TIDUFC2 April 2025
The AM243x is an extension of the Sitara™ industrial-grade portfolio into high-performance microcontrollers. The AM243x device is built for industrial applications, such as motor drives and remote I/O modules, which require a combination of real-time communications and processing. The AM243x family provides scalable performance with up to four Cortex-R5F MCUs, one Cortex-M4F, and two instances of the gigabit TSN-enabled PRU_ICSSG from Sitara. The SoC provides flexible industrial communications capability including full protocol stacks for EtherCAT target, PROFINET device, EtherNet/IP adapter, and IO-Link controller. The PRU_ICSSG further provides capability for gigabit and TSN-based protocols. In addition, the PRU_ICSSG enables additional interfaces including a UART interface, sigma-delta decimation filters, and absolute encoder interfaces.