SL1680 Embedded IoT Processor
Product Overview
The Synaptics SL-Series combines multiple functions into a single system on chip (SoC) with Linux® and Android™ support. It features hardware accelerators for edge inferencing, data security, and audio, video and graphics handling.
The SL1680 leverages a powerful GPU for advanced graphics and AI acceleration, quad-core Arm® Cortex®-A73 64-bit CPU subsystem performance, a multi-TOPS NPU and multimedia accelerators for image signal processing (ISP), 4K video encode/decode and audio. These compute engines enable the embedded processor to power consumer, industrial and enterprise IoT workloads.
As part of the Synaptics Astra™ platform, the SL1680 delivers a seamless experience combining standards-based open-source software frameworks, powerful AI tools and Synaptics’ superior wireless solutions.
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Features
Compute, Memory, AI
- Quad-core Arm® Cortex®-A73 @ 2.1GHz
- Cache: 64KB I-cache and 32KB D-cache per core,1MB shared L2
- DRAM Controller: 64-bit LPDDR4/LPDDR4x-3733
- 7.9+ TOPS secure NPU with support for multiple DNN frameworks
GFX, Vision, Display
- GPU: Imagination™ PowerVR™ Series9XE GE9920
- Multi-standard video decoding with AV1, H.265/264, VP9/8, MPEG2
- Multi-stream encoding for H.264, VP8
- Simultaneous 2160p60 decode and 1080p60 encode
- OpenGL® ES™ up to 3.2, DirectFB, OpenCL™ 1.2, Vulkan® 1.1, Android™ NN
Audio
- Far-field voice, keyword detection, decompression, post-processing
Security
- Secure CPU, Secure Boot with RSA, memory scrambling
- Integrity checking, physical attack mitigation, true random number generator
Connectivity, I/O, Sensing
- GbE networking, PCIe, eMMC 5.1, SPI, SDIO, UART, USB, GPIO, ADCs
- Always-on domain for multi-protocol wake-up events
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