Re: [beagleboard] TI Announcement of the AM5728 and EVM

2015-10-15 Thread William Hermans
Good to know Maxim, thanks for letting us (me) know. Never had, or used one . . . On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 11:45 AM, Maxim Podbereznyy wrote: > Imx6 plus is going to have M4 on die > 15 Окт 2015 г. 19:38 пользователь "William Hermans" > написал: > > *I presume DSPs and microcontrollers on die ar

Re: [beagleboard] TI Announcement of the AM5728 and EVM

2015-10-15 Thread Maxim Podbereznyy
Imx6 plus is going to have M4 on die 15 Окт 2015 г. 19:38 пользователь "William Hermans" написал: > *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 micr

Re: [beagleboard] TI Announcement of the AM5728 and EVM

2015-10-15 Thread William Hermans
> > *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?* > IPU is a generic enough term one would think so, but I've never seen

Re: [beagleboard] TI Announcement of the AM5728 and EVM

2015-10-15 Thread 'Mark Lazarewicz' via BeagleBoard
There are . at the high end Zynq is being used in defense sectors  Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android From:"Drew Fustini" Date:Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 11:29 AM Subject:Re: [beagleboard] TI Announcement of the AM5728 and EVM I do like my Novena open hardware laptop with iMX6 :) I presum

Re: [beagleboard] TI Announcement of the AM5728 and EVM

2015-10-15 Thread Drew Fustini
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, 20

Re: [beagleboard] TI Announcement of the AM5728 and EVM

2015-10-14 Thread Maxim Podbereznyy
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 : > 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

Re: [beagleboard] TI Announcement of the AM5728 and EVM

2015-10-14 Thread William Hermans
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. W

Re: [beagleboard] TI Announcement of the AM5728 and EVM

2015-10-14 Thread William Hermans
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,

Re: [beagleboard] TI Announcement of the AM5728 and EVM

2015-10-14 Thread Robert Nelson
On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 10:01 PM, William Hermans 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 fo

Re: [beagleboard] TI Announcement of the AM5728 and EVM

2015-10-14 Thread William Hermans
> > *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 i

[beagleboard] TI Announcement of the AM5728 and EVM

2015-10-14 Thread Graham
It looks like TI went public today with the AM5728 processor, which is the processor used in the Beagleboard X-15. Updated data sheets and Technical Reference Manual. New SDK and tools. It looks like the EVM for the processor is the BeagleBone X-15 plus a 7 inch LCD display, plus a camera, for $