The award-winning Synaptics Astra platform with the SL-Series of embedded AI-native Internet of Things (IoT) processors and the Astra MachinaTM Foundation Series development kit provides the structure, scalability, and flexibility to meet the demands of OEMs and ODMs looking to incorporate AI in virtually any product from smart conferencing systems to wearable devices to intuitive automotive display panels, and beyond.

The Astra Platform has been architected to address the needs of customers building a new generation of smart IoT devices. Benefits include:

• Compute Solutions – allows product differentiation with power-efficient multi-modal AI-enabled MPUs and high-performance AI and connectivity MCUs.

• Adaptive Framework – expedites the move from 'making AI work' to 'working with AI' with open, cross-platform, tooling, modeling & optimization infrastructure.

• Unified Software Experience – leverages an open, consistent cross platform experience, supporting Linux, Android and the leading RTOS offerings.

• Partner Solution Ecosystem – facilitates the development of market ready systems & solution stacks with industry-leading ODMs, ISVs, service providers and system integrators.

• Wireless Connectivity – allows for the pairing of best-in-class, industry proven options spanning Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, BLE, 802.15.4, & GPS/GNSS.

The Astra Platform’s SL-Series of processors allows designers to bring AI directly to their products independent of the data center, solving for data privacy and latency. This family of embedded processors provides industry-leading compute capability at power-consumption levels that enable a wide range of consumer, enterprise, and industrial edge IoT applications.

The SL-Series multi-core Linux or Android systems on chip (SoCs) are based on Arm^®Cortex^®A-series CPUs and features hardware accelerators for edge inferencing and multimedia processing on audio, video, vision, image, voice, and speech. Each of the three devices in the SL-Series offers unique features and benefits, catering to different multi-modal application requirements and feature ‘out-of-the-box’ AI, including:

• The SL1680 processor is based on a quad-core Arm Cortex-A73 64-bit CPU, a 7.9 TOPS NPU, a high-efficiency, feature-rich GPU, and a multimedia accelerator pipeline. It is ideal for home and industrial control, smart appliances, home security gateways, digital signage, displays, point-of-sale systems, and scanners.
• The SL1640 processor is optimized for cost and power and is based on a quad-core Arm Cortex-A55 processor, a 1.6+ TOPS NPU, and a GE9920 GPU. It is ideal for smart home appliances, enterprise conferencing, smart speakers, displays and signage, consumer, and industrial control panels.
• The SL1620 processor is also based on a quad-core Arm Cortex-A55 CPU subsystem, a feature-rich GPU for advanced graphics and AI acceleration, superior audio algorithms, and dual displays. Applications include enterprise multimedia conferencing, smart appliances, home security gateways, digital signage, displays, point-of-sale systems, and smart speakers.


The Astra Machina Foundation Series development kit supports the Astra Platform’s SL-Series of processors. The kit helps AI beginners and experts quickly unlock the processors’ superior AI capabilities, powerful processing and graphics performance, and matching wireless connectivity, including Synaptics’ Wi-Fi^® and Bluetooth^® combo SoCs.