Wednesday, September 30, 2009: Giving designers more performance to run new application features and additional headroom to add their own IP, Texas Instruments (TI) has announced a speed upgrade for the OMAP3530 applications processor and evaluation module (EVM).
The new OMAP3530 processor features a 720 MHz ARM Cortex-A8 core and a 520 MHz TMS320C64x+ DSP. This enables users to gain faster access to databases, spreadsheets, presentations, e-mail, audio and video attachments, Web browsing and video conferencing applications. This single-chip solution also supports faster boot times suitable for applications such as portable infotainment, Point-of-Sale (POS) devices, Web tablets and single board computers.

The 720 MHz ARM Cortex-A8 core provides 1400 Dhrystone million instructions per second (MIPS) and 520 MHz C64x+ DSP provides more headroom to optimise quality audio and video codecs and custom IP. POWERVR SGX subsystem for 3D graphics acceleration supports display and gaming effects; comprehensive power and clock-management scheme enables high-performance, low-power
operation and low-power standby features; and pin-for-pin compatible with TI’s OMAP35x devices makes it easy for OEMs to efficiently create a complete product portfolio based on the single platform.

The new OMAP3530 EVM is based on the 720 MHz OMAP3530 processor and can also be used to evaluate the OMAP3503, OMAP3515 and OMAP3525. It has the ability to run full-featured operating systems, such as Windows Embedded CE and Linux; offers new S-Video/Component/Composite input, S-Video output; and features TI’s TVP5146 analogue-to-digital video decoder.