T507 – Allwinner Quad-Core Cortex-A53 Industrial / Automotive Application Processor

Product Overview

The T507 is a quad-core industrial and automotive-oriented application processor / SoC manufactured by Allwinner Technology. It is designed for automotive intelligent cockpit systems, industrial HMI terminals, smart gateways, multimedia display devices, embedded Linux/Android systems, and control-oriented edge terminals.

The T507 belongs to Allwinner’s T5 series, which integrates a quad-core Arm Cortex-A53 CPU, Arm Mali-G31 MP2 GPU, multimedia processing, display interfaces, memory controller, and rich peripheral interfaces. Allwinner’s T5 series product material describes the platform as integrating a 1.5GHz 4 × Cortex-A53 CPU, G31 MP2 GPU, and support for DDR3 / DDR4 / LPDDR3 / LPDDR4 memory up to 4GB. 

Linux-sunxi identifies the Allwinner T507 as a sun50iw9p1 SoC featuring a quad-core Cortex-A53 Arm CPU and Mali-G31 MP2 GPU.   Public embedded-board references also describe T507/T507-H modules as using a quad-core Cortex-A53 CPU around 1.5GHz, aimed at industrial and automotive embedded applications. 

Part Number Breakdown

Competitive Advantages

✔ Quad-core Arm Cortex-A53 CPU architecture

✔ Up to 1.5GHz CPU frequency class

✔ Integrated Arm Mali-G31 MP2 GPU

✔ Supports DDR3 / DDR4 / LPDDR3 / LPDDR4 memory

✔ Maximum memory capacity up to 4GB class

✔ Rich display and multimedia interfaces in module implementations

✔ Industrial / automotive platform positioning

✔ Suitable for automotive cockpit, industrial HMI, gateways, smart displays, and embedded multimedia terminals

✔ Linux/Android ecosystem support through commercial modules and community documentation

Applications

Automotive Intelligent Cockpit

• In-vehicle displays
• Cockpit control panels
• Multimedia terminals
• Rear-seat entertainment systems
• Vehicle gateway display units

Industrial HMI

• Touchscreen control panels
• Factory automation displays
• Machine operation terminals
• Equipment monitoring dashboards
• Industrial Linux/Android panels

Industrial Gateways

• Protocol gateways
• Ethernet-connected terminals
• Remote monitoring devices
• Smart factory gateways
• Data collection systems

Smart Display and Commercial Terminals

• Smart control screens
• Commercial display terminals
• Self-service kiosks
• Retail display systems
• Interactive terminals

Embedded Multimedia Systems

• Video playback systems
• Audio/video terminals
• Smart appliances with displays
• Networked control panels
• Screen-based IoT devices

Key Features

1. Quad-Core Arm Cortex-A53 CPU

The T507 integrates a quad-core Cortex-A53 CPU architecture, providing a 64-bit Arm processing platform for Linux/Android embedded systems.

Benefits:

• Suitable for automotive and industrial display terminals
• Handles HMI, gateway, multimedia, and control software workloads
• Better processing capability than older Cortex-A7 platforms
• Good balance of performance, power, and cost for embedded products

2. 1.5GHz-Class Processing Performance

Allwinner T5 series material describes the platform as integrating a 1.5GHz 4 × Cortex-A53 CPU. 

Benefits:

• Supports responsive user interfaces
• Suitable for Android-based smart terminals
• Handles industrial gateway and communication workloads
• Provides enough performance for many mid-range embedded systems

3. Arm Mali-G31 MP2 GPU

The T507 integrates an Arm Mali-G31 MP2 GPU, according to Linux-sunxi and embedded-board references. 

Benefits:

• Supports graphical user interfaces
• Suitable for smart displays and cockpit screens
• Enables 2D/3D graphics acceleration
• Useful for Android/Linux display-based applications

4. DDR3 / DDR4 / LPDDR3 / LPDDR4 Memory Support

Allwinner’s T5 series documentation describes support for DDR3, DDR4, LPDDR3, and LPDDR4, with maximum memory capacity up to 4GB. 

Benefits:

• Flexible memory BOM selection
• Supports both cost-sensitive and low-power designs
• Suitable for automotive, industrial, and commercial terminals
• Enables multiple product SKUs using one SoC platform

5. Multimedia and Display-Oriented Design

The T507 is widely used in display and multimedia platforms, including automotive cockpit and industrial HMI boards. Board-level references expose display-related interfaces such as LVDS/RGB, HDMI TX, TV out, and audio interfaces including SPDIF, I²S, and Line-out. 

Benefits:

• Suitable for vehicle display terminals
• Supports smart HMI panels and industrial screens
• Useful for multimedia playback and UI-rich products
• Enables flexible display product designs

6. Industrial and Automotive Application Focus

Forlinx describes T507-based boards as designed around an industrial-grade Allwinner T507 SoC, targeting applications that require reliability and rich peripheral expansion.   MYIR describes the T507-H processor as a 1.5GHz quad-core Cortex-A53 automotive-grade processor in its SoM platform. 

Benefits:

• Suitable for vehicle terminals and cockpit systems
• Useful for long-life industrial HMI products
• Good fit for gateways and control panels
• Supports rugged embedded system designs

7. Rich Peripheral Interface Expansion

T507-based module implementations commonly provide UART, USB, MIPI CSI, LVDS/RGB, HDMI TX, Gigabit Ethernet, SDMMC, SDIO, SPI, TWI/I²C, GPIO, ADC, I²S, SPDIF, and IR interfaces. 

Benefits:

• Enables industrial gateway development
• Supports camera, display, networking, and audio subsystems
• Useful for smart terminals and control devices
• Provides flexibility for custom embedded hardware designs

8. Linux and Android Platform Support

T507 appears in Linux-sunxi documentation and multiple Linux/Android-oriented embedded-module ecosystems. Boardcon lists T507-H module support for Android 10 and Linux 4.9.170 in one SoM implementation. 

Benefits:

• Supports familiar embedded software stacks
• Useful for HMI, smart terminal, and gateway development
• Enables faster application development than bare-metal systems
• Suitable for OEM/ODM products using Android or Linux