Astra SL Series - Synaptics -Macnica

Product Summary

Synaptics SL Series embedded processors are highly integrated, AI-native Linux® and Android™ systems-on-chip (SoCs) with hardware accelerators for edge inference, security, video, graphics and audio, optimized for multi-modal consumer, enterprise and industrial IoT.

Astra SL1680

The SL1680 incorporates a high-performance computing engine, including a quad-core Arm® Cortex-A73® 64-bit CPU subsystem, a multi-TOPS NPU, a highly efficient and feature-rich GPU for advanced graphics and AI acceleration, and multimedia accelerators for image signal processing (ISP), 4K video encoding/decoding, and audio.

Application example

・Smart home appliances

・Home security gateway

・Industrial control systems

・Signage and displays

・POS system

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Astra SL1640

The SL1640 is a cost- and power-optimized secure embedded SoC featuring high-performance computing engines including a quad-core Arm® Cortex-A55®, a 1.6+ TOPS NPU, an Imagination GE9920 GPU with 90 GFLOPS 16-bit compute, an Ultra HD video encode and decode pipeline, and an audio DSP.

Application example

・Smart home appliances

・Enterprise conferencing system

・AI audio, displays, signage

Consumer and industrial control panels

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Astra SL1620

The SL1620 is designed and optimized for embedded applications that require powerful processing power, advanced AI capabilities and 3D graphics. The chip features Linux® OS, advanced audio algorithms, a wide range of peripherals, and a Synaptics companion SoC for dual display, connectivity and audio front-end.

Application example

・Enterprise conferencing system

・Home security gateway

・Smart speakers and soundbars

・Industrial control systems

・Signage, displays, wearables

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Development environment

The Astra Machina Foundation Series Evaluation Kit enables easy and fast prototyping of the Synaptics SL Series of multimodal AI-native embedded IoT processors. The modular design supports interchangeable compute modules on a common I/O board, with daughter cards for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity, debugging, and flexible I/O.

Find out more about Astra Machina here