DevKit8500

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Devkit8500D/A Board Overview

Embest DevKit8500D Evaluation Board takes full features of the 1GHz Texas Instruments' DM3730 ARM Cortex-A8 DaVinci™ digital media processor and supports up to 512MByte DDR SDRAM and 512MByte NAND Flash as well as a reserved iNAND design to expand the flash storage capabilities. The board has exposed many other hardware interfaces including serial ports, LCD/TSP, DVI-D, S-Video, Ethernet, USB, TF, keyboard, camera, SPI, I2C and JTAG. The board is able to support for Linux 2.6.32 and WinCE 6.0 operating systems. It has two methods to boot Linux and WinCE systems from either TF card or NAND flash. Besides, it is provided with Android 2.2 demo with driver source code. Embest gives instructions on how to boot Android demo image from NAND flash with TF card.

The board supports using XDS100v2 USB JTAG Emulator for debugging which is available from Embest. Embest also offers 4.3-inch or 7-inch LCD with touch screen and various modules for options including VGA, WiFi, Analog Camera, GPS, GPRS, 3G and Digital Camera modules which greatly extends the functions of the board and would be flexible for customer selection to meet their own needs.

The TI's DM3730 processor is pin-to-pin compatible with TI's AM3715 processor, Embest also supplies the board with the AM3715 CPU and this board is called DevKit8500A.

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Hardware

Onboard Interfaces and Connectors

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Hardware Features

Mechanical Parameters

  • Dimensions: 136.2mm x 105.3mm
  • Power Supply: +5V
  • Working Temp.: 0~70°C
  • TI DM3730 DaVinci Digital Media Processor (pin-to-pin compatible with TI AM3715)

Processor

- Up to 1-GHz ARM® Cortex™-A8 Core, also supports 300, 600, and 800-MHz operation
- Up to 800-MHz TMS320C64x+™ DSP Core, Also supports 260, 520 and 660-MHz operation
- NEON™ SIMD Coprocessor (DM3730 only)
- POWERVR SGX™ Graphics Accelerator
- ARM: 32KB I-Cache; 32KB D-Cache; 256KB L2 Cache
- Onchip 32KB ROM and 64KB Shared SDRAM

Memory and Storage

  • 512MB DDR SDRAM, 32bit, 200MHz
  • 512MB NAND Flash, 16bit
  • 2GB iNAND, 4bit (Default: not soldered, optional, reserved for soldering)

Audio/Video Interfaces

  • LCD/Touch Screen interface (50-pin FPC connector, support resolution up to 2048*2048)
  • DVI high-resolution image output port (HDMI interface, support 720p, 30fps signal)
  • One S-Video display interface
  • One audio input interface (3.5mm audio jack)
  • One 2-channel audio output interface (3.5mm audio jack)
  • One camera interface (30-pin FPC connector, support CCD or CMOS camera)

Data Transfer Interfaces

  • One 5 line Debug serial port, RS232 (DB9 connector)
  • One 10/100M Ethernet interface (RJ45)
  • One High-speed USB2.0 OTG port (Mini USB type interface)
  • Four High-speed USB2.0 Host port (USB A type interface)
  • TF card slot

Input/Output Interfaces and Other Facilities

  • 6*6 keyboard interface
  • One 14-pin Jtag interface
  • Four buttons (One for Reset, one for Wakeup and two for User defined)
  • One expansion connector (2.0mm 40-pin SMT Female Pin Header)

- Two 5 line serial ports, TTL voltage
- One channel McSPI Interface (Multichannel Serial Port Interface)
- One channel McBSP interface (Multi-Channel Buffered Serial Port)
- One channel I2C interface
- One channel HDQ interface (HDQ/1-Wire)

  • GPIO (there are total 33 GPIOs if the expansion interface pins are all used for GPIOs)

Extension Modules/Emulator Support

PS: *=provided with source code, #=no source code provided

Item Linux Android WinCE Remark
VGA8000 (RGB converts to VGA module)
VGA-P.jpg
YES* NO YES* Provided in DevKit8500 DVD
WF8000-U (WiFi USB module)
WIFI8000-P.jpg
YES* YES* YES# Provided in single CD
GPRS8000-S (Supports SIM card Dial, message sending)
GPS8000-P.jpg
YES* NO YES* Click and Download
GPS8000-S (Real-time acquisition of GPS signal)
GPRS8000-P.jpg
YES* YES* YES* Click and Download
CAM8000-A (Real-time acquisition of analog camera signal, PAL/NTSC, BT.656 communication)
CAM8000-P.jpg
YES* NO YES* Provided in DevKit8500 DVD
CAM8000-D (Real-time acquisition of digital camera singal, 2 megapixel, BT.601 communication)
YES# YES# YES* Provided in single CD
CAM8100-U (Real-time acquisition of digital camera singal, 1.3 megapixel, USB communication)
YES* YES* YES# Provided in single CD
CDMA8000-U (supports CDMA internet surf) YES* YES* YES# Click and Download
WCDMA8000-U (supports WCDMA internet surf) YES* YES* YES# Click and Download
COM8018-S(Extension serial port module: extend SPI to serial ports) YES* YES* YES# Provided in single CD
XDS100V2 Emulator (supports non-OS ARM and DSP debugging)
XDS100-P.jpg
N/A N/A N/A Provided in single CD
TDS560PLUS (supports non-OS ARM and DSP debugging)
TDS560-P.jpg
N/A N/A N/A Provided in single CD

FAQ

If you have got some problems when using DevKit8500D/A board, please refer to Devkit8500FAQ.

Other Embest Products based on TI Processors

Embest has designed several products based on TI's ARM9 and ARM Cortex-A8 processors. Embestalso offers customer design service according to customer's requirements. Whether you need to reduce, add or modify to existing hardwares or generate a new solution, Embest will help customers with expert competence and rich experience.

  • SBC8530 Single Board Computer based on TI's DM3730 ARM Cortex-A8 processor
  • SBC8100 Plus Single Board Computer based on TI's DM3730 ARM Cortex-A8 processor
  • SBC8018 Single Board Computer based on TI's AM1808 ARM926EJ-S processor
  • Devkit8000 Evalution Board based on TI's OMAP3530 ARM Cortex-A8 processor
  • SBC8100 Single Board Computer based on TI's OMAP3530 ARM Cortex-A8 processor
  • SOC8200 Single Board Computer based on TI's AM3517 Sitara ARM Cortex-A8 processor
  • Mini8510 Processor Card based on TI's DM3730 ARM Cortex-A8 processor
  • Mini8100 Processor Card based on TI's OMAP3530 ARM Cortex-A8 processor