Working on Computer Vision research, I discovered the Russian manufacturer of Disgital Signal Processors ELVEES-NEOTEK, and its brand new SOC ELISE designed for computer vision.

ELISE SOC designed for 28 nm technology dying and is oriented for global video anlytics markets: Smart Cities, Smart Retail, IoT/IIoT, AR/VR etc. IP-cameras with smart video analytics also may be designed based on SOC ELISE.

The architecture of SOC ELISE is shown below. It contains a variety of IP-modules for stereo video images processing, multicore CPU, high-performance GPU, and multi-standard global positioning processor (GPS/GLONASS).

Technical details:

• CMOS 28 nm TSMC
• Clocks (0.9v/+85°C:
  • 1.2 GHz P5607 Apache (CPU0);
  • 1,0 GHz InterAptiv (CPU1);
  • 600 MHz M5150 Virtuoso (CPU2).
• Boot ROM 64 kB; System SRAM 128 kB; OTP 4 kB;
• Addressable RAM: DDR up to 3.5 GB: LPDDR3 2×32 @ 1.6 Gb/s, DDR3 2×32 @ 2.13 Gb/s, or DDR4 2×32 @ 2.4 Gb/s, NAND Flash, SD 3.0;
• Temperature range: 0 °C to +125 °С (-40 °C to 0 °С, lowered frequency);
• Enbedded temperature/voltage sensors
• Power consumption: up to 5÷7 W
• Supply voltage: 3.3 V/1.8 V/0.9 V
• Chip: 1086 HFCBGA, 25 mm x 25 mm, pins 0.65 mm
• Multicore heterogenous MIMD-architecture based on CPU and specialized cores
  • 2-core MIPS P5607 Apache (СPU0), embedded L1 cash 64 KB, L2 cash — 1 MB
  • audio-CPU MIPS InterAptiv (CPU1), embedded L1 cash 32 KB, L2 cash — 256 KB
  • service CPU MIPS Virtuoso M5150 (CPU2), embedded L1 cash — 16 KB
  • semantic video paltform Velcore2 — 8-cluster DSP 2M RAM, API Khronos OpenVX support
  • SGBM accelerator for Full HD up to 30 fps
  • FFT accelerator 16 up to 256К data format: INT32, INT16, F32
  • embedded graphic 2D/3D accelerator based on 2-core GPU PowerVR Clyde GX6250, 600 MHz; OpenGL ES 1.x/2.0/3.x, OpenCL 1.2 EP, Vulkan
  • image processor PowerVR V2500 Felix, two streans for stereo, 27 Mpix, 3840×2160 p60
  • video encoder PowerVR E4500 Onyx: H.264, MPEG-4, MPEG-2; 4 flows 10 bits, data formats: 4:2:0/4:2:2/4:4:4; 3840x2160p30, 400 MHz
  • video deceoder PowerVR D5500 Coral: HEVC, H.264, MPEG-4, MPEG-2; 4 flows 10 bits, data formats: 4:2:0/4:2:2/4:4:4; HEVC 3840x2160p60/H264, 3840x2160p30, 400 MHz
  • Global positioning GNSS: GLONASS/GPS/BeiDou/GALILEO;
  • embedded crypto-core
• Media:
  •  Ensigma C4250 (RPU) radio modem, IEEE 802.11ac 2×2 MIMO Wi-Fi (867 Мбит/с), 600 MHz Viterbi/LDPC, Bluetooth 4.1 Baseband;
• Camera interfaces
  • 2 ports MIPI CSI 2.0 — 4 data lines per port 1.5 Gbs
  • 2 ports HiSPI 4 bits up to 400 MHz DDR;
  • CMOS IF – 12 bits up to 150 MHz (1080p60);
  • Video input: HDMI 2.0 RX, UHD 4K, 3840x2160p60, HDCP 1.4/2.2;
• Monitor interfaces
  • 2 ports MIPI DSI 1.1 4 lines per port up to 1.5 Gbs
  • 2 ports HDMI 2.0 TX, UHD 4K, 3840x2160p60, HDCP 1.4/2.2;
  • FPD-Link (LVDS) – 1080p30;
  • 2 ports PDP: 4 video layers, 4 image layers.
  • 2 ports DDR4-2400, 32 bit;
  • ONFI NAND Flash controller;
  • Ethernet 10/100/1000
  • 2 * USB 3.0/2.0;
  • 2 * UART;
  • 2 * I2S;
  • S/PDIF;
  • 8 * I2С;
  • 2 * SPI;
  • 3 * SD Host;
  • 2 * JTAG;
  • 4 * PWM;
  • 32* GPIO outputs

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The office of ELVEES NEOTEK in Moscow