Texas Instruments has increased the speed specification for its
OMAP3530 applications processor.
The processor's ARM Cortex-A8 core now runs at 720MHz and the
TMS320C64x+ DSP at 520MHz.
The earlier verison of the applications processor included a
superscalar 600MHz Cortex-A8.
The processing performance will benefit the audio and video
applications at which the OMAP3530 is aimed. It will also support
faster boot times single board computing designs.
The faster Cortex-A8 core provides 1400 Dhrystone MIPS.
As previously there is also an on-chip PowerVR SGX 3D graphics
accelerator.
One of the target markets for the processor is medical
terminals.
The associated
OMAP3530
evaluation board can be used to run Windows Embedded CE and Linux
operating systems.
It also has a TVP5146 analogue-to-digital video decoder.