A few days ago we knew the first data of Amlogic’s new SoC, among them the S905X3, today we have information of its block diagram and complete specifications. In a few months we will have the first products in the market with this new SoC, although the current S905X2 still have a long run.
A new SoC that stands out for the inclusion of the new Cortex-A55 CPU cores that substantially improve the performance with respect to the Cortex-A53 that are currently used in innumerable TV-Boxes. We must also highlight the inclusion of a new Cortex-M4 core and a Neural Network Accelerator that improves the benefits for Virtual Assistants. In the rest of the points we have a product very similar to the S905X2 with Cortex-A53 cores and the same Mali-G31 MP2 GPU.
Amlogic S905X3 full specifications
- CPU Sub-system
- Quad core Arm Cortex-A55 CPU with Armv8-A Neon and Crypto extension, 8-stage in-order full dual issue pipeline, unified system L3 cache
- Arm Cortex-M3 core for system control processing
- Optional Arm Cortex-M4 core for always-on processing
- TrustZone
- Internal QoS based switching fabrics
- Optional Neural Network Accelerator – 1.2 TOPS NN inference accelerator supporting TensorFlow and Caffe
- 3D Graphics Processing Unit – Arm Mali G31MP2 GPU with support for OpenGL ES 3.2, Vulkan 1.0 and OpenCL 2.0 support
- 2.5D Graphics Processor
- Fast bitblt engine with dual inputs and single output
- Programmable raster operations (ROP)
- Programmable polyphase scaling filter
- Support for 4:2:0, 4:2:2, and 4:4:4 video formats, and multiple pixel formats (8/16/24/32 bits graphic layer)
- Fast color space conversion
- Advanced anti-flickering filter
- Crypto Engine
- AES block cipher with 128/256 bits keys
- TDES block cipher with ECB and CDC modes
- SM4 block cipher with ECB, CBC, CTR modes
- Hardware crypto key-ladder operation and DVB-CSA for transport stream encryption
- TRNG, CRC and SHA-1/SHA-2/HMAC SHA engine
- Video/Picture CODEC
- Amlogic Video Engine (AVE) with dedicated hardware decoders and encoders
- Support multi-video decoder up to 4x 1080p60
- Support multiple secured video decoding sessions and simultaneous decoding and encoding
- Video/Picture Decoding
- VP9 Profile-2 up to 4Kx2K @ 60 fps
- H.265 HEVC MP-10 @ L5.1 up to 4Kx2K @ 60 fps
- AVS2-P2 Profile up to 4Kx2K @ 60 fps
- H.264 AVC HP @ L5.1 up to 4Kx2K @ 30 fps
- MPEG-4 ASP @ L5, WMV/VC-1, AVS-R16/AVS-R2 JiZhun Profile, MPEG-2, MPEG-1, and RealVideo 8/9/10 up to 1080p60
- Multiple language and multiple format sub-title video support
- MJPEG and JPEG unlimited pixel resolution decoding (ISO/IEC-10918)
- Support JPEG thumbnail, scaling, rotation and transition effects
- Supports mkv, wmv, mpg, mpeg, dat, avi, mov, iso, mp4, rm, and jpg file formats
- Video/Picture Encoding
- Independent JPEG and H.264 encoder with configurable performance/bitrate
- JPEG image encoding
- H.265/H.264 video encoding up to 1080p60 with low latency
- 8th Generation Advanced Amlogic TruLife Image Engine
- Supports Dolby Vision (optional), HDR10+, HDR10, HLD and Technicolor HDR processing
- Motion compensated noise reduction, and 3D digital noise reduction for random noise
- Block noise, mosquito noise, spatial noise, contour noise reduction
- Motion compensated and motion adaptive de-interlacer
- Edge interpolation with low angle protection and processing
- Smart sharpness with Superscalar technology including de-contouring, de-ring, LTI, CTI, de-jaggy, peaking
- Dynamic non-linear contrast enhancement
- All dimension multiple regions smart color management including blue/green extension, flesh-tone correction, wider gamut for video
- 2 video planes and 3 graphics planes hardware composer
- Independent HDR re-mapping of video and graphic layer
- Video Input/Output Interface
- Built-in HDMI 2.1 transmitter including both controller and PHY supporting CEC, Dynamic HDR and HDCP 2.2, 4Kx2K @ 60 Hz max resolution output, ALLM (Auto Low Latency Mode)
- CVBS 480i/576i standard definition output
- Support all standard video output formats: 480i/p, 576i/p,. 720p, 1080i/p, 4Kx2K
- Audio Decoder and Input/Output
- Supports MP3, AAC, WMA, RM, FLAC, Ogg and programmable with 7.1/5.1 down-mixing
- Low-power VAD (Voice Activity Detection)
- Built-in serial digital audio SPDIF/IEC958 input/output and PCM input/output
- 3x TDM/PCM/I2S ports with TDM/PCM mode up to 384 KHz x 32 bits x 16ch or 96 KHz x 32 bits x 32 ch, and I2S mode up to 384 KHz x 32 bits x 16 ch
- Digital microphone PDM input with programmable CIC, LPF & HPF, support up to 8 DMICs
- Built-in Stereo audio DAC
- Supports concurrent dual audio stereo channel output with combination of analog+PCM or I2S + PCM
- Memory & Storage Interface
- 32-bit DRAM memory interface with dual ranks and max 4GB total address space
- Compatible with JEDEC standard DDR3-2133 / DDR3L-2133 / DDR4-3200 / LPDDR3-2133 / LPDDR4-3200 SDRAM
- Support SLC/LMC/TLC NAND flash with 60-bit ECC
- SDSC/SDHC/SDXC card and SDIO interface with 1-bit and 4-bit data bus width supporting up to UHS-I SDR104 mode
- eMMC and MMC card interface with 1/4/8-bit data bus width supporting spec version 5.0 HS400
- Support serial 1, 2 or 4-bit NOR flash via SPI
- Built-in 4k bits One-Time-Programming memory for key storage
- Network
- Integrated 10/100/1000M Ethernet MAC with RGMII interface
- Integrated 10/100M Ethernet PHY interface
- WiFi & Bluetooth supported via PCIe, SDIO, USB, UART, or PCM
- Network interface optimized for mixed WiFi and Bluetooth traffic
- Digital Television Interface
- One serial and one parallel Transport Stream (TS) input interface with built-in demux processor for connecting to external digital TV tuner/demodulator
- Built-in PWM, I2C and SPI interfaces to control tuner and demodulator
- Integrated ISO7816 smart card controller
- Integrated I/O controllers and interfaces
- 1x USB XHCI OTG 2.0 port
- One USB SS and PCIe 2.0 combo port up to 5 Gbps configurable with either:
- 1x USB 2.0 host port + PCIe
- 1x USB 3.0 without PCIe
- Multiple PWM, UART, I2C and SPI interfaces with slave select
- Programmable IR remote input/output controllers
- Built-in 10-bit SAR ADC with 4 input channels
- GPIOs with built-in pull up and pull down
- System, Peripherals and Misc. Interfaces
- Integrated general purpose timers, counters, DMA controllers
- 24 MHz crystal input
- Embedded debug interface using ICE/JTAG
- Integrated Power On Reset (POR) module
- Power Management
- Multiple internal power domains controlled by software
- Multiple sleep modes for CPU, system, DRAM, etc..
- Multiple internal PLLs for DVFS operation
- Multi-voltage I/O design for 1.8V and 3.3V
- Power management auxiliary processor in a dedicated always-on (AO) power domain that communicate with an external PMIC
- Security
- TrustZone based Trusted Execution Environment (TEE)
- Secured boot, encrypted OTP, encrypted DRAM with memory integrity checker, hardware key ladder and internal control buses and storage
- Separated secure/non-secure Entropy true RNG
- Pre-region/ID memory security control and electric fence
- Hardware based Trusted Video Path (TVP), video watermarking and secured contents (needs SecureOS software)
- Secured IO and secured clock
- Package – FCBGA, 14 x 14mm, RoHS compliant