Banana Pi BPI-M6 Pro with Synaptics SL1680

Synaptics SL1680 Embedded IoT Processor.

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 SL1680 incorporates high-performance compute engines, including a quad-core Arm® Cortex®-A73 64-bit CPU subsystem, a multi-TOPS NPU, a highefficiency, feature-rich GPU for advanced graphics and AI acceleration, and multimedia accelerators for image signal processing (ISP), 4K video encode/decode, and audio.

The SL1680 supports the Synaptics Astra™ platform, delivering a unified experience combining standards-based open software frameworks, full-featured AI toolkits, and Synaptics’ best-in-class wireless connectivity portfolio.

  • ► Quad-core Arm® Cortex®-A73 64-bit processor with security extensions
  • ► DDR: 64/32-bit LPDDR4/LPDDR4x-3733 DRAM controller
  • ► Integrated GPU for 3D/2D graphics with concurrent execution and support for general-purpose compute
  • ► Up to 7.9+ TOPS NPU for edge inferencing
  • ► Multi-standard video decoding with support for AV1, H.265/264 MVC, VP8, VP9, MPEG-2
  • ► Multi-stream encoding for H.264, VP8 and simultaneous 2160p60 decode and 1080p60 encode
  • ► Secure ISP engine
  • ►Video, graphics post-processing, and display pipeline with Synaptics QDEO®
  • ► Audio processing with far-field voice, keyword detection, decompression, and post-processing
  • ► Base Crypto Module (BCM) security processor
  • ► True random number generator (TRNG)
  • ► Memory scrambling and integrity checking
  • ► Physical attack mitigation
  • ► On-chip 32 Kbit OTP
  • ► System and power management unit
  • ► Always-on (AON) domain for multi-protocol wake-up events
  • ► Video, audio via MIPI CSI-2®, MIPI DSI®, HDMI®,I2S/TDM
  • ► Gbit networking, PCIe connectivity
  • ► SPI, SDIO, UART, USB, GPIO, ADCs

Hardware interface:

Synaptics SL1680 datasheet

VS680 and SL1680 is Pin2Pin ,so BPI-M6 easy to update to SL1680 .

I have purchased 3 (three) boards of this type and none of them are working.

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