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Pulierde Linux Smart Cast A3 Officially Launched! Powered by Rockchip RK3036

2018-03-26

Pulierde has launched the Smart Cast A3. Being small, handy and easy to operate, the product is highly popular after the mass production and release into the market. The Pulierde A3 Smart Cast satisfies user’s demands for watching resources shared on big screens to a great extent. Thanks to the H.265 technology, users can play the H.265 encoded FHD videos online. Compared with the 720P image quality previously, it is a considerable enhancement in user’s visual experience.

Pulierde A3 adopts Rockchip RK3036 solution, which supports H.265 local hardware decoding, Android/IOS/Windows/MAC all-platform system, HDMI output and the transport Miracast/DLNA/Airplay Mirroring.

Three highlights of the RK3036 platform:

1. Save system space, eliminate redundancy and support the handy Linux OS

Compared with the traditional Android Miracast Dongle devices, RK3036 solution adopts Linux OS, avoiding the problems of stability and bad experience caused by mass redundant junk files in Android.

2. Save the cost of memory, demand for memory decreases by 10 times

The adoption of Linux OS RK3036 solution may reduce the cost of terminal products by 2/3. Compared to the reliance of the Android System on hardware, RK3036 supports hardware with a minimum memory of only 64M DDR+8MB FLASH, a decrease of nearly 10 times that of the demand of the Android System for memory. Thus, it has substantially optimized the cost of peripheral electronic components.

3. Support H.265 local decoding and Miracast experience of super low power consumption on mobile phones

It supports H.265 local hardware decoding for mirroring so that the mobile phone does not have to perform algorithm, thus substantially reducing the power consumption of the mobile phone. Compared to H.264, H.265 encoded videos save 50% of the bandwidth with the same image quality and the error rate is lower with the mosaic decreasing up to 59%. RK3036 is the only chip solution that supports H.265 among the entry-level dongle.

Phicomm released the first AI speaker R1 and created a top-quality sound experience together with Harman. It is the first time for Phicomm to step into the artificial intelligence filed.

The Phicomm R1 is powered by Rockchip RK3229, with quad-core Cortex-A7 CPU. It supports sound source localization, sound source enhancement, echo cancellation, and noise suppression technology. It is the first solution to support 8-channel digital silicon direct connection in the industry. It has 8GB storage space, which can store a large number of songs or nearly tens of thousands of minutes of recording, and supports 2.4G and 5G Wi-Fi frequency band.

The Phicomm R1 can recognize sound accurately, and the awakening rate is excellent under many scenarios. No matter in a noisy home, watching TV, or family members chatting loudly, the awakening rate of R1 exceeds 85%.

In the smart home ecology, Phicomm R1 will play the role of manipulation center. Based on the company’s internal smart product line, R1 can control intelligent platoon insert, query personal health information, and control smart home products such as air purifiers by voice.

The Phicomm AI Speaker R1 will gradually access more abundant functions and content and will realize more personalized services by AI technology, making life easier and more convenient. It will be open for sale on March 28, at RMB 2,499.

- More Rockchip AI solutions –

From February 27 to March 1, the 2018 embedded world exhibition & conference was held in Nuremberg, Germany. It is one of the world's most influential exhibitions and the world's largest embedded system exhibition.

In this exhibition, Rockchip showed its ultra-wide platform applications including embedded AI, industrial control, smart audio, smart vision and other development platforms.

A new AI product Sogou Travel Translator which is one of the important products of its AI strategy has been officially released by Sogou at the cooperative conference. Powered by Rockchip RK3399, the Sogou Travel Translator supports various translation modes such as text translation, dialogue translation, speech translation, real-view translation and provides translations in 17 languages. The Chinese-English offline translation capability enables users to use unhindered with non-networked.

RK3399 CPU adapts big.LITTLE core architecture with dual-core Cortex-A72+ quad-core Cortex-A53, which is technologically advanced in terms of overall performance and power consumption.

The Sogou Travel Translator based on RK3399 mainly solves the disadvantages of unstable signals and inaccurate translations of many translation Apps in the market. It combines highlights of the two new technologies and will meet the needs of travel better:

1. Offline translation technology, off-line neural network translation nmt and off-line OCR translation can be implemented in the terminal equipment to solve the stored problems and identify delay problems;

2. The array technology, dual microphone arrays, beam forming, and ambient noise reduction.It can find the strongest sound source, realize the noise reduction and achieve the highest level of speech recognition.

With the launch of Sogou Travel Translator, a strong member has added into nearly a hundred of industry applications of RK3399. RK3399 is suitable for hundreds of industry application products such as AI, electronic whiteboards, electronic schoolbags, face recognition equipment, unmanned aerial vehicles(UAV), robots, game terminals, gaming peripherals, mobile games on-hook servers, home appliances, advisement players/all-in-one machines, financial POS, onboard control Industry, thin client (cloud service), VOIP video conference system, educational tablet, karaoke entertainment, medical treatments, security / monitoring / policing, industrial control, IoT Internet of Things, VR shooting, VR etc.. It has features of high-performance, high-expansion, all-round application and it will empower AI and assists the layout of industry products.

The Next ODROID by Hardkernel.

ODROID-N1 key features:

- Rockchip AArch64 RK3399 Hexa-core processor
- Dual-core ARM Cortex-A72 2Ghz processor and Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 1.5Ghz processor, big-LITTLE architecture
- Mali-T860MP4 GPU, support OpenGL ES1.1/2.0/3.0, OpenCL 1.2
- 4Gbyte DDR3-1866 RAM, Dual channel interface for 64bit data bus width
- 2 x SATA3 port, native SATA implementation via PCIe-gen2 to SATA3 interface
- eMMC 5.0 (HS400) Flash storage and a UHS capable micro-SD slot.
- 2 x USB 3.0 host port
- 2 x USB 2.0 host port.
- Gigabit Ethernet port
- HDMI 2.0 for 4K display
- 40-Pin GPIO port
- OS: Ubuntu 18.04 or Debian Stretch with Kernel 4.4 LTS, Android 7.1
- Size: 90 x 90 x 20 mm approx. (excluding cooler)
- Power: 12V/2A input (Attaching two 3.5inch HDD requires a 12V/4A PSU)
- Price: US$110 (To be adjusted based on DRAM market price changes)
- Mass production schedule: TBD

For more information about 'The Next ODROID' 

Please, refer to this website : https://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=29932

RK3229 SOM is a cost-effective, optimized Turnkey Module with high performance that is certified by Google. It features Quad-core ARM Cortex-A7，up to 1.5GHz and integrates PMIC, Memory, eMMC, WIFI/Bluetooth with built-in fuel gauge. It is compatible with pre-certified Cast and the Google Assistant.

RK 3229 SOM is powered by Android Things to support peripheral hardware, such as speakers, motors, sensors and more. RK3229 SOM is optimized for IoT devices and there are several unique benefits:

1. It is a cost-effective SoM module certified  by Google for running Android Things with the Google Assistant . It can be used to for fast mass production of IoT devices and shorten the R&D cycle.

2. It is based on the Android Things platform. ODM/OEM/Developers can efficiently access Turnkey hardware/software and benefit product development and innovation.

3. Google services: pre-certified Cast and the Google Assistant in the module can greatly speed up development progress and improve stability.

4. It has built-in integrated software DSP, supports EQ/DRC audio, and is easier to develop and customize than hardware support.

5. It is based on Android Things, which benefits from regular security updates directly from Google.

6. It can deeply improve product updates and cost savings by Google OTA upgrade service.

It is easier for developers and OEM/ODM partners to launch products with it, since RK3229 SOM turnkey hardware solutions are available off the shelf.
 

RK3399Pro AI processor with superior general computing performance adopts big.LITTLE CPU, Dual-core Cortex-A72 and Quad-core Cortex-A53, showing technical leadership in whole performance and power consumption. The Quad-core ARM high-end Mali-T860 GPU which integrates more bandwidth compression techniques shows excellent overall performance.

RK3399Pro AI processor has high expansion capability, such as: supporting dual Type-C interfaces; dual ISPs  (each channel supporting a maximum 13 mega pixels); supporting 4096x2160 display output; supporting 8-channel digital microphone arrays input. With respect to software, RK3399Pro supports numerous APIs (Application Program Interface), including OpenGL ES 1.x/2.x/3.1/3.2, Vulkan 1.0, OpenCL 1.1/1.2, RenderScript etc.

RK3399Pro with super AI computing performance is Rockchip’s first AI processor by adopting CPU+GPU+NPU hardware structure. Its integrated NPU (Neural Network Processing Unit) incorporates Rockchip’s technology in fields of vision, voice processing and deep learning etc. Compared to traditional solution, the computing performance of typical deep neural network Inception V3, ResNet34 and VGG16 models on RK3399Pro is better and improved nearly hundred times.

Three important features of Rockchip RK3399Pro AI solution: 

l  High performance AI hardware
RK3399Pro adopted exclusive AI hardware design. Its NPU computing performance reaches 2.4TOPs, and indexes of both high performance and low consumption keep ahead: the performance is 150% higher than other same type NPU processor; the power consumption is less than 1%, comparing with other solutions adopting GPU as AI computing unit.

l  Superior platform compatibility
RK3399Pro NPU supports 8bit and 16bit and is compatible with various AI software frameworks. Existing AI interfaces support OpenVX and TensorFlow Lite/AndroidNN API; AI software tool s support the importing, mapping and optimizing of Caffe/TensorFlow model.

l  Easily development of turnkey solution 
Rockchip provides one-stop AI solution based on RK3399Pro, including hardware reference design and SDK. The solution can increase the AI products R&D speed of global developers and greatly reduce product launch time. It can significantly improve the speed of AI product development for global developers and greatly shorten time to market.

"The age of AI has come. As a global SoC manufacturer in China, we have the market layout of AI for many years. RK3399Pro is Rockchip’s first processor which integrates AI hardware. Its platform can be rapid MP for commercial." Chen Feng, the Global Vice President of Rockchip, said, "With super 2.4TOPs performance, low power consumption and abundant interfaces, this product is applicable to various AI application fields such as intelligent drive, image recognition, security monitoring, drones and voice recognition."

The release of Rockchip RK3399Pro has a great influence on global industry chain. It will greatly lower the threshold of innovation and mass production for commercial for AI industry, and accelerate the overall popularization of AI with higher performance and lower power consumption features.  

Integrating the ReadSense algorithm matrix, RV1108 has the front end super computing.

With the continuous development of AI in recent years, face recognition has become the mainstream technology trend. Through computer vision technology, it enables the terminal devices to have real-time intelligent computing ability is the potential factor for future outburst. Based on this, the updated version RV1108 with frontier ReadSense algorithm IP has the advantages of local computing ability and more market competitiveness.

RV1108 is an important product of Rockchip layout of AI and visual related fields. It has the key technologies of intelligent image processing: embedded with high performance CEVA XM4 visual processor DSP, up to 600MHz;8M ISP; Supports 1440p@30fps/1080p@60fps H.264 video codec; Built-in128M Byte DDR; High integration density; Supports MIPI DSI, HDMI TX, CVBS IN/OUT, 100M Ethernet, Audio Codec.

The powerful technology accumulation of the embedded underlying optimization of ReadSense, powers RV1108 withintelligent front-end computing power. In addition, the ReadSense optimized and customized CNN face detection for RV1108 CEVA XM4 processor, which has made full use of DSP to provide powerful computation ability. It has high robustness, and has good adaptability to light change, posture change, different skin colors, and the people of different ages.

Moreover, ReadSense algorithm IP based on RV1108 also has a completed algorithm matrix, which can perfectly calculate and run locally in the field of face detection, body detection, track, identify and so on, without relying on computer resources. It has extremely low power consumption, but the performance has enhanced several times. Such as face detection, RV1108 with ReadSense algorithm IP can reach 120ms detection speed and 90% detection rate at 1080P resolution. 

Core upgrading, aiming at "new" scene 
AI is rapidly moving towards long-tail scenes in industry applications. A new generation AI visual module based on Rockchip RV1108 can be flexibly used for face capture, new retail industry.Its advantage of local real-time computing will expedite industry product upgrading.

1. Smart camera

From the acquired image or video stream, it can analyze, detect and discern the facial images in real time and output the structured data, which can perform accurate face detection, recognition and alarm. In addition, the camera also traces and captures 10 people with the clearest faces in a proper angle. The capture is 99%, the false detection rate is less than 0.5%, and the capture repetitive rate is less than 10%.  

2. New retail and intelligent marketing

RV1108 AI visual module could realize passenger flow statistics, hot spot region statistics, membership recognition and other functions in the new retail industry application. In hotels, auto 4S shops and other places, it can realize intelligent marketing and service upgrading through intelligent management of front-end intelligent analysis and back-end cloud platform.  

Rockchip RV1108, which integrates powerful algorithmic, will have more possibilities in application scenarios, such as household IPC, smart cities and other fields. With the constant improvement of front-end intelligent perception and basic cognitive ability, more traditional fields will have a new wave of iterative development. Besides, the upcoming Rockchip RK1608 AI platform has powerful performance, which will push the new trend of technology in the field of AI chip. It is worth looking forward to. 

Upgraded Rockchip RK3328 UHD TV BOX Solution at Three Times the Speed

2017-10-16

Rockchip RK3229 with Google Assistant for applications includes high-end smart speaker products and intelligent voice interactive products. Combining with Google's experience in natural language processing, RK3229 solution, adopting Quad-core Cortex-A7 CPU, supports sound source localization, sound field enhancement, echo cancellation and noise suppression technology. In addition, RK3229 takes the lead in support of 8 channel digital silicon microphones directly connected chip solution in the industry, and thus achieves an overall solution of cost-effectiveness and high expandability.

The Google Assistant solution delivers a cross-device experience that quickly awakens to requests for third-party servicves via voice, such as streaming music services, car booking or meal ordering. It is initially expected that the Google Assistant will be widely used in at least 200 million terminals.

"The Google Assistant solution launched by Rockchip, will bring a huge impetus to the global smart ecological chain," said by Rockchip Global Vice President Chen Feng.

The more open, mature and interconnected Android Things system will help hardware and software vendors solve the difficulties of long application cycles and compatibility to develop Linux system. Based on Android Things platform, RK3229 Google Assistant solution will help eco-chain partners develop APP service platforms according to product features and user habits, so as to integrate seamlessly with voice intelligent interaction to deeply bond users and enhance user experience.

Whether at home or work, intelligent voice interactive solutions can link different intelligent terminals to meet the complex needs of the consumer market. Rockchip has taken the lead in being more connected providing a broader ecosystem that is conductive to the market. 

Buit-in DSP, Rockchip RV1108 visual platform has key technologies such as intelligent image processing technology, and it has the following three technical features:  
1.      SupportDual-eye 360° 3K splicing inside
2.      Support remote panoramic human shape surveillance and detection and automatic recording are supported 
3.      Support 9-axle electronic anti-shake  

Through a powerful computing platform, RV1108 supports image splicing inside the device, outputs images directly via HDMI and network interface, and supports online live broadcasting and one-touch sharing. In terms of video decoding, RV1108 coder and decoder support 3K/H.264 quality of pictures. Coupling with mobile surveillance, human face identification and low-light-level night vision, its applications in action camera and panoramic camera can acquire significantly improved effects.

Rockchip RV1108 is powerfully open and programmable, and diversified thoughts and directions for products are available for its cooperative partners, and it can be applied widely in automobile, security monitoring, home assistive robot, action camera and UAV.  

As AI(Artificial Intelligence) and IoT becomes the predominating direction of future life, and as one of the core technologies, intelligent voice man-machine interaction becomes popular so quickly. Rockchip launches its AI Voice Assistant solution during Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Spring Edition) on April 13, 2017, which can be applied to smart speaker system. Dual core RK3036 and Quad core RK3229 solution, are for entry level, middle range and high end products respectively.

http://www.rock-chips.com/upload/media/RKspeakers.mp4

Three technical features of Rockchip AI Voice Assistant solution:

1. Support 1-8 DMIC array algorithm

2. Support global mainstream voice platform.

3. Support Linux/Android OS.

RK3036 supports 1/2/4*Mic and RK3229 supports 4-8*Mic in the aspect of hardware platform.    Both solutions support source location, source reinforcement, echo cancellation and noise suppression technology in the aspect of voice algorithm. RK3229 takes the lead in supporting 8-line digital I2S digital directly connected silicon microphone, which not only saves cost, but also has compatibility for different microphone array algorithm and platform.     

As the key technology in voice interaction, in the aspect of microphone array algorithm, RK3229 supports iFLY TEK, Liebao, AISpeech, SoundAI and Sinovoice microphone array algorithm; RK3036 supports Conexant two/four microphone DSP solution.     

In the aspect of cloud semantics platform, RK3036 and RK3229 support global mainstream Chinese and English voice platform and provide several solutions for partners of industry chain. Aiming at Chinese semantics, Rockchip solutions support Liebao, iFLY TEK, AISpeech and LingjuAI; aiming at English semantics, Rockchip solutions support Amazon Alexa.  

Rockchip RK3036 and RK3299 AI Voice Assistant solutions have stronger compatibility when they are applied to ecosystem. Music and IOT cover all applications in Liebao, iFLY TEK, AISpeech and Amazon Alexa. In the aspect of life service, the solution includes shopping (Amazon, JD), alarm clock, count down, taxi (Uber, Syscanner), information inquiry, YouTube video play etc, the advantage of platform is great. 

Rockchip AI Voice Assistant solution also has large potential in the aspect of expansion of product modality. As it supports Linux and Android OS system, product can be developed vertically in intelligent field. In addition, Rockchip RK3036 supports multi-screen interaction, takes the lead in supporting H.265 video decoding and provides complete solution for TV screen projection bar.

According to the data, it is estimated that market size of global voice recognition will increase to USD20 billion in 2020 from USD 6.19 billion in 2015. In the scramble of newly-developing market, the one which races to control the entry is the one seizes the first opportunity. As the important entrance, intelligent voice technology has become a hotly contested spot for giants in technology and household field, and voice intelligent speaker is a golden key for entering into intelligent household field. 

Integration of interconnection and intercommunication, upstream and downstream supply chain, ecosystem, Rockchip will provide effective support for the landing of global AI technology in the aspects of technology, compatibility and extension

Rockchip RK3036 chip adopts Dual-core Cortex-A7 architecture, up to 1.0GHz; support 1080P H.265, H.264, VC-1, MPEG and VP8 Video Decoder; compatible with streaming media formats of different protocols; support different screen cast interaction protocols such as DLNA, Miracast, WiDi and other interoperability protocols.

RK3036 is the first to support H.265 video encoding solutions and achieves the three major enhancements for TV display dongle:

1. More clear picture quality, saving bandwidth up to 50%.

2. Lower bit error rate, mosaic reduced by 59%.

3. High integration, size reduced by 30%.

It is shown that H.265 can transmit higher quality online video under limited bandwidth. Only half the H.264 bandwidth is needed to play the same quality video. In technical principle, the encoding unit of H.265 can be selected from the smallest 8x8 to the largest 64x64. The area with less information is divided into ​larger macro-blocks, and there are fewer code words, while the area with more details is divided into smaller and more macro-blocks, and there are more code words. In this sense, the image has been encoded key codes, and the parts with more important key details are enhanced, thereby reducing the overall code rate, and the coding efficiency has been improved accordingly.

As a new video codec format, H.265 is widely used. As early as 2015, iPhone 6 ​​started to support H.265 video codec technology. At present, H.265 video decoding support is standard for mainstream flagship mobile phones. The major video sites in China such as Thunder and iQiyi have begun to support H.265 video coding. TV display dongle that cannot support H.265 codec format already can’t satisfy users’demand for online video broadcast.

RK3036 TV display dongle solution can be used quickly in any device with HDMI interface. It enhances the cross-system, cross-terminal and low delay sharing and viewing experience of consumers in display dongle products and greatly accelerates the upgrades of living room consumer intelligent hardware.

RK Vehicle-mounted Solution| IVN Solution, more than Navigation

With the arrival of large-size screen, devices mounted in large-size cars are become popular to occupy the market. Rockchip has specially released a car-mounted navigation & entertainment solution based on PX2 and PX3. 

Brand-new IVN Solution is formulated through integrating Entertainment and Navigation with Seven Major Functions:  

1. Quick Start and Quick Reserving Tracking

According to the demand for stable car-mounted product market, Rockchip has launched dedicated car-mounted Android system. For Android IVN products, Quick Start and Quick Reserving Tracking functions are essential.

2. Online Map Navigation can be upgraded FOR FREE

3. HD Automobile Data Recorder

Equipped with highly-integrated HD Automobile Recorder function based on Android system, it will record the scene along the driving route so as to help you resolve any accidental dispute, safeguard your legal right and make your driving much more comfortable.

4. Advanced ADAS Algorithm to enable tracking, distance measurement, vehicle license recognition and anti-collision functions.

5. Different Display in the Same Large Screen, Landscape/Portrait Orientation, Split Screen and Multi-window Operation

It allows you to carry out multitask operations without compromising entertainment and navigation.

6. Connect to Mobile Phone for Control

Mobile phone has become an essential electronic product in our daily life. For car-mounted large-screen navigation system, connection to mobile phone function can help you conveniently push music and video files, and share the Navigation Interface.

7. Support Full HD H.264 Decoding and Voice-control Identification Input

The most powerful multimedia performance will present the user with theater-level experience. As the only product that supports self-developed H.265 hardcore decoding, it is well equipped with various voice-control software including iFLYTEK and Unisound.  

RK IoV Solution | SoFIA 3G-R Assists Car-mounted Devices with Upgraded Smart Reaview Mirror

1. Android Platform supports double-circuit camera (1080P+VGA) for simultaneous recording and real-time navigation

Compared with traditional stand-alone Android rear-view products, SoFIA 3G-R platform can realize real-time navigation and enable the core function of stable recording of double-circuit video via Android platform.

2. Cost-effective Hardware Integration Solution

WIFI/BT/GPS/3G/PMU/FM are integrated into one mass. By means of high-integration hardware platform, relevant costs can be controlled within USD 30!

3. Quad-core Automobile Data Recorder Solution

SoFIA 3G-R has applied Atom 4-core framework into service with unique performance better than 4-core Cortex-A7. Network media testing data are shown below: exceeding 40% or so.

4. Quad-core Powerful Full HD 60fps Experience with Multi-window Display

Based on RK traditional Android multi-window technology, it can realize simultaneous display of navigation and video recording on the mainstream wide screen.

5. Support Full HD H.265/H.264 Decoding and Voice-control Identification Input

The most powerful multimedia performance will present the user with theater-level experience. As the only product that supports self-developed H.265 hardcore decoding, it is well equipped with various voice-control software including iFLYTEK and Unisound.

6. Advanced ADAS algorithm to enable tracking, distance measurement, vehicle license recognition and anti-collision functions

Detailed ADAS Function Demonstration Video

7. Pre-assembled Android 5.1 Automobile Data Recorder Solution

Compared with other chip suppliers with android4.4 as the system, RK automobile data recorder solution has applied the latest android5.1 system into service.