Texas Instruments has upped the performance of its DaVinci video processor range by integrating a 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 processor with an 800MHz C64x DSP.
The DSP supports HD 720p video decoding and encoding (audio and video codecs included) with power efficiency for handheld applications.
This could put DaVinci processors in mobile devices.
The DM37x processors are essentially higher performance versions of the OMAP35x generation of mobile processors.
The new chips are software compatible with the OMAP3530 and pin-to-pin compatible with the company’s Sitara AM37x devices.
There is also a version, the DM3730 with a 3D graphics accelerator supports OpenGL ES 2.0 and renders 20 million polygons per second, coupled with the advanced display subsystem.
The SDK includes Linux kernel 2.6.32 board support package complete with graphical user interface, graphics, applications, demonstrations and development utilities.
The SDK also offers a royalty-free library of DSP-optimized signal processing algorithms. The library contains more than 80 algorithms, including multi-media decoders and encoders, math functions, digital filtering including Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), and image processing including image filtering and analysis.
Support for the Linux and Android operating systems is available today. Windows CE support will be available in 4Q10.