OMAP (Open Multimedia Applications Platform) is a family of

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/ video processors that was developed by

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. They are proprietary

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s (SoCs) for portable and mobile

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. OMAP devices generally include a general-purpose

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processor core plus one or more specialized

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s. Earlier OMAP variants commonly featured a variant of the Texas Instruments TMS320 series

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. The platform was created after December 12, 2002, as

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and Texas Instruments jointly announced an initiative for ''Open Mobile Application Processor Interfaces'' (OMAPI) intended to be used with 2.5 and 3G

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s, that were going to be produced during 2003. (This was later merged into a larger initiative and renamed the MIPI Alliance.) The OMAP was Texas Instruments' implementation of this standard. (The STMicroelectronics implementation was named

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.) OMAP enjoyed some success in the smartphone and tablet market until 2011 when it lost ground to

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. On September 26, 2012, Texas Instruments announced that they would wind down their operations in smartphone and tablet oriented chips and focus on embedded platforms instead. On November 14, 2012, Texas Instruments announced they would cut 1,700 jobs due to their shift from mobile to embedded platforms. The last OMAP5 chips were released in Q2 2013.

OMAP family

The OMAP family consists of three product groups classified by performance and intended application: * high-performance applications processors * basic multimedia applications processors * integrated modem and applications processors Further, two main distribution channels exist, and not all parts are available in both channels. The genesis of the OMAP product line is from partnership with cell phone vendors, and the main distribution channel involves sales directly to such ''wireless handset'' vendors. Parts developed to suit evolving cell phone requirements are flexible and powerful enough to support sales through less specialized ''catalog'' channels; some OMAP 1 parts, and many OMAP 3 parts, have catalog versions with different sales and support models. Parts that are obsolete from the perspective of handset vendors may still be needed to support products developed using catalog parts and distributor-based inventory management.

High-performance applications processors

These are parts originally intended for use as application processors in

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s, with processors powerful enough to run significant

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s (such as

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, Android or

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), support connectivity to personal computers, and support various audio and video applications.

OMAP 1

The OMAP 1 family started with a TI-enhanced ARM925 core (ARM925T), and then changed to a standard ARM926 core. It included many variants, most easily distinguished according to manufacturing technology ( 130 nm except for the OMAP171x series), CPU, peripheral set, and distribution channel (direct to large handset vendors, or through catalog-based distributors). In March 2009, the OMAP1710 family chips are still available to handset vendors. Products using OMAP 1 processors include hundreds of cell phone models, and the

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s. * OMAP1510 – 168 MHz ARM925T (TI-enhanced) + C55x DSP * OMAP161x – 204 MHz ARM926EJ-S + C55x DSP, 130 nm technology * OMAP162x – 204 MHz ARM926EJ-S + C55x DSP + 2 MB internal SRAM, 130 nm technology * OMAP171x – 220

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ARM926EJ-S + C55x DSP, low-voltage 90 nm technology * OMAP5910 – catalog availability version of OMAP 1510 * OMAP5912 – catalog availability version of OMAP1621 (or OMAP1611b in older versions)

OMAP 2

These parts were only marketed to handset vendors. Products using these include both Internet tablets and

s: * OMAP2431 – 330 MHz ARM1136 + 220 MHz C64x DSP * OMAP2430 – 330 MHz ARM1136 + 220 MHz C64x DSP +

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MBX lite GPU, 90 nm technology * OMAP2420 – 330 MHz ARM1136 + 220 MHz C55x DSP + PowerVR MBX GPU, 90 nm technology

OMAP 3

The 3rd generation OMAP, the OMAP 3 is broken into 3 distinct groups: the OMAP34x, the OMAP35x, and the OMAP36x. OMAP34x and OMAP36x are distributed directly to large handset (such as cell phone) manufacturers. OMAP35x is a variant of OMAP34x intended for catalog distribution channels. The OMAP36x is a 45 nm version of the 65 nm OMAP34x with higher clock speed. The OMAP 3611 found in devices like the Bookeen's Cybook Odyssey is a licensed crippled version of the OMAP 3621, both are the same silicon (as marking are the same) but officially the 3611 was sold to be only able to drive e-Ink screen and does not have access to IVA & DSP. The video technology in the higher end OMAP 3 parts is derived in part from the

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product line, which first packaged higher end C64x+ DSPs and image processing controllers with ARM9 processors last seen in the older OMAP 1 generation or ARM Cortex-A8. Not highlighted in the list below is that each OMAP 3 SoC has an "Image, Video, Audio" (IVA2) accelerator. These units do not all have the same capabilities. Most devices support 12 megapixel camera images, though some support 5 or 3 megapixels. Some support HD imaging.

OMAP 4

The OMAP 4 line consists of the OMAP 4430, OMAP 4460 (formerly named 4440), and OMAP 4470. The 4th generation OMAPs have a

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CPU with two ARM

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cores, as part of the "Ducati" sub-system for off-loading low-level tasks. The OMAP 4430 was the SoC used in

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. OMAP 4 uses ARM Cortex-A9's with ARM's SIMD engine (Media Processing Engine, aka NEON) which in some cases may have a significant performance advantage over

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2's ARM Cortex-A9s with non-vector floating point units. It also uses a dual-channel LPDDR2 memory controller compared to Nvidia Tegra 2's single-channel memory controller. All OMAP 4 processors come with an IVA3 multimedia hardware accelerator with a programmable DSP that enables 1080p Full HD and multi-standard video encoding and decoding. The 4430 and 4460 use a PowerVR SGX540 graphics processing unit (GPU). The 4430's GPU runs at a clock frequency of 304 Mhz, and the 4460's GPU runs at 384 MHz. The 4470 has a PowerVR SGX544 GPU that supports DirectX 9 that enables it for use in

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. It also has a dedicated 2D graphics core for increased power efficiency up to 50-90%.

OMAP 5

The 5th generation OMAP, OMAP 5 SoC uses a dual-core

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CPU with two additional

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cores to offload the A15s in less computationally intensive tasks to increase power efficiency, two PowerVR SGX544MP graphics cores and a dedicated TI 2D BitBlt graphics accelerator, a multi-pipe display sub-system and a signal processor. They respectively support 24 and 20 megapixel cameras for front and rear 3D HD video recording. The chip also supports up to 8 GB of dual channel LPDDR2/

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memory, output to four HD 3D displays and 3D HDMI 1.4 video output. OMAP 5 also includes three USB 2.0 ports, one lowspeed USB 3.0 OTG port and a SATA 2.0 controller.

Basic multimedia applications processors

These are marketed only to handset manufacturers. They are intended to be highly integrated, low cost chips for consumer products. The OMAP-DM series are intended to be used as digital media coprocessors for mobile devices with high megapixel digital still and video cameras. These OMAP-DM chips incorporate both an

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and an Image Signal Processor (ISP) to accelerate processing of camera images. * OMAP310 – ARM925T * OMAP331 – ARM926 * OMAP-DM270 – ARM7 + C54x DSP * OMAP-DM299 – ARM7 + Image Signal Processor (ISP) + stacked mDDR SDRAM * OMAP-DM500 – ARM7 + ISP + stacked mDDR SDRAM * OMAP-DM510 – ARM926 + ISP + 128 MB stacked mDDR SDRAM * OMAP-DM515 – ARM926 + ISP + 256 MB stacked mDDR SDRAM * OMAP-DM525 – ARM926 + ISP + 256 MB stacked mDDR SDRAM

Integrated modem and applications processors

These are marketed only to handset manufacturers. Many of the newer versions are highly integrated for use in very low cost cell phones. * OMAPV1035 – single-chip EDGE (was discontinued in 2009 as TI announced baseband chipset market withdrawal). * OMAPV1030 – EDGE digital baseband * OMAP850 – 200 MHz ARM926EJ-S + GSM/GPRS digital baseband + stacked EDGE co-processor * OMAP750 – 200 MHz ARM926EJ-S + GSM/GPRS digital baseband + DDR Memory support * OMAP733 – 200 MHz ARM926EJ-S + GSM/GPRS digital baseband + stacked SDRAM * OMAP730 – 200 MHz ARM926EJ-S + GSM/GPRS digital baseband + SDRAM Memory support * OMAP710 – 133 MHz ARM925 + GSM/GPRS digital baseband

OMAP L-1x

The OMAP L-1x parts are marketed only through catalog channels, and have a different technological heritage than the other OMAP parts. Rather than deriving directly from cell phone product lines, they grew from the video-oriented

product line by removing the video-specific features while using upgraded DaVinci peripherals. A notable feature is use of a ''floating point'' DSP, instead of the more customary fixed point one. The Hawkboard uses the OMAP-L138 * OMAP-L137 – 300 MHz ARM926EJ-S + C674x floating point DSP * OMAP-L138 – 300 MHz ARM926EJ-S + C674x floating point DSP

Products using OMAP processors

Many

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3230, N9, N90, N91, N92, N95, N82, E61, E62, E63 and E90 mobile phones, as well as the Nokia 770, N800, N810 and

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, Droid X, and Droid 2, and some early Samsung Galaxy devices, like Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 and Galaxy S II variant GT-I9100G. The OMAP3430 is used in the

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, and Touch Book. Other devices that use OMAP processors include Sony Ericsson's Satio (Idou) and Vivaz, most Samsung phones running Symbian (including Omnia HD), the Nook Color, some

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tablets (such as Archos 80 gen 9 and Archos 101 gen 9), Kindle Fire HD,

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, Kobo Arc, and B&N Nook HD. Some all-in-one smart displays use OMAP 4 SoCs, including the Viewsonic VSD220, which uses an OMAP 4430. OMAP SoCs are also used as the basis for a number of hobbyist, prototyping and evaluation boards, such as the BeagleBoard, PandaBoard, OMAP3 Board,

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and Presonus digital mixing boards Motorola MOTOTRBO 2. generation radios use the OMAP-L132 or OMAP-L138 secure CPU.

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* ARMADA (SoC) 5xx/6xx/15xx by

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* i.MX by

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and Puma by

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* K3Vx/Kirin by

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* MTxxxx by

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* OCTEON by

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* R-Car by Renesas * RK3xxx by

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* Snapdragon, by

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, the only competing product which also features a DSP unit, the

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* Swift (SoC) by

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* TI Sitara ARM Processor SoC family * VideoCore by

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References

External links

Linux OMAP Mailing List Archive

OMAP Application Processors

OMAP3 Boards

OMAP4 Boards

OMAPpedia

OMAPWorld
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