Recently, the Rockchip RK3399 system platform has officially been opened up for open-source, suitable for applications in nearly a hundred industry terminal products. This strategy has been hailed by domestic media as a “revolutionary step for domestic chips,” causing a huge stir in the semiconductor industry.
Compared to the high-end positioning of the RK3399, the previous generation flagship Rockchip RK3288, which targets the mid-to-high-end market, is the chip that has the earliest and most complete open-source support. The RK3288 is open-sourced for hundreds of industries, already possessing considerable industrial scale and a very high market share. Its ecosystem includes many major partners that play a significant role in the technology field.
In terms of performance, the RK3288 is based on a 28nm HKMG process, with a quad-core ARM Cortex-A17 processor that reaches a frequency of 1.8GHz. The DDR controller uses a dual-channel 64-bit DDR3/DDR3L/LPDDR2 design. The GPU features a quad-core Mali-T7 series GPU, with a frequency of up to 600MHz. This chip includes a 2D/3D graphics GPU acceleration processor, perfectly supporting OpenGL ES 1.1/2.0/3.1, OpenCL 1.1, and DirectX9.3, providing significant improvements in 3D effects compared to similar products. The RK3288 also supports decoding all mainstream video formats, including H.265 and 4Kx2K resolution video decoding.
In terms of interfaces, the RK3288 has various high-speed display output interfaces, such as dual LVDS, dual MIPI-DSI, eDP1.1, HDMI2.0, etc., and supports an embedded 13M ISP dual MIPI-CSI2 with rich peripheral interface support capabilities.
In supporting developers and industry open-source initiatives, the RK3288 has opened all product-level code. Like the RK3399, it also provides immediate technical support from the open-source community.
GitHub entry:https://github.com/rockchip-linux
WikiDot entry:http://rockchip.wikidot.com/
The internationally renowned processor and electronic technology company Phytec has launched the phyCORE-RK3288 ARM CortexTM-A17 System on Module, using the RK3288 SOM as an industrial control board. According to information from Phytec’s website, the RK3288 CPU and GPU have powerful performance, easily handling full HD video and multitasking, making it very suitable for mobile applications.
According to foreign media reports, at the beginning of this year, ASUS launched a microcomputer called Tinker Board, equipped with the Cortex-A17 Rockchip RK3288 processor, with a frequency of 1.8GHz, supporting 4K H.264 video decoding, and Ethernet transmission speeds reaching gigabit levels, priced at 64.9 euros.
At the Embedded World 2017 exhibition in Nuremberg, Germany, an industrial robot developed based on the RK3288 platform also attracted great attention, with its superb stability and intelligence, low power consumption, and minimal hardware requirements being its biggest selling points.
Positioned in the mid-range and high-end markets, the Rockchip RK3288 and RK3399 provide industry brand owners and developers with a variety of product possibilities, giving mass-produced terminals greater freedom and creativity in aspects such as personalization and technical differentiation.
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