On December 17, at the first Dishuihu China RISC-V Industry Forum, Yuan Yongsheng, director and deputy general manager of Shenzhen Apote Microelectronics Co., Ltd. (APTCHIP), introduced the company's 64-bit dual-core universal MCU product "APT32F706" based on RISC-V.
Yuan Yongsheng pointed out that APTCHIP has focused on the national production road since its inception, and the R & D team comes from the complete team of the world's leading companies, and the product research and development experience covers mobile APP, automotive electronics, and general MCU. The company spent 5 years to build a complete, batch-verified, full range of IP libraries. Based on its own IP library, the company continues to develop a series of pure domestic MCUs with fully independent property rights.
Up to now, APTCHIP's RISC-V core MCUs have shipped more than 100 million units in the Chinese market. Yuan Yongsheng said that RISC-V has gone through 30 years of technical mileage of traditional architecture in 10 years, which has also brought great opportunities for downstream development. However, in the general market, RISC-V also faces three major problems, including the lack of friendly development toolchain, imperfect software ecology and no rich chip series selection, which is the problem currently encountered by the majority of developers.
In response to these three major problems, APTCHIP and Pingtou brother have worked together to create a complete tool chain and a complete ecology, in addition, in the entire development tool chain, it also supports the visual UI design interface, which greatly promotes the efficiency of research and development, and creates the ecological standard of "1520", that is, 1 day to get started, 5 days to prototype, 20 days to mass production.
In terms of selection, APTCHIP has created a complete series of independent products, with pins covering 20Pin~ 276Pin, and is expected to release more than 25 series and more than 300 models by next year, covering the fields of consumption, industrial control and vehicle regulations, giving developers a good selection platform.
According to Yuan Yongsheng, the APT32F706 brought by APTCHIP this time is based on the C906 core of Pingtou Brother, with built-in 3D graphics accelerators and analog peripherals that can cover applications in various industries.
APT32F706 architecture diagram
In detail, the APT32F706 supports graphics accelerators, has a rich LCD display interface and camera interface, has a large number of communication interfaces, and provides 512Mb/2Gb/4Gb SIP options. Target application markets include smart cockpits, industrial-grade HMI, secure gateways, and smart grids.
Yuan Yongsheng stressed that risc-V currently needs the most important attention to ecological issues, and participating in the early stage is not enough to drive the development of the entire RISC-V market. In the face of this problem, APTCHIP will create more tour activities and developer programs with universities in the future.
"We have been in the non-ARM nuclear field for 9 years, and we believe that in the future we will no longer be alone, and RISC-V will do better and better." Yuan Yongsheng said.
About APTCHIP
Shenzhen Aipute Microelectronics Co., Ltd. is a national high-tech enterprise focusing on the design of peripheral ICs such as high-performance 32-bit microprocessors (MCUs), SoCs and capacitive touch sensors, and was awarded "China Semiconductor National Brand" in 2017. Founded in 2012, the company is jointly established by semiconductor industry integrated circuit design and industry veterans, headquartered in Shenzhen, with branches in Hangzhou, Hong Kong and other places.
ApTCHIP has independently developed a number of patents and proprietary technologies with powerful digital and analog hybrid integrated circuit design capabilities, and launched a series of 32-bit microprocessors and capacitive touch sensors. APT 32BIT MCU with high performance, low power consumption, high cost performance and other characteristics won the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Integrated Circuit Promotion Center and China Semiconductor Association recognized the China Core 2016 Most Potential Product Award and High-tech Product Award; APTCHIP capacitive sensor has the industry's super anti-interference, ultra-low power consumption and other advantages, in 2013 the product passed the international certification, performance indicators reached the advanced level at home and abroad, won the Guangdong Province 2015 high-tech product certificate. Products have been widely used in large and small home appliances, consumer electronics, intelligent hardware, security industrial control, medical electronics, smart home, automotive electronics, Internet of Things and other fields.