Texas Instruments AM572x EVM

RidgeRun provides support for the AM572x Evaluation Board from Texas Instruments. Please reach us using our Contact Us Linkfor support on this platform.

AM572X EVM

BeagleBoard-X15 (AM5728). Picture downloaded from TI

AM572X_EVM. Picture downloaded from TI

Description

The AM572x Evaluation Module (EVM) enables developers to immediately start evaluating Sitara™ ARM® Cortex®-A15 AM57x Processors (AM5728, AM5726, AM5718, AM5716) and accelerate development for a huge number of different applications, such as: human machine interfaces (HMIs), machine vision, networking, medical devices, medical imaging, video conferencing systems, video broadcasting systems, surveillance DVRs, media servers, single-board computers, gateways, routers, servers, industrial automation, tracking and control applications, point-of-service data terminals, test and measurement and many other industrial applications.

The principal features of this AM572x board are:

AM5728 Processor (Dual core ARM Cortex A-15)
2GB DDR3L
4GB eMMC
Dual core C66x DSP processor
Dual 3D GPU and single 2D GPU
Dual ARM Cortex-M4
4 PRU-ICSS
TPS659037 Power Management IC
Connectivity:
- Gigabit Ethernet (2)
- MiniPCIe
- e/mSATA
- Micro SD Card
- Micro USB 2.0
- USB 3.0 HUB (3)
- HDMI
- Audio in/out
- WiLink8 Connector

The AM572x EVM support from RidgeRun includes our Linux kernel and file system fully integrated with logic to handle the latest Processor SDK released by Texas Instruments as well as GStreamer -- all these features included in a user friendly development environment which will allow you to focus in the development of your product.

Features Supported by the SDK

U-boot-2015.07 supported
Linux kernel 4.1.18
Linaro Toolchain 5.2-2015-2 version
Processor SDK integrated in a user friendly build system:
- Video Decode: H264, MPEG4, MPEG2, and VC1
- Video Encode: H264, and MPEG4
- Image Decode: JPEG
- Image Encode: JPEG (IPU custom firmware and ducatijpegenc element)
- Video decoding on ARM: H.265
- Audio encoding and decoding on ARM: AAC, MPEG2 (leveraging open source codecs)
- VPE (supports video operations such as scaling, color space conversion, and de-interlacing)
  - Supported Input formats: NV12, YUYV, YUY2
  - Supported Output formats: NV12, YUYV, YUY2
Generic Linux SDK (GLSDK) 7.04.00.03 for DRA7XX integration:
- PRU-ICSS Build Enviroment support for developing
- DSP Build Environment support for developing
- IPU Firmware Build Environment support for developing
GStreamer 1.8.1 version support
SD, NFS filesystem support
Boot methods: SD card and EMMC
Many open source applications available like: QT, net-snmp, GStreamer, Busybox, etc
RidgeRun services for integration of graphic acceleration technology with open source software stacks
Ubuntu 14.04 and 15.04