Introduction

Banana Pi BPI-M4 Zero is the successor model of M2 Zero. It has a huge improvement in performance. The SOC is upgraded to H618 and the CPU frequency is increased by 25%. The memory is upgraded to DDR4, the capacity is quadrupled, and 8G eMMC is added. It supports 5G WiFi, and the USB interface has also been upgraded to type-C.

It has same form factor and 40-pin connector as the Raspberry Pi Zero W, and it can fit most of the RPI Zero W cases and accessories.

Key Features

• Allwinner H618, Quad-core ARM Cortex™-A53 processor
• ARM Mali G31 GPU
• 2.4G/5G WIFI & Bluetooth 4.2
• 2G LPDDR4 RAM
• 8G eMMC flash memory
• 1x USB2.0 Type-C OTG, 5V power supply
• 1x USB2.0 Type-C
• 1x miniHDMI 2.0a
• 1x 24-pin FPC connector
  • 1x USB2.0
  • 1x 100Mbps Ethernet

Getting Start

• Getting Started with BPI-M4 Zero

Hardware

Hardware interface

Hardware spec

PIN define

BPI-M4 Zero 40-pin header

24-pin FPC

BPI-M4 Zero Debug UART

Development

Source code

• u-boot for H618 : https://github.com/BPI-SINOVOIP/pi-u-boot/tree/v2021.07-sunxi
• kernel for H618 : https://github.com/BPI-SINOVOIP/pi-linux/tree/pi-6.1-sunxi

Resources

• BPI-M4 Zero Allwinner H618 SBC burn Ubuntu desktop image
• BPI-M4 Zero DXF file

• BPI-M4 Zero SBC bench test:

• Allwinner H618 Datasheet

Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1N6oWF9PHTcxXC1JY4x3Malr3twFv2wWZ/view?usp=sharing

System image

Linux

Ubuntu

• 2023-12-12 Bpi-m4zero_1.0.0_ubuntu_jammy_minimal_linux6.1.31

Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qNRjN5O5oOoYPXy0efrTPVZkE8KjbH5K/view?usp=sharing

• 2023-12-12 Bpi-m4zero_1.0.0_ubuntu_jammy_desktop_xfce_linux6.1.31

Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yRkGWEd2uLsXu1WPgBG-FUhDICgte_90/view?usp=sharing

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