Ambiq Apollo510 Advanced AI on a Chip
Ambiq Apollo510 Advanced AI on a Chip significantly upgrades hardware and software, using an AI-focused Arm® Cortex®-M55 CPU with Helium technology. The Ambiq Apollo510 delivers processing speeds up to 250MHz and offers 16x better latency and over 2x power efficiency compared to its predecessor, the Apollo4. This makes it ideal for deploying advanced AI models in speech, vision, health, and industrial applications on battery-powered devices. The device is available in BGA and CSP package options.
With 1MB to 4MB of embedded NVM and 1.15MB to 3.75MB of SRAM, the Apollo5 family provides ample computing power and storage for complex algorithms and neural networks while supporting vibrant, smooth graphics. If additional memory is needed, external memory can be accessed via Ambiq’s high-bandwidth Octal/Hex-SPI and eMMC interfaces.
Features
- Up to 250MHz clock frequency with turboSPOT®
- Up to 250MHz 2D/2.5D graphics accelerator with enhanced anti-aliasing, dithering, and hardware vector graphics acceleration
- MIPI DSI 1.2 with up to two lanes at 1.5Gbps delivering a feature-rich user interface
- Enhanced memory performance with 64 I and 64 D caches, including caching for external and 250MT/s DDR external memory interface
- Ultra-low power analog microphone ADC for truly always-on voice processing
- Excels as an application processor with a fully integrated audio subsystem and interface to other communication devices
- Flexible I2C/SPI serial interfaces for analog and digital sensor processing, with both master and slave capability
Applications
- Smartwatches/bands
- Wireless sensors and loT
- Activity and fitness monitors
- Children's watches
- Animal trackers
- Motion and tracking devices
- Alarms and security system
- Far-field voice remotes
- Consumer medical devices
- Predictive maintenance
- Smart home
Specifications
- High-performance Arm Cortex-M55 processor with FPU
- Integrated 64kB instruction cache and 64kB data cache
- Integrated 256kB Instruction Tightly Coupled Memory (ITCM) and 512kB Data TCM (DTCM)
- Up to 250MHz clock frequency
- Integer, half-precision, and single-precision floating-point Mprofile Vector Extensions (MVE) supported
- Memory Protection Unit (MPU)
- Security features
- Arm Trust Zone
- Secure boot
- Secure over-the-air (OTA) updates
- Secure wired updates
- Key revocation
- Ultra-low-power memory
- Up to 4MB of non-volatile memory for code/data
- Up to 3.75MB of TCM and system RAM for code/data
- Ultra-low-power interface for on- and off-chip sensors
- 12-bit ADC, 11x selectable input channels
- Up to 1.7MS/s sampling rate
- Temperature sensor with ±3°C accuracy
- Ultra-low-power flexible serial peripherals
- 2x 2/4/8-bit SPI master interfaces
- 2x 2/4/8/16-bit SPI master interface
- 8x I2C/SPI masters for peripheral communication
- I2C/SPI slave for host communications
- 4x UART modules with FIFOs and flow control
- 1x USB 2.0 HS/FS device controller
- 2x SDIO (SD3.0)/eMMC (v4.51)
- Several BGA packages with 48x to 190x GPIOs
- Display
- Memory-in-Pixel (MiP) display interface with fast-forward LCD controller
- MIPI DSI 1.2 with 2x data lanes up to 1.5Gbps (768Mbps per lane)
- Up to 640x480 resolution at 60fps
- 4x layers with alpha blending
- Frame buffer decompression
- Audio processing
- 1x LP always-on audio ADC
- 2x PDM DMIC interface
- 2x full-duplex multichannel I2S ports, 1x with ASRC
- Graphics
- 96MHz/250MHz operating modes
- 2.5D-like graphics accelerator with Vector Graphics (VG)
- Anti-aliasing hardware acceleration
- Rasterizer / full alpha blending / texture mapping
- Texture / frame buffer compression (TSC4, 6, 6A and 12)
- Dithering and radial / conical fill support
- Rich set of clock sources
- PLL for precise clocking applications
- 16MHz to 52MHz and 32.768kHz Crystal (XTAL) oscillators
- 1kHz Low-Frequency RC (LFRC) oscillator
- 2x High Frequency RC (HFRC) oscillator
- Power management
- 1.71V to 2.2V operating range
- SIMO buck
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Inilathala: 2024-09-11
| Na-update: 2024-10-09