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MityDSP-L138F-A7 – SPARTAN-6 Replacement SOMARM9, Floating Point DSP, and Artix-7 FPGA (upgrade path for SPARTAN-6 designs)

Overview

The MityDSP-L138F-A7 offers a transition path for customers dealing with SPARTAN-6 replacement / obsolescence, and is a drop-in replacement for the MityDSP-L138F. 

The MityDSP-L138F-A7 is a highly configurable, small form-factor processor card that features a Texas Instruments OMAP-L138 456 MHz (max) Applications Processor (OMAP) tightly integrated with the Xilinx Artix-7 Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), FLASH (NAND, and NOR) and mDDR2 RAM memory subsystems. The design of the MityDSP-L138F-A7 allows end users the capability to develop programs/logic images for both the OMAP and the FGPA.

Applications

  • Embedded Instrumentation
  • Industrial Automation
  • Industrial Instrumentation
  • Medical Instrumentation
  • Embedded Control Processing
  • Network Enabled Data Acquisition
  • Test and Measurement
  • Software Defined Radio
  • Bar Code Scanners
  • Power Protection Systems
  • Portable Data Terminals

Documentation

Specifications

CPU

TI DSP Processor C674x Fixed / Floating Point DSP
Max CPU Speed 456MHz
L1 Program Cache 32KB
L1 Data Cache 32KB
L2 Cache / Internal RAM 256KB

TI Applications Processor ARM926EJ-S MPU
Max CPU Speed 456MHz
L1 Program Cache 16KB
L1 Data Cache 16KB
Internal RAM 8KB

 

Memory

System Memory  Available for Both CPUs
RAM Up to 256MB
NOR Flash Up to 16MB
NAND Flash Up to 512MB

 

FPGA Options XC7A15 or XC7A50
Slices Up to 8,150
Data rate Up to 1,250Mbps
Block RAM Up to 2,700Kb

 

Block Diagram

The MityDSP-L138F-A7 serves as an upgrade option for customers dealing with SPARTAN-6 replacement / obsolescence. The SOM is a drop-in replacement for existing MityDSP-L138F customers.

MityDSP-L138F-A7 block diagram - features ARTIX-7 upgrade for SPARTAN-6 replacement

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interfaces

96 FPGA User I/O pins SATA
10/100 EMAC McBSP (2)
USB (2) Video Output
UART (2) Camera/Video Input
MMC/SD

Mechanical

Dimensions Length Width
Inches 2.66 2.0
Millimeters 67.60 50.80

 

Mechanical specs for MityDSP-L138F-A7

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Compatible Development Kits

  • Contact Critical Link (info@criticallink.com) to order a development kit for the MityDSP-L138F-A7

Development Tools and Software

Software Support CPU Subsystem
Real-time Linux Operating System ARM9
ThreadX Real Time OS ARM9
uBoot ARM9
QNX 6.4 ARM9
Windows Embedded CE ready ARM9
DSP/BIOS Real-time Operating System C674x DSP

 

Development Tool Subsystem
Texas Instruments Code Composer Studio ARM9 and C674x DSP
GNU Toolchain ARM9
Xilinx Vivado Xilinx FPGA
Timesys LinuxLink ARM9

Critical Link has partnered with Timesys to provide their LinuxLink toolset which enables quick and easy design, development, deployment and debugging of an embedded product based on open source Linux. Please visit the MityDSP-L138F LinuxLink Development Center to get started.

Technical Support

Our customers benefit from engineering and applications support for the life of their product. This includes free, lifetime access to our technical support site, as well as access to application engineering resources and other services.

Critical Link’s embedded design team also offers engineering services and other support options such as:

  • Schematic design review for customer designed carrier boards
  • Complete design review services
  • Software development services, including custom BSP development
  • Base board development services
  • Systems Engineering, Software, and Hardware Design to support your project anywhere in the product development lifecycle

Contact us for more information on these services.

 

Related Products

 

Purchase

The MityDSP-L138F-A7 is a drop-in replacement for existing MityDSP-L138F customers. See the related PCN for guidance on part number transition and design migration support.

The SOM also serves as an upgrade option for customers dealing with SPARTAN-6 replacement / obsolescence.

Module P/N CPU FPGA NOR NAND RAM Temp Buy
L138-FJ-326-RC 456MHz XC7A15 16MB 256MB 256MB 0C to +70C Buy
L138-DJ-325-RI 375MHz XC7A15 16MB 256MB 128MB -40C to +85C Buy
L138-FM-336-RL 456MHz XC7A50 16MB 512MB 256MB -40C to +70C Buy
L138-DM-336-RI 375MHz XC7A50 16MB 512MB 256MB -40C to +85C Buy

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