SL1620 Embedded IoT Processor
Product Overview
Choose the Synaptics SL Series whenever you want to integrate AI-native systems on chip (SoCs) into your products. These embedded IoT processors run popular operating systems like Linux® and Android™, giving you the flexibility to create solutions for multiple applications.
The SL Series is the perfect option for building edge devices for multimodal industrial, enterprise and consumer IoT workloads. Featuring hardware accelerators, our chips speed up edge inferencing, provide data security, and process audio, graphics and video efficiently.
The SL1620 has a high-performance SoC design-optimized for demanding applications that need strong computing power, advanced AI capabilities and high-quality 3D graphics. It comes with a ready-to-use Linux® OS out of the box, built-in superior audio processing algorithms, various peripherals, dual displays and compatibility with the companion Synaptics SoC for connectivity and audio front end.
Streamline product development with an embedded processor that also features a quad-core Arm® Cortex®-A55 CPU subsystem and a robust GPU for superior graphics.
Documentation
| Type | Title | Format |
|---|---|---|
| Product Brief | SL1620 Product Brief | |
| Datasheet | SL1620 Datasheet | |
| Functional Specifications | SL1620 Functional Specifications | |
| Application Note | SL1620 General PCB Design DDR4 DDR3 Interface Layout Guide | |
| Application Note | Astra Machina SL1620 HW Platform GPIO Pinmux | |
| Application Note | Astra Machina SL16x0 SoC Interface-to-10base-T1S Ethernet App Note | |
| Application Note | Astra Machina SL-Series Power Consumption Application Note | |
| Register Specification | SL1620 Register Specifications: Peripheral Registers | |
| Register Specification | SL1620 Register Specification: SoC Registers |
SL1620 Embedded IoT Processor 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 and I/O
- GbE, IEEE 1588 PTP
- USB3.0/2.0, UART, SDIO3.0, SPI, GPIOs, PWMs, Temp Sensor
Enable a Diverse Range of Applications
Our embedded processor has you covered, regardless of the IoT applications you want to power. Discover a few use cases below.
Enterprise Conferencing
Power video conferencing systems with real-time on-device video and audio processing, AI-enabled features like speaker tracking and echo suppression for seamless, high-quality collaboration experiences.
Home Security Gateways
By incorporating embedded processors in home security gateways, users benefit from real-time, on-device video analytics and automatic threat alerts, enhancing security and reliability.
Smart Speakers and Soundbars
With on-device AI, you build products that respond quickly to voice commands and personalize the listening experience to the users' preferences.
Industrial Control Systems
Leverage our embedded processor in control panels, automation equipment and sensors. It processes machine data locally, runs predictive maintenance and completes other functions to streamline industrial operations.
Signage and Displays
The SL1620 powers digital signage and interactive displays, empowering you to deliver products with high-resolution graphics and support for multiple modes. The embedded processor runs AI models directly on the device, eliminating cloud dependency.
Wearables
Empower your devices to manage sensor data, such as motion and heart rate, for accurate health analytics. Our solution also enables voice assistant features and maximizes battery life.
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SL1640
The power- and cost-efficient SL1640 is an embedded, reliable SoC. It uses superior compute engines, such as quad-core Arm® Cortex®-A55, 1.6+ TOPS NPU, Imagination GE9920 GPU with 90 GFLOPS 16-bit operations, Ultra HD video encode and decode pipelines and audio DSP.
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SL1680
The SL1680 features powerful compute engines, such as a quad-core Arm® Cortex®-A73 64-bit CPU subsystem, a multi-TOPS NPU, a feature-rich GPU for advanced graphics and AI acceleration and multimedia accelerators for image signal processing (ISP), 4K video encode/decode and audio.
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Astra™ Machina™
Astra Machina is a modular platform for development and evaluation. It allows developers to unlock the capabilities of Synaptics embedded processors. The kit integrates powerful multimedia processing, best-in-class AI capabilities and secure hardware, empowering you to develop edge and IoT devices quickly.
Elevate Development With an AI-Native SoC
Get Ready-to-Use On-Device AI
Accelerate development with AI models pre-optimized for the SL1620. Our superior, embedded-AI tools let you optimize your existing TensorFlow Lite, PyTorch and ONNX models for on-device AI accelerators.
Leverage the Developer-Friendly Astra Machina Foundation Platform
When you acquire the SL1620, you use Astra Machina Foundation for development and evaluation. The platform helps you unlock the processor's full capabilities with advanced compute, edge AI software tools and integrated wireless connectivity.
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