Embedded compute specialist Orange Pi has launched its newest single-board pc, the Orange Pi 4A — constructed round an Allwinner T527 eight-core processor with two tera-operations per second (TOPS) neural coprocessor for on-device edge synthetic intelligence (edge AI) workloads.
“Orange Pi 4A is predicated on [the] Allwinner T527 octa-core [Arm] Cortex-A55 + HiFi4 DSP [Digital Signal Processor] + RISC-V multi-core heterogeneous industrial-grade processor, supporting [a] 2 TOPS NPU to meat the sting of the clever AI acceleration purposes,” the corporate says of its newest board design. “Orange Pi 4A might be extensively utilized in clever industrial management, clever business show, retail fee, clever schooling, business robotics, car terminals, visible co-driving, edge computing, clever energy distribution terminals, and so forth.”
Orange Pi is again with one other compact single-board pc, this time concentrating on low-cost edge AI tasks. (📷: Orange Pi)
The compact single-board pc, delivered to our consideration by CNX Software program, follows the tough footprint of a Raspberry Pi, as you’d count on from Orange Pi, with 4 USB Sort-A ports subsequent to a gigabit Ethernet port. The longer facet of the board is residence to an HDMI 2.0 port good for 4k60 shows, whereas there’s additionally embedded DisplayPort 1.3 (eDP 1.3) and a four-lane MIPI Show Serial Interface (DSI). There is a 3.5mm jack for analog audio, one two-lane and one-four lane MIPI Digicam Serial Interfaces (CSIs), room for an non-compulsory eMMC module, microSD Card, and an M.2 M-Key PCI Categorical Gen. 2 slot for Non-Risky Reminiscence Categorical (NVMe) storage or accelerator boards.
The Allwinner T527 on the board’s coronary heart is an eight-core dual-performance design, however considerably uncommon in utilizing Arm’s Cortex-A55 for each its high-performance and high-efficiency cores — the previous clocked at as much as 1.8GHz and the latter as much as 1.42GHz.
The board’s underside contains room for an eMMC module, microSD Card, and M.2 SSD storage choices. (📷: Orange Pi)
The system-on-chip additionally features a T-Head XuanTie E906 RISC-V core working at as much as 200MHz, a two TOPS neural coprocessor, a 600MHz HiFi4 DSP, an Arm Mali-G57 MC1 graphics processor, and a video subsystem providing H.264/H.265 decoding at as much as 4k60 and H.264 encoding at as much as 4k25. Lastly, there’s on-board Wi-Fi 5 and Bluetooth 5.0 Low Vitality (BLE), a 40-pin Raspberry Pi-style general-purpose enter/output (GPIO) header, and a devoted four-pin connector for 2 analog to digital converter (ADC) channels designed for 1.8V logic.
Extra data, together with as-yet unpopulated obtain hyperlinks for schematics and software program photos, is obtainable on the Orange Pi web site; the board is obtainable to order on AliExpress at $35 for with 2GB of LPDDR4 reminiscence or $40 with 4GB, each plus delivery.