do we have support for the Beagle Board?

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Fri Apr 10 12:14:19 PDT 2009


Duncan Barclay <dmlb at dmlb.org> writes:
> The DSP is not a Cortex, it's the 64x series of TI DSP. The Cortex is
> Arm's latest CPU. Arm instruction sets are labeled as ArmV5, V6, V7
> etc. Then, Arm develop CPU cores that implement these:
>    ArmV5   ARM9xx such as an Arm926 processor
>    ArmV6   ARM1176 CPUs
>    ArmV7   ARM Cortex-A8, Cortex-A9s etc.
> These core's are then licensed to chip manufacturers for them to use.

So why didn't they just use a TI DaVinci or DaVinci HD?  It's an ARMv5
core and a 64x DSP on a single chip, with something like 2 MB of shared
SRAM.

DES
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