MSC Embedded Inc., a manufacturer of integrated standard semiconductor board-level products and customer-specific boards and systems, has announced its compact Qseven MSC Q7-TI8168 module in a high-performance variant with a DaVinci DM8168 digital media processor from Texas Instruments (TI). The processor integrates an Advanced RISC Machine (ARM) Cortex-A8 reduced instruction set computing (RISC) memory protection unit (MPU), up to 1.5 gigahertz (GHz); the C674x Floating-Point very long instruction word (VLIW) digital signal processor (DSP) with up to 8000 million instructions per second (MIPS) and 6000 million floating-point operations per second (MFLOPS); and video and graphics accelerators.
The DaVinci DM8168 digital media processor processes up to three 1080p (i.e., 1080 horizontal lines of vertical resolution with progressive scan) 60 frame-per-second (fps) video streams simultaneously and is perfectly suited for multichannel high-definition (HD) video monitoring systems, video conference systems and media hubs and servers. The DSP also manages the compute-intensive image processing in real-time, thus reducing the load on the ARM processor. TI offers comprehensive software support for numerous imaging tasks including digital filtering, complex mathematical calculations, image processing and image analysis.
The Qseven MSC Q7-TI8168 module is specifically suited to handle demanding visualisation and multimedia tasks (e.g., in industrial automation, medicine and biometrics, as well as in high-end measurement technology or the fields of tracking and safety engineering).
As standard interfaces, the embedded platform features a High Definition Multimedia Interface/Digital Visual Interface (HDMI/DVI) with resolution up to 1920 × 1080 pixels and a single-channel low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS) 24-bit with up to 1280 × 720 pixels. In addition to a PCI Express x1 channel sound guard port, the platform also has a gigabit-Ethernet (GigE) interface, six universal serial bus (USB) 2.0 connections, serial peripheral interface (SPI), HD Audio Codec (AC’97: an audio codec standard developed by Intel Architecture Labs in 1997) and a camera interface. User data can be saved using either of two serial AT attachment (SATA) II channels. A memory card can be connected using the secure digital/secure digital input output (SD/SDIO) interface. The Qseven module integrates a fast, 1 gigabyte (GB) double data rate type three (DDR3) 1600 synchronous random access memory (SRAM), up to 8GB of “not AND” (NAND; Boolean logic) flash memory and an on-board soldered flash solid-state drive (SSD) with 2GB capacity.
The Qseven MSC Q7-TI8168 module is available immediately. A special ARM-based Qseven MSC Q7-TI8168 module will be available in the fourth quarter of 2012 that can handle an expanded range of temperatures, from -40°C to +85°C (-40°F to 185°F). Since the Qseven module complies with specification 1.20, it can be attached to a standard Qseven baseboard or a customer-developed baseboard. Numerous development platforms are available.
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