Getting started with TI Jacinto 7 Edge AI - Introduction - SoM Overview

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SOM Overview

SoM Overview

Key Features

According to Texas Instruments website, Jacinto 7 SOM has the following key features:

• Heterogeneous processing cores:​​
  • Dual C66x DSP and C71x 64bit DSP
  • PowerVR 8XE Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)
• Quad ARM Cortex-R5F 1 GHz microcontrollers
• Dual ARM Cortex-A72 2 GHz microprocessors​
• Key differentiated hardware acceleration for Imaging and Deep Learning:​
  • 7th generation Vision Pre-Processing accelerator (VPAC)​
  • Depth and Motion Perception Accelerator (DMPAC)
  • C71x DSP with MMA accelerator for Deep Learning acceleration
  • Video acceleration multi-format up to 4k60 decode and 1080p60 encode
• Scalable hardware and software platform with high commonality
• High-performance, highly-integrated, peripheral-rich processors enable key automotive applications

Hardware features

Highlighted hardware features are:

• C7X floating point, vector DSP, up to 1.0 GHz
• Deep-learning matrix multiply accelerator (MMA), up to 8 TOPS at 1.0 GHz
• Vision Processing Accelerators (VPAC) with Image Signal Processing (ISP) and multiple vision assist accelerators
• Depth and Motion Processing Accelerators (DMPAC)
• Optimized power solution (PMIC)
• DRAM, LPDDR4‐3733, 4GByte total memory, support inline ECC
• Octal‐SPI NOR flash, 512Mb memory (8bit)
• HyperFlash + HyerRAM, 512Mb flash memory + 256Mb RAM
• Dual ARM 64-bit Cortex-A72
• 6x ARM Cortex-R5F
• 2x C66x floating point DSP
• 3D GPU PowerVR Rogue 8XE GE8430
• Secure boot with secure runtime support and crypto hardware accelerators
• 8x 2.5Gb SGMII and 2x QSGMII
• 4x PCI-e controllers
• 2x USB 3.0 dual-role (DRD)
  • Each port support Type-C switching
• 16x MCAN modules
• 2x CSI2.0 4Lanes RX and 1x CSI4.0 4Lanes TX
  • 2.5 Gbps RX throughput per lane (20 Gbps total)
• Video acceleration
  • Ultra-HD video (1x 3840x2160@60 or 2x 3840x2160@30) H.264/H.265 decode
  • Full-HD video (4x 1920x1080p@60 or 8x 1920x1080p@30) H.264/H.265 decode
  • Full-HD video (1x 1920x1080p@60 or 3x 1920x1080p@30) H.264 encode
• 9x I2C interfaces
• 3x I3C interfaces
• 11x UART interfaces

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