Analysis: Dual Cortex-A9 cores figure drive OMAP 4
BDTI
(03/30/2009 11:13 PM EDT)
(03/30/2009 11:13 PM EDT)
Texas Instruments recently announced its next-generation application processor family, OMAP 4. The OMAP 4 chip family targets smart phones and mobile internet devices (MIDs) and incorporates a number of distinct processing engines.
General-purpose processing is provided via a dual-core SMP processor based on two ARM Cortex-A9 cores, both of which include the NEON multimedia extensions. As shown in Figure 1 below, OMAP 4 chips also include an imaging engine (TI’s ISP), graphics engine (Imagination Technologies’ POWERVR SGX540), programmable video engine (TI’s IVA3) and “audio backend engine” (TI’s ABE).
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Figure 1: Inside the OMAP 4, courtesy of Texas Instruments
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