Low-Power Embedded Processor Family: Au1300®

NetLogic Microsystems’ industry-leading Alchemy® Processor family comprises a series of ultra low-power embedded processors that deliver the powerful processing performance, ultra low-power functionality and market specific integration required for next-generation products like enterprise thin clients, automotive infotainment, telematics, and other media rich embedded applications.

The Solution for Next Generation Media Devices
NetLogic Microsystems' ultra low-power Alchemy® Au1300® Processor family continues the commitment and experience gained from the success of the industry leading Alchemy Au1200® Processor family. Building on this success, the Au1300 Processor family extends the performance, enriches the media experience and reduces overall system power.  The Alchemy Au1300 Processors introduces significant improvements in performance, media playback and lower power consumption while preserving the software investment from the Alchemy Au1200 Processor family.

The Au1300 Processors provide on-chip decoding of leading digital media formats including H.264, MPEG 1/2/4, DivX, XviD, WMV9 and VC-1, without the need for transcoding.

The MIPS32® compliant architecture runs at clock speeds of up to 800MHz to maximize the performance, processing capability and available MIPS for the Au1300 Processors. This is made possible by a highly efficient system bus architecture capable of providing the necessary bandwidth for intensive applications, such as 2D/3D applications with simultaneous video decode without a significant impact on overall system performance.

Primary Features

High Speed MIPS32® CPU Core

• Up to 800MHz in performance
• 1.8V DDR2 SDRAM I/O voltage, 3.3V I/O voltage
• Scalar 5-stage pipeline
• Zero penalty branch
• 32-bit architecture

Multiply-Accumulate (MAC) and Divide Unit

• Operates in parallel to CPU pipeline
• 32 x 16-bit MAC hardware

Caches

• 16KB non-blocking data cache
• 16KB instruction cache

MMU

• 32 dual-entry fully-associative TLB

Enhanced Media Acceleration Engine® (MAE2)

• Accelerates video decode (MPEG1, 2, 4, DivX, H.264, VC-1) in hardware
• Up to 720p (1280x720) video decode resolution
• Up to WUXGA (1920x1200) LCD resolution
• JPEG hardware acceleration
• Hardware color-space conversion and scaling for any video standard

Graphics Processing Engine

• Open GL ES 1.1 and 2.0 and OpenVG 1.1 standards support
• Vertex and Fragment shaders
• 10M polygons per second
• 4x full-screen anti-aliasing with no impact on performance
• Up to 25x FSAA supported
• Alpha blending and texture caching.

Highly-Integrated System Peripherals

• 75 total GPIOs
• Two USB 2.0 device and host controllers with OTG support

Four programmable serial controllers (PSC), each supporting four serial protocols

• Audio Codec-97 Controller (AC97)
• Inter-IC Sound (I2S)
• Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI)
• System Management Bus (SMBus)
• Three Secure Digital/SDHC/SDIO/MMC controllers
• One with 8-bit eMMC 4.3 support
• Enhanced camera interface module supporting 8 to 10-bit image sensors
• LCD controller with 32-bit alpha-RGB color resolution support
• AES-128 encryption/decryption in hardware
• Four UARTs

Low Power

• 1/2 Watt Typical Power at 800MHz (Au1370 and Au1380 720p capable)
• Power Saving Modes
  • Idle
  • Sleep
  • Hibernate

Memory Buses

• High-bandwidth dual DDR2 SDRAM memory controller (supports up to DDR2-667)
• Support for up to 8 banks
• SRAM controller with IDE and NOR/NAND Flash support
• large/small block, SLC/MLC NAND
• Compact Flash support
• External 10/100 Ethernet controller support

UltraDMA (UDMA)

• High performance transfer to IDE hard drives
• ATA-6/UDMA mode 5 compliant

Packaging Options

• Available in 0.65mm and 0.8mm ball pitch BGA packages

Other Flexibility Options

• Industrial temperature range options for applications with hostile thermal environments. (0.8mm package only)
• The family of pin-compatible Au1300 Processors enables designers to support multiple price-performance points and application requirements from a single board design.