MYIR's Tiny MYC-LR3568 Packs a Rockchip RK3568 for Your Footprint-Constrained Edge AI Needs
Available with Rockchip RK3568J or cheaper RK3568B2, MYIR's latest system-on-module can also be purchased as a full single-board computer.
Shenzhen-based MYIR (Make Your Idea Real) has unveiled an ultra-compact system-on-module built around the Rockchip RK3568 system-on-chip — delivering four Arm Cortex-A55 cores, a Mali-G52 graphics processor, and a neural coprocessor delivering up to 1 tera-operations per second (TOPS) for on-device machine learning and artificial intelligence workloads.
"The MYC-LR3568 is compatible with Linux and Debian operating systems," the company says of its latest hardware launch, "and caters to a diverse array of applications, such as IoT gateways, NVR storage, industrial control, HMI [Human-Machine Interface], cloud terminals, central vehicle controllers, and facial recognition systems."
Designed for surface-mount installation, the Land Grid Array (FLGA)-packaged system-on-module uses Rockchip's RK3568 system-on-chip, giving it four 64-bit Arm Cortex-A55 cores running at up to 2GHz, an Arm Mali-G52 2EE graphics processor, and a neural processing unit (NPU) delivering 1 TOPS of compute at minimum precision. To this, MYIR has added 2GB of LPDDR4 memory and 16GB of eMMC storage — with those using the company's customization facilities able to choose 1GB, 4GB, or 8GB variants with 8GB or 32GB of eMMC storage as well.
The module provides a range of connectivity options include HDMI and DisplayPort for 4k60 panels, with 4k60 H.265/H.264/VP9 decoding and 1080p60 H.265/H.264 encoding in hardware, dual gigabit Ethernet, USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 ports, two CAN interfaces, PCU Express Gen. 3, SATA 3.0, and a variety of general-purpose input/output (GPIO) pins including UART, I2C, and I2S buses, pulse-width modulation (PWM), and analog to digital converter (ADC) pins.
The exact features, of course, will depend on the board into which the module is installed — and as a quick-start MYIR offers its own development board built around the MYC-LR3568, which breaks out mini-DisplayPort, HDMI, two USB 3.0, dual gigabit Ethernet, MIPI Camera Serial Interface (CSI), MIPI Display Serial Interface (DSI), Low-Voltage Differential Signaling (LVDS), microSD and M.2 storage, and GPIO pins while adding Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity of its own.
The MYC-LR3568 is available to now order from the company store priced at $65, or $43 with the cost-reduced plastic-packaged Rockchip RK3568B2; the development board is priced at $139, or $99 with the RK3568B2.