Sipeed Maix Amigo Development Board Based on RV64GC (RISC-V)

Seeed Studio has announced the Sipeed Maix Amigo, which is a portable 64-bit RISC-V development kit powered by Kendryte K210 RISC-V AI processor. The release of the Sipeed Maix Amigo rivals the Wio terminal, Wio terminal is a simple and tiny device to build I/O with the physical world, equipped with a 2.4 inch LCD and a compact enclosure earlier released by Seed Studio. Sipeed Maix amigo has similar characteristics to the Wio terminal.

Sipeed Maix Amigo is also a portable Arduino development kit with expansion connectors and headers. It is built around a Kendryte K210 RISC-V AI Processor with 8MB of static RAM (SRAM) and 16MB of flash memory, with a microSD slot for up to 128GB of additional storage. The front of the system is powered by a 3.5 “320×480 capacitive touchscreen display and a GC0328 VGA-resolution proficient camera of 30 frames per second; the rear, therefore, uses the same-resolution OV7740 camera sensor which supports 60 frames per second.

The internal hardware of the Sipeed Maix Amigo shares similarities to Sipeed Maixduino board. The internal hardware board includes a 520mAh lithium battery which charges via a USB Type-C interface. There’s a user-controllable RGB LED, and Maix Amigo provides support for a custom MicroPython port dubbed MaixPy, PlatformIO, and the Arduino IDE. It also supports offline speech recognition, and MobileNetV1/V2, TinyYOLOv2, face recognition, ASR, and deep learning frameworks such as TensorFlow lite, ONNX, Baidu PaddlePaddle model conversion.

It is also equipped with 2 cameras, TF card slot, user buttons, TFT capacitive touch screen, lithium battery, speaker, microphone, 2 USB ports, and an expansion interface. It has a variety of hardware acceleration units such as KPU, FPU, FFT, etc. and the total computing power can be up to 1TOPS, which can conveniently realize machine vision/hearing algorithms of various application scenarios, and can also perform pre-processing work of voice scanning and voice data output. Users can use Maix Amigo to easily build a face recognition access control system. The hardware integrates front and rear 0.3-megapixel cameras and a 3.5-inch capacitive touch screen.

Below are the full specifications of the Sipeed Max Amigo :

• SoC – Kendryte K210 Dual-core 64-bit RISC-V (RV64GC) processor with FPU @ 400 MHz (overclockable to 500MHz), 8MB SRAM, built-in AI accelerators for video and audio
• Storage – 16MB Flash, MicroSD card slot up
• Display – 3.5-inch TFT capacitive touch screen display with 480×320 resolution
• Camera
• VGA front-facing camera up to 30 fps (GC0328 sensor)
• VGA rear camera up to 60 fps (OV7740 sensor)
• Audio – 6+1 microphone array
• USB – 1x USB Type-C port for power and programming
• Expansion
• 3x Grove ports with I2C, GPIO, etc…
• 3x 8-pin SP-MOD headers with GPIOs, 3.3V, and GND signals; compatible with ESP-01 ESP8266 WiFi module, PSRAM modules, etc…
• Sensor – Accelerometer
• Misc – Reset button, 3x function buttons, 3x LEDs
• Battery – 520 mAh Lithium battery
• Power Supply – Via USB-C port
• Dimensions – 104.3 x 63.3 x 16.5mm

For now, there are no many details about the Maix Amigo, and if you need more information the company redirects you to the MaixPy documentation and Sipeed forums.

The product is available for pre-order at seed studio’s store, currently priced at $39, with delivery scheduled to start on August 27th.

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