TI Announcement of the AM5728 and EVM

It looks like TI went public today with the AM5728 processor, which is the processor used in the Beagleboard X-15.
Updated data sheets and Technical Reference Manual. New SDK and tools.

It looks like the EVM for the processor is the BeagleBone X-15 plus a 7 inch LCD display, plus a camera, for $599.
Which is a surprising price if the X-15 is only $200 by itself.

http://www.ti.com/product/AM5728

http://www.ti.com/lit/ug/spruhz6d/spruhz6d.pdf

http://www.ti.com/tool/tmdxevm5728

http://www.ti.com/tool/tmdxevm5728#technicaldocuments

So, things are heating up. Should not be too long now, before the X-15 is available.
Mouser and Digikey are quoting prices and taking orders, but no stock, and no ship dates, yet.

— Graham

7.1.1 Introduction
The device instantiates two dual Cortex™-M4 image processor unit (IPU) subsystems:
• IPU1 subsystem is available for general purpose usage
IPU2 subsystem is dedicated to IVA support and is not available for other processing

IVA support only for IPU2 is kind of a bummer . . .But I’m wondering if the GPU could be used for GPGPU processing since it seems to sit on the L3 interconnect as well.

Well there's opencl from ti for the dual c6000's.. :wink:

http://git.ti.com/gitweb/?p=opencl/ti-opencl.git;a=summary

Regards,

Robert,

I’m curious, have you played at all with remoteproc / RPMsg at all ? Seems very interesting, but also complex in setup. Also, not so sure if anything other than TI-RTOS is supported on the various beagle products. But was more interested in something else, perhaps even bare metal.

Also. . .

IVA support only for IPU2 is kind of a bummer . . .But I’m wondering if the GPU could be used for GPGPU processing since it seems to sit on the L3 interconnect as well.

I was under the impression, and quite incorrectly that each IPU mentioned in the TRM was a single processor. When in fact each IPU is a subsystem with 2 M4 cores, not singles. Which is good news after all.

And dahm, this newer processor sure is getting complex. Seeing mention in the TRM to read other documents in relation to the various different cores. Like you eluded to above Robert. heh. Read the C6000 TRM, M4 TRM, plus what else ? On top of the 7483 pages already in the AM572x TRM . . .heh lots of reading to do . . .

AM5728 for $75 @1k??? Ridiculously high price. I think imx6q is a better deal and the Plus version is on the way

I do like my Novena open hardware laptop with iMX6 :slight_smile:

I presume DSPs and microcontrollers on die are a selling point for Sitara AM57xx. I’m curious if anyone knows if there are other suppliers that offer ARM Cortex A series processor with microcontroller core(s) on die?

Thanks
Drew

There are . at the high end Zynq is being used in defense sectors

I presume DSPs and microcontrollers on die are a selling point for Sitara AM57xx. I’m curious if anyone knows if there are other suppliers that offer ARM Cortex A series processor with microcontroller core(s) on die?

IPU is a generic enough term one would think so, but I’ve never seen one yet. PRU< definately not, that is unique to TI.

Imx6 plus is going to have M4 on die

Good to know Maxim, thanks for letting us (me) know. Never had, or used one . . .