Rockchip

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Rockchip is a series of SoC (System on Chip) integrated circuits manufactured by Fuzhou Rockchip Electronics company. These integrated circuits are mainly for embedded systems applications in mobile entertainment devices such smartphones, tablets, e-books, set-top boxes, media players, personal video and MP3 players. Due to their evolution from the MP3/MP4 player market most Rockchip ICs feature advanced media decoding logic but lack integrated cellular radio basebands. Rockchip is an ARM licensee and uses the ARM architecture for the majority of its projects.

Products

RK26xx series

Released 2006.

RK27xx series

Rockchip was first known for their RK 27xx series that was very efficient at MP3/MP4 decoding and was integrated in many low-cost PMP products.

RK28xx series

RK2806

The RK2806 is targeted at PMPs

• ARM926EJC 600 MHz CPU + DSP Core
• SD, DDR RAM support
• Up to 1280×720 h.263 and h.264 software video acceleration.
• RTOS support

RK2808A

This device is an ARM926EJ-S derivative. Along with the ARM core a DSP coprocessor is included. The native clock speed is 560 MHz. ARM rates the performance of the ARM926EJ-S at 1.1 DMIPS/MHz the performance of the Rockchip 2808 when executing ARM instructions is therefore 660 DMIPS roughly 26% the speed of Apple's A4 processor. The DSP coprocessor can support the real-time decoding of 720p video files at bitrates of up to 2.5 Mbit/s. This chip is the core of many Android and Windows Mobile mobile internet devices.

• ARM9 core + DSP clocked at up to 560 MHz
• Wifi, 3G, GPS
• Accelerometer
• SD/SDHC/MMC
• Up to 800×600 display support
• DDR and DDR2 RAM support, up to 1 GB
• RTOS and Android

RK2816

The RK2816 is targeted at PMP devices, and MIDs. It has the same specifications as the RK2806 but also includes HDMI output, Android support, and up to 720p Hardware video acceleration.

RK2818

The RK2818 is targeted at MID and Smart Phone devices

• ARM9 core + DSP clocked at up to 640 MHz
• Wifi, 3G, GPS
• Accelerometer
• SD/SDHC/MMC
• Up to 1024×768 display support
• DDR and DDR2 RAM support, up to 4 GB
• Up to 720p hardware video acceleration for h.264
• Arteris FlexNoc interconnect technology
• RTOS and Android

RK291x series

The Rockchip RK291x is a family of SoCs based on the ARM Cortex-A8 CPU core. They were presented for the first time at CES 2011.

RK2918 was the first chip to decode Google WebM VP8 in hardware. It uses a dynamically configurable companion core to process various codecs. It encodes and decodes h.264 at 1080p, and can decode many standard video formats including Xvid, H263, AVS, MPEG4, RV, and WMV. The Vivante GC800 GPU is compatible with OpenGL ES 2.0 and OpenVG. The RK2918 is compatible with Android Froyo (2.2), Gingerbread(2.3), HoneyComb (3.x) and Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0). (Unofficial support for Ubuntu and other Linux flavours exists.)

• Cortex-A8 processor, clocked at up to 1.2 GHz
• NEON SIMD support
• Vivante GC800 GPU
• DDR, DDR2, DDR3 RAM support
• Adobe Flash Player 10.1

The RK2906 is basically a RK2918 but the costdown version (with HDMI output).

RK292x series

Single core SoC's based on Cortex A9.

The Rockchip RK2928 contains a single core ARM Cortex A9 running at speeds of 1 Ghz or 1.2 Ghz, It replaces the Vivante GC800 GPU of the older RK291x series with an ARM Mali-400 GPU.

RK30xx series

The Rockchip RK30xx series use a dual core ARM Cortex-A9 CPU core.

The RK3066 is a high performance Cortex A9 Dual Core mobile processor similar to the Samsung Exynos 4 Dual Core chip. In terms of performance, the RK3066 is between the Samsung Exynos 4210 and the Samsung Exynos 4212.

• 40 nm
• Dual-core Cortex-A9 processor (ARMv7 architecture) clocked up to 1.6 GHz
• NEON SIMD support
• Quad core Mali 400, clocked at 250 MHz supporting Open GL ES 2.0, Open VG 1.1 support, 9 GFLOPS
• VPU (Video Processing Unit) Multi-Media Processor supporting 1080p image and video decoding
• DDR, DDR2, DDR3 support, up to 2 GB
• HDMI 1.4 Interface
• 2-channels TFT LCD Interface with 5 layers and 3D Display (1920×1080 Maximum Display Size)
• USB 2.0 Interface
• SD/MMC Interface

RK31xx series

Rockchip has announced the RK31xx series for 2nd quarter of 2013. The RK3188 is based on ARM's Cortex A9 design and features a quad core CPU clocked at 1.8-2.0 GHz frequency on a 28 nm process. In April 2013, Rockchip showed the RK3168, a very low power dual core Cortex A9 based CPU, also manufactured using the 28 nm process.

List of Rockchip SoC

Model Number	Semiconductor technology	CPU Instruction Set	CPU	GPU	Memory Technology	Availability	Utilizing Devices
RK2601	180 nm					2006
RK2602
RK2606	180 nm				SDRAM
RK2608
RK2610
RK2616			300 MHz
RK2618			300 MHz		SDRAM
RK2619			640 MHz		SDRAM
RK2706		ARMv5TEJ	ARM7EJ			2007
RK2708
RK2718		ARMv5	320 MHz Single-core ARM9
RK2728
RK2738		ARMv5	600 MHz Single-core ARM9		SDRAM	2010	TouchMe ,
RK2806		ARMv5 TEJ	600 MHz Single-core ARM9		SDRAM, DDR RAM support	2009
RK2808		ARMv5 TEJ	Single-core ARM9			2009
RK2808A		ARMv5 TEJ	560 MHz Single-core ARM9		DDR and DDR2 RAM support, up to 1 GB	2009	Yifang M5
RK2816		ARMv5 TEJ	560 MHz Single-core ARM9		DDR and DDR2 RAM support
RK2818		ARMv5 TEJ	640 MHz Single-core ARM9		DDR and DDR2 RAM support, up to 4 GB		Craig CMP-738a, Benss X638, ACHO C901, Yifang M7
RK2918	55 nm	ARMv7-A	1.0 To 1.2 GHz Single-core ARM Cortex-A8	Vivante GC800	DDR, DDR2, DDR3 RAM support	2011	Cube U9GT2, CUBE U15GT, Teclast A15, Wopad i8, list of Jelly Bean upgradeable RK2918 tablets Videocon VT71 , Innovel I703W
RK2928	40 nm	ARMv7-A	Up To 1.2 GHz Single-core ARM Cortex-A9	Mali-400 MP	DDR, DDR2, DDR3 RAM support	2012	Cube U25GT, Double Power(Dopo) M-975, Touchmate TM-MID720
RK3066	40 nm	ARMv7-A	Up to 1.6 GHz Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9	Mali-400 MP (Quad core, 250 MHz)	DDR, DDR2, DDR3 support, up to 2 GB	2012	HP Slate 7, i.onik TP 10.1-1500DC-KB, Colorovo CityTab Vision 10.1", Teclast P76e Dual-core, Teclast P76t, Teclast P98, Teclast P85, Window (YuanDao) N70S, Window (YuanDao) N101, Cube U9GT3, Cube U9GT4, Cube U21GT ,PIPO S2, Cube U30GT, Cube U9GT V, Cube U18GT Elite Dual Core, BlueBerry NetCat M-12, CHUWI V8 Dual-core, CHUWI V99, Aoson M11, Pipo S1, Ployer Momo7 IPS, Ployer Momo8, Ployer Momo11, Ployer Momo12, FNF ifive X, FNF ifive mini, Prestigio 7.0 Pro Duo (5570C), Probox2 Ultimate, Minix Neo G4, Minix Neo X5, Minix Neo X5 mini, Minix Neo X3, ICOO D70PROII, Ampe A78, Imito MX1, Imito MX2, Rikomagic MK802 III, Rikomagic MK802 IIIs, Tronsmart MK808, Tronsmart MK808B, JMI Tab T970, Joyplus DR-7, Cozyswan MK809, Cozyswan MK809 II, Ugoos UG802, Ugoos UG802II, Ugoos UG007, Ugoos UG008, Measy U2A, Measy U2C, iBall Slide i9702, Kilwa V73 , Tomato V8 , Innovel I801B
RK3168	28 nm HKMG	ARMv7-A	Up to 1.2 GHz Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9	PowerVR SGX 540 (400MHz)	DDR, DDR2, DDR3 support	2013
RK3188	28 nm HKMG	ARMv7-A	Up to 1.8 GHz Quad-core ARM Cortex-A9	Mali-400 MP (Quad core, 600 MHz)	DDR, DDR2, DDR3 support, up to 2 GB	2013	Cube Pea II, Cube U30GT2, CloudnetGo CR9, iMito QX1, PIPO M8pro, PIPO M9, Rikomagic MK802 IV, Ugoos UG802B, Ugoos UG007B, Ugoos MK809 III, Ugoos QC802 , Measy U4B, Minix X7, Tronsmart MK908, Tronsmart T428,Measy U4B

See also

• Comparison of Android devices

External links

• Fuzhou Rockchip Electronics Company website
• Forum for all RK3066 devices
• PIPo Tablet