DevKit8500

=Devkit8500D/A Board Overview= Embest DevKit8500D Evaluation Board takes full features of the 1GHz Texas Instruments' DM3730 ARM Cortex-A8 DaVinci™ digital media processor and supports up to 512MByte DDR SDRAM and 512MByte NAND Flash as well as a reserved iNAND design to expand the flash storage capabilities. The board has exposed many other hardware interfaces including serial ports, LCD/TSP, DVI-D, S-Video, Ethernet, USB, TF, keyboard, camera, SPI, I2C and JTAG. The board is able to support for Linux 2.6.32 and WinCE 6.0 operating systems. It has two methods to boot Linux and WinCE systems from either TF card or NAND flash. Besides, it is provided with Android 2.2 demo with driver source code. Embest gives instructions on how to boot Android demo image from NAND flash with TF card.

The board supports using XDS100v2 USB JTAG Emulator for debugging which is available from Embest. Embest also offers 4.3-inch or 7-inch LCD with touch screen and various modules for options including VGA, WiFi, Analog Camera, GPS, GPRS, 3G and Digital Camera modules which greatly extends the functions of the board and would be flexible for customer selection to meet their own needs.

The TI's DM3730 processor is pin-to-pin compatible with TI's AM3715 processor, Embest also supplies the board with the AM3715 CPU and this board is called DevKit8500A.



=Hardware=

Hardware Features
- Up to 1-GHz ARM® Cortex™-A8 Core, also supports 300, 600, and 800-MHz operation - Up to 800-MHz TMS320C64x+™ DSP Core, Also supports 260, 520 and 660-MHz operation - NEON™ SIMD Coprocessor (DM3730 only) - POWERVR SGX™ Graphics Accelerator - ARM: 32KB I-Cache; 32KB D-Cache; 256KB L2 Cache - Onchip 32KB ROM and 64KB Shared SDRAM - Two 5 line serial ports, TTL voltage - One channel McSPI Interface (Multichannel Serial Port Interface) - One channel McBSP interface (Multi-Channel Buffered Serial Port) - One channel I2C interface - One channel HDQ interface (HDQ/1-Wire)
 * Dimensions: 136.2mm x 105.3mm
 * Power Supply: +5V
 * Working Temp.: 0~70°C
 * TI DM3730 DaVinci Digital Media Processor (pin-to-pin compatible with TI AM3715)
 * 512MB DDR SDRAM, 32bit, 200MHz
 * 512MB NAND Flash, 16bit
 * 2GB iNAND, 4bit (Default: not soldered, optional, reserved for soldering)
 * TF card slot
 * One 10/100M Ethernet interface (RJ45)
 * One High-speed USB2.0 OTG port (Mini USB type interface)
 * Four High-speed USB2.0 Host port (USB A type interface)
 * One 5 line Debug serial port, RS232 (DB9 connector)
 * LCD/Touch Screen interface (50-pin FPC connector, support resolution up to 2048*2048)
 * DVI high-resolution image output port (HDMI interface, support 720p, 30fps signal)
 * One S-Video display interface
 * One audio input interface (3.5mm audio jack)
 * One 2-channel audio output interface (3.5mm audio jack)
 * One camera interface (30-pin FPC connector, support CCD or CMOS camera)
 * 6*6 keyboard interface
 * One 14-pin Jtag interface
 * Four buttons (One for Reset, one for Wakeup and two for User defined)
 * One expansion connector (2.0mm 40-pin SMT Female Pin Header)

=FAQ= If you have got some problems when using DevKit8500D/A board, please refer to Devkit8500FAQ.