Including bar code scanners, portable data terminals and point-of-sale solutions, TI’s Sitara ARM processors are at the heart of the market’s new retail applications. TI has invested the time and resources to ensure the security of both financial information and personal data transactions in retail,logistics and hospitality industries.

Whether you need ARM Coretex-A8, ARM9, PROFIBUS, EtherCAT, CAN, PCIe or SATA, there is a Sitara ARM processor designed to meet your needs. This comprehensive platform of processors combines peripheral support with a robust ARM core and critical capabilities such as 2D/3D graphic support to meet a variety of needs within the industrial automation market.

The smart grid market includes metering and sub-metering devices, as well as gateways, data concentrators and data collectors that collect information from the metering units. The largest opportunity for the Sitara ARM Cortex-A8 processors is connecting the metering units with home area networks. TI’s Sitara family of solutions pushes intelligence to the edge of the grid by integrating, organizing and aggregating information from e-meters to ease peak power demand, reduce energy costs and increase comfort through home automation.

Whether a wireless storage unit, high-end smart appliance or a portable navigation system, the optimized performance, power and cost make the Sitara ARM Cortex-A8 processors and ideal fit for the consumer market. The rich 3D graphics capabilities, combined with robust peripheral support including touch screen and wireless connectivity are the foundation for success in many consumer markets. When support for high-level operating system is added, the capabilities of the Sitara ARM platform in the consumer market only continue to expand.

TI technologies are helping make innovative medical electronics more flexible, affordable and accessible. With the use of the Sitara ARM Cortex- A8 processors, customers can easily and affordably add 3D user interfaces and touch screens to medical devices, simplifying the user experience. In addition, the support of high-level operating systems makes adding multi-modal monitoring easy and provides extensive user interface and system control.

A complete computer built on a single circuit board, TI’s Sitara ARM processors are driving these solutions which reduce development time for customers looking to innovate on a platform with a wide variety of highly integrated peripheral options. TI’s single-board computer offerings feature the ARM® Cortex™-A8 core which provides a 4x improvement over ARM9 cores and achieves laptop-like performance at handheld power levels and includes OpenGL ES 2.0 compatible graphics hardware (up to 10 M polygons per second).