Processors - Texas Instruments AM3505 and AM3517 ARM Cortex-A8 devices

TI's Sitara AM35x family- including AM3505 and AM3517 are lower-cost, industrial entrants to TI's growing range of ARM Cortex-A8 processors. Clocked at 600MHz, the AM35x family does not offer the video DSP of the OMAP or Da Vinci DM37x, or the same low-power possibilities (although power consumption is still 1W class), but instead offers an extended interface set including CAN and dual USB Host, and uses lower cost RAM.

Production-ready system-on-module: SwiftModule-AM
SwiftModule-AM is our lowest cost ARM Cortex-A8 based production-ready system-on-module, and ships with Windows CE 6.0 and Angstrom distribution Linux BSPs.

SwiftModule-AM is a 200-pin SODIMM board, measuring just 35mm x 68mm. For development purposes, SwiftModule-AM plugs into the SwiftLite-AM breakout board (dimensions 90mm x 90mm) providing a complete development system which runs Windows CE 6.0 or Linux out of the box. In production, the SwiftLite baseboard can be replaced with a simple baseboard carrying exactly the connectors required for your product.

JTAG / ETM probe and debugger: Sophia Systems
With full support for the TI AM35x EVM, with both Linux and Windows CE, EJ-SCT is the debug probe of choice for AM3517 family devices. OMAP devices implement both ETB (Embedded Trace Buffer) and ETM (Embedded Trace Macrocell) trace methodologies. ETB uses the standard JTAG connection to pass to the debugger details of each code branch operation which are stored in a small cache on the device. The debugger then uses this information to reconstruct the instruction trace following a HALT. ETM trace uses a separate 38-pin Mictor connector through which bus information is spooled out in real-time. Both trace methodologies are supported by EJ-SCT and the Watchpoint debugger, which is interoperable with the Platform Builder (Windows CE) and GDB (Linux) debug environments.