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AM3517_16 Datasheet, PDF (1/223 Pages) Texas Instruments – AM3517, AM3505 Sitara™ Processors
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AM3517, AM3505
SPRS550F – OCTOBER 2009 – REVISED JULY 2014
AM3517, AM3505 Sitara™ Processors
1 Device Summary
1.1 Features
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• AM3517/05 Sitara Processor:
– MPU Subsystem
• 600-MHz Sitara ARM Cortex®-A8 Core
• NEON™ SIMD Coprocessor and Vector
Floating-Point (FP) Coprocessor
– Memory Interfaces:
• 166-MHz 16- and 32-Bit mDDR/DDR2
Interface with 1GB of Total Addressable
Space
• Up to 83 MHz General-Purpose Memory
Interface Supporting 16-Bit-Wide Multiplexed
Address/Data Bus
• 64KB of SRAM
• 3 Removable Media Interfaces
[MMC/SD/SDIO]
– IO Voltage:
• mDDR/DDR2 IOs: 1.8V
• Other IOs: 1.8V and 3.3V
– Core Voltage: 1.2V
– Commercial and Extended Temperature Grade
(operating restrictions apply)
– 16-Bit Video Input Port Capable of Capturing
HD Video
– HD Resolution Display Subsystem
– Serial Communication
• High-End CAN Controller
• 10/100 Mbit Ethernet MAC
• USB OTG Subsystem with Standard DP/DM
Interface [HS/FS/LS]
• Multiport USB Host Subsystem [HS/FS/LS]
– 12-Pin ULPI or 6-, 4-, or 3-Pin Serial
Interface
• Four Master and Slave Multichannel Serial
Port Interface (McSPI) Ports
• Five Multichannel Buffered Serial Ports
(McBSPs)
– 512-Byte Transmit and Receive Buffer
(McBSP1/3/4/5)
– 5-KB Transmit and Receive Buffer
(McBSP2)
– SIDETONE Core Support (McBSP2 and
McBSP3 Only) For Filter, Gain, and Mix
Operations
– 128-Channel Transmit and Receive Mode
– Direct Interface to I2S and PCM Device
and TDM Buses
• HDQ/1-Wire Interface
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• 4 UARTs (One with Infrared Data
Association [IrDA] and Consumer Infrared
[CIR] Modes)
• 3 Master and Slave High-Speed Inter-
Integrated Circuit (I2C) Controllers
• Twelve 32-bit General-Purpose Timers
• One 32-bit Watchdog Timer
• One 32-bit 32-kHz Sync Timer
• Up to 186 General-Purpose I/O (GPIO) Pins
• Display Subsystem
– Parallel Digital Output
– Up to 24-Bit RGB
– Supports Up to 2 LCD Panels
– Support for Remote Frame Buffer Interface
(RFBI) LCD Panels
– Two 10-Bit Digital-to-Analog Converters (DACs)
Supporting
• Composite NTSC/PAL Video
• Luma/Chroma Separate Video (S-Video)
– Rotation of 90, 180, and 270 Degrees
– Resize Images From 1/4x to 8x
– Color Space Converter
– 8-Bit Alpha Blending
• Video Processing Front End (VPFE) 16-Bit Video
Input Port
– RAW Data Interface
– 75-MHz Maximum Pixel Clock
– Supports REC656/CCIR656 Standard
– Supports YCbCr422 Format (8-Bit or 16-Bit with
Discrete Horizontal and Vertical Sync Signals)
– Generates Optical Black Clamping Signals
– Built-in Digital Clamping and Black Level
Compensation
– 10-Bit to 8-Bit A-law Compression Hardware
– Supports up to 16K Pixels (Image Size) in
Horizontal and Vertical Directions
• System Direct Memory Access (sDMA) Controller
(32 Logical Channels with Configurable Priority)
• Comprehensive Power, Reset, and Clock
Management
• ARM Cortex-A8 Memory Architecture
– ARMv7 Architecture
– In-Order, Dual-Issue, Superscalar
Microprocessor Core
– ARM NEON Multimedia Architecture
– Over 2x Performance of ARMv6 SIMD
An IMPORTANT NOTICE at the end of this data sheet addresses availability, warranty, changes, use in safety-critical applications,
intellectual property matters and other important disclaimers. PRODUCTION DATA.