Application processor for CE devices
22 July 2009
DSP, Micros & Memory
Samsung Electronics has announced today the latest in its ARM11 series of application processors, the S5P6440, offering a low-power, high-performance solution for consumer electronic (CE) products.
The S5P6440 is based on an ARM1176 CPU core which runs at either 533 MHz or 667 MHz clock speed. The CPU core and all on-chip hardware accelerators and peripheral interfaces are connected through a 64-bit AXI bus running at 166 MHz, allowing ample input/output bandwidth for handling multiprocessing requirements in real-life applications.
The MCU features 2D graphics acceleration hardware that is compliant with the OpenVG application programming interface (API) standard. The OpenVG API enables advanced graphics functions such as alpha blending for transparency effects, antialiasing for sharper graphics, and vector graphics support for scaling without loss of image quality.
Advanced NAND error correction hardware is included to support current and next generation MLC NAND Flash devices. The S5P6440 also integrates a DRAM memory controller that supports both mobile DDR (mDDR) as well as the lower cost DDR2 memory chips, allowing device manufacturers’ different choices of storage device types to meet different market segments’ requirements.
The S5P6440 integrates a mobile industry processor interface (MIPI) display serial interface (DSI) for advanced graphics and display capabilities at low power. The MIPI DSI interface is valuable to customers wanting to reduce the complexity of the display interface by reducing the number of pins, which has benefits in terms of design simplicity and cost. DSI also uses a differential signal which substantially reduces EMI issues.
The new application processor supports all major high-level operation systems including WinCE and Linux.
For more information visit www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor
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