VIA ARTiGO A950 Quick Start Guide
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1. Introduction
Accelerate and optimize your M2M/Edge-AIoT product development with the compact and durable VIA
ARTiGO A950 fanless system. Equipped with the low-power octa-core MediaTek Genio 500 SoC with rich I/O
and connectivity features, the small footprint VIA ARTiGO A950 system provides a flexible and reliable high-
performance solution for many commercial, consumer, and industrial use cases, such as facial recognition,
object identification, motion tracking, OCR, and biometric measurement.
This user guide introduces the VIA ARTiGO A950 system and provides instructions for a quick hardware setup.
1.1 Product Specifications
Processor
• MediaTek Genio 500 Octa-Core SoC
− Four Cortex-A73 @ 2.0GHz
− Four Cortex-A53 @ 2.0GHz
System Memory
• 4GB LPDDR4 DRAM
Storage
• 16GB eMMC Flash Memory
Graphics
• ARM Mali-G72 high-performance GPU
• 3D graphics accelerator capable of processing 2400M pixel/sec @ 800MHz
• Graphics engine supporting OpenGL® ES 3.0, OpenCL ES 1.1, and Vulkan 1.0 hardware acceleration
• Supports H.265 and H.264 video decoding up to 1080p@30fps
• Supports Cadence Tensilica Vision P6 x2 DSP
Wireless Connectivity
• MediaTek MT7668
• Dual-band 802.11AC Wi-Fi with MU-MIMO
• Bluetooth 5.0
Audio
• MediaTek MT6358
HDMI
• ITE IT66121FN Digital Parallel Interface to HDMI 1.3a Transmitter
USB
• TI TS3USB221 High-Speed USB 2.0
• Microchip LAN9514 USB 2.0 to USB hub and 10/100 Ethernet controller
Ethernet
• ASIX AX88772 USB 2.0 to Fast Ethernet Controller
Onboard Expansion I/O
• MiniPCIe slot
• SIM card slot