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DM6446 Boards

Filipe Alves10699
Prodigy 100 points
Other Parts Discussed in Thread: OMAP3530

Hi,

I have been trying to find production ready boards to use with the DM6446, but unfortanly with no sucess.

Anyone is aware of some ?

I do not have experience designing boards, so was trying to buy them for the final implementation.

Appart of buying, does anyone have an idea what would be the cost of a "homemade" board?

Thanks in advance.

 

  • 0
    TI__Mastermind 37340 points

    what end-product do you have in mind?

    We have our General purpose evaluation board ( DM6446 DVEVM )

    In addition we also have third party reference designs such as Software Defined Radio (SDR) from Lyrtech, and IP Net Cam designs from Nuvation based on DM6446. 

  • 0 in reply to Juan Gonzales
    Prodigy 100 points

    Hi Juan,

    thanks for your reply.

    The final product will be a people and vehicle detector. So a camera, the micro and an internet conection will do the job.

    As for the evaluation board, it is being aquired as we speak, for developing purposes. But no way, we can use one of those boards per detector. IF we were going to spend so many money in that, a laptop would do the job for a less cost.

    Best Regards

  • 0 in reply to Filipe Alves10699
    TI__Mastermind 37340 points

    since you mentioned laptop, have you considered our beagle board ($149), it is a very small form factor and I am pretty sure there are camera solutions for it out there. 

  • 0 in reply to Juan Gonzales
    Prodigy 100 points

    Beagle board would be what i am looking for if instead of the OMAP3530 it had the DM6446.

    Is the conversion from the DM6446 to the OMAP 3530 straightforward? ( except for the vision co-processor not presented in the OMAP).

    I am relutant in that cause we have chosen to acquire the DM6646 digital evaluation board.

    Best Regards

  • 0 in reply to Filipe Alves10699
    TI__Mastermind 37340 points

    software-wise they can be very similar (linux kernel stack, middleware APIs, DSP too-chains); from a hardware perspective, they can be quite different (DM6446 has VICP, OMAP35x has Graphics processor, and NEON co-processor) hence depending on your use case, one is better for some things than the other.  DM6446's VICP allows you to run a diverse set of video compression/decompression algorithms on it.  OMAP35x's more powerful Cortex A-8 arm processor, along with NEON and SGX co-processors let you run better GUIs and more off-the-shelf Linux programs (e.g. flash readers) that the ARM9 can sometimes struggle with.

  • 0 in reply to Juan Gonzales
    Prodigy 100 points

    Thanks again Juan, for your reply.

    Just to leave the question open for other replyes.

    Is there any beagleboard kind of module, but with DM6446?

    P.S. I have checked the Nuvation, but that is way out of budget...

     

    Best Regards

     

     

     

     

  • 0 in reply to Filipe Alves10699
    TI__Mastermind 37340 points

    closest thing I can think of is the community board at www.leopardboard.org; it is based on DM355 which is mostly DM6446 - DSP - VICP + MJCP...essentially same software architecture, same ARM9, similar VPSS and peripherals and replaces DSP+VICP (flexible for many algorithms types) with MJCP (limited mostly for JPEG and MPEG4 compression/decompression).  The DM355 board + VGA CCD sensor sells for approximately $99 .