Pine64 StarPro64 is a RISC-V SBC with ESWin EIC7700X AI SoC, 32 GB LPDDR5

Pine64 StarPro64 is a single board computer (SBC) powered by an ESWin EIC7700X quad-core 64-bit RISC-V SoC with a 19.95 TOPS AI accelerator and equipped with up to 32GB LPDDR5 RAM.

It has a similar design to the Star64 SBC powered by a StarFive JH7110 RISC-V SoC, and features HDMI video output, MIPI DSI and CSI display/camera interfaces, two gigabit Ethernet ports, four USB ports, a 40-pin GPIO header, and a PCIe Gen3 x4 slot. The OS can boot from a microSD card or an eMMC flash module.

StarPro64 specifications:

• SoC – ESWIN EIC7700X
  • CPU
    • 4x SiFive Performance P550 RV64GC RISC-V cores @ up to 1.4GHz or 1.8GHz with Cortex-A75-class performance
    • 32KB(I) + 32KB(D) L1 Cache
    • 256KB L2 Cache
    • 4MB shared L3 Cache
    • Cache supports ECC (supports SECDED)
  • NPU – Up to 19.95 TOPS in INT8, 9.975 TOPS in INT16, and 9.975 FTOPS in FP16
  • Vision Engine
    • HAE (2D Blit, Crop, Resize, Normalization)
    • Imagination AXM-8-256 3D GPU with support for OpenGL-ES 3.2, EGL 1.4, OpenCL 1.2/2.1 EP2, Vulkan 1.2, Android NN HAL
  • Vision DSP – DSPs single cluster; supports 512 INT8 SIMD
  • Multimedia Decoder/Encoder
    • HEVC (H.265) and AVC (H.264)
    • H.265 up to 8K @ 50fps or 32 channels of 1080p30 video decoding
    • H.265 up to 8K @ 25fps or 13 channels of 1080p30 video encoding
    • JPEG ISO/IEC 10918-1, ITU-T T.81, up to 32K x 32K
• System Memory – 8GB, 16GB, or 32GB 64-bit LPDDR5
• Storage
  • microSD card connector
  • eMMC flash module socket
  • 128 Mbit (16MB) SPI boot Flash
• Video output
  • HDMI 2.0 port
  • MIPI DSI connector  + TP connector
• Camera input – MIPI CSI connector
• Audio – 3.5mm audio jack
• Networking
  • 2x Gigabit Ethernet RJ45 connectors
  • Dual-band Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.3
• USB
  • 2x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A ports
  • 2x USB 2.0 Type-A ports
• Expansion
  • PCIe Gen 3.0 x4 slot
  • 40-pin GPIO header
• Misc
  • Power button
  • 2-pin fan connector
  • 2-pin RTC battery connector
• Power Supply – 12V DC (3A or 5A) via 5.5/2.1mm power barrel jack or 4-pin header
• Dimensions – 133 x 80 mm
• Weight – 116 grams

PLCT Lab provides software support and maintains RockOS customized Debian distribution for the EIC770X SoC, and hardware platforms like the HiFive Premier P550, the Pine64 StarPro64, and Shenzhen Milk-V’s Megrez mini-ITX board. You can download a pre-built image for the board if you don’t want to build the image from source. Alternatively, NuttX RTOS can boot on the StarPro64, but only the serial console is supported.

When we wrote about the Premier P550 SBC in October 2024, the VPU (video decoder/encoder) and NPU were not supported by the software.  However, things have progressed, and the NPU driver was released a few months ago. The VPU driver status is unclear at this stage. The StarPro64’s documentation website is pretty much empty right now.

The StarPro64 is clearly aimed at developers like the Star64 was, and it won’t be for everyone. It offers a cheaper alternative to the $600+ SiFive Premier P550, and Pine64 will start taking orders for $249.99 for the 32GB RAM version of the board later this month. A heatsink is also required, but not sold with the board.

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