Processors are cost-effective & reliable

To provide a power efficient solution, the processors provide 6MB of on-chip memory and are offered with power management features which shut down unused cores or peripherals, opening them again when the processing load increases. The processors also feature a 4MB L2 cache with ECC, which is the largest cache on an ARM processor in the TI portfolio, improving performance. Due to the high performance per watt which the processors' deliver, developers can build products with optimised SWAP. The processors integrate a security accelerator, a packet accelerator, an eight port 1GB Ethernet switch, a two port 10GB Ethernet switch and an optional DSP core.

Supporting a wide temperature range of -40 to 100°C, the processors are suitable for use within harsh environments. To meet the reliability requirements of the industrial and defense markets, the processors also feature a lifecycle of 100,000 power-on hours and soft error rates. Featuring full memory error-correcting code or parity support across all on-chip memory and external DDR memory interfaces, the processors provide enhanced reliability in critical use cases. The devices are suited or a variety of applications including avionics and defense, industrial routing and switching, enterprise gateway, and general-purpose embedded controllers.

Allowing customers to jumpstart development, a software ecosystem offers a mainline Linux software development kit (SDK), C66x DSP libraries and third party real-time operating system offerings including Wind River VxWorks and Green Hills INTEGRITY. A hardware reference design (XEVMK2EX) is available for designers to start hands-on-evaluation immediately. 

Available now, the XEVMK2EX is priced at $999. The silicon is also available now for $155/1KU (X66AK2E05XABD25). 

“Aevision has found the AM5K2E04 processor to be an ideal solution for our next product because of its high level of performance and large number of Ethernet lanes with a power consumption that fits our design needs” said Mr. Shen Quanyong, General Manager, Wuhan Aevision Research and Development Center. “TI’s AM5K2E04 processor finds the right balance of power and performance for the needs of this market, and the tools TI provides accelerate product development.”

“Highly reliable, power and space efficient processing power is an ever increasing need for embedded systems,” said Dinyar Dastoor, Vice President of Product Management, Wind River. “By offering our VxWorks and Wind River Linux operating systems on TI’s AM5K2Ex platforms provide new levels of efficient ARM processing. The combination of our technologies helps our customers meet the challenging demands of multiple embedded computing applications.”