如果按照摩尔定律来讲,2410、9200这些芯片早该被淘汰了,不过如果真这样,我们这些工程师就累死了。这也是嵌入式和pc有区别的地方之一。从培训教学的角度看,随着这些资料的普及,也是时候升级换代了。
最近和朋友商讨如何选下一个平台的事宜。一个朋友对freescale的产品不放心,另一个朋友极力推荐ti的omap3530,也是火热的contex A8。不过想来想去,我还是觉得三星的似乎在国内更受热捧。价格也不高。
基本上就决定做一个基于S3C6400的板子。看了一下uboot和linux内核,基本上都已经支持了,所以移植起来还是很有信心的。Google一下现在的市场,也有一些厂家有了平台推出,不过价格都不菲。但是大多提供了wince的支持,而linux支持的少一些。我想,我们计划做的这个板子能够提供更多的软件资源,特别是android要移植好,估计很多人喜欢这东东。
Features
- ARM1176EJF-S CPU Core
- TrustZone™, security extensions
- S/W Driven Power Management
- High speed Advanced Microprocessor Bus Architecture (AMBA)
- Extensible interface (AXI) level two interfaces
- 8-stage pipeline
- 64-bit Cache interface
- Virtually indexed and physically addressed caches
- Vector Floating Point (VFP) coprocessor support
- External coprocessor support
- Memory Subsystem
- NOR/Strata Flash, ROM, SRAM, OneNAND™, DDR/mDDR and SDRAM/mSDRAM
- NAND Flash boot load and data storage - Multimedia Acceleration
- Camera Interface
- Up to 4Mpixel for scaled or 16Mpixel for unscaled resolution
- Multi Standard video CODEC (MSC)
- Real-time video encoding & decoding of MPEG-4 / H.263 / H.264 and decoding of WMV9
- JPEG CODEC
- Rotator
- TV(NTSD/PAL) Encoder with Image Enhancer
- Video Post Processor
- Connectivity
- IIS Bus Interface
- PCM Audio Interface
- AC97 Audio Interface
- IIC Interface
- HSI (High-speed synchronous serial interface)
- MIPI Standard Draft Compliant
- 4-ch UART
- 188 Flexibly Configurable GPIO
- USB OTG
- Complies with USB OTG 2.0 (up to 480Mbps)
- On-chip USB transceiver
- HS-MMC/SDIO
- 2-ch SPI Interface
- System Peripherals
- Display Controller
- Support dual i80 interface LCD
- Up to 1024x1024 display resolution
- 5-window layer for PIP or OSD
- RTC
- 3 on-chip PLLs
- 4-ch Timer with PWM
- 32-ch DMA
- Keypad
- Vectored Interrupt Controller
- Watch Dog Timer
- Power management : Slow, Idle, Stop, Sleep
- Operating Conditions
- Supply Voltage for Logic Core : 1.0V +/- 0.1V
- External Memory Interface : 1.8V
- External I/O Interface : 1.8/2.5/3.3V
- Operating Frequency : 533MHz @ 1.0 V
- Package
- 424 Pin FBGA 14x14
Benefits
- Optimum mobile solution with various multimedia accelerations
- High performance but low power consumption
- TrustZone™, security extensions
- Full set of on-chip peripherals
- Slim and small form factor with POP solution