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CPUEmbeddedReleased 2024

Rockchip RK2118M

2C/2T · 0.4 GHz

Smart-audio processor in Rockchip's RK2 (RK Nano) series and a sibling of the RK2118G. It combines two STAR microcontroller cores at up to 400 MHz, three HiFi4 DSPs, a small NPU with 32 FP16 MAC units and 64 MB of DDR2 memory in the package. Eight SAI ports, eight PDM inputs and S/PDIF in and out serve multi-channel audio designs, alongside USB 2.0 OTG, CAN 2.0B and RMII Ethernet.

General

Manufacturer
Rockchip
Model
Rockchip RK2118M
Segment
Embedded
Generation
RK2 Series (RK Nano)
Codename
—
Architecture
ARMv7
Microarchitecture
2× STAR core (Armv8-M) @400 MHz + 3× HiFi4 DSP
Release date
2024

Cores & clocks

Cores / threads
2 cores / 2 threads
Base clock
—
Boost clock
0.40 GHz
TDP (design W)
—
Unlocked
✕ No
L2 cache
—
L3 cache
—
Technology (nm)
—

Platform

Socket
—
2-CPU (multi-socket)
✕ No
Integrated GPU
None
Memory type
DDR2 (64 MB in package)
Memory size
—
ECC memory
—
PCIe
—

Instructions & AI

Instruction extensions
—
NPU
NPU (32× FP16 MAC)

OS support

Notes
The RK2118M is a microcontroller-class audio processor that runs real-time firmware. Windows, macOS, ChromeOS and Linux distributions are not supported.
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