>
> *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 one
yet. PRU< definately not, that is unique to TI.

On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 8:29 AM, Drew Fustini <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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, 2015 1:35 AM, "Maxim Podbereznyy" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 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 <[email protected]>:
>>
>>> 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. When in fact each IPU is a
>>> subsystem with 2 M4 cores, not singles. Which is good news after all.
>>>
>>> And dahm, this newer processor sure is getting complex. Seeing mention
>>> in the TRM to read other documents in relation to the various different
>>> cores. Like you eluded to above Robert. heh. Read the C6000 TRM, M4 TRM,
>>> plus what else ? On top of the 7483 pages already in the AM572x TRM . .
>>> .heh lots of reading to do . . .
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 8:58 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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, Oct 14, 2015 at 8:19 PM, Robert Nelson <[email protected]
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 10:01 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]>
>>>>> 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
>>>>> for
>>>>> >> other processing
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> > 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> Well there's opencl from ti for the dual c6000's.. ;)
>>>>>
>>>>> http://git.ti.com/gitweb/?p=opencl/ti-opencl.git;a=summary
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
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