Allwinner A64 Datasheet
Mobile Application Processor
Version 1.1
Jun. 26, 2015
Copyright © 2015 Allwinner Technology.Co.,Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
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Revision History
Version
Date
Description
V1.0
V1.1
Mar.30,2015
Jun.26,2015
Initial Release Version.
Revise the feature of display output.
Add SMHC1/SMHC2 AC electrical characteristics.
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Declaration
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Table of Contents
Revision History............................................................................................................................................................ 2
Declaration ................................................................................................................................................................... 3
Table of Contents ......................................................................................................................................................... 4
1. Overview .................................................................................................................................................................. 6
2. Feature ..................................................................................................................................................................... 7
2.1. CPU Architecture ........................................................................................................................................... 7
2.2. GPU Architecture .......................................................................................................................................... 7
2.3. Memory Subsystem....................................................................................................................................... 7
2.4. System Peripheral .......................................................................................................................................... 8
2.5. Display Subsystem ......................................................................................................................................... 9
2.6. Video Engine ...............................................................................................................................................10
2.7. Image In .......................................................................................................................................................10
2.8. Audio Subsystem .........................................................................................................................................10
2.9. External Peripherals ....................................................................................................................................11
2.10. Package .....................................................................................................................................................13
3. Block Diagram ........................................................................................................................................................14
4. Pin Description .......................................................................................................................................................15
4.1. Pin Characteristics .......................................................................................................................................15
4.2. GPIO Multiplexing Functions .......................................................................................................................23
4.3. Detailed Pin/Signal Description ................................................................................................................... 26
5. Electrical Characteristics ........................................................................................................................................33
5.1. Absolute Maximum Ratings ........................................................................................................................33
5.2. Recommended Operating Conditions .........................................................................................................33
5.3. DC Electrical Characteristics ........................................................................................................................34
5.4. Oscillator Electrical Characteristics .............................................................................................................34
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5.5. Electrical Characteristics for Power Supply .................................................................................................35
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5.6. Nand AC Electrical Characteristics ...............................................................................................................36
5.7. SMHC AC Electrical Characteristics .............................................................................................................40
5.8. LCD AC Electrical Characteristics .................................................................................................................46
5.9. CSI AC Electrical Characteristics .................................................................................................................. 51
5.10. EMAC AC Electrical Characteristics ........................................................................................................... 52
5.11. CIR AC Electrical Characteristics ................................................................................................................ 53
5.12. SPI AC Electrical Characteristics ................................................................................................................54
5.13. UART AC Electrical Characteristics ............................................................................................................54
5.14. TWI AC Electrical Characteristics ...............................................................................................................56
5.15. TS AC Electrical Characteristics .................................................................................................................56
5.16. SCR AC Electrical Characteristics ...............................................................................................................56
5.17. Power-up and Power-down Sequence ......................................................................................................58
5.17.1. Power-up Sequence .......................................................................................................................58
5.17.2. Power-down Sequence ..................................................................................................................59
6. Package Thermal Characteristics ............................................................................................................................61
7. Pin Assignment ....................................................................................................................................................... 62
7.1. Pin Map ....................................................................................................................................................... 62
7.2. Package Dimension .....................................................................................................................................63
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Overview
1. Overview
Allwinner’s A64 is a quad-core,64bit SoC targeted for high performance tablets.A64 integrates a higher energy efficiency
ARM Cortex-A53 CPU architecture, and also includes advanced 3D graphics processing unit, high-definition video
decoding/encoding, low power audio codec, excellent display controllers and a broad range of interfaces.
The processor has some very exciting features:
CPU Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 Processor, a power-efficient ARM v8 architecture, it has 64 and 32bit execution
Audio An integrated audio subsystem delivers extremely low power audio playback and exceptional high quality
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states for scalable high performance ,which includes a NEON multimedia processing engine.
• Graphics ARM Mali400MP2 graphics acceleration provides mobile users with superior experience in web
browsing, video playback and gaming effects; OpenGL ES2.0 ,OpenVG1.1 standards are supported.
Video A64 provides almost full motion playback of up to 4K high-definition video, and supports H.265 decoder
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by 4K@30fps , H.264 decoder by 1080p@60fps, MPEG1/2/4 decoder by 1080p@60fps, VP8 decoder by 1080p@60fps,
AVS/AVS+ decoder by 1080p@60fps,VC1 decoder by 1080p@30fps, H.264 encoder by 1080p@60fps with dedicated
hardware.
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sound.
• Display A64 features Allwinner’s SmartColor2.0 TM technology with an integrated display engine. Content can be
displayed on 4-lane MIPI DSI displays up to 1920x1200@60fps, or a RGB panel interface up to 1920x1200@60fps, or
LVDS panel up to 1366x768@60fps, or HDMI v1.4 is also supported up to 4K@30fps.
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External Memory Many types of external memory devices are supported, including LPDDR2, LPDDR3, DDR2,
DDR3 ,DDR3L, NAND Flash(MLC,SLC,TLC,EF),Nor Flash, SD/SDIO/MMC including eMMC up to rev5.0,and also supports
booting from RAW NAND,eMMC,SD/TF Card or Nor Flash.
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Management(DRM), information encryption/decryption, secure boot, secure JTAG and secure efuse.
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Connectivity A64 has a broad range of hardware interfaces such as parallel CMOS sensor interface,
10/100/1000Mbps EMAC,USB OTG v2.0 operating at high speed(480Mbps) with PHY, USB Host with PHY and a variety of
other popular interfaces(SPI,UART,CIR,TS,TWI,RSB,SCR).
Security A64 delivers hardware security features that enable trustzone security system, Digital Rights
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Feature
2. Feature
Support Large Physical Address Extensions(LPAE)
VFPv4 Floating Point Unit
32KB L1 Instruction cache and 32KB L1 Data cache
512KB L2 cache
2.1. CPU Architecture
• Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 Processor
A power-efficient ARM v8 architecture
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64 and 32bit execution states for scalable high performance
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Trustzone technology supported
3~10x better software encryption performance
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Support NEON Advanced SIMD(Single Instruction Multiple Data)instruction for acceleration of media and signal
processing functions
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2.2. GPU Architecture
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2.3. Memory Subsystem
Boot ROM
• On-chip memory
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ARM Mali400MP2 GPU
Support OpenGL ES 2.0 and OpenVG 1.1 standard
Size:112KB(non secure ROM:48KB,secure ROM:64KB)
Support secure and non-secure access boot
Support system boot from the following device:
- Raw NAND
- eMMC
- SD/TF card
- SPI NOR Flash
Support system code download through USB OTG
Compatible with JEDEC standard DDR2 /DDR3 /DDR3L/LPDDR2/LPDDR3 SDRAM
Support clock frequency up to 667MHz(DDR3-1333)
Support 2 chip selects
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SDRAM
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• Up to 3GB address space
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NAND Flash
• Up to 2 chip selects
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8-bit data bus width
• Up to 64-bit ECC per 1024 bytes
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32-bits bus width
16 address signal lines and 3 bank signal lines
Support Memory Dynamic Frequency Scale(MDFS)
Support 1024,2048,4096,8192,16K bytes size per page
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Feature
Comply to eMMC standard specification V5.0, SD physical layer specification V2.0, SDIO card specification V3.0
1-bit or 4-bit data bus transfer mode for SD cards
1-bit or 4-bit data bus transfer mode for SDIO interface
1-bit ,4-bit or 8-bit data bus transfer mode for MMC cards
Embedded special DMA to do data transfer
Support hardware CRC generation and error detection
Support SLC/MLC/TLC flash and EF-NAND memory
Support SDR,ONFI DDR and Toggle DDR NAND
Embedded DMA to do data transfer
Support data transfer together with normal DMA
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SD/MMC
• Up to three SD/MMC controllers
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2.4. System Peripheral
Timer
Two on-chip timers with interrupt-based operation
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• One watchdog to resume the controller operation
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High Speed Timer
• One high speed timer with 56bit counter
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RTC
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• One 32768Hz fanout
GIC
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Interrupts(SPIs)
DMA
• Up to 8-channel DMA
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Two AVS Counter to synchronize video and audio in the player
24MHz or 32KHz clock input
Clock source is synchronized with AHB1 clock, much more accurate than other timers
Calendar :Counters second,minutes,hours,day,week,month and year with leap year generator
Alarm: general alarm and weekly alarm
Support 16 Software Generated Interrupts(SGIs), 16 Private Peripheral Interrupts(PPIs) and 125 Shared Peripheral
Interrupt generated for each DMA channel
Flexible data width of 8/16/32/64-bits
Support linear and IO address modes
Support data transfer types with memory-to-memory, memory-to-peripheral, peripheral-to-memory
13 PLLs
CCU
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• One on-chip RC oscillator
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KEYADC
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ADC with 6-bit resolution for key
Support hold key and continuous key
Support a external 24MHz oscillator and a external32.768KHz oscillator
Support clock configuration and clock generated for corresponding modules
Support software-controlled clock gating and software-controlled reset for corresponding modules
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