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AM3874 Datasheet, PDF (1/345 Pages) Texas Instruments – AM387x Sitara ARM Microprocessors (MPUs)
AM3874, AM3872, AM3871
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AM387x Sitara™
ARM® Microprocessors (MPUs)
Check for Samples: AM3874, AM3872, AM3871
SPRS695 – SEPTEMBER 2011
1 High-Performance System-on-Chip (SoC)
1.1 Features
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• High-Performance Sitara™ ARM®
Microprocessors (MPUs)
– Up to 1-GHz ARM® Cortex™-A8 RISC MPU
• ARM® Cortex™-A8 Core
– ARMv7 Architecture
• In-Order, Dual-Issue, Superscalar
Microprocessor Core
• NEON™ Multimedia Architecture
• Supports Integer and Floating Point
• Jazelle® RCT Execution Environment
• ARM® Cortex™-A8 Memory Architecture
– 32K-Byte Instruction and Data Caches
– 512K-Byte L2 Cache
– 64K-Byte RAM, 48K-Byte Boot ROM
• 128K-Bytes On-Chip Memory Controller
(OCMC) RAM
• Imaging Subsystem (ISS)
– Camera Sensor Connection
• Parallel Connection for Raw (up to 16-Bit)
and BT.656/BT.1120 (8-/16-bit)
– Image Sensor Interface (ISIF) for Handling
Image/Video Data From the Camera Sensor
– Resizer
• Resizing Image/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 18 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
– ARM Instructions/Data – Little Endian
• HD Video Processing Subsystem (HDVPSS)
– Two 165 MHz HD Video Capture Inputs
• One 16/24-bit Input, Splittable into Dual
8-bit SD Capture Ports
• One 8/16/24-bit Input
• One 8-bit Only Input
– Two 165 MHz HD Video Display Outputs
• One 16/24/30-bit and one 16/24-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 LPDDR/DDR2/DDR3 SDRAM
Interfaces
– Supports up to LPDDR-400, DDR2-800, and
DDR3-800
– Up to Eight x 8 Devices Total 2 GB 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-/16-bit Multiplexed Address/Data Bus
– 512M-Byte Total 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 Upto 16-Bit/512-Bytes
Hardware ECC for NAND
– Flexible Asynchronous Protocol Control for
Interface to FPGA, CPLD, ASICs, etc.
• Enhanced Direct-Memory-Access (EDMA)
Controller
– Four Transfer Controllers
– 64/8 Independent DMA/QDMA Channels
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