Ambiq Apollo4 Plus Display Kit

Ambiq Apollo4 Plus Display Kit contains an Apollo4 Plus EVB baseboard and Apollo4 Plus display shield that includes an AMOLED 454 x 454 display with an MIPI DSI interface. The kit also incorporates a Hex-MSPI interface for fast access to external PSRAM. The Ambiq Apollo4 Plus Display Kit is based on the Apollo4 Plus SoC, offering additional on-chip memory, enhanced graphics, and increased memory performance.

Features

General highlights
- Fully programmable engine with a very long instructions word (VLIW) instruction set
- Command list-based direct memory accesses (DMAs) to minimize CPU overhead
- 4:1, 4:1 with alpha and 6:1 compression
- 2D drawing
  - Pixel/line drawing
  - Filled rectangles
- Triangles (Gouraud shaded)
- Blit support for rotation, mirroring, stretch, source and/or destination color keying and format conversions
- Color formats include 32/16/8-bit with/out alpha, Grayscale, and RGB
- Full alpha blending with programmable blending modes
- Image transformation
  - Anti-aliasing, dithering, and vector graphics
  - MSPI with HexSPI high throughput interface to PSRAM
  - MIPI DSI interface
  - 3D perspective correct projections
  - Texture mapping
- OS support
  - FreeRTOS support
  - No OS (BareMetal)
High-Performance Arm® Cortex-M4 with FPU Processor
- Up to 192MHz frequency operation ultra-low power memory
- 2MB of embedded non-volatile memory
- 2.75MB of low-power RAM
- 64KB 2-way associative/direct-mapped cache
Display
- MIPI DSI 1.2 with 2x data lanes up to 500Mbps
- 4-layers with alpha blending
- Frame buffer decompression
- 454 x 454 screen size
  - Dual TSC6 frame buffers in SSRAM
  - Assets TSC-compressed in PSRAM
  - DSI interface targeting 60fps

Graphics
- 2D/2.5D graphics accelerator
- Rasterizer
- Full alpha blending
- Texture mapping
- Texture and frame buffer compression
- Anti-aliasing
- Dithering
- Vector graphics
Hardware display shield
- 1.4” 454 x 454 pixel MIPI/SPI/QSPI AMOLED display
- Display laminated ambient light sensor – TSL2540
- Display laminated capacitive touch sensor – TMA525C
- 256Mb Hex-SPI double-data-rate (DDR) enabled PSRAM – APS256xxN
- 64Mb Octal-SPI DDR enabled flash memory – IS25WX064
- 4GB x1/x4/x8 e-MMC module – THGBMNG5D1LBAIT
- 3-Axis MEMS accelerometer – ADXL362
Apollo4 Plus AMAP4PEVB evaluation board
- USB Type C connector for power/download/debug
- USB Type C connector for power/data to Apollo4 Plus
- Segger J-Link debugger
- Debugger-in port (SWD or ETM)
- Debugger-out port with connection-indication LED
- 3x user-controlled LEDs
- 2x push buttons for application use plus a reset push button
- Power slide switch with LED power indicator
- 3.5mm audio jack (SJ-435107) for evaluating low-power analog audio interface
Software
- Ambiq
- AmbiqSuite SDK
- Multiple display examples
- NemaGFX API

Applications

Smartwatches/bands
Smart home appliances
Automation/industrial applications

Activity and fitness monitors
Consumer medical devices

Kit Contents

Apollo4 Plus AMAP4PEVB evaluation board
Apollo4 Plus display shield

Ambiq Apollo4 Plus Display Kit

Features

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