Open-hardware specialist PINE64 has change into the most recent to design a single-board laptop round Sophgo’s uncommon SG2000 system-on-chip — combining Arm, RISC-V, a proprietary NPU, and an Intel 8051 clone on a single system.
“The Oz64 is a low value single-board laptop primarily based on the Sophgo SG2000 SoC with twin T-Head C906 64-bit RISC-V cores, an ARM Cortex-A53 64-bit RISC CPU core and an 8051 eight-bit core supported by 512MB of embedded DRAM reminiscence,” the corporate explains of its newest {hardware} design, “with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth radio interfaces.”
PINE64 is readying a brand new, and weird, single-board laptop: the Oz64. (📷: PINE64)
Delivered to our consideration by CNX Software program, the Oz64 is the most recent in a string of gadgets from firms together with Sipeed and Milk-V to undertake the Sophgo SG2000, launched by the corporate again in February. As PINE64 says, the chip is uncommon for the variety of architectures it implements: the half consists of 1GHz application-class cores primarily based on proprietary Arm Cortex-A53 and open-source T-Head C906 RISC-V designs, a second 700MHz C906 core, and a 300MHz microcontroller core primarily based on Intel’s classic 8051 structure — plus, if that weren’t sufficient, a neural processing unit (NPU) delivering 0.5 tera-operations per second (TOPS) of compute for on-device machine studying and synthetic intelligence workloads.
To this, PINE64 has added 512MB of DDR3 reminiscence, a alternative of eMMC module or microSD Card storage, a single USB 2.0 Sort-A port, a Quick Ethernet port with non-compulsory Energy over Ethernet (PoE) capabilities, a 3.5mm analog audio jack, two dual-lane MIPI Digital camera Serial Interface (CSI) and an non-compulsory dual-lane MIPI Show Serial Interface (DSI) connector, and a 26-pin general-purpose enter/output (GPIO) header.
The board makes use of Sophgo’s uncommon SG2000 chip, which incorporates Arm, RISC-V, and Intel 8051 cores together with a proprietary NPU. (📷: Sophgo)
PINE64 concentrates on finalizing the {hardware} designs earlier than shifting onto software program, and the Oz64 is not any exception to the rule: the system is at present a work-in-progress, although what the corporate describes as a “neighborhood effort” has seen the discharge of a construct of the NuttX real-time working system (RTOS).
Extra data on the Oz64 is offered on the PINE64 web site and wiki; the corporate has not but introduced pricing nor common availability.