
The AUCTUS A6: the chip enabling inexpensive DMR Radio (2021) by walterbell
The AUCTUS A6 is the chip behind the inexpensive COTRE CO01D DMR radio. There isn’t much information available on the web. Here is what I was able to find.
While looking at the the COTRE
CO01D
radio, it is clear that this radio has a very low part count in
comparison to other simple DMR radios. For example, the
RT53 DMR radio has
separate microcontroller, DSP and RF ICs. I noticed that there is only
a single IC that seems to be powering everything, the mystery Auctus
A6.
The company behind this chip is Auctus
Technology(力同科技股份有限公司) out of Shenzhen.
This company might be familiar to some radio enthusiasts as the
company behind the AT1846S RF transceiver which powers the Baofeng
UV-5r. They are company specializing in RF chips and while their
current web page displays nothing but a landing page, the Internet
Archive
provides some information of their complete lineup of products. They
manufacture devices under both their own mark as well as contracted
devices for others such as RDA.
According to this Chinese news site,
the Auctus A6 is an integrated CPU, RF transceiver, DSP and vocoder.
Their vision is to do what the AT1846S did for analog handheld radios
for DMR radios.
The CPU is a dual core 32-bit RISC processor of unknown design