Platforms

Supported Platforms

Platform and board specific support is continually added to the SOF project as documented below.

Table 1 Supported Platforms

Platform

Architecture

Cores/Clocks

Memory

Audio Interfaces

Host Testbench

PC command line

N/A

N/A

N/A Files are used to simulate audio interfaces

Qemu

All supported SOF HW platforms

N/A

N/A

WiP Files will be used to simulate audio interfaces

Intel Baytrail / Merrifield

Xtensa HiFi2 EP

1 @ 50 - 400MHz

96KB IRAM / 192KB DRAM

3 x SSP (I2S, PCM)

Intel Cherrytrail / Braswell

Xtensa HiFi2 EP

1 @ 50 - 400MHz

96KB IRAM / 192KB DRAM

6 x SSP (I2S, PCM)

Intel Broadwell

Xtensa HiFi2 EP

1 @ 50 - 400MHz

320KB IRAM / 640KB DRAM

2 x SSP (I2S, PCM)

Intel Apollolake / Geminilake

Xtensa HiFi3

2 @ 100 - 400MHz

128KB LP SRAM / 512KB HP SRAM

6 x SSP (I2S, PCM), HDA, DMIC

Intel Cannonlake / Whiskeylake / Cometlake

Xtensa HiFi3

4 @ 120 - 400MHz

64KB LP / 3008KB HP SRAM

3 x SSP (I2S, PCM), HDA, DMIC, Soundwire

Intel Suecreek

Xtensa HiFi3

2 @ 120 - 400MHz

64KB LP SRAM / 4096KB HP SRAM

6 x SSP (I2S, PCM), DMIC

Intel Icelake

Xtensa HiFi3

4 @ 120 - 400MHz

64KB LP SRAM / 3008KB HP SRAM

6 x SSP (I2S, PCM), HDA, DMIC, Soundwire

Intel Jasperlake

Xtensa HiFi3

2 @ 120 - 400MHz

64KB LP SRAM / 1024KB HP SRAM

3 x SSP (I2S, PCM), HDA, DMIC, Soundwire

Intel Tigerlake

Xtensa HiFi3

4 @ 120 - 400MHz

64KB LP SRAM / 2944KB HP SRAM

6 x SSP (I2S, PCM), HDA, DMIC, Soundwire

NXP i.MX8/i.MX8X

Xtensa HiFi4

1 @ 666MHz

64 KB TCM / 448 KB OCRAM / 8MB SDRAM

1 x ESAI, 1 x SAI

NXP i.MX8M

Xtensa HiFi4

1 @ 800MHz

64 KB TCM / 256 KB OCRAM / 8MB SDRAM

1 x SAI, MICFIL

When support for a new platform is being added, certain interfaces required by SOF infrastructure must be implemented. Refer to Platform API documentation for details.

Minimum Platform Requirements

Footprint

DSP platforms can vary from vendor to vendor but in general SOF can run on small platforms like Intel Baytrail DSP with 96kb of instruction RAM and 168kb of data RAM. The SOF footprint can be shrunk to approximately 50kb of TEXT and DATA by fine-tuning runtime features via Kconfig.

DSP Clock Speed

Required DSP clock speed depends on the DSP processing load, so it can vary greatly depending on pipeline topology and the algorithm design that is running. SOF can run several volume passthrough pipelines on the Intel Baytrail DSP at 50MHz using unoptimized C code (SIMD disabled and compiled with GCC).

Toolchain

It’s recommended to use the best optimizing compiler available for your DSP ISA; however, GCC can also be used provided it has your DSP architecture support. GCC will produce functional code, but it may not necessarily be the fastest code for your DSP architecture.