In 2016, Rockchip followed the industry trend and launched a new generation of flagship product RK3399 suitable for VR solutions. It has been praised for its powerful hardware performance and excellent image processing performance, and it is still one of the mainstream choices in the commercial display field. RK3399 is a high-performance, high-expansion, all-around application chip from Rockchip. The CPU adopts a 64-bit Hexa-core processor with big.LITTLE large and small core architecture, with two Cortex-A72 large cores and four Cortex-A53 small cores, which has been greatly optimized for integer, floating-point, memory, etc., and making the processor revolutionary in three aspects: overall performance, power consumption, and core area. It integrates a high-end image processor Mali-T860 MP4 GPU, integrates more bandwidth compression technologies, and supports more graphics and computing interfaces. In addition, RK3399 also has a strong expansion performance.
GF-RK3399-Kit development board product introduction
Based on the Rockchip RK3399 processor, Qiyang has designed a high-performance GF-RK3399-Kit development board.
The GF-RK3399-Kit development board is based on the Rockchip RK3399 Hexa-core processor and adopts the core board + baseboard design. The core board is connected to the Base Board through the gold finger, which fully leads out the CPU resources: the onboard dual-channel Gigabit Ethernet port, Type-C, USB3.0, and other high-speed interfaces, 6-channel RS232, 1-channel RS485, 4-channel USB2.0, 1-channel I2C, 8-way GPIO, and other rich interfaces. Support LVDS, eDP, MIPI, HDMI display interface, it can realize 4K display, dual-screen synchronous display, dual-screen asynchronous display. Based on RK3399's powerful hardware performance, excellent image encoding and decoding, rich game engine, and 3D image processing capabilities, it can provide faster computing speed and visual effects for various terminals, making the Qiyang GF-RK3399-Kit development board suitable for Tablet, VR, advertising machine, vehicle control terminal, security monitoring, Internet of Things and other fields.
Super powerful 64-bit six-core processor
64-bit Hexa-core processor based on Cortex-A72*2+Cortex-A53*4, the main frequency can reach 1.8GHz. And the integer, floating-point, and memory are greatly optimized.
The performance of Cortex-A72 is 3.5 times higher than that of Cortex-A15, and the calculation speed is 2 times than that of Cortex-A57, which is faster and more powerful.
Superior graphics processing power
Adopt ARM Mali-T860 MP4 GPU, support OpenGL ES1.1/2.0/3.0/3.1, OpenVG1.1, OpenCL, DX11.
And the support of AFBC (frame buffer compression), compared with the previous generation Mali-T628, the performance is improved by 45%.
Support 4K VP9 and 4K 10bits H265/H264 video decoding, 1080P (VC-1, MPEG-1/2/4, VP8) multi-format video decoding, and 1080P (H.264, VP8) video encoding, and has the video post processor: Deinterlacing, denoising, edge/detail/color optimization.
4K display, creating a visual feast
With LVDS, eDP, MIPI, and HDMI display interface, the resolution can reach up to 4K, supporting dual-screen simultaneous display, dual-screen asynchronous display.
Dual ISP processing, support dual cameras
Dual image signal processor ISP, the pixel processing capacity is up to 13MPix/s, can realize the simultaneous input of dual-camera data. And support high-level processing such as panoramic shooting, gesture detection, depth detection, and 3D.
Powerful network communication capabilities
The development board has two Gigabit Ethernet ports, an onboard Wi-Fi/BT module that supports 2.4GHz/5GHz dual-band Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth BT4.2. Reserved Mini PCI-e interface can be connected to 4G modules.
Highly expandable and rich peripheral interfaces
The Base Board has 1* USB3.0, 1*Type-C high-speed data interface, 4*USB2.0, 6*RS232, 1*RS485, I2C, GPIO, MIPI-CSI, etc. Various peripherals can be connected to realize multi-field product applications.
Gold finger interface, stable and reliable
The Core Board and Base Board are connected by gold finger connectors. The pins are up to 317pin, and the 2 studs are fixed, which is stable and reliable and is suitable for high vibration scenarios.
Applications
Based on the advantages of RK3399 in CPU, GPU, etc., there are the following application scenarios .
Intelligent interactive advertising machine
Based on traditional advertising machines, a camera module is added. Facial recognition technology is used to obtain information such as consumers' age, gender, residence time, etc., to intelligently judge the audience's attention to the current content, generate customer portraits, and provide accurate marketing. GF-RK3399-kit has a high-performance processor, powerful graphics encoding and decoding capabilities, supports a variety of display interfaces and is compatible with multi-size display screens, can achieve up to 4K display, supports dual-screen display, screen splicing, and provides higher-definition advertising machines. Sufficient external device interfaces can develop more functions, open data, and facilitate secondary development.
Intelligent Terminal
The GF-RK3399-Kit development board has powerful performance and flexible configuration. It can provide sufficient computing power, picture decoding, video decoding, etc., which can realize multi-screen displays. The Powerful peripheral interfaces can meet the interface requirements of current mainstream smart terminal devices equipped with more interactive sensing peripherals. Dual network ports, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 4G, and a variety of wired and wireless network communication methods can support stable and smooth data transmission. The Android operating system can provide terminal product solutions such as smart cabinets, self-service terminals, and smart industrial controls that are used in multiple industries.
Robot
The development of artificial intelligence accelerates the process of commercialization of robots. Robots realize many functions, such as hall reception, business consultation, diversion guidance, auxiliary marketing, entertainment interaction, etc. And it can use in government service halls, chain storefronts, hospitals, and other service scenarios. The GF-RK3399-Kit development board supports dual cameras to meet the needs of robot vision acquisition. And it has 8-channel digital microphone array, which can easily achieve voice interaction. It supports face recognition function, a multi-channel interface is equipped with sensors and peripherals and can realize the functional requirements of robots, such as active obstacle avoidance, touch display, and intelligent interaction.