Texas Instruments Sitara AM574x processors

Texas Instruments’ (TI) Sitara AM574x processors incorporate dual-core Arm Cortex-A15 reduced instruction set computer (RISC) CPUs with Arm Neon extensions and two TI C66x floating-point DSP cores.

The processors include dual Programmable Real-time Unit for Industrial Communications subsystems (PRU-ICSS) that can be used for Industrial Ethernet protocols such as Profinet, EtherCAT and Ethernet/IP. The devices also combine programmable video processing with an integrated peripheral set, offer up to two embedded vision engines (EVEs) and include cryptographic acceleration.

The devices integrate a robust Image and Video Accelerator – High Definition (IVA-HD) subsystem with support for 4K at 15 fps, encode and decode support for H.264 CODEC, a 2D graphics accelerator and a dual-core 3D GPU. Other features include two-port Gigabit Ethernet, a general-purpose memory controller, enhanced direct memory access (EDMA) controller, sixteen 32-bit general-purpose timers and a 32-bit MPU watchdog timer.

The devices achieve high levels of processing and are designed to meet the intense processing needs of modern embedded applications, including industrial communications, human-machine interface (HMI) and automation and control.