RK1808 Datasheet                                                                                                                              Rev 1.2 
 
 
 
 
 
Rockchip 
RK1808 
Datasheet 
Revision 1.2 
May. 2019 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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RK1808 Datasheet                                                                                                                              Rev 1.2 
Date 
Revision 
Revision History 
Description 
2019-5-27 
1.2 
Update 
2019-3-1 
1.1 
Update DDR3 capacity from 2GB to 4GB 
Update package thickness 
2018-11-8 
1.0 
Initial released 
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Table of Content 
Table of Content ...................................................................................................... 3 
Figure Index ........................................................................................................... 4 
Table Index ............................................................................................................. 5 
NOTICE .................................................................................................................. 6 
Chapter 1 Introduction ..................................................................................... 7 
1.1 Overview ............................................................................................... 7 
1.2 Features ................................................................................................ 7 
1.3 Block Diagram ...................................................................................... 15 
Chapter 2 Package Information......................................................................... 16 
2.1 Order Information ................................................................................. 16 
2.2 Top Marking ......................................................................................... 16 
2.3 FCCSP 420L Dimension .......................................................................... 16 
2.4 Ball Map .............................................................................................. 18 
2.5 Pin Number List .................................................................................... 19 
2.6 Power/Ground IO Description .................................................................. 23 
2.7 Function IO Description .......................................................................... 25 
2.8 IO Pin Name Description ........................................................................ 32 
Chapter 3 Electrical Specification ...................................................................... 37 
3.1 Absolute Ratings ................................................................................... 37 
3.2 Recommended Operating Condition ......................................................... 37 
3.3 DC Characteristics ................................................................................. 38 
3.4 Electrical Characteristics for General IO .................................................... 38 
3.5 Electrical Characteristics for PLL .............................................................. 39 
3.6 Electrical Characteristics for USB 2.0 Interface .......................................... 39 
3.7 Electrical Characteristics for DDR IO......................................................... 40 
3.8 Electrical Characteristics for TSADC.......................................................... 40 
3.9 Electrical Characteristics for SARADC ....................................................... 40 
3.10 Electrical Characteristics for MIPI DPHY TX .............................................. 41 
3.11 Electrical Characteristics for MIPI DPHY RX .............................................. 41 
3.12 Electrical Characteristics for PCIe ........................................................... 42 
Chapter 4 Thermal Management ....................................................................... 45 
4.1 Overview ............................................................................................. 45 
4.2 Package Thermal Characteristics ............................................................. 45 
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Figure Index 
Fig.1-1 Block Diagram .............................................................................................. 15 
Fig.2-1 Package definition .................................................................................... 16 
Fig.2-2 Package Top And Side View ....................................................................... 16 
Fig.2-3 Package Bottom View ............................................................................... 17 
Fig.2-4 Ball Map ................................................................................................. 18 
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Table Index 
Table 2-1 Pin Number Order Information .................................................................. 19 
Table 2-2 Power/Ground IO information ................................................................... 23 
Table 2-3 Function IO description ............................................................................ 25 
Table 2-4 IO function description list ....................................................................... 32 
Table 3-1 Absolute ratings...................................................................................... 37 
Table 3-2 Recommended operating condition ............................................................ 37 
Table 3-3 DC Characteristics ................................................................................... 38 
Table 3-4 Electrical Characteristics for Digital General IO ............................................ 38 
Table 3-5 Electrical Characteristics for PLL ................................................................ 39 
Table 3-6 Electrical Characteristics for USB 2.0 Interface ............................................ 39 
Table 3-7 Electrical Characteristics for DDR IO .......................................................... 40 
Table 3-8 Electrical Characteristics for TSADC ........................................................... 40 
Table 3-9 Electrical Characteristics for SARADC ......................................................... 40 
Table 3-10 Electrical Characteristics for MIPI DPHY TX ................................................ 41 
Table 3-11 Electrical Characteristics for MIPI DPHY RX ............................................... 42 
Table 3-12 Electrical Characteristics for PCIe Transmitter ............................................ 42 
Table 3-13 Electrical Characteristics for PCIe Receiver ................................................ 43 
Table 3-14 External Reference Clock Specification for PCIe ......................................... 43 
Table 4-1 Thermal Resistance Characteristics ............................................................ 45 
 
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NOTICE 
Copyright © 2019, Fuzhou Rockchip Electronics Co., Ltd. All rights reserved. 
 
 
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Chapter 1 Introduction 
1.1 Overview 
RK1808 is a high-performance, low power processor for neural network inference. 
Especially, it is one of current leading solution for mobile device by providing 
complementary neural network hardware accelerator. 
Equipped with one powerful neural network process unit(NPU), it makes RK1808 easy 
programming and compatible with mainstream platforms in the market, such as caffe, 
tensor flow, and so on. 
1.2 Features 
The features listed below which may or may not be present in actual product, may be 
subject to the third party licensing requirements. Please contact Rockchip for actual product 
feature configurations and licensing requirements. 
 
1.2.1 Microprocessor 
  Dual-core ARM Cortex-A35 CPU 
  ARM Neon Advanced SIMD (single instruction, multiple data) support for accelerated 
media and signal processing computation 
Include VFP v4 hardware to support single and double-precision operations 
 
  128KB unified system L2 cache 
 
  One isolated voltage domain include   
  Separate power domains for CPU core system to support internal power switch   
Integrated 32KB L1 instruction cache, 32KB L1 data cache with 4-way set associative 
  PD_CPU0: 1st Cortex-A35 + Neon + FPU + L1 I/D Cache 
  PD_CPU1: 2nd Cortex-A35 + Neon + FPU + L1 I/D Cache 
  One isolated voltage domain includes Dual Core CPU, L2 cache and other logics to 
support DVFS and can externally turn on/off based on different application scenario. 
 
1.2.2 Neural Process Unit 
  Support max1920 Int8 MAC operations per cycle 
  Support max 64 FP16 MAC operations per cycle 
  Support max192 Int16 MAC operations per cycle 
  512KB internal buffer 
  One isolated voltage domain to support DVFS 
 
1.2.3 On Chip Memory 
 
Internal BootRom 
  Used for storing boot code and support system boot from the following interface: 
  SFC interface 
The Serial Flash Controller (SFC) is used to control the data transfer between 
the SoC system and the serial NOR/NAND flash device. 
  eMMC interface 
  SDMMC interface 
  SYSTEM_SRAM 
  Size: 2MB 
  PMU_SRAM 
  Size: 8KB 
 
1.2.4 External Memory or Storage device 
  Dynamic Memory Interface (DDR3/DDR3L/LPDDR2/LPDDR3/DDR4)① 
  Compatible with JEDEC standards 
  Compatible with DDR3-1600/DDR3L-1600/ LPDDR2-1066 /LPDDR3-1600/DDR4-
2133 
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  Support 32-bit data width, 2 ranks (chip selects), max 4GB addressing space per 
rank, total addressing space is 4GB(max)   
  eMMC interface 
  Compatible with eMMC specification 4.41, 4.51   
  Support data bus width: 1-bit, 4-bit or 8-bit 
  Support up to max 150MB/s data transfer rates 
  SD/MMC interface 
  Compatible with SD3.0, MMC ver4.51 
  Data bus width is 4bits 
  Serial FLASH interface 
  Support x1,x2,x4 data bits mode 
  Support 1 chip select 
 
1.2.5 System Component 
  CRU (clock & reset unit) 
  One oscillator with 24MHz clock input 
  Provide clock gating control for individual components 
  Support global soft-reset control for whole chip, also individual soft-reset for each 
component. 
  PMU(Power Management Unit) 
  Manage on operating on 4 separate voltage domains for the digital logic circuit: 
VD_CORE/VD_LOGIC/VD_NPU/VD_PMU 
  Provide powering up/down function for 7 power domains, which are included in the 
4 voltage domains independently, to save power. 
  PD_CPU0 and PD_CPU1 in VD_CORE 
  PD_VIO, PD_PCIe, PD_VPU and PD_DDR in VD_LOGIC 
  Timer 
  Support 6 64-bit timers for non-secure application 
  Support 2 64-bit timers for secure application 
  Support two operation modes: free-running and user-defined count 
 
  PWM 
  Support 11 on-chip PWMs(PWM0~PWM3,PWM5~PWM11)   
  Embedded 32-bit timer/counter facility 
  Support capture mode 
  Support continuous mode or one-shot mode 
  Optimized for IR receiving application for PWM3, PWM7 and PWM11 
 
  Watchdog 
  One Watchdog for non-secure application 
  One Watchdog for secure application 
  32-bit watchdog counter 
  Counter counts down from a preset value to 0 to indicate the occurrence of a 
timeout   
  WDT can perform two types of operations when timeout occurs: 
  Generate a system reset 
  First generate an interrupt and if this is not cleared by the service routine by 
the time a second timeout occurs then generate a system reset 
  Totally 16 defined-ranges of main timeout period 
 
 
Interrupt Controller 
  Support 256 SPI (Shared Peripheral Interrupts) interrupt sources input from 
different components 
  Support 16 software-triggered interrupts 
  Two interrupt outputs (nFIQ and nIRQ) separately for each Cortex-A35, both are 
low-level sensitive 
 
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