29 July 2008

TI Digital Software Development Kit For ARM Based OMAP35x

Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) has rolled out the OMAP35x Digital Video Software Development Kit (DVSDK) for the ARM based OMAP35x family.

TI’s scalable OMAP35x application processors, are based on the ARM Cortex-A8 processor - ARM’s first superscalar processor. With the ability to scale in speed from 600 MHz to more than 1 GHz, the Cortex-A8 processor can meet the requirements both for power-optimized mobile devices operating with less than 300 MW and for performance-optimized consumer applications requiring 2,000 Drhystone MIPS.

A complete development environment is provided with the OMAP35x DVSDK for the OMAP35x Evaluation Module (EVM), which allows developers to jump start the design of devices with multimedia features and get them to market faster, TI said.

The DVSDK includes basic audio and video codecs to simplify and accelerate the integration and subsequent optimization into a finely-tuned system. To make integration even easier, customers no longer have to directly manage codecs as TI’s DaVinci technology makes multimedia possible via ARM-based application programming interface (API) libraries, which communicate with the digital signal processor (DSP) and video accelerators, TI explained.

The DVSDK also integrates TI’s codec engine multimedia framework that works on the Linux 2.6.22 kernel t and will also support Windows Embedded CE 6.0 in the near future. As the processors are completely scalable, current OMAP35x EVM users can download the OMAP35x DVSDK to continue development on the OMAP3530 device without losing any design time, TI confirmed.