SL1620 Embedded IoT Processor
Product Overview
The Synaptics SL Series of embedded processors are highly integrated AI-native Linux® and Android™ systems on chip (SoCs) optimized for multi-modal consumer, enterprise, and industrial IoT workloads with hardware accelerators for edge inferencing, security, video, graphics, and audio. The SL1620 is designed and optimized for embedded applications that require powerful processing, advanced AI capability, and 3D graphics. This chip comes with Linux® OS, superior audio algorithms, a variety of peripherals, dual displays, companion Synaptics SoC for connectivity and audio front end.
The SL1620 incorporates high-performance compute engines, including a quad-core Arm® Cortex®-A55 CPU subsystem, a high-efficiency and feature-rich GPU for advanced graphics and AI acceleration, dual displays, and superior audio processing.
Features
Compute, Memory, AI
- Quad-core Arm® Cortex®-A55 @ 1.9GHz
- Cache: 32KB/32KB L1 I/D-cache and 64KB L2 per core, 512KB shared L3
- DRAM Controller: 32/16-bit DDR3/DDR3L-1866/DDR4-2133
- eMMC-5.1 and NAND controllers
GFX, Vision, Display
- GPU: Imagination™ BXE-2-32
- Dual display, MIPI DSI®
- OpenGL® ES™ 3.2, OpenCL™ 3.0, EGL™ 1.5, Vulkan® 1.3, Android™ NN
Audio
- I2S (Rx + Tx) or 10 channel TDM
- Audio hardware mute
- Far-field voice, keyword detection, decompression, post-processing
Security
- Secure CPU, Secure Boot with RSA, DRM engine, integrity checking, true random number generator, on-chip anti-fuse OTP
Connectivity & I/O
- GbE, IEEE 1588 PTP
- USB3.0/2.0, UART, SDIO3.0, SPI, GPIOs, PWMs, Temp Sensor
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