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News Release from: Texas Instruments (April 2001-March 2006) | Subject: OMAP1710
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 17 December 2003
Multimedia processor migrates down to
90nm
The OMAP1710 is the first multimedia applications processor developed using TI's advanced 90nm process technology, offering up to 40% improvement in performance at half the power drain.
The industry's first multimedia applications processor developed using TI's advanced 90nm process technology, the OMAP1710 offers up to 40% improvement in performance for a variety of mobile applications, while consuming as little as half the power of current TI application processors The OMAP1710 processor leverages the same software environment as all OMAP chips, enabling application developers and cell phone designers to completely reuse and build upon existing software
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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"The milestone we have achieved with the OMAP1710 processor reinforces our strategy to leverage TI's advanced process technology to provide high-performance, low-power, highly-integrated products for mobile devices".
Using TI's advanced 90nm process technology, the new processor increases performance by as much as 40% for a variety of applications to provide users with a richer mobile experience.
The OMAP1710 enjoys improved performance due to higher frequency, larger data and instruction caches and an instruction set-enhanced TI DSP engine that supports multimedia applications such as still images, graphics, full-motion video and audio.
TI's aggressive process technology and the redesign of critical system blocks within the processor enabled it to surpass its leadership position in power efficiency by decreasing the power consumption of the OMAP1710 device by as much as 50%.
The OMAP1710 processor is built on TI's industry-proven OMAP multiple-engine architecture designed to handle a variety of application tasks in parallel, so a user can enjoy several features and services concurrently.
This unique multiple-engine approach ensures an active multimedia application will not be interrupted or degraded when a separate application, such as an operating system control task, is launched or running simultaneously.
Building on the advantages of the OMAP1610 processor, the OMAP1710 processor provides superior software flexibility, improved multimedia and graphics performance, integrated hardware and software security features, a high-performance camera interface, enhanced peripherals and ultralow standby power consumption.
The OMAP1710 processor is optimised to be paired with TI's TCS wireless chipsets for GSM/GPRS/Edge, cdma2000 1X and UMTS.
The OMAP1710 processor engines include an ARM processor, a TI DSP engine, as well as a range of software and hardware accelerators for video encode and decode, still picture compression, Java and security.
TI's unique advanced security hardware provides a secure execution environment that enables TI's customers to deliver more secure wireless devices required by mobile operators.
TI's security hardware also offers an ideal platform to address the security threats faced by phone manufacturers and carriers today such as preventing the loading of unauthorised software and protecting sensitive data such as the phone's identity.
The OMAP1710 device is software compatible with previous OMAP application processors, offering easy migration for application developers and handset manufacturers and optimal software flexibility and performance.
The device supports advanced mobile operating systems such as Linux, Microsoft's Windows Mobile, Nucleus, Palm OS and Symbian OS.
Like all TI's current OMAP processors, the OMAP1710 is supported by the OMAP Developer Network of leading wireless software application developers and the network of independent OMAP Technology Centres providing development support services.
The new OMAP1710 processor ensures easy access to open programming interfaces and tools including a comprehensive evaluation module that will allow OMAP developers and mobile device manufacturers to get a head start on hardware and software development.
The OMAP1710 processor is expected to sample in the first quarter of 2004.
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