SK-AM62A-LP

AM62A starter kit for low-power Sitara™ processors

SK-AM62A-LP

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Overview

The SK-AM62A-LP starter kit (SK) evaluation module (EVM) is built around our AM62A AI vision processor, which includes an image signal processor (ISP) supporting up to 5 MP at 60 fps, a 2 teraoperations per second (TOPS) AI accelerator, a quad-core 64-bit Arm® Cortex®-A53 microprocessor, a single-core Arm Cortex-R5F and an H.264/H.265 video encode/decode. SK-AM62A-LP is an ideal choice for those looking to develop low-power smart camera, dashcam, machine-vision camera and automotive front-camera applications.

SK-AM62A-LP also includes both a mobile industry processor interface (MIPI®) CSI-2 camera connector for a single camera and an additional expansion connector for up to four cameras, making it suitable for a variety of embedded vision and AI applications on the edge. For a variety of applications, our ISP can handle different lighting conditions in video streams by using high dynamic range (HDR) encoding and RGB-IR camera support. With edge AI, deep learning on video streams like image classification and object detection have greatly improved performance on the AM62A AI accelerator, therefore giving significant improvement in frame rate, latency and performance to allow offloading intensive processes from general-purpose cores.

Furthermore, the SK-AM62A-LP supports Linux® development with a feature-rich edge AI software development kit (SDK). On-chip emulation logic allows for emulation and debugging using standard development tools such as the Code Composer Studio™ integrated development environment (IDE) (CCSTUDIO) as well as an intuitive out-of-box user's guide to quickly start design evaluation.

During custom board design, customers tend to reuse the SK design files and make edits to the design file. Alternatively customers reuse some of the common implementations including the SOC, memory and communication interfaces. Since the SK is expected to have additional functionalities, customers optimize the SK implementation to suit their board design requirements. While optimizing the SK schematics, errors get introduced into the custom design that could cause functional, performance or reliability issues. When optimizing customers have queries regarding the SK implementation resulting in design errors. Many of the optimization and design errors are common across designs. Based on the learnings and data sheet pin connectivity recommendations, comprehensive Design Notes (D-Note:), Review Notes (R-Note:) and Cad Notes (Cad Note:) have been added near each section of the SK schematic that customers could review and follow to minimize errors. Additional files as part of the design downloads have been included to support customer evaluation.

Features
  • Processing
    • AM62A74 with four Arm Cortex-A53
    • Cortex-R5F
    • Deep-learning accelerator
  •  Display
    • One HDMI connector over RGB888 with audio codec TLV320AIC3106
  • M.2 key E interface support for Wi-Fi® and Bluetooth® modules, four-lane MIPI CSI-2 camera connector, up to two gigabit Ethernet
  •  Connectivity
    • One USB Type-A 2.0
    • One USB Type-C® dual-role device (DRD) 2.0 supports USB booting
    • Onboard XDS110 Joint Test Action Group (JTAG) emulator
    • Four universal asynchronous receiver-transmitters (UARTs) via USB Type-B 2.0
  •  Storage
    • 4GB LPDDR4
    • Bootable interfaces on SK
    • Removable microSD
    • USB
    • Quad serial peripheral interface (QSPI)
    • Ethernet
    • UART
  •  Software
    • TI processor SDK Linux
    • RT-Linux
  • SK design files
  • Updated Downloadable files in the design files section Zip folder includes the following folders 1_SCHEMATIC, 2_BOM, 3_Board_File, 4_Gerber, 5_Gerber_PDF, 6_Assembly_Models_Package and 7_PCB_LAYER_STACKUP, and additional sub folders.

Not included:
  • USB-C 5-V to 15-V and 3-A power supply and cable
  • MicroSD card
  • USB micro-B cable for UART serial communication

Automotive driver assist SoCs
AM62A1-Q1 Automotive processor with RGB-IR ISP, video enc/dec for 1-2 cameras, low-power systems AM62A3-Q1 Automotive 1 TOPS vision SoC with RGB-IR ISP for 1-2 cameras, driver monitoring, dashcams AM62A7-Q1 2 TOPS vision SoC with RGB-IR ISP for 1-2 cameras, driver monitoring, front cameras

 

Multimedia & industrial networking SoCs
AM62A3 1 TOPS vision SoC with RGB-IR ISP for 1-2 cameras, low-power, video surveillance, retail automation AM62A7 2 TOPS vision SoC with RGB-IR ISP for 1-2 cameras, low-power systems, machine vision, robotics
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SK-AM62A-LP is a prototype evaluation module and is available in limited quantities.

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Vision processing with the AM62A Starter Kit

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Why do I need this? The V3LINK-CAM-TSER953 is a single IMX219 camera module with a 22-pin flat-flex CSI-2 connector that can be used by itself for rapid prototyping with a single camera input. An additional serializer board based on the TSER953 is included but not required.
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PROCESSOR-SDK-LINUX-AM62A — Linux SDK for Edge AI applications on AM62A

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Automotive driver assist SoCs
AM62A3-Q1 Automotive 1 TOPS vision SoC with RGB-IR ISP for 1-2 cameras, driver monitoring, dashcams AM62A7-Q1 2 TOPS vision SoC with RGB-IR ISP for 1-2 cameras, driver monitoring, front cameras
Multimedia & industrial networking SoCs
AM62A3 1 TOPS vision SoC with RGB-IR ISP for 1-2 cameras, low-power, video surveillance, retail automation AM62A7 2 TOPS vision SoC with RGB-IR ISP for 1-2 cameras, low-power systems, machine vision, robotics
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SK-AM62A-LP AM62A starter kit for low-power Sitara™ processors
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PROCESSOR-SDK-LINUX-AM62A Linux SDK for Edge AI applications on AM62A

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Release date: Jan 15, 2025

Linux Installer for sources, pre-built binaries and file system images with edge AI and robotics stack

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Get access to latest bug fixes and feature enhancements with Yocto build environment

Products
Automotive driver assist SoCs
AM62A3-Q1 Automotive 1 TOPS vision SoC with RGB-IR ISP for 1-2 cameras, driver monitoring, dashcams AM62A7-Q1 2 TOPS vision SoC with RGB-IR ISP for 1-2 cameras, driver monitoring, front cameras
Multimedia & industrial networking SoCs
AM62A3 1 TOPS vision SoC with RGB-IR ISP for 1-2 cameras, low-power, video surveillance, retail automation AM62A7 2 TOPS vision SoC with RGB-IR ISP for 1-2 cameras, low-power systems, machine vision, robotics
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SK-AM62A-LP AM62A starter kit for low-power Sitara™ processors

Documentation

Quick Start Guide for the AM62A Starter Kit (SK) board

Online edge AI SDK user manual

Online LINUX SDK user manual

Online robotics SDK user manual

Learn how to build embedded Linux systems using AM62A processors

Explore a selection of self-paced lessons for edge AI development. Follow along with free cloud tools.

Download Linux SDK user manual for offline view

Build Sheet of supported features for AM62A

Release Information

Thank you for your interest in PROCESSOR SDK LINUX AM62A Software Development Kit (SDK) for edge AI applications.

The Yocto build environment based Linux SDK for edge AI provides

  • Upstream Linux LTS Kernel with peripheral drivers, U-Boot bootloader.
  • Pre-integrated firmware for hardware accelerated deep learning and camera ISP
  • GStreamer plugins and edge AI application stack

The SDK documentation provides simple steps to build, develop and run high performance deep learning applications using a live camera and display.

TI Linux CI/CD Snapshot

AM62A Snapshot

In order to improve access to the very latest bug fixes and feature enhancements, TI is enabling Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) for AM62A processors. The patches for these changes have always been available on public repositories hosted on git.ti.com, and these source repositories could be built using the Yocto build environment on a daily basis. The new TI Linux CI/CD Snapshot makes it even easier to consume these changes with pre-built binaries of Linux boot images to try out on TI Evaluation Modules (EVMs and SKs) before migrating or picking the patches. A detailed test report is also published to help users understand the status of the build and features being validated. The Linux boot images from a snapshot can be regenerated using sources by following the build instructions provided on the snapshot page.

The daily snapshot is not a replacement for the official Processors SDK releases which have full documentation, training and support. The snapshot is a new easy way to try bug fixes and feature enhancements planned for the next SDK while enabling much more tighter integration with customizations and application development. This improved integration should allow users to release their customized code built  on the SDKs more quickly and confidently.

What's new

  • v4l2h264dec decoder support for mp4 file
  • TIDL: Support for ONNXRUNTIME 1.15.0
  • TIDL: Improved support for models with large number of layers
  • TIDL: Support for weight sparsity
HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE PACKAGE

Enable Wi-Fi6 with the AM62A Starter Kit

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453-00209 — Module, Sona TI351, M.2, Key E, SDIO, UART

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453-00209 Module, Sona TI351, M.2, Key E, SDIO, UART

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PROCESSOR-SDK-LINUX-AM62A — Linux SDK for Edge AI applications on AM62A

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Supported products & hardware

Supported products & hardware

Products
Automotive driver assist SoCs
AM62A3-Q1 Automotive 1 TOPS vision SoC with RGB-IR ISP for 1-2 cameras, driver monitoring, dashcams AM62A7-Q1 2 TOPS vision SoC with RGB-IR ISP for 1-2 cameras, driver monitoring, front cameras
Multimedia & industrial networking SoCs
AM62A3 1 TOPS vision SoC with RGB-IR ISP for 1-2 cameras, low-power, video surveillance, retail automation AM62A7 2 TOPS vision SoC with RGB-IR ISP for 1-2 cameras, low-power systems, machine vision, robotics
Hardware development
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SK-AM62A-LP AM62A starter kit for low-power Sitara™ processors
Download options

PROCESSOR-SDK-LINUX-AM62A Linux SDK for Edge AI applications on AM62A

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Version: 10.01.00.05
Release date: Jan 15, 2025

Linux Installer for sources, pre-built binaries and file system images with edge AI and robotics stack

SHA-256 checksum

Get access to latest bug fixes and feature enhancements with Yocto build environment

Products
Automotive driver assist SoCs
AM62A3-Q1 Automotive 1 TOPS vision SoC with RGB-IR ISP for 1-2 cameras, driver monitoring, dashcams AM62A7-Q1 2 TOPS vision SoC with RGB-IR ISP for 1-2 cameras, driver monitoring, front cameras
Multimedia & industrial networking SoCs
AM62A3 1 TOPS vision SoC with RGB-IR ISP for 1-2 cameras, low-power, video surveillance, retail automation AM62A7 2 TOPS vision SoC with RGB-IR ISP for 1-2 cameras, low-power systems, machine vision, robotics
Hardware development
Evaluation board
SK-AM62A-LP AM62A starter kit for low-power Sitara™ processors

Documentation

Quick Start Guide for the AM62A Starter Kit (SK) board

Online edge AI SDK user manual

Online LINUX SDK user manual

Online robotics SDK user manual

Learn how to build embedded Linux systems using AM62A processors

Explore a selection of self-paced lessons for edge AI development. Follow along with free cloud tools.

Download Linux SDK user manual for offline view

Build Sheet of supported features for AM62A

Release Information

Thank you for your interest in PROCESSOR SDK LINUX AM62A Software Development Kit (SDK) for edge AI applications.

The Yocto build environment based Linux SDK for edge AI provides

  • Upstream Linux LTS Kernel with peripheral drivers, U-Boot bootloader.
  • Pre-integrated firmware for hardware accelerated deep learning and camera ISP
  • GStreamer plugins and edge AI application stack

The SDK documentation provides simple steps to build, develop and run high performance deep learning applications using a live camera and display.

TI Linux CI/CD Snapshot

AM62A Snapshot

In order to improve access to the very latest bug fixes and feature enhancements, TI is enabling Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) for AM62A processors. The patches for these changes have always been available on public repositories hosted on git.ti.com, and these source repositories could be built using the Yocto build environment on a daily basis. The new TI Linux CI/CD Snapshot makes it even easier to consume these changes with pre-built binaries of Linux boot images to try out on TI Evaluation Modules (EVMs and SKs) before migrating or picking the patches. A detailed test report is also published to help users understand the status of the build and features being validated. The Linux boot images from a snapshot can be regenerated using sources by following the build instructions provided on the snapshot page.

The daily snapshot is not a replacement for the official Processors SDK releases which have full documentation, training and support. The snapshot is a new easy way to try bug fixes and feature enhancements planned for the next SDK while enabling much more tighter integration with customizations and application development. This improved integration should allow users to release their customized code built  on the SDKs more quickly and confidently.

What's new

  • v4l2h264dec decoder support for mp4 file
  • TIDL: Support for ONNXRUNTIME 1.15.0
  • TIDL: Improved support for models with large number of layers
  • TIDL: Support for weight sparsity

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* EVM User's guide AM62A Low-Power Starter Kit Evaluation Module (Rev. B) PDF | HTML Sep 23, 2025
More literature AM62A starter kit EVM quick start guide May 6, 2025
Product overview SK-AM62A-LP Design Package Folder and Files List PDF | HTML Jul 24, 2024
Certificate SK-AM62A-LP EU Declaration of Conformity (DoC) (Rev. B) Dec 11, 2023

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