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Description
The AM1808 ARM Microprocessor is a low-power applications processor based on ARM926EJ-S.
The device enables original-equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and original-design manufacturers (ODMs)
to quickly bring to market devices featuring robust operating systems support, rich user interfaces, and
high processing performance life through the maximum flexibility of a fully integrated mixed processor
solution.
The ARM926EJ-S is a 32-bit RISC processor core that performs 32-bit or 16-bit instructions and
processes 32-bit, 16-bit, or 8-bit data. The core uses pipelining so that all parts of the processor and
memory system can operate continuously.
The ARM core has a coprocessor 15 (CP15), protection module, and data and program memory
management units (MMUs) with table look-aside buffers. The ARM core processor has separate 16-KB
instruction and 16-KB data caches. Both are four-way associative with virtual index virtual tag (VIVT). The
ARM core also has 8KB of RAM (Vector Table) and 64KB of ROM.
The peripheral set includes: a 10/100 Mbps Ethernet media access controller (EMAC) with a management
data input/output (MDIO) module; one USB2.0 OTG interface; one USB1.1 OHCI interface; two inter-
integrated circuit (I2C Bus) interfaces; one multichannel audio serial port (McASP) with 16 serializers and
FIFO buffers; two multichannel buffered serial ports (McBSPs) with FIFO buffers; two serial peripheral
interfaces (SPIs) with multiple chip selects; four 64-bit general-purpose timers each configurable (one
configurable as watchdog); a configurable 16-bit host-port interface (HPI); up to 9 banks of general-
purpose input/output (GPIO) pins, with each bank containing 16 pins with programmable interrupt and
event generation modes, multiplexed with other peripherals; three UART interfaces (each with RTS and
CTS); two enhanced high-resolution pulse width modulator (eHRPWM) peripherals; three 32-bit enhanced
capture (eCAP) module peripherals which can be configured as 3 capture inputs or 3 auxiliary pulse width
modulator (APWM) outputs; two external memory interfaces; an asynchronous and SDRAM external
memory interface (EMIFA) for slower memories or peripherals; and a higher speed DDR2/Mobile DDR
controller.
The EMAC provides an efficient interface between the device and a network. The EMAC supports both
10Base-T and 100Base-TX, or 10 Mbps and 100 Mbps in either half- or full-duplex mode. Additionally, an
MDIO interface is available for PHY configuration. The EMAC supports the MII and RMII interfaces.
The SATA controller provides a high-speed interface to mass data storage devices. The SATA controller
supports SATA I (1.5 Gbps) and SATA II (3.0 Gbps).
The universal parallel port (uPP) provides a high-speed interface to many types of data converters,
FPGAs or other parallel devices. The uPP supports programmable data widths between 8- to 16-bits on
both channels. Single-data rate and double-data rate transfers are supported as well as START, ENABLE,
and WAIT signals to provide control for a variety of data converters.
A video port interface (VPIF) is included providing a flexible video I/O port.
The rich peripheral set provides the ability to control external peripheral devices and communicate with
external processors. For details on each of the peripherals, see the related sections in this document and
the associated peripheral reference guides.
The device has a complete set of development tools for the ARM processor. These tools include C
compilers, and scheduling, and a Windows debugger interface for visibility into source code execution.
Device Information
PART NUMBER
PACKAGE
BODY SIZE
AM1808ZCE
NFBGA (361)
13,00 mm x 13,00 mm
AM1808ZWT
NFBGA (361)
16,00 mm x 16,00 mm
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AM1808 ARM Microprocessor
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