Apollo510B SoC

Advanced Connectivity for Edge AI

The Apollo510B SoC delivers breakthrough energy efficiency for running high-performance AI at the edge, featuring a dedicated Bluetooth® Low Energy 5.4 radio for effortless wireless connectivity.

Wireless Intelligence Evolved

01

Breakthrough Energy-Efficiency

Achieve breakthrough energy efficiency with the lightning-fast Arm Cortex-M55 application processor with Helium™ technology for high-performing AI at the edge.

02

Better with SPOT

Ambiq’s Subthreshold Power Optimized Technology (SPOT) platform optimizes Bluetooth®, security, graphics, voice, AI, and more, giving smart device manufacturers a leading edge in energy efficiency and performance.

03

Effortless Communications

Featuring a dedicated 48 MHz network coprocessor and Bluetooth Low Energy 5.4 radio for seamless low-power connectivity.

04

Always-on Edge AI

Breeze through AI/ML workloads concurrent with complex graphics, and always-on voice and sensor processing at the edge.

Block Diagram for the Ultra-Low Power Apollo510B SoC

Specifications

High-Performance Arm Cortex-M55 Processor with Helium

  • Up to 250 MHz clock frequency
  • Helium (MVE) vector integer, floating point
  • Scalar half, single, and double-precision floating-point
  • Supports TrustZone® architecture security extensions
  • Integrated 64 kB Instruction Cache and 64 kB Data Cache
  • Integrated 768 kB Instr/Data Tightly Coupled Memory (TCM)
  • Memory Protection Unit (MPU)

Bluetooth Low Energy 5.4

  • Direction Finding (single antenna)
  • Long Range
  • Tx Power: Up to +6dBm output power
  • Rx Sensitivity: -94/-97/-103dBm (2Mbps/1Mbps/125kbps)

secureSPOT 3.0 Security Features

  • Arm TrustZone technology
  • Secure boot
  • OTP key storage
  • PUF-based identity/sign/verify
  • Secure over-the-air (OTA) updates
  • Key revocation

Ultra-Low Power Memory

  • Up to 4MB of non-volatile memory for code/data
  • 3.75MB of TCM and system RAM for code/data

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

  • 12-bit ADC, 11 selectable input channels
  • Up to 1.7 MS/s sampling rate
  • Integrated temperature sensor

Ultra-Low Power Flexible Serial Peripherals

  • 1x 2/4/8-bit SPI master interfaces
  • 1x 2/4/8/16-bit SPI master interface supporting 1.2V
  • 7x I2C/SPI masters for peripheral communication
  • I2C/SPI slave for host communications
  • 4x UART modules with FIFOs and flow control
  • 1x USB 2.0 HS/FS device controller
  • 2x SDIO (SD3.0) / eMMC (v4.51)

Display

  • MIPI DSI 1.2 up to 768 Mbps
  • QuadSPI display interface (up to 125MHz DDR)
  • Up to 640 x 480 resolution at 60 FPS
  • 4 layers with alpha blending
  • Frame buffer decompression

graphiqSPOT 2.0 Graphics Features

  • 2D/2.5D GPU with vector graphics (VG) acceleration
  • 96 MHz / 250 MHz operating modes
  • Anti-aliasing hardware acceleration
  • Rasterizer / full alpha blending / texture mapping
  • Texture / frame buffer compression (TSC4, 6, 6A, and 12)
  • Dithering and radial/conical fill support

Audio Processing

  • 1x Low power audio ADC with PGA
  • 1x PDM stereo DMIC interface
  • 2x full-duplex multichannel I²S port (1x with ASRC)

Rich Set of Clock Sources

  • PLL for precise clocking applications
  • 48 MHz and 32.768 kHz Crystal (XTAL) oscillators
  • Low Frequency RC (LFRC) oscillator
  • High Frequency RC (HFRC) oscillator

Power Management

  • Operating range: 1.71-2.2V
  • Single Inductor Multiple Outputs (SIMO) Buck Converter
  • Multiple I/O voltages supported

Applications

  • Smartwatches/bands
  • Smart home devices
  • Body-worn and ambient AI
  • Wireless sensors and industrial edge
  • Smart remotes
  • Patient health monitoring
  • Hearing assist
  • Condition monitoring
  • Factory predictive maintenance
  • Livestock monitoring
  • Asset tracking

Package Options

  • 5.6 x 5.6 x 0.8 mm BGA with 97 GPIO

Ordering Information

  • -20 to +70C: AP510BFA-CBR (Bluetooth Low Energy, BGA)

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