Direct Insight, based in rural Oxfordshire, has introduced a tiny, low-cost module based on the Texas Instruments OMAP3530 family of microcontrollers, which feature ARM’s powerful Cortex-A8 core, optimised for high performance, low-power embedded applications requiring graphics, video, or featuring high-resolution touch screen displays.
SwiftModule-OM is a 68 x 35 mm, 200-pin SODIMM system on module featuring up to 256 MB of high performance DDR333 SDRAM, 1024 MB NAND flash, and advanced power management for handheld devices, audio, touch, Ethernet, optional 802.11g WiFi, and a host of other interfaces such as USB 2.0 and SD Card, which are provided directly by the OMAP device.
Powered by an ARM Cortex-A8 core running at 600 MHz with NEON floating point unit, the OMAP35x microcontroller family features outstanding multimedia capabilities including PowerVR graphics with OpenGL ES 2.0 support and an on-chip TMS320C64x video DSP, which can decode MPEG-4 video in HD resolution. The display controller supports resolutions up to 2048 x 2048 pixels. SwiftModule-OM versions are available populated with various members of the OMAP family to provide both cost-effective and highly featured variants.
For development, the SwiftModule-OM plugs into the SwiftLite-OM development system, a 9-cm square board that can also be customised to provide a complete production solution. SwiftLite-OM provides numerous connectors, comes with an 800x480 touch screen, and adds additional outputs such as LVDS and HDMI. An expansion connector makes most of the SwiftModule’s connectivity available. The system ships with Windows CE 6.0 as standard.. A Linux BSP will be available soon.
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