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AM3874_15 Datasheet, PDF (1/361 Pages) Texas Instruments – AM387x Sitara™ ARM Processors
AM3874, AM3871
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SPRS695C – SEPTEMBER 2011 – REVISED DECEMBER 2013
AM387x Sitara™
ARM Processors
Check for Samples: AM3874, AM3871
1 High-Performance System-on-Chip (SoC)
1.1 Features
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• High-Performance Sitara ARM® Processors
• ARM Cortex-A8 Core
– ARMv7 Architecture
• In-Order, Dual-Issue, Superscalar
Processor Core
• Neon™ Multimedia Architecture
• Supports Integer and Floating Point
• Jazelle® RCT Execution Environment
• ARM Cortex-A8 Memory Architecture
– 32KB of Instruction and Data Caches
– 512KB of L2 Cache
– 64KB of RAM, 48KB of Boot ROM
• 128KB of On-Chip Memory Controller (OCMC)
RAM
• Imaging Subsystem (ISS)
– Camera Sensor Connection
• Parallel Connection for Raw (up to 16-Bit)
and BT.656 or BT.1120 (8- and 16-Bit)
– Image Sensor Interface (ISIF) for Handling
Image and Video Data From the Camera
Sensor
– Resizer
• Resizing Image and Video From 1/16x to
8x
• Generating Two Different Resizing
Outputs Concurrently
• Media Controller
– Controls the HDVPSS and ISS
• SGX530 3D Graphics Engine
– Delivers up to 25 MPoly/sec
– Universal Scalable Shader Engine
– Direct3D Mobile, OpenGLES 1.1 and 2.0,
OpenVG 1.0, OpenMax API Support
– Advanced Geometry DMA Driven Operation
– Programmable HQ Image Anti-Aliasing
• Endianness
• One 8-/16-/24-Bit Input and One 8-Bit Only
Input Channels
– Two 165-MHz HD Video Display Outputs
• One 16-, 24-, or 30-Bit Output and One 16-
or 24-Bit Output
– Composite or S-Video Analog Output
– Macrovision® Support Available
– Digital HDMI 1.3 Transmitter With Integrated
PHY
– Advanced Video Processing Features Such
as Scan, Format, Rate Conversion
– Three Graphics Layers and Compositors
• Dual 32-Bit DDR2/DDR3 SDRAM Interfaces
– Supports up to DDR2-800 and DDR3-1066
– Up to Eight x 8 Devices Total 2GB of Total
Address Space
– Dynamic Memory Manager (DMM)
• Programmable Multi-Zone Memory
Mapping and Interleaving
• Enables Efficient 2D Block Accesses
• Supports Tiled Objects in 0°, 90°, 180°, or
270° Orientation and Mirroring
• Optimizes Interlaced Accesses
• General-Purpose Memory Controller (GPMC)
– 8- or 16-Bit Multiplexed Address and Data
Bus
– 512MB of Address Space Divided Among up
to 8 Chip Selects
– Glueless Interface to NOR Flash, NAND
Flash (BCH/Hamming Error Code Detection),
SRAM and Pseudo-SRAM
– Error Locator Module (ELM) Outside of
GPMC to Provide Up to 16-Bit or 512-Byte
Hardware ECC for NAND
– Flexible Asynchronous Protocol Control for
Interface to FPGA, CPLD, ASICs, and so
Forth
– ARM Instructions/Data – Little Endian
• HD Video Processing Subsystem (HDVPSS)
– Two 165-MHz, 2-channel HD Video Capture
Modules
• One 16-/24-Bit Input or Dual 8-Bit SD
Input Channels
• Enhanced Direct Memory Access (EDMA)
Controller
– Four Transfer Controllers
– 64 Independent DMA Channels and 8
Independent QDMA Channels
• Dual Port Ethernet (10/100/1000 Mbps) With
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