The new Sitara™ family is offering two new ARM Cortex-A8 based devices, the AM3505 and AM3517 microprocessors. The corresponding AM3517 evaluation module supports fast, reliable product evaluation and prototyping. The AM3505 and AM3517 microprocessors provide a combination of industrial temperature options, CAN controller, USB PHY, 3.3V I/O and multiple package options, making it possible for developers to create products that can endure rugged and extreme thermal industrial environments, for applications such as industrial automation, electronic point of service, digital signage, portable data terminals and single board computers.

AM3517/05 key features:

• Superscalar 500 MHz ARM Cortex-A8 core provides 1000 Dhrystone million instructions per second (MIPS)
• Integrated CAN controller
• Sub-one watt power consumption
• Connectivity options with a high-speed USB 2.0 on-the-go with built in PHY to conserve board space and an 10/100 EMAC
• Display subsystem with picture-in-picture, color space conversion, rotation and resizing
• AM3517 includes the PowerVR™ SGX graphics engine which supports OPENGL® ES 2.0.