New DaVinci DM37x video processors from Texas Instruments combine 1 GHz ARM Cortex-A8 and 800MHz C64x+ DSP, enabling 720p HD video for media-rich applications
Software and hardware engineers can easily design more media-rich, portable applications utilizing the new DaVinci DM37x video processors from Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI). The DM3730 and DM3725 with their ARM Cortex-A8 and C64x+ DSP core, imaging and video accelerator (IVA), 3D graphics processor (DM3730 only) and high-performance peripherals (USB 2.0, SD/MMC) integrated on a single system-on-chip (SoC), are suitable for applications requiring HD video processing or a large amount of data processing.
These applications include navigation systems, media players, medical patient monitoring devices, industrial test and measurement devices, industrial vision and portable communications.
DM37x processors are software compatible with the OMAP35x generation of
processors and pin-to-pin compatible with Sitara™ AM37x devices allowing for an
easy product migration strategy to higher performing options. The
differentiation between the DM3730 and DM3725 is that the DM3725 does not have a
3D graphics accelerator. Customers moving to the DM3730 from the OMAP3530 can
look forward to a 50 percent increase in ARM performance, a 40 percent increase
in DSP performance, double the graphics performance and uses approximately 40
percent less power.
The 800MHz C64x+™ DSP and hardware video accelerator enable audio and HD 720p
video decoding and encoding (audio and video codecs included) independent of the
ARM processor. This allows additional expansion on the ARM processor to run more
high-level applications and a rich, responsive 2D or 3D graphical user
interface, for applications such as an industrial personal digital assistant
(PDA).
The DSP engine is programmable, allowing multiple general signal processing
tasks such as digital filtering, math functions and image processing and
analysis. For example, in a camera-enabled industrial application, the DSP can
run an edge-detection algorithm on the video coming from a camera to detect the
presence or absence of people or objects.
Minimizing development costs and accelerating time to market, TI offers a
complete software development kit (SDK) containing everything developers need to
evaluate the device and begin development on the DM3730 evaluation module (EVM)
in minutes.
To learn more, visit
http://www.ti.com/dm3730-prpf
20100831103.9.2010ComponentsTexas Instruments