Zhiwei Intelligent ARM Solutions for Diverse Commercial Display Applications

The commercial display field has developed rapidly over the past decade, forming a market size exceeding 50 billion, and has given rise to multiple different commercial display product forms, creating a segmented market of considerable scale. With the increasing maturity of the ARM ecosystem in recent years, the commercial display market has received significant cost benefits. During the continuous optimization of commercial display deployment costs, the advantages of ARM have become prominent. Zhiwei Intelligent has accumulated over a decade of ARM development experience while deploying a comprehensive line of ARM commercial display products.Zhiwei Intelligent ARM Solutions for Diverse Commercial Display Applications

Zhiwei Intelligent ARM Commercial Display Advantages

Zhiwei Intelligent is one of the few companies in the industry that integrates research, production, and sales. It has a strong software and hardware R&D team, its own manufacturing center, and a flexible marketing model that combines direct sales, custom solutions for large clients, and agency sales. Zhiwei’s ARM solutions are precisely positioned, fully understanding and exceeding customer needs, helping clients complete solution selection, principle design, overall structural design, OS customization, driver debugging, application layer integration, and application software development. The product line is complete, including various boards that meet different application needs and various quickly deployable terminal products.

Zhiwei Intelligent ARM Solutions for Diverse Commercial Display Applications

* Solution Selection

Zhiwei has the capability to collaborate with multiple ARM manufacturers, providing customers with various ARM solution selections and designs. The ARM manufacturers we collaborate with include NXP, Marvell, Rockchip, HiSilicon, Amlogic, and Zhaoxin ARM.

* Principle Design

Zhiwei has 20 years of X86 R&D experience and 10 years of ARM R&D experience, making it one of the few manufacturers with in-depth development capabilities in both X86 and ARM. The ARM team’s pursuit of excellence in R&D design ensures high stability and reliability of ARM products.

* Firmware Development

Zhiwei’s R&D center collaborates with chip manufacturers, and the embedded software team can provide customers with ARM-based product software development, including Android and Linux OS development, customization, driver debugging, and application layer integration.

* Overall Design

The R&D center at Zhiwei has several senior structural design engineers and ID designers to meet different product design ideas and requirements from customers, forming a unique product style.

Zhiwei Intelligent ARM Product Features

  • Independent microcontroller implements Watchdog, WOL, and scheduled power on/off;

  • Supports Zhiwei SPIRIT software, enabling graphical API calls;

  • Ultra-thin design, using embedded materials;

  • The team possesses industrial control design thinking, focusing on product stability during application;

Zhiwei Intelligent Commercial Display ARM Software System

Zhiwei Intelligent ARM Solutions for Diverse Commercial Display Applications

Zhiwei SPIRIT is Zhiwei’s ARM software team fully developed based on Android and Linux systems, with multiple intellectual property patents API, rich in features, easy to operate, maximizing graphical operations, helping users understand the functionality of each API, making debugging, installation, and after-sales more efficient. To facilitate customers in developing applications based on Zhiwei Intelligent ARM products, the API interfaces are categorized into five functional categories, including device information, system control, display management, hardware functions, and expansion interfaces, helping customers quickly complete settings and put them into use.Zhiwei Intelligent ARM Solutions for Diverse Commercial Display Applications

Zhiwei Intelligent Commercial Display ARM Mainboard Solutions

Zhiwei Intelligent ARM Solutions for Diverse Commercial Display Applications

RK3188

RK3188 is a quad-core Cortex-A9 + Mali 400 MP4 GPU architecture, with a CPU frequency of up to 1.6GHz. It has high-performance 2D acceleration hardware built-in, supports H.264, VC-1, MPEG-1/2/4, VP8 format 1080P video decoding, supports dual-screen display with a maximum resolution of 2048×1536, and also supports H.264 and VP8 format 1080P video encoding.

Zhiwei Intelligent ARM Solutions for Diverse Commercial Display Applications

R18 Product Features:

1. Standard 3.5-inch board size, convenient for structural design and deployment;

2. Supports HDMI + LVDS dual-screen display, maximum support for 1080P;

Application Scenarios:

Zhiwei Intelligent ARM Solutions for Diverse Commercial Display Applications

1. Electronic class sign, used for display, with card swiping and scheduled power on/off functions;

2. Query advertising machine, with query expansion functions, supports deployment using WIFI networks;

3. Electronic menu board, can scroll to display menu content and also play advertisements;

4. Floor-standing advertising machine, widely used in clothing, shoe, and cosmetic stores in shopping malls;

Zhiwei Intelligent ARM Solutions for Diverse Commercial Display Applications

RK3288

RK3288 is based on the 4-core Cortex-A17 + Mali T764 GPU, with a CPU frequency of up to 1.8GHz, built-in 2D hardware acceleration, supports VC-1, MPEG-1/2/4, VP8 format 1080P video decoding and 4K 10bits H265/H264 video decoding, and also supports H.264, VP8 format 1080P video encoding. The mainboard developed based on RK3288 is widely used in the entry-level 4K market, self-service, payment, and other fields.

RK3288 General-purpose Mainboard

Zhiwei Intelligent ARM Solutions for Diverse Commercial Display Applications

R28SA1 Product Features:

1. Standard 3.5-inch board size, convenient for structural design and iterative upgrades;

2. Supports HDMI + LVDS + eDP multiple displays, HDMI supports up to 4K 60Hz;

RK3288 Ultra-thin IO Mainboard

Zhiwei Intelligent ARM Solutions for Diverse Commercial Display Applications

R28C Product Features:

1. Ultra-thin IO design, suitable for gate machines, robots, electronic shelves, etc.;

2. Supports HDMI + LVDS display, HDMI supports up to 4K 60Hz;

Application Scenarios:

Zhiwei Intelligent ARM Solutions for Diverse Commercial Display Applications

1. General-purpose RK3288 used for digital signage advertising machines, electronic water signs, electronic menu boards, queue calling machines, etc.;

2. General-purpose RK3288 used for POS machines with expansion applications, self-service ordering machines, self-service vending machines, etc.;

3. Ultra-thin IO type RK3288 mainboard used for ultra-thin wall-mounted advertising machines, electronic shelves, gate machines, electronic class signs, etc.;

Zhiwei Intelligent ARM Solutions for Diverse Commercial Display Applications

RK3399

RK3399 is based on the 2-core Cortex-A72 (up to 1.8GHz) and 4-core Cortex A53 (up to 1.4GHz), with an embedded Mali T864 GPU, supporting OpenGL ES1.1/2.0/3.0/3.1, OpenVG1.1, OpenCL, DX11. It supports VC-1, MPEG-1/2/4, VP8 format 1080P video decoding and 4K VP9 and 4K 10bits H265/H264 video decoding at up to 60fps, and also supports H.264, VP8 format 1080P video encoding.Zhiwei Intelligent ARM Solutions for Diverse Commercial Display Applications

Application Scenarios:

Zhiwei Intelligent ARM Solutions for Diverse Commercial Display Applications

1. Suitable for visual vending machines, expandable screens with various interfaces, supporting various self-service face payment cameras and SDK;

2. Suitable for high-end commercial displays, 4K high-definition decoding;

Zhiwei Intelligent Commercial Display ARM BOX Solutions

Zhiwei Intelligent ARM Solutions for Diverse Commercial Display Applications

D Series

The Zhiwei D series products are designed with a new ID and shell mold for the pure commercial display application market, using a combination of sheet metal and aluminum profiles, ensuring high aesthetics while maintaining good heat dissipation capabilities. The overall dimensions are only 128*128*30mm, supporting wall-mounted installation, ultra-compact size, making it more suitable for applications behind display screens.

D028

Zhiwei Intelligent ARM Solutions for Diverse Commercial Display Applications

1. Based on RK3288 design;

2. Supports HDMI + VGA display, HDMI supports up to 4K 60Hz;

3. Supports 1000M Ethernet and 2.4G WIFI, Ethernet supports Wake on LAN;

4. Supports infrared remote control;

D036

Zhiwei Intelligent ARM Solutions for Diverse Commercial Display Applications

1. Based on RK3368 design;

2. Supports HDMI + VGA display, HDMI supports up to 4K 60Hz;

3. Supports infrared remote control, convenient to use;

D039

Zhiwei Intelligent ARM Solutions for Diverse Commercial Display Applications

1. Based on RK3399 design;

2. Supports HDMI2.0 display, maximum supports 4K 60Hz;

3. Supports 1000M Ethernet and 5G WIFI, Ethernet supports Wake on LAN;

4. Supports infrared remote control, convenient to use;

Application Scenarios:

Zhiwei Intelligent ARM Solutions for Diverse Commercial Display Applications

Airports, train stations with large display screens for announcements, electronic menu boards, etc., requiring quick installation and maintenance without disassembly.

Zhiwei Intelligent ARM Solutions for Diverse Commercial Display Applications

K Series

The K series has a structural design consistent with the D series style, with a shell made of aluminum profiles and sheet metal. The K series products have rich expansion interfaces, applicable to the commercial display market and also to various self-service devices that require USB and COM to expand more peripherals.

K028A

Zhiwei Intelligent ARM Solutions for Diverse Commercial Display Applications

Product Features:

1. Based on RK3288 design;

2. Supports HDMI2.0 + VGA display, HDMI supports up to 4K 60Hz;

3. Rich expansion functions, expanding 6 USB2.0, 3 RS232, 1 TTL;

4. Supports 4G network expansion;

K039

Zhiwei Intelligent ARM Solutions for Diverse Commercial Display Applications

Product Features:

1. Based on RK3399 design;

2. Supports HDMI + LVDS + eDP display, HDMI supports up to 4K 60Hz;

3. Supports 1000M Ethernet and 5G WIFI, Ethernet supports Wake on LAN;

4. Rich expansion functions, expanding 7 USB2.0, 1 USB3.0 Type-A, 1 USB3.0 Type-C, 2 TTL, 1 RS232, 2 RS485 to meet various expansion applications;

5. Supports MiniPCIe interface for 4G modules and RK1808 AI modules;

Application Scenarios:

Zhiwei Intelligent ARM Solutions for Diverse Commercial Display Applications

1. Visual vending machines, suitable for expandable screens with various interfaces, supporting various self-service face payment cameras and SDK;

2. Express cabinets, rich USB and COM expansions, powerful scheduled power on/off and watchdog, and supports 4G networks;

3. K039 for high-end 4K commercial displays, perfectly supports 4K 60Hz display, 4K decoding up to 60fps;

4. Self-service query machines, queue machines, self-service ordering machines;

Zhiwei Intelligent AI Solutions

Digital signage is evolving towards display + applications, with various new applications such as crowd flow analysis, data screening, and facial recognition appearing in the new generation of commercial display applications. The system’s AI computing power is becoming increasingly important. Zhiwei Intelligent has launched the standard MiniPCIe interface RK1808 acceleration card to modularize AI acceleration functions, allowing users to choose whether to use the AI acceleration card based on their needs.

Zhiwei Intelligent ARM Solutions for Diverse Commercial Display Applications

Product Features:

1. RK1808 chip, up to 3.0 TOPs computing power;

2. Standard MiniPCIe full-height card size design, compatible with more platforms for upgrades;

3. Supports Linux system, AI application development SDK supports C/C++ and Python, facilitating developers’ conversion and debugging from floating point to fixed point networks, making development very convenient.

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