ARM Cortex-A8 based SoM is ‘most feature rich’ on market
Based on Texas Instruments' Sitara AM3517/05 SoC, the CompuLab CM-T3517 features the advanced Cortex-A8 ARM cpu and is designed for high visibility, space constrained industrial and retail products such as shelf edge advertising, kiosks and ticketing machines.
Rob Anders, the company's ceo, says the device offers a rich set of multimedia, connectivity and storage features. "The CM-T3517 will help our clients maximise device connectivity and streamline user interface, without raising development overheads," he said.
The CM-T3517 is offered with up to 256MB DDR2, up to 512MB flash disk, a touchscreen controller supporting four wire resistive panels and an onboard power management chip with single 3.3V input or Lithium-ion polymer battery. The system also features a PowerVR SGX gpu, dual output graphics, a graphics controller supporting STN and TFT panels, a camera interface port and audio codec stereo line out and microphone.
For connectivity, it offers a 100Mb/s Ethernet port, integral WiFi 802.11b/g, Bluetooth interface, MMC/SD/SDIO support including SDHC up to 32GB, 4 serial ports, I2C, SPI, GPIOs and a CAN bus.
