Enhancing edge AI with energy-efficient wireless connectivity

Ambiq Micro, Inc. has announced the expansion of the Apollo5 Family with the Apollo510B wireless SoC. Integrating a dedicated 48MHz network processor and Bluetooth Low Energy 5.4 radio, the device will enable robust wireless connectivity for power-constrained edge AI applications.

Featured highlights include:

• Arm Cortex-M55 with Helium and turboSPOT, delivering up to 30x better power efficiency in AI applications and 16x faster performance over Cortex-M4 devices
• 48MHz network coprocessor and BLE 5.4 radio
• Enhanced memory architecture with 64KB I-cache and 64KB D-cache, 3.75MB of system RAM, and 4MB of embedded non-volatile memory
• Advanced GPU with 2D/2.5D with vector graphics acceleration
• Comprehensive peripheral support, including ADC, SPI, I2C, UART, and high-speed USB 2.0
• High-fidelity audio support via ultra-low power ADC and stereo digital microphone PDM interfaces

The device's rich set of peripherals makes it excellent for always-on, intelligent, and connected devices, especially in body-worn and ambient AI applications. Its advanced memory architecture allows fast execution and real-time data processing, while secureSPOT 3.0 and Arm TrustZone provide secure boot, firmware updates, and protection of interoperability and data exchange across diverse edge devices, particularly for wearables, smart glasses, remote patient monitoring, asset tracking, and industrial automation.

With the company's graphiqSPOT graphics engine, Apollo510B delivers crisp, vibrant, and responsive visuals for an immersive user interface while maintaining power efficiency. With the Arm Cortex-M55 running at up to 250MHz and featuring a Helium AI accelerator, together with hardware-accelerated vector graphics, anti-aliasing, dithering, full alpha blending, and MiP (Memory-in-Pixel) display technologies, developers can gain the flexibility and performance needed to bring real-time, always-on intelligent devices to market.

"We are excited to expand our latest generation microcontroller with the Apollo510B," said Scott Hanson, CTO at Ambiq. "The integration of a low-power Bluetooth radio further extends the possibilities we can provide manufacturers to create the most advanced connected devices powered by edge AI."