have included a 4 pin switch to give you the option to switch between these two modes.

  • Raspberry Pi: 1:ON 2:OFF 3:OFF 4:ON
  • Nvidia Jetson: 1:OFF 2:ON 3:ON 4:OFF

Front I/O

Front I/O pins offer similar features to standard PC motherboards with pins for:

  • Power LED
  • Status LED
  • Power Button
  • Reset Button

This allows easy integration to standard PC cases.

Buttons

On Turing Pi 2 board are two physical buttons:

  • KEY1
  • BMC RESET

You can use these instead of front panel I/O pins.

After you plug in power to Turing Pi 2, BMC will take a few seconds to boot up

  • Pressing and releasing "Key1" button for more than 1s will initialize sequential start of the Modules 1 to 4
  • Pressing and holding the "Key1" button for 3s will shut down all Modules sequentially.
  • Pressing "BMC Reset" button for more than 1s will currently stop all modules and restart BMC manager (you will need to press Power button again to start Modules 1 to 4)