iWave announced it's i.MX53 SOM on the same day Freescale announced the availability of i.MX53 SoC

Bangalore, 1st March 2011, INDIA - iWave Systems Technologies Pvt. Ltd., a leading embedded design house Headquartered in Bangalore announces a High end, Low cost, Low power SOM based on Freescale’s i.MX53 (Cortex-A8) Multimedia application processor on the same day Freescale announced its i.MX53 processor development platform availability.

This i.MX53 SOM module will support the major operating system including Windows Embedded Compact 7/CE 6.0 R3, Android 2.1, Linux and QNX/VxWorks OS platforms.

This module is iWave's latest addition to its growing family of multimedia focused products offering high performance processing with a high degree of functional integration, aimed at the growing Automotive Infotainment, Telemedicine, HMI & Display based cluster markets.

A dedicated video processor offloads the main core by performing video 1080p decoding and 720p encoding for multimedia applications like playing movies and monitoring cameras.“To speed up the product development at low cost, we have designed this module in MXM-3 form factor. Complex part of the design is implemented in this module and have brought all the signals to the MXM connector, so that anybody can buy this module and quickly develop their own application specific carrier card" said Abdullah Khan – Director Engineering, iWave Systems. Alternatively, iWave can also support in developing custom design around its i.MX53 module.

The key features of this module are i.MX53 / 1GHz processor includes 3D and 2D graphics, 1080i/p video processing, on board 1GB/2GB DDR2 RAM, 8GB eMMC4.41 Flash, 16MB SPI Flash for Boot, 10/100Mbps Ethernet PHY, Micro SD, UART and USB OTG. The module supports MXM-3 form factor of size 85mm x 85mm and support MXM3 edge connector for IO expansion to support Dual LCD, Dual Camera, USB2.0, SATAII, SD/SDIO, CAN, MLB, ESAI, SSI, SPDIF, Video-In, TVout, SPI, I2C, UART and various IO interfaces.

Commenting on this new module launch, Mr. Vivek Tyagi, Country Sales Manager, Freescale Semiconductor India Pvt. Ltd., mentioned, “iWave Systems Technologies is a Proactive Design Partner of Freescale Semiconductor. iWave has been involved in bringing out SOM and Reference Designs on Freescale i.MX Platform. The long standing relationship has been beneficial to many of our product customers as iWave reference designs have shortened their cycle time”.


Processor: i.MX53 ARM Cortex A8 CPU
RAM: GB/2GB DDR2
ROM: 8GB eMMC Flash, 16MB SPI Flash
On Board Peripherals: 10/100Mbps Ethernet PHY, RS232 Serial port, I2C header, CAN header, USB OTG connector, Micro SD Connector, JTAG Header, On Board Power Connector 314-pin MXM-3
Edge Connector: UART x 3, I2C x 3, SDIO x 3, SPI x 2, Audio SSI x 3, CAN x 1, MLB x 1, SPDIF x 1, LVDS x 2, SATA x 1, Parallel RGB Out x 1,Video In/CSI x 1, USB HS Host x 1, USB OTG x 1, 17 GPIOs, ESAI x 1, Ethernet RMII PHY Signal Interface x1
Form Factor: 85mm X 85mm

Advantages by going with iWave solution:

iWave is recognized alliance partner of Freescale Semiconductor.

iWave SOM Supports multiple Operating systems with the optimized platform BSP software: Windows Embedded Compact 7/CE 6.0 R3, Android 2.1, Linux and QNX/VxWorks OS platforms.

iWave accomplished 14 different product designs using various Freescales’s i.MX Application processors in different domain like Medical/Health Care, Remote Monitoring/Industrial Automation, HMI, Digital Signage and Automotive Infotainment etc.. Read more about iWave’s i.MX expertise

http://www.iwavesystems.com/iwave_freescale_case_study.pdf

iWave worked on vast components profiles for more than hundreds of complex embedded hardware designs in last decade and the experience helped to bring the BOM cost at very optimum

iWave offers off the shelf SOM modules and optimized Platform Software which is proven across many product designs.

With the above experience, iWave can offer quick customization services around various i.MX platform based designs.

About iWave Systems:

iWave Systems Technologies is an embedded Hardware and Software Turnkey Design Services company, focused on providing integrated solutions for developing innovative products and systems in the areas of Communication, Multimedia, Consumer electronics , Industrial and Automotive. With its 12 year expertise combined with its current 130 strong team, iWave is poised to become an Independent design house for the high tech Electronic Systems. iWave is a Windows Embedded Silver partner and an award winner of the Partner Excellence Award 2009-10.

For more info dial us to +91 80 26683700 / write to mktg@iwavesystems.com



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[ Edited by iWavesystems 24.10.2011 - 20:57 ]

Double post.
Interesting system, but only a Cortex-A8.
Still, its a Freescale processor.

yes we are using freescale processor in this SoM.

We are the only company which is offering MXM form factor(314 pin) SoM around i.MX53.

This is targetted for automotive applications.

@iWave
No PPC product planed?

> No PPC product planed?

http://www.iwavesystems.com/mpc8640_module.htm

@Tcheko & Andreas Wolf:

you mean PowerPC(PPC)??

If yes Which processor based PPC you are looking for???

[ Edited by iWavesystems 25.10.2011 - 20:18 ]

Since this is a forum for MorphOS which is a PowerPC OS, most pple are interested in any platform that may be a good candidate for MorphOS. 86xx based systems would probably interest quite some ppl here, even very low spec systems like based on an e300/400MHz could be interesting (if price and features are interesting).
Real big and serious interest could be gained with some QorIQ T5 based system once they are out.

> Which processor based PPC you are looking for???

I was not looking for one but rather *found* on your website the MPC864x based system I linked to in my reply to Tcheko. In case you want to know what system I'd like to see I'm with Zylesea here in that the QorIQ AMP T5 is going to be a cool chip to have a look at once it's out.

I'm also interested in a PowerPC equipped board, too.
The kind of processor doesn't matter.
It should be a new processor design with AltiVec.
IBM PPC476FP
FreeScale QorIQ AMP T5
e6500 ... PowerPC A2 ...

The board should be a little bit cheaper as the X1000

http://www.iwavesystems.com/mpc8640_module.htm

Neat, but too late.

And the T5 isn't due for awhile.
And unless its more flexible in its PCIe assignments (then the P50XX) we're still going to have a limited number of available PCIe lanes.

> It should be a new processor design with AltiVec.
> IBM PPC476FP [...]
> PowerPC A2

AFAIK neither PPC476FP nor A2 have AltiVec.

https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?forum=3&topic_id=7001&start=650
https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?forum=3&topic_id=7675&start=173

Can you provide trustworthy sources that say those cores come with AltiVec?

> too late

...and not usable for desktop computing purposes at all.

> unless its more flexible in its PCIe assignments (then the P50XX) we're
> still going to have a limited number of available PCIe lanes.

Even with absolute flexibility regarding SerDes lane configuration we'd never have unlimited number of available PCIe lanes ;-)

Andreas_Wolf,
Quote:

It isn't implemented right now, but It is intended for:
https://www.power.org/events/powercon09/taiwan09/IBM_Overview_PowerPC476FP.pdf

Page 6:

　　　- Support for future accelerator extensions such as VMX

There was another power.org PDF that asserted the same, I can't find.

In this document IBM claims it would be possible to implement a SIMD-Unit in the future.

Wii U anyone

>>> It should be a new processor design with AltiVec.
>>> IBM PPC476FP [...]
>>> PowerPC A2

>> AFAIK neither PPC476FP nor A2 have AltiVec.
>>
>> https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?forum=3&topic_id=7001&start=650
>> https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?forum=3&topic_id=7675&start=173
>>
>> Can you provide trustworthy sources that say those cores come with AltiVec?

> It isn't implemented right now, but It is intended for [...]
> In this document IBM claims it would be possible to implement a SIMD-Unit
> in the future.

Yes, if you click the first link I provided to you you'll see that I quoted two documents that say essentially the same. But right now it's not implemented, which is what I wanted to get across.
Btw, what about the A2 core which you said would have AltiVec/VMX?

> Wii U anyone ;-)

What about it? Do you know for sure that it will come with AltiVec/VMX?

I don't have any proof.

For now I only have the anwser from a IBM worker, about the SIMD-Unit and PPC476FP and PowerPC A2

Quote:

> I don't have any proof. For now I only have the anwser from a IBM worker,
> about the SIMD-Unit and PPC476FP and PowerPC A2
> [...]

So to summarize:
Neither the PPC476FP core nor the A2 core have AltiVec/VMX implemented in themselves, and to date there're no chips that are based on either of those cores and have AltiVec/VMX.

That's the question. What chip has the Wii U ...

> That's the question. What chip has the Wii U ...

Yes, let's see. But I somehow doubt it will come with AltiVec/VMX, which is an opinion I already explicated half a year ago:

https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?forum=3&topic_id=7675&start=156

So seen from that perspective the Wii U's CPU could very well be based on PPC476FP or A2 cores ;-) On the other hand, recent rumours speak against this in terms of clock frequency:

https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?forum=3&topic_id=7675&start=206

Update:

> the Wii U's CPU could very well be based on PPC476FP or A2 cores

With out-of-order execution said to be implemented in the Wii U CPU, the in-order A2 is out of the game, if true.

https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=7675&forum=3&start=305