I do like my Novena open hardware laptop with iMX6 :)

I presume DSPs and microcontrollers on die are a selling point for Sitara
AM57xx.  I'm curious if anyone knows if there are other suppliers that
offer ARM Cortex A series processor with microcontroller core(s) on die?

Thanks
Drew
On Oct 15, 2015 1:35 AM, "Maxim Podbereznyy" <[email protected]> wrote:

> AM5728 for $75 @1k??? Ridiculously high price. I think imx6q is a better
> deal and the Plus version is on the way
>
> 2015-10-15 7:07 GMT+03:00 William Hermans <[email protected]>:
>
>> Also. . .
>>
>> *IVA support only for IPU2 is kind of a bummer . . .But I'm wondering if
>>> the GPU could be used for GPGPU processing since it seems to sit on the L3
>>> interconnect as well.*
>>>
>>
>> I was under the impression, and quite incorrectly that each IPU mentioned
>> in the TRM was a single processor. When in fact each IPU is a subsystem
>> with 2 M4 cores, not singles. Which is good news after all.
>>
>> And dahm, this newer processor sure is getting complex. Seeing mention in
>> the TRM to read other documents in relation to the various different cores.
>> Like you eluded to above Robert. heh. Read the C6000 TRM, M4 TRM, plus what
>> else ? On top of the 7483 pages already in the AM572x TRM . . .heh lots of
>> reading to do . . .
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 8:58 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Robert,
>>>
>>> I'm curious, have you played at all with remoteproc / RPMsg at all ?
>>> Seems very interesting, but also complex in setup. Also, not so sure if
>>> anything other than TI-RTOS is supported on the various beagle products.
>>> But was more interested in something else, perhaps even bare metal.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 8:19 PM, Robert Nelson <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 10:01 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> >> 7.1.1 Introduction
>>>> >> The device instantiates two dual Cortex™-M4 image processor unit
>>>> (IPU)
>>>> >> subsystems:
>>>> >> • IPU1 subsystem is available for general purpose usage
>>>> >> • IPU2 subsystem is dedicated to IVA support and is not available for
>>>> >> other processing
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > IVA support only for IPU2 is kind of a bummer . . .But I'm wondering
>>>> if the
>>>> > GPU could be used for GPGPU processing since it seems to sit on the L3
>>>> > interconnect as well.
>>>>
>>>> Well there's opencl from ti for the dual c6000's.. ;)
>>>>
>>>> http://git.ti.com/gitweb/?p=opencl/ti-opencl.git;a=summary
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
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