TEXAS introduced a new highly integrated, microprocessors last month - AM389x Sitara™ ARM microprocessor units. It can fit to the following applications such as: Single-Board Computing,
Network and Communications Processing, Industrial Automation, Human Machine Interface etc. It works with RISC microprocessor .
Functional Diagram:
The functional diagram of this processor is given below:
There are a number of noval features with it, in which some of them are summarized below:
- ARM® Cortex™-A8 Memory Architecture
- 512K-Bytes On-Chip Memory Controller (OCMC) RAM
- Dual 32-bit DDR2/3 SDRAM Interfaces
- SGX530 3D Graphics Engine
- HD Video Processing Subsystem (HDVPSS)
- One PCI Express® (PCIe®) 2.0 Port With Integrated PHY
- Serial ATA (SATA) 3.0 Gbps Controller With Integrated PHYs
- Two 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet MACs (EMAC)
- Dual USB 2.0 Ports With Integrated PHYs
- General Purpose Memory Controller (GPMC)
- Enhanced Direct-Memory-Access (EDMA) Controller
- Seven 32-bit General-Purpose Timers
- One System Watchdog Timer
- Three Configurable UART/IrDA/CIR Modules
- One 40-MHz Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) With Four Chip-Selects
- Dual Inter-Integrated Circuit ( I2C BUS) Ports
- Three Multichannel Audio Serial Ports
- On-Chip ARM ROM Bootloader (RBL)