RK3399

Rockchip RK3399 SoC integrates dual-core Cortex-A72 and quad-core Cortex-A53 with separate NEON coprocessor, and with ARM Mali-T864 GPU.

Overview

RK3399 is a low power, high performance processor for computing, personal mobile internet devices and other smart device applications. Based on Big.Little architecture, it integrates dual-core Cortex-A72 and quad-core Cortex-A53 with separate NEON coprocessor.
Many embedded powerful hardware engines provide optimized performance for high-end application. RK3399 supports multi-format video decoders including H.264/H.265/VP9 up to4Kx2K@60fps, especially, H.264/H.265 decoders support 10bits coding, and also supports H.264/MVC/VP8 encoders by 1080p@30fps, high-quality JPEG encoder/decoder, and special image preprocessor and postprocessor.
Embedded 3D GPU makes RK3399 completely compatible with OpenGL ES1.1/2.0/3.0/3.1, OpenCL and DirectX 11.1. Special 2D hardware engine with MMU will maximize display performance and provide very smooth operation.
RK3399 has high-performance dual channel external memory interface (DDR3/DDR3L/LPDDR3/LPDDR4) capable of sustaining demanding memory bandwidths, also provides a complete set of peripheral interface to support very flexible applications.

 

SoC Features

CPU: Big.Little architecture: Dual Cortex-A72 + Quad Cortex-A53, 64-bit CPU Frequency is over 1.8GHz (Big cluster) L1 cache 48KB Icache and 32KB Dcache for each A72 32KB Icache and 32KB Dcache for each A53 L2 cache 1024KB for big cluster 512KB for little cluster Internal SRAM 192KB total 4KB used by bootrom when bootup GPU:  Mali-T864 GPU, OpenGL ES1.1/2.0/3.0/3.1, OpenCL, DX11 Supports AFBC (ARM Frame Buffer Compression) Display: Dual VOP: one supports 4096x2160 with AFBC supported；The other supports 2560x1600 Dual channel MIPI-DSI (4 lanes per channel) eDP 1.3 (4 lanes with 10.8Gbps) to support display, with PSR HDMI 2.0 for 4K 60Hz with HDCP 1.4/2.2 DisplayPort 1.2 (4 lanes, up to 4K 60Hz) Supports Rec.2020 and conversion to Rec.709 Camera:  Dual mipi CSI，dual ISP,Maximum input resolution of 13M pixels Memory: Dual channels 64-bit DRAM controller Support DDR3/DDR3L, LPDDR3, LPDDR4 Connectivity: PCIe 2.1 (4 full-duplex lanes with 20Gbps) Embedded low power MCU for other application 8 channels I2S supports 8 channels RX or 8 channels TX

 

 

Documentation

1. Rockchip_RK3399_Datasheet_V1.6-20170301.pdf
2. RK3399 Linux Debian System Development Guide.pdf
3. RK3399_Linux_Buildroot_System_Development_Guide.pdf
4. RK3399_Multimedia_Codec_Benchmark_v1.0.pdf
5. RK3399 Design Guide_V1.0_20170420.pdf

Software

Borad configuration

board	kernel	uboot	dts
rk3399-excavator	rockchip_linux_defconfig	rk3399_linux_defconfig	rk3399-sapphire-excavator-linux.dts
Firefly-RK3399	rockchip_linux_defconfig	rk3399_linux_defconfig	rk3399-firefly-linux.dts

 

Chip configuration

chip	Kernel eMMC index	Kernel SD index	Uboot eMMC index	Uboot SD index	Baud speed
RK3399	1	0	0	1	1500000

How to get the sources

The rockchip linux SDK source tree is located in multi Git repository hosted by Github. The SDK uses repo to sync down source code.

RK3399 optimized Debian & Buildroot

repo init --repo-url=https://github.com/rockchip-linux/repo -u https://github.com/rockchip-linux/manifests -m rk3399.xml
repo sync

How to build the sources

Build Environment

You need a 64-bit Ubuntu. Note: old versions Ubuntu maybe have compatibility issues.
Use below commands to install Ubuntu packages:

$ sudo apt-get install git gnupg flex bison gperf build-essential \
zip tar curl libc6-dev libncurses5-dev:i386 x11proto-core-dev \
libx11-dev:i386 libreadline6-dev:i386 libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 \
libgl1-mesa-dev g++-multilib mingw32 cmake tofrodos \
python-markdown libxml2-utils xsltproc zlib1g-dev:i386 lzop
$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/mesa/libGL.so.1 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gn
u/libGL.so

Install ARM cross-compile tool chain and compile kernel relative software package: 

$ sudo apt-get install gcc-arm-linux-gnueabihf gcc-aarch64-linux-gnu device-tree-compiler lzop libncurses5-dev libssl1.0.0 libssl-dev

Building kernel & resource

For RK3399 Excavator-sapphire board：

cd kernel && make ARCH=arm64 rockchip_linux_defconfig && make ARCH=arm64 rk3399-sapphire-excavator-linux.img -j12 && cd ..

For Firefly-RK3399 board：

cd kernel && make ARCH=arm64 rockchip_linux_defconfig && make ARCH=arm64 rk3399-firefly-linux.img -j12 && cd ..

Building uboot

For RK3399 optimized SDK (rkproduct uboot)

cd u-boot && make rk3399_linux_defconfig && make ARCHV=aarch64 -j12 && cd ..

Building rootfs

Debian

You could refer to RK3399 Linux Debian System Development Guide from Rockchip to build rootfs yourselves.

Buildroot

cd buildroot && make rockchip_rk3399_defconfig && cd .. && ./build_all.sh -j12 && ./mkfirmware.sh 

In order to get more details,you could refer to RK3399 Linux Buildroot System Development Guide.

Devices

Rockchip: Excavator_sapphire_board

Firefly: Firefly-RK3399

Theobroma Systems: RK3399-Q7

If you need the rk3399-excavator board, please communicate through the following contact information:

Telephone: 4007700590        Email: service@rock-chips.com

If you need the Firefly-RK3399 board,you can browse the following url for more details:

http://www.t-firefly.com/zh/firenow/Firefly-rk3399/

See also

RK3288

RK3328

 

References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Cortex-A72

http://www.rock-chips.com/a/en/products/RK33_Series/2016/0419/758.html

https://www.arm.com/zh/products/multimedia/mali-gpu/high-performance/mali-t860-t880.php