Is any alternative processor board for DM8168, since it is not available at TI could anyone suggest

Parvathi Subramanian

Other Parts Discussed in Thread: AM5728

Hi,

Please suggest me an alternate board in the place of DM8168. Since we need it for our lab purpose could anyone give an idea about the board with same/moderate specification as like DM8168 had, since it got obsolete from TI?

over 7 years ago

0 Sivaraj Kuppuraj over 7 years ago

TI__Mastermind 35645 points

Hi,

Moving your post to right forum to be better answered.

Thanks & regards,
Sivaraj K

0 David Soto - RidgeRun over 7 years ago

Genius 3700 points

Hi,

Have you considered the new AM5728? The main difference is that it has 1 HDVICP2 instead of 3 as in DM8168. It is a good option if you require 1 1080p H264 encoding with a good GPU and DSP as well. We have an SDK for it:

http://developer.ridgerun.com/wiki/index.php?title=Texas_Instruments_AM572x_EVM

The software components are pretty new compared to DM8168, for instance the RidgeRun SDK for AM5728 uses:

U-boot-2015.07 supported
Linux kernel 4.1.13
gstreamer 1.8
Linaro Toolchain 5.2-2015-2 version

One of the big complains on DM8168 was the OMX layer to control the accelerators (enc/dec), in AM5728 that software layer doesn't exists anymore and instead it uses libducati. You can read more about the SDK and gstreamer pipelines here:

http://developer.ridgerun.com/wiki/index.php?title=Getting_Started_Guide_for_AM572X_EVM

http://developer.ridgerun.com/wiki/index.php?title=Gstreamer_pipelines_for_AM572x

Hope this helps,

-David

0 SuitJune Young over 7 years ago

Genius 3985 points

hi,parvathi,could you give me your emal?maybe my friend could offer you a custom DM8168 board for your lab with technical support.

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Is any alternative processor board for DM8168, since it is not available at TI could anyone suggest