Apollo4 Blue

Ambiq^®, the leader in low-power system on chip (SoC) design, has once again raised the bar with the Apollo4 Blue SoC. With the lowest dynamic and sleep mode power on the market, the Apollo4 Blue SoC allows designers of next-generation wearables and smart devices to take their innovative products to the next level. Moreover, designers can securely develop and deploy products confidently with our secureSPOT^® technology and PSA-L1 certification.

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Block Diagram for the Ultra-Low Power Apollo4 Blue SoC

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The Apollo4 Blue SoC family is the 4^th generation system processor solution built upon Ambiq’s proprietary Subthreshold Power-Optimized Technology (SPOT^®) platform. The Apollo4’s complete hardware and software solution enables the battery-powered endpoint devices of tomorrow to achieve a higher level of intelligence without sacrificing battery life.

With up to 2MB of MRAM and 1.8MB of SRAM, the Apollo4 Blue has more than enough compute and storage to handle complex algorithms and neural networks while displaying vibrant, crystal-clear, and smooth graphics. If additional memory is required, an external memory is supported through Ambiq’s multi-bit SPI and eMMC interfaces.

The Apollo4 Blue is purpose-built to serve as both an application processor and a coprocessor for battery-powered endpoint devices, including smartwatches, children’s watches, fitness bands, animal trackers, far-field voice remotes, predictive health and maintenance, and the smart home.

Feature Highlights

Innovate for a wide range of endpoint IoT devices with powerful processing capability using an Arm^® Cortex^®-M4F core and turboSPOT^® high frequency operation. With ample memory, this platform is engineered to drive battery-powered graphics, audio solutions, and more.

Push the longevity of battery-operated devices with unprecedented power efficiency. Make the most of your power budget with our flexible, low-power sleep and deep sleep modes with selectable levels of RAM/cache retention.

Go wireless with Apollo4 Blue. Implement reliable, faster Bluetooth connectivity using our robust, power optimized Bluetooth Low Energy 5.4 radio. Easily track always-on devices with Bluetooth’s direction-finding Angle of Arrival (AOA) and Angle of Departure (AOD) features.

Use our highly energy efficient 2/2.5D graphics accelerator to implement high quality graphics. A MIPI DSI high-speed interface coupled with support for 32-bit color and 500x500 pixel resolution enables developers to create compelling Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) for battery-operated IoT devices.

Experience truly always-on voice processing with an ultra-low power analog microphone and optimized noise cancelling algorithms for clear voice. Achieve multi-channel processing and high-fidelity digital audio with enhanced digital filtering and low power audio interfaces.

Connect to more devices with our wide selection of low power communication ports, including USB. Use SDIO/eMMC for additional storage to help meet your application memory requirements.

Design with confidence using Ambiq's robust secureSPOT^® technology to ensure a complete end-to-end secure environment for your application. Our solution is PSA-L1-certified and provides a wide range of security features such as Secure Boot, secure over-the-air (OTA) and wired updates, secure key storage in OTP memory, secure debug and more. In addition, hardware cryptographic accelerators support a True Random Number Generator (TRNG) and an array of encryption algorithms.

Develop with AmbiqSuite SDK using your preferred tool chain. We offer support documents and reference code that can be repurposed to accelerate your development time. In addition, our outstanding technical support team is ready to help bring your design to production.

Purpose-built SoC

Extreme Low Power Modes

Bluetooth Low Energy 5.4

Superior Graphics and Display

Always-on Audio

More Options with Low Power Peripherals

Connect to more devices with our wide selection of low power communication ports, including USB. Use SDIO/eMMC for additional storage to help meet your application memory requirements.

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Specifications

Ultra-Low Supply Current
5 μA/MHz executing from MRAM (with cache)
Low-power sleep and deep sleep modes with selectable levels of RAM/cache retention

High-Performance Arm Cortex-M4 Processor with FPU
Up to 192 MHz clock frequency
Floating Point Unit (FPU)
Memory Protection Unit (MPU)

Bluetooth Low Energy 5.3
2 Mbps, extended advertising packets
Angle of Arrival (AOA) and Angle of Departure (AOD)
Tx: Up to +6 dBm output power
Rx Sensitivity: -95 dBm

Security Features
Security boot
Secure over-the-air (OTA) updates
Secure wired updates
Key Revocation

Ultra-Low Power Memory
Up to 2MB of non-volatile MRAM for code/data
Up to 1.8MB of low power SRAM for code/data

Ultra-Low Power Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC)
12-bit ADC, 11 selectable input channels
Up to 2.8 MS/s sampling rate
Temperature sensor with ±3°C accuracy

Ultra-Low Power Flexible Serial Peripherals
2x 2/4/8-bit SPI master interfaces
7x I²C/SPI masters for peripheral communication
1x SPI slave for host communications
4x UART modules with flow control
1x USB 2.0 HS/FS device controller
1x SDIO (SD3.0)/1x eMMC (v4.51)

Display
MIPI DSI 1.2 up to 500 Mbps
Up to 454x 454resolution
4 layers with alpha blending
Frame Buffer Decompression

Graphics
2D/2.5D graphics accelerator
Full Alpha Blending
Texture and Frame Buffer Compression

Audio Processing
1x stereo Low Power Analog microphones
4x stereo Digital microphones
2x full-duplex I²S ports with ASRC

Rich Set of Clock Sources
16-52 MHz and 32.768 kHz Crystal (XTAL) oscillators
1 kHz Low Frequency RC (LFRC) oscillator
2x High Frequency RC (HFRC) oscillator

Power Management
Operating range: 1.71-2.2 V, -20°C to 60°C
SIMO buck
Multiple I/O voltages supported

Applications
Smart watches/bands
Wireless sensors and IoT
Activity and fitness monitors
Children's watches
Animal trackers
Motion and tracking devices
Alarms and security system
Far-field voice remotes
Consumer medical devices
Predictive maintenance
Smart home

Package Options
4.7 mm x 4.7 mm, 131-pin SIP BGA

Ordering Information
AMA4B2KK-KBR-B2

Apollo4 Blue

Block Diagram for the Ultra-Low Power Apollo4 Blue SoC

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