OMAP application processors inspire new handheld apps

OMAP application processors inspire new handheld apps

Chips need just 220 mW and feature a Cortex-A8 core and 4x performance boost

Four new OMAP35xx application processors feature superscalar 600-MHz Cortex-A8 cores that yield up to 1,200 Dhrystone MIPS and offer optional graphics and video/audio processors. The chips require only 220 mW typ at 300 MHz and 477 µW in standby due to implementation of multiple domains, adaptive voltage/frequency scaling, and dynamic power switching.

The OMAP3503, 2315, 3525, 3530 all have the Cortex-A8 core and multimedia-rich I/O, with some versions offering an OpenGL ES 2.0-compatible graphics engine and/or a TMS320C64x+ DSP core with video accelerator. The graphics engine can achieve photo-realistic graphics and dramatically enhance the smart device user interface with up to 10 M polygons/s. The HD video accelerator can process an MPEG-4 simple profile, 720p decode at 30 fps.

A OMAP35x development module includes an LCD touchscreen display, SRAM, flash, Ethernet, USB, JTAG, Linux, and Windows CE. (OMAP3503, $25.95 ea/100 — OMAP3503, sampling now; other versions, 2nd half.)

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