TI Announces OMAP 4 Mobile App Platform

Multicore low-power, high-performance platform


February 17, 2009
URL:http://www.drdobbs.com/parallel/ti-announces-omap-4-mobile-app-platform/214303161


New multi-core OMAP 4 applications platform from Texas Instruments ushers in a new era of mobile computing performance Future-proof, high-performance, low-power platform makes the vision of the mobile tomorrow a reality

Texas Instruments (TI) has announced OMAP 4, a mobile applications platform that delivers multimedia-rich user experiences such as 1080p video record and playback, 20 megapixel (MP) imaging and approximately a week of audio play time. The company claims that he platform provides significant improvements in performance and play time compared to today's most popular Smartphones, with 10x faster Web page loading times, more than 7x higher computing performance, 6x higher video resolution, 10x better graphics performance and 6x longer audio play time.

At the heart of the OMAP 4 platform is a system-on-chip that aims at balancing power efficiency and high performance across four main engines: a programmable multimedia engine based on TI's C64x DSP and power-efficient, multi-format hardware accelerators; general-purpose processing based on the dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore supporting symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) and capable of speeds of more than 1GHz per core; a high-performance programmable graphics engine; and an Image Signal Processor (ISP) for unparalleled video and imaging performance. The OMAP 4 platform also includes a software suite, power management technology and other supporting components, providing the foundation necessary to create devices with mobile computing performance at low power.

"For the past decade, TI has focused on providing an optimal balance of high performance and low power consumption in our OMAP product line to address our customers' needs to quickly and easily address new market trends," said TI's Greg Delagi. "The OMAP 4 platform will enable a new class of mobile devices that will redefine the boundaries of Smartphones and MIDs."

OMAP 4 platform highlights:

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