Spreadtrum is a Chinese SoC vendor known for its low cost smartphone SoCs, but they’ve recently announced a new SoC with four ARM Cortex A7 cores and a Mali-400MP(2/4) GPU together with WCDMA support for entry-level 3G tablets.
Spreadtrum SC5735 main features are listed below:
- Processor – ARM Cortex A7 MP4 processor, up to 1.2GHz with 32 KB L1 I-cache, 32 KB D-cache, L2 512KB cache and 32 KB dedicated on-chip SRAM. Boots from NAND, USB, UART, or eMMC
- Multimedia Features
- GPU – Mali 400 MP4 or MP2, 40MTri/s,700Mpix/s, OpenGL ES 1.1/2.0
- Video Decoder – MPEG4/H.263 1080P@30fps; H.264 1080P@30fps ; VP8 1080P@30fps
- Video Encoder – H.263/H.264/MPEG4 1080P@30fps
- Video Streaming – MPEG4/H.263/H.264 1080P@30fps
- 3G-324M Video Telephony
- Support MP3/AAC/AAC+/MIDI/AMR-NB/WAV format
- Audio codec included
- 5MP primary camera and up to 2Mp secondary camera
- External Memory Interfaces
- NAND flash
- eMMC, up to eMMC 4.5
- Up to 2GB DDR3, LP DDR1, LP DDR2, (16bit and 32bit devices)
- Peripheral and Connectivity Interfaces
- Supports tri-SIM cards, both 1.8V and 3.0V devices
- 4x I2C, 3x SDIO 2.0, 5x UARTs, 3x SPIs, supports both master and slave, supports 3-wire SPI, 4-wire SPI and synchronous SPI
- USB 2.0 High speed OTG
- 2x IIS and PCM for audio codec connection
- 8-column x 8-row keypad with internal pull-up resistors
- 4x PWM outputs
- More than 100 GPIO pins
- 18 auxiliary inputs to a 12-bit analog to digital converter (auxiliary ADC) for measurement purposes, and 4 inputs for user applications.
- Modem Features
- GSM/GPRS/EDGE Release 1999, GSM850, GSM900, DCS1800, and PCS1900 recommendations
- EGPRS class12, type B (MCS1-9 in downlink and MCS1-9 in uplink)
- Cryptographic Algorithms: A5/1 A5/2 A5/3, GEA1, GEA2, GEA3
- Compatible with Release 99 WCDMA up to UE class 384kbps both uplink and down link
- Supports W band 1-6, 8,9,10 and Release 7 HSDPA/HSUPA
- Voice and Audio Codec
- Stereo audio output
- 3 Mic input, or 3 digital Mic input
- Integrated microphone bias
- Integrated Class D amplifier
- Quad vocoders for adaptive multi-rate (AMR), enhanced full rate (EFR), half rate (HR), and full rate (FR)
- LCD Display
- Integrated display controller (Dispc), support MCU IF, RGB IF
- Integrated MIPI DSI, 4 data lanes
- Typical image sizes – QCIF, QVGA, WQVGA, CIF, VGA, HVGA, WVGA, FWVGA, qHD, WxGA (1280×768). The company also claims they support 1080p displays.
- Camera
- Integrated MIPI CSI, 4 data lanes
- 5MP primary camera and up to 2MP secondary camera
- Connectivity Features – Integrated WiFi/Bluetooth/FM/GPS
PadHZ reports SC5735 supports Android 4.4 KitKat, dual-band WCDMA/HSPA+ as well as quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE, and that SC5735 is sampling now with volume production starting next month. The first tablets powered by Spreadtrum SC5735 are expected in H1 2014.
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Judging by the Spreadtrum-powered smartphone prices, this should mean some *really cheap* quad core tablets. Not sure how good their designs, support etc are though…
And the proverbial question, but does it support XBMC?
@Harley
But can it run Crysis ? 😀
@Marius Hehe, yes that is what I was parafrasing here 😉
Everyone on the PC side want to know if a new GPU can run Crysis at high resolution with everything enabled.
However for SoC and media players we instead want to know if it runs XBMC with hardware decoding