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Apollo3 Blue Plus EVB

Purposed-built to offer more compute and storage, the Apollo3 Blue Plus has become the most popular system on chip for wearables. Now, with the proprietary secureSPOT®, it will provide a Secure-by-Design™ environment throughout the device’s lifecycle from the OEM to the end users.

Apollo3 Blue Plus EVB Drawing
Apollo3 Blue Plus EVB

Block Diagram for the Ultra-Low Power Apollo3 Blue Plus SoC

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Leveraging Ambiq’s proprietary turboSPOT® technology platform, the Apollo3 Blue Plus SoC increases the computational capabilities of its integrated Arm® Cortex®-M4 processor with Floating Point Unit to 96 MHz while lowering the active power consumption to < 6 μA/MHz. This combination dramatically reduces energy consumption while still enabling abundant application processing power to add greater capability and extended life to battery-operated devices. Purpose-built for wearables, the Apollo3 Blue Plus includes an integrated DMA engine, QSPI interface, and advanced stepper motor control for ultra-low power analog watch hand management. In addition, the Apollo3 Blue Plus comes with a dedicated second core for the ultra-low power Bluetooth® Low Energy 5 connectivity platform, providing superior RF throughput and leaving plenty of resources available for user applications. The Apollo3 Blue Plus adds two additional MSPI modules (3 total) and increases the external memory execute-in-place (XiP) aperture from 64MB to 96MB (32MB/MSPI instance). Other upgrades include internal flash from 1MB to 2MB; SRAM from 384KB to 768KB (TCM size remains at 64KB); and the GPIO count from 50 to 74.
The Apollo3 Blue Plus also forms the core of Ambiq’s Voice-on-SPOT (VoS) platform, making it the perfect microprocessor for enabling always-on voice assistant integration and command. With the new Apollo3 Blue Plus Secure, OEMs have the option to offer additional security by implementing Ambiq’s secureSPOT® on the most popular SoC. The secureSPOT is Ambiq’s technology platform with optimized hardware and software to provide a Secure by Design environment to device OEMs. secureSPOT 1.0, available now in the Apollo3 Blue Plus, includes secure boot, secure over-the-air (OTA) and wired updates, secure debug, and key revocation, among other features, to protect product design against cyber-attacks and unauthorized cloning. Contact sales@ambiq.com to inquire about the Apollo3 Blue Plus Secure today.
Specifications

Ultra-Low Supply Current

6 μA/MHz executing from flash or RAM at 3.3 V

1 μA deep sleep mode (Bluetooth Low Energy Off) with RTC at 3.3 V (Bluetooth Low Energy in SD)

High-Performance Arm Cortex-M4 Processor

Up to 48 MHz nominal clock frequency with 96 MHz performance TurboSPOT Mode

Floating Point Unit (FPU)

Memory Protection Unit (MPU)

Wake-up interrupt controller (WIC) with 32 interrupts

Apollo3 Blue Plus<br>AMA3B2KK-KBR BGA

Apollo3 Blue Plus
AMA3B2KK-KBR BGA

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Apollo3 Blue Plus<br>Evaluation Board<br>AMA3B2EVB

Apollo3 Blue Plus
Evaluation Board
AMA3B2EVB

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Apollo3 Blue Plus<br>Voice-on-SPOT Kit<br>AMA3BPVOS

Apollo3 Blue Plus
Voice-on-SPOT Kit
AMA3BPVOS

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Apollo3 Blue Plus<br>AMA3B2KK-KBR BGA

Apollo3 Blue Plus
AMA3B2KK-KBR BGA

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Apollo3 Blue Plus<br>Evaluation Board<br>AMA3B2EVB

Apollo3 Blue Plus
Evaluation Board
AMA3B2EVB

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Apollo3 Blue Plus<br>Voice-on-SPOT Kit<br>AMA3BPVOS

Apollo3 Blue Plus
Voice-on-SPOT Kit
AMA3BPVOS

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Integrated Bluetooth Low Energy Module

RF sensitivity: -93 dBm (typical)

Ultra-Low Power Memory

Up to 2MB of flash memory for code/data

Up to 768KB of low power RAM for code/data

16KB 2-way Associative/Direct-Mapped Cache

Ultra-Low Power Interface for On- and Off-Chip Sensors

14-bit ADC, 14 selectable input channels available

Up to 2.67 MS/s sampling rate

Voltage Comparator (VCOMP)

Temperature sensor with ±3°C accuracy after calibration

Ultra-Low Power Flexible Serial Peripherals

ISO7816 Secure interface

1x 2/4/8-bit and 2x 2/4-bit SPI master interface (MSPIs)

6x I2C/SPI masters for peripheral communication

1x I2C/SPI slave for host communications

2x UART modules with 32-location Tx and Rx FIFOs

PDM for mono and stereo audio microphones

1x 12S slave for PDM audio pass-through

Rich Set of Clock Sources

32.768 kHz Crystal (XTAL) oscillator

Low Frequency RC (LFRC) oscillator (1.024 kHz)

High Frequency RC (HFRC) oscillator (48/96 MHz)

RTC based on Ambiq’s AM08X5/18X5 family

Wide Operating Range

1.755-3.63 V, -40°C to 85°C

Applications

Voice-on-SPOT compatible for always-listening keyword detect, audio command recognition and voice assistant integration in battery-powered devices including:
- Bluetooth® headsets, earbuds, and truly wireless earbuds
- Remote and Gaming Controls
- Smart home

Wearables including smart watches and fitness/activity trackers

Hearing aids, Digital Health Monitoring and Sensing Devices

Smart Home Automation, Security and Lighting control applications

Package Option

5.3 mm x 4.3 mm x 0.8 mm, 108-pin BGA with 74 GPIO

Ordering Information

AMA3B2KK-KBR (768KB RAM, 108-pin BGA)

AMA3B2EVB (EVB)

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Latin America

Direct Sales

sales@ambiq.com

TOP-electronics USA

info@top-electronicsUSA.com

Japan

IIDA ELECTRONICS (TSUSHO) Co., Ltd

m-kokura@iida-tusho.co.jp

Southeast Asia

IID A ELECTRONICS(TSUSHO) Co., Ltd

inoue@iida.com.sg

KAGA FEI ELECTRONICS PACIFIC ASIA LIMITED Singapore Branch

desmond.tan@ap.kagafei.com

India

KAGA FEI ELECTRONICS PACIFIC ASIA LIMITED

desmond.tan@ap.kagafei.com

Korea

Direct Sales

sales@ambiq.com

Sechang Semicon Co., Ltd. – Sales Representative

sales@sechangsemicon.com

USA

Direct Sales

sales@ambiq.com

TOP-electronics USA

info@TOP-electronicsUSA.com

China and Hong Kong

Direct Sales

sales_china@ambiq.com

Taiwan

Direct Sales

sales_taiwan@ambiq.com

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