Owners manual

Overview

Chapter 2 Overview

The Allwinner H3 is a highly cost-efficient quad-core OTT Box processor, which is a part of growing home entertainment

products that offers high-performance processing with a high degree of functional integration.

The H3 processor has some very exciting features, for example:

• CPU architecture: Quad-core Cortex

-A7 with separately NEON coprocessor, the most power efficient CPU core

ARM’s ever developed.

• 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 Engine: H3 provides almost full motion playback of up to 1080P high-definition video, and supports H.265

decoder by 4K@30fps , H.264 decoder by 1080p@60fps, MPEG1/2/4 decoder by 1080p@60fps, VP8/AVS jizhun decoder

by 1080p@60fps, VC1decoder by 1080p@30fps, H.264 encoder by 1080p@30fps with dedicated hardware.

• Display Subsystem: Supports DE2.0 for excellent display experience, and two display interfaces for HDMI1.4 and

CVBS display.

• Memory Controller: The processor supports many types of external memory devices, including LPDDR2, LPDDR3,

DDR2, DDR3 ,DDR3L, NAND Flash(MLC,SLC,TLC,EF),Nor Flash, SD/SDIO/MMC including eMMC up to rev4.41.

• Security System: The processor delivers hardware security features that enable trustzone security system, Digital

Rights Management(DRM) , information encryption/decryption, secure boot, secure JTAG and secure efuse.

• Interfaces: The processor has a broad range of hardware interfaces such as parallel CMOS sensor interface,

10/100/1000Mbps EMAC with FE PHY, USB Dual-Role Device 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,SCR).

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