AM3357

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Sitara processor: Arm Cortex-A8, EtherCAT, PRU-ICSS, CAN

• Up to 1-GHz Sitara™ ARM^® Cortex^®-A8 32‑Bit RISC Processor
  • NEON™ SIMD Coprocessor
  • 32KB of L1 Instruction and 32KB of Data Cache With Single-Error Detection (Parity)
  • 256KB of L2 Cache With Error Correcting Code (ECC)
  • 176KB of On-Chip Boot ROM
  • 64KB of Dedicated RAM
  • Emulation and Debug - JTAG
  • Interrupt Controller (up to 128 Interrupt Requests)
• On-Chip Memory (Shared L3 RAM)
  • 64KB of General-Purpose On-Chip Memory Controller (OCMC) RAM
  • Accessible to All Masters
  • Supports Retention for Fast Wakeup
• External Memory Interfaces (EMIF)
  • mDDR(LPDDR), DDR2, DDR3, DDR3L Controller:
    • mDDR: 200-MHz Clock (400-MHz Data Rate)
    • DDR2: 266-MHz Clock (532-MHz Data Rate)
    • DDR3: 400-MHz Clock (800-MHz Data Rate)
    • DDR3L: 400-MHz Clock (800-MHz Data Rate)
    • 16-Bit Data Bus
    • 1GB of Total Addressable Space
    • Supports One x16 or Two x8 Memory Device Configurations
  • General-Purpose Memory Controller (GPMC)
    • Flexible 8-Bit and 16-Bit Asynchronous Memory Interface With up to Seven Chip Selects (NAND, NOR, Muxed-NOR, SRAM)
    • Uses BCH Code to Support 4-, 8-, or 16-Bit ECC
    • Uses Hamming Code to Support 1-Bit ECC
  • Error Locator Module (ELM)
    • Used in Conjunction With the GPMC to Locate Addresses of Data Errors from Syndrome Polynomials Generated Using a BCH Algorithm
    • Supports 4-, 8-, and 16-Bit per 512-Byte Block Error Location Based on BCH Algorithms
• Programmable Real-Time Unit Subsystem and Industrial Communication Subsystem (PRU-ICSS)
  • Supports Protocols such as EtherCAT^®, PROFIBUS, PROFINET, EtherNet/IP™, and More
  • Two Programmable Real-Time Units (PRUs)
    • 32-Bit Load/Store RISC Processor Capable of Running at 200 MHz
    • 8KB of Instruction RAM With Single-Error Detection (Parity)
    • 8KB of Data RAM With Single-Error Detection (Parity)
    • Single-Cycle 32-Bit Multiplier With 64-Bit Accumulator
    • Enhanced GPIO Module Provides Shift-In/Out Support and Parallel Latch on External Signal
  • 12KB of Shared RAM With Single-Error Detection (Parity)
  • Three 120-Byte Register Banks Accessible by Each PRU
  • Interrupt Controller (INTC) for Handling System Input Events
  • Local Interconnect Bus for Connecting Internal and External Masters to the Resources Inside the PRU-ICSS
  • Peripherals Inside the PRU-ICSS:
    • One UART Port With Flow Control Pins, Supports up to 12 Mbps
    • One Enhanced Capture (eCAP) Module
    • Two MII Ethernet Ports that Support Industrial Ethernet, such as EtherCAT
    • One MDIO Port
• Power, Reset, and Clock Management (PRCM) Module
  • Controls the Entry and Exit of Stand-By and Deep-Sleep Modes
  • Responsible for Sleep Sequencing, Power Domain Switch-Off Sequencing, Wake-Up Sequencing, and Power Domain Switch-On Sequencing
  • Clocks
    • Integrated 15- to 35-MHz High-Frequency Oscillator Used to Generate a Reference Clock for Various System and Peripheral Clocks
    • Supports Individual Clock Enable and Disable Control for Subsystems and Peripherals to Facilitate Reduced Power Consumption
    • Five ADPLLs to Generate System Clocks (MPU Subsystem, DDR Interface, USB and Peripherals [MMC and SD, UART, SPI, I²C], L3, L4, Ethernet, GFX [SGX530], LCD Pixel Clock)
  • Power
    • Two Nonswitchable Power Domains (Real-Time Clock [RTC], Wake-Up Logic [WAKEUP])
    • Three Switchable Power Domains (MPU Subsystem [MPU], SGX530 [GFX], Peripherals and Infrastructure [PER])
    • Implements SmartReflex™ Class 2B for Core Voltage Scaling Based On Die Temperature, Process Variation, and Performance (Adaptive Voltage Scaling [AVS])
    • Dynamic Voltage Frequency Scaling (DVFS)
• Real-Time Clock (RTC)
  • Real-Time Date (Day-Month-Year-Day of Week) and Time (Hours-Minutes-Seconds) Information
  • Internal 32.768-kHz Oscillator, RTC Logic and 1.1-V Internal LDO
  • Independent Power-on-Reset (RTC_PWRONRSTn) Input
  • Dedicated Input Pin (EXT_WAKEUP) for External Wake Events
  • Programmable Alarm Can be Used to Generate Internal Interrupts to the PRCM (for Wakeup) or Cortex-A8 (for Event Notification)
  • Programmable Alarm Can be Used With External Output (PMIC_POWER_EN) to Enable the Power Management IC to Restore Non-RTC Power Domains
• Peripherals
  • Up to Two USB 2.0 High-Speed DRD (Dual-Role Device) Ports With Integrated PHY
  • Up to Two Industrial Gigabit Ethernet MACs (10, 100, 1000 Mbps)
    • Integrated Switch
    • Each MAC Supports MII, RMII, RGMII, and MDIO Interfaces
    • Ethernet MACs and Switch Can Operate Independent of Other Functions
    • IEEE 1588v2 Precision Time Protocol (PTP)
  • Up to Two Controller-Area Network (CAN) Ports
    • Supports CAN Version 2 Parts A and B
  • Up to Two Multichannel Audio Serial Ports (McASPs)
    • Transmit and Receive Clocks up to 50 MHz
    • Up to Four Serial Data Pins per McASP Port With Independent TX and RX Clocks
    • Supports Time Division Multiplexing (TDM), Inter-IC Sound (I2S), and Similar Formats
    • Supports Digital Audio Interface Transmission (SPDIF, IEC60958-1, and AES-3 Formats)
    • FIFO Buffers for Transmit and Receive (256 Bytes)
  • Up to Six UARTs
    • All UARTs Support IrDA and CIR Modes
    • All UARTs Support RTS and CTS Flow Control
    • UART1 Supports Full Modem Control
  • Up to Two Master and Slave McSPI Serial Interfaces
    • Up to Two Chip Selects
    • Up to 48 MHz
  • Up to Three MMC, SD, SDIO Ports
    • 1-, 4- and 8-Bit MMC, SD, SDIO Modes
    • MMCSD0 has Dedicated Power Rail for 1.8‑V or 3.3-V Operation
    • Up to 48-MHz Data Transfer Rate
    • Supports Card Detect and Write Protect
    • Complies With MMC4.3, SD, SDIO 2.0 Specifications
  • Up to Three I²C Master and Slave Interfaces
    • Standard Mode (up to 100 kHz)
    • Fast Mode (up to 400 kHz)
  • Up to Four Banks of General-Purpose I/O (GPIO) Pins
    • 32 GPIO Pins per Bank (Multiplexed With Other Functional Pins)
    • GPIO Pins Can be Used as Interrupt Inputs (up to Two Interrupt Inputs per Bank)
  • Up to Three External DMA Event Inputs that can Also be Used as Interrupt Inputs
  • Eight 32-Bit General-Purpose Timers
    • DMTIMER1 is a 1-ms Timer Used for Operating System (OS) Ticks
    • DMTIMER4–DMTIMER7 are Pinned Out
  • One Watchdog Timer
  • SGX530 3D Graphics Engine
    • Tile-Based Architecture Delivering up to 20 Million Polygons per Second
    • Universal Scalable Shader Engine (USSE) is a Multithreaded Engine Incorporating Pixel and Vertex Shader Functionality
    • Advanced Shader Feature Set in Excess of Microsoft VS3.0, PS3.0, and OGL2.0
    • Industry Standard API Support of Direct3D Mobile, OGL-ES 1.1 and 2.0, and OpenMax
    • Fine-Grained Task Switching, Load Balancing, and Power Management
    • Advanced Geometry DMA-Driven Operation for Minimum CPU Interaction
    • Programmable High-Quality Image Anti-Aliasing
    • Fully Virtualized Memory Addressing for OS Operation in a Unified Memory Architecture
  • LCD Controller
    • Up to 24-Bit Data Output; 8 Bits per Pixel (RGB)
    • Resolution up to 2048 × 2048 (With Maximum 126-MHz Pixel Clock)
    • Integrated LCD Interface Display Driver (LIDD) Controller
    • Integrated Raster Controller
    • Integrated DMA Engine to Pull Data from the External Frame Buffer Without Burdening the Processor via Interrupts or a Firmware Timer
    • 512-Word Deep Internal FIFO
    • Supported Display Types:
      • Character Displays - Uses LIDD Controller to Program these Displays
      • Passive Matrix LCD Displays - Uses LCD Raster Display Controller to Provide Timing and Data for Constant Graphics Refresh to a Passive Display
      • Active Matrix LCD Displays - Uses External Frame Buffer Space and the Internal DMA Engine to Drive Streaming Data to the Panel
  • 12-Bit Successive Approximation Register (SAR) ADC
    • 200K Samples per Second
    • Input can be Selected from any of the Eight Analog Inputs Multiplexed Through an 8:1 Analog Switch
    • Can be Configured to Operate as a 4-Wire, 5-Wire, or 8-Wire Resistive Touch Screen Controller (TSC) Interface
  • Up to Three 32-Bit eCAP Modules
    • Configurable as Three Capture Inputs or Three Auxiliary PWM Outputs
  • Up to Three Enhanced High-Resolution PWM Modules (eHRPWMs)
    • Dedicated 16-Bit Time-Base Counter With Time and Frequency Controls
    • Configurable as Six Single-Ended, Six Dual-Edge Symmetric, or Three Dual-Edge Asymmetric Outputs
  • Up to Three 32-Bit Enhanced Quadrature Encoder Pulse (eQEP) Modules
• Device Identification
  • Contains Electrical Fuse Farm (FuseFarm) of Which Some Bits are Factory Programmable
    • Production ID
    • Device Part Number (Unique JTAG ID)
    • Device Revision (Readable by Host ARM)
• Debug Interface Support
  • JTAG and cJTAG for ARM (Cortex-A8 and PRCM), PRU-ICSS Debug
  • Supports Device Boundary Scan
  • Supports IEEE 1500
• DMA
  • On-Chip Enhanced DMA Controller (EDMA) has Three Third-Party Transfer Controllers (TPTCs) and One Third-Party Channel Controller (TPCC), Which Supports up to 64 Programmable Logical Channels and Eight QDMA Channels. EDMA is Used for:
    • Transfers to and from On-Chip Memories
    • Transfers to and from External Storage (EMIF, GPMC, Slave Peripherals)
• Inter-Processor Communication (IPC)
  • Integrates Hardware-Based Mailbox for IPC and Spinlock for Process Synchronization Between Cortex-A8, PRCM, and PRU-ICSS
    • Mailbox Registers that Generate Interrupts
      • Four Initiators (Cortex-A8, PRCM, PRU0, PRU1)
    • Spinlock has 128 Software-Assigned Lock Registers
• Security
  • Crypto Hardware Accelerators (AES, SHA, RNG)
  • Secure Boot
• Boot Modes
  • Boot Mode is Selected Through Boot Configuration Pins Latched on the Rising Edge of the PWRONRSTn Reset Input Pin
• Packages:
  • 298-Pin S-PBGA-N298 Via Channel Package
    (ZCE Suffix), 0.65-mm Ball Pitch
  • 324-Pin S-PBGA-N324 Package
    (ZCZ Suffix), 0.80-mm Ball Pitch

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