AML7366-M6C/M6L Quick Reference Manual 
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AML7366-M6C 
AML7366-M6L 
Quick Reference Manual 
 
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Contents 
1.  General Description .............................................................................................................................................. 4 
2. 
Features Summary ................................................................................................................................................ 6 
3.  Pin Out Specification .......................................................................................................................................... 10 
3.1 
Pin-Out Diagram (top view) ......................................................................................................................... 10 
3.2 
Pin Assignments ........................................................................................................................................... 11 
3.3 
Pin Multiplexing Tables ................................................................................................................................ 25 
3.4 
Signal Descriptions ....................................................................................................................................... 29 
4.  Operating Conditions .......................................................................................................................................... 36 
4.1  Absolute Maximum Ratings ......................................................................................................................... 36 
4.2 
Recommended Operating Conditions .......................................................................................................... 36 
4.3  DC Characteristics ........................................................................................................................................ 36 
4.4  DDR3 SDRAM Timing Specifications ............................................................................................................ 37 
4.4.1 
Recommended Operating Codditions .................................................................................................. 37 
4.4.2  DC specifications - DDR3 mode ............................................................................................................ 37 
4.4.3 
AC specifications - DDR3 mode ............................................................................................................. 37 
4.5 
Recommended Power on sequence ............................................................................................................ 38 
5.  Mechanical Dimensions ...................................................................................................................................... 39 
 
 
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1.  General Description 
AML7366-M6C/M6L  device  is  designed  as  an  all-in-one  connected  TV  application  SoC  device.  It  integrates  a  powerful  TV 
scalar,  power  CPU,  a  2D/3D  graphics  subsystem,  video  decoding  engine  and  video  input/output  ports  with  all  major 
peripherals to form the ultimate TV scalar SoC. 
 
The application processor is a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 CPU with L1 instruction and data cache and a large 512KB L2 unified 
cache to improve  system performance. In addition, both Cortex-A9 CPUs include the  NEON SIMD co-processor to improve 
software  media  processing  capability.  The  ARM  Cortex-A9  CPU  can  run  up  to  1.5GHz  and  has  a  wide  low  latency  bus 
connecting to the memory sub-system. 
 
The graphics subsystem  consists of two graphic engines and a  flexible video/graphics  output  pipeline. The quad-core ARM 
Mali-400 GPU (dual core GPU for AML7366-M6C) handles all the OpenGL ES 1.1/2.0 and OpenVG graphics programs, while 
the 2D graphics engine handles additional scaling, alpha, rotation and color space conversion operations. The video output 
pipeline can perform advanced image correction and enhancements. Together, the CPU and GPU handle all operating system, 
networking, user-interface and gaming related tasks. 
 
Three additional processors offload the Cortex-A9 CPU by handling all audio and video decoding processing – the MediaCPU 
and two MediaDSPs. The audio optimized MediaCPU is available for audio decoding to off-load computation tasks from the 
ARM Cortex-A9 CPU. The MediaCPU has certified Dolby, DTS and SRS audio codec available. The video codec sub-system can 
decode  all  HD  video  formats  and  encode  in  H.264  baseline  profile.  H.264,  H.264  MVC  (3D),  RealVideo,  MPEG  1/2/4,  VC-
1/WMV,  AVS  and  JPEG/MJPEG  streams  are  processed  by  dedicated  hardware  together  with  the  flexible  dual  MediaDSP 
engines.    In  addition  to  video  decoding,  the  video  codec  engine  is  also  capable  of  decoding  JPEG  pictures  with  no  size 
limitation.    All  decoded  videos  are  further  processed  and  enhanced  by  the  video/graphics  output  pipeline.    The  H.264 
encoder pipeline offloads the computation intensive tasks from the CPU to offer up to 720p baseline encoding.  The video 
source can be from USB, decoded video or received from HDMI/TV frontend ports. 
 
The video/graphics output pipeline includes a 2D/3D video convertor engine, an advanced 3D motion adaptive de-interlacing 
engine,  a  flexible  programmable  scalar,  and  many  picture  enhancement  filters  before  passing  the  enhanced  image  to  the 
video output ports.  2 possible output options are available  – dual-channel LVDS to TV panel, mini-LVDS to low-cost  panel. 
Both can support 1080p60 HD panels and 3D display.   
 
Three HDMI 1.4 receiver ports plus 6 sets of analog video and audio inputs are available. The 3 HDMI ports can receive up to 
1080p video and 3D input. The 6 sets of analog video input ports consists of 3 sets of programmable composite video ports 
(CVBS, S-Video) and 3 sets of HD component video ports (YPbPr, RGB, VGA). 
 
DTV broadcasting streams can be received by the internal worldwide demodulator of ATSC, J83b, ISDB-T, DVB-T and DVB-C 
standards (DVB-C only for AML7366-M6C) or the three transport stream (TS) interfaces. Both serial SPI and parallel SPI are 
supported. The built-in demodulators receive Low-IF or  split I/Q  Near-Zero-IF from external tuner module, performs signal 
processing and passes the TS stream to one of the three transport stream processors  further DTV processing.  The received 
streams  can  be  saved  in  external  storage  devices  for  PVR  applications  or  display  on  screen  directly.  DVB  Common 
Descrambler 1.0 is  supported in addition to DES, Triple DES (TDES/3DES) and AES streaming crypto formats.  An integrated 
ISO7816 controller is included for interfacing to external smart card. If the internal demodulators are not used, the three TS 
interfaces  are  also  available  for  connecting  to  a  CI/CI+  interface  or  simply  other  DTV  demodulators.  The  crypto-processor 
accompanies  the  CPUs  and  media  decoding  engines  to  handle  encrypted  traffic  and  media  streams.  The  cryptographic 
processor provides hardware based random number generator and supports DES, 3DES, AES and DVB-DS standards. 
 
The  AML7366-M6C/M6L  SoC  integrates  many  advanced  peripherals  inside  including  a  10/100  Ethernet  MAC  (additional 
Ethernet PHY for AML7366-M6C), triple USB high-speed ports, a multi-standards card controller, a built-in IR blaster and ONFI 
 
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SLC/MLC/TLC NAND flash controller. The flexible and programmable QoS-based switch fabric and memory controller tie all 
the processing cores and peripherals together and connects to the DDR3-1600 memory bus. 
 
The  AML7366-M6C/M6L  SoC  supports  industrial  standard  Linux  and  Android  operating  system.  Standard  development 
environment utilizing gcc tool chain is supported. Please contact your AMLOGIC Sales for more information. 
 
 
 
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2.  Features Summary 
 
 
 
CPU Sub-system 
32KB instruction cache, 32KB data cache 
Supports ARMv7 ISA with Thumb-2 technology 
  Dual ARM Cortex A9 CPU, up to 1.5GHz frequency, 2.5 DMIPS/MHz.  Total 7500 DMIPS. 
 
  Multi-issue superscalar, out-of-order design 
 
  Unified 512KB L2 cache 
  Memory Management Unit and pre-fetch engine 
  Advanced NEON SIMD media accelerator 
 
TrustZone security 
Supporting Linux and Android operating system 
 
 
3D Graphics Processing Unit 
  Dual ARM Mali-400 3D GPU, 800Mpix/sec and 44Mtri/sec  (AML7366-M6C) 
  Quad ARM Mali-400 3D GPU 1600Mpix/sec and 44Mtri/sec ( AML7366-M6L) 
 
Full scene over-sampled 4X anti-aliasing engine with no additional bandwidth usage 
  GPU-L2 cache for reduction of graphics data bandwidth 
  GPU-Memory Management Unit 
 
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Core and FabricDTV DemodulatorsSystem InterfacePLLsPMUJTAGVideo Output UnitColor mapperImaging EngineInput/Output InterfacesAudio Input UnitAudio interfaceSPDIFVideo Input UnitHDMI x3Audio Output UnitTrustzone Security512KB L2 CacheMediaCPUMCODECVideo DSPVideo DSP2.5D GraphicProcessingCryptoEngineOTPMMUARM Cortex-A9up to 1.5GHz32KBI-Cache32KBD-CacheNEON VFPARM Cortex-A9up to 1.5GHz32KBI-Cache32KBD-CacheNEON VFPMali-400 GPUMMUPower ManagementProcessorMemory InterfaceDDR3-1600 Memory ControllerNAND/eMMC/iNANDFlash ControllerSPI NOR FlashControllerDe-interlacer2D-to-3D ConvertorLVDS &Mini-LVDS +TCONI2S (2 CH)Analog Audio (x5)3D DetectionVideo DecoderCVBS x3YPbPr/VGA x3Multi-DemuxDVB-CAudio interfaceSPDIFI2S (7.1)Analog AudioMali-400 GPULocal Dimming10/100EthernetMAC+PHY (**)USBHostx2SARADCRemoteInputUARTx3CI+ &ISO7816USBOTGx1I2C Masterx2SD CardCntlrI2C Slavex2*   64KB Graphic cache for AML7366-M6CFor AML7366-M6L Only**   Ethernet MAC only for AML7366-M6LISDB-TJ83bATSCDVB-T128KB Cache (*) Mali-400GPU Mali-400GPUDistribute to Shinco!
 
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Independent and concurrent GPU and CPU processing 
 
  OpenGL ES 1.1/2.0 and OpenVG 1.1 software driver 
 
2D Graphics Processor 
 
 
 
 
 
Fast bitblt engine with dual inputs and single output 
Programmable raster (ROP) and alpha (AOP) operations 
Programmable polyphase scaling filter 
Supports multiple video formats 4:2:0, 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 and multiple pixel formats (8/16/24/32 bits graphics layer) 
Fast color space conversion 
  Advanced anti-flickering filter 
 
Accelerated Video/Picture Codec Hardware 
  Dual programmable DSP engines at 300MHz with DSP instructions and direct video codec hardware interfaces 
  H.264 baseline encoding support for up to 720p resolution 
  MPEG-1 MP/HL conforming to ISO-11172 (1080P) 
  MPEG-2 MP/HL conforming to ISO-13818 (1080P) 
  MPEG-4 Part 2 ASP ISO-14496-2 (1080P) 
  WMV/VC-1 SP/MP/AP (1080P, progressive/interlace frame picture) 
  H.264 HP@L4.1 w/ Annex H (1080P, MVC) 
  AVS JiZhun Profile (1080p) 
  RealVideo 8/9/10 Decoding (720p) 
  M-JPEG and JPEG decoding ISO/IEC-10918 – Unlimited pixel resolution (currently test with 16M pixel digital camera 
and 100M pixel Photoshop file) 
Supports JPEG thumbnail, scaling, rotation and transition effects 
 
  Multiple language and multiple format sub-title video support 
 
Supports *.mkv,*.wmv,*.mpg, *.mpeg, *.dat, *.avi, *.mov, *.iso, *.mp4, and *.jpg file formats 
 
2D/3D processor, TV Scalar and Video Post-Processing Controller 
  Motion adaptive 2D/3D conversion processor converts 1080p video to 3D output on-the-fly 
  Motion adaptive 3D noise reduction filter 
  Advanced motion adaptive edge enhancing de-interlacing engine 
 
3:2 pull-down support 
Programmable poly-phase TV scalar for both horizontal and vertical dimension for zoom and windowing 
Programmable color management filter (to enhance blue, green, red, face and other colors) 
Chroma coloring and black extension processing 
 
 
 
  Dynamic Non-Linear Luma filter 
 
  Video mixer:  2 video planes and 2 graphics planes 
Programmable color matrix pipeline 
 
LCD Panel Output 
  Dual channels LVDS output supporting up to 1920x1080 60Hz resolution 
  Dual channels mini-LVDS output supporting up to 1920x1080 60Hz resolution 
 
  Dithering logic for mapping to different LCD panel color depth 
 
Three independent Gamma table for LCD panel tuning 
Integrated programmable timing controller (TCON) 
 
Local Dimming 
  Maximum 8x8 blocks support for local dimming 
 
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Supports main stream LED lighting 
Panel friendly fully-programmable light spreading function 
  Histogram and video range statistics in each block 
 
Flexible Back-Lighting control algorithm (in SW) 
LUT based super-range clipping-free RGB re-mapping 
SPI interface to panel. 
 
 
 
Audio Decoding and Output 
Capable of supporting software codecs like MP3, AAC, WMA, RM, FLAC, Ogg  and more 
  MediaCPU with DSP audio processing 
 
  Built-in 7.1-channel audio DAC with amplifier and I2S output 
 
SPDIF/IEC958 serial digital audio output 
 
Audio/Video Input Interface 
 
 
 
 
3x HDMI 1.4a ports with 1080p and 3D stereoscopic support 
3x composite analog SD video inputs 
3x component analog HD video inputs 
5x stereo audio inputs  
  Dual-channel I2S and SPDIF/IEC958 digital audio input 
 
Worldwide DTV Demodulator  
 
 
 
 
Standard compliant DVB-C demodulators ( AML7366-M6C) 
Standard compliant ATSC, ITU J.83 Annex B, ISDB-T, DVB-T and DVB-C demodulators (AML7366-M6L) 
Supports near-zero IF, low IF and IF interface from tuner module 
Internally transfers the decoded stream to the internal TS demux processor 
 
DTV Broadcasting Interface 
  Demux interface for connecting to external  DVB-S/S2 or DTMB demodulator chip 
 
PWM, I2C and SPI interfaces to tuner and demodulator 
Integrated DVB Common Descrambler 1.0, DES, TDES and AES cryptographic engine 
integrated hardware random number generator 
Integrated ISO 7816 smart card controller 
Three TS interfaces for connecting to CI/CI+ port 
 
 
 
 
 
Integrated Network and I/O Controllers 
 
 
 
IEEE 802.3 10/100 Ethernet MAC and PHY (AML7366-M6C) 
IEEE 802.3 10/100 Ethernet MAC (AML7366-M6L) 
SD/MS card controller for external removable storage 
Triple USB 2.0 high-speed USB ports: Two USB Host port and one USB OTG port 
 
  Multiple UART, IIC and SPI controllers 
 
Programmable remote control input circuitry and IR-blaster output 
 
Switching Fabric and Memory Interfaces 
  Application based traffic optimization using internal QoS-based switching fabrics 
 
Intelligent memory controller with DDR3 memory interface 
32-bits DDR3-1600 SDRAM controller supporting up to 2GB DDR3 memory devices 
 
  Built-in SLC/MLC/TLC NAND FLASH controller with up to BCH30 algorithm 
  Built-in SPI NOR FLASH controller 
 
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