SPRADE7 November   2023 AM62A3 , AM62A3-Q1 , AM62A7 , AM62A7-Q1 , AM62P-Q1

 

  1.   1
  2.   Abstract
  3.   Trademarks
  4. 1Introduction
  5. 2AM62A Processor
  6. 3AM62A Video Processing Unit (VPU) Capability
  7. 4AM62A JPEG Encode Capability
    1. 4.1 Open Source GStreamer Overview
    2. 4.2 TI-Provided V4L2 Drivers for Multimedia
    3. 4.3 Hardware-Accelerated GStreamer Plugins
  8. 5Software Driver Architecture
  9. 6Performance Measurements
  10. 7Multimedia Use Cases
    1. 7.1 Smart AI Box
    2. 7.2 Surveillance
  11. 8Summary
  12. 9References

2 AM62A Processor

The AM62A Edge AI Microprocessor is shown in Figure 2-1. AM62A Simplified Block Diagram, is a heterogeneous processor designed for analytics applications. There are different hardware accelerators optimized for different tasks thus enabling an optimized power and cost footprint for different vision and multimedia applications

GUID-20231120-SS0I-VB42-KN9Z-J6MHKVXLBD5L-low.svg Figure 2-1 AM62A Simplified Block Diagram

The main processing and compute subsystems from a multimedia context in AM62A are as follows:

  • Quad-A53 ARM cores: These can run up to 1.4 GHz and provide up to 16.8k Dhrystone Million Instructions Per Second (DMIPS) of performance.
  • C7 Digital Signal Processor (DSP) and Matrix Multiplication Accelerator (MMA): TI’s deep learning accelerator on AM62A is capable of two TOPs operations when clocked at 1 GHz.
  • H.264/265 Encoder and Decoder: This has a total encode/decode measured capability of 240MP/s and can support up to 32 channels concurrently.
  • MJPEG Encoder: This has a measured encode capability of 416MP/s and can easily support 4K30 applications.
  • Vision Processing Accelerator (VPAC3L): The latest generation in TI ISP technology for performing image operations some examples of which are color conversions, chromatic aberration correction, pyramid scaling and lens distortion correction. It has a total throughput of up to 300MP/s with support for RGBIR cameras.