High-performance successors to the Sitara AM335x platform

Texas Instruments AM437x Sitara ARM Cortex-A9 Processors, available from Mouser, are high-performance successors to the popular AM335x platform. They integrate additional features to support a variety of markets including patient monitoring, navigation equipment, industrial automation, portable data terminals, bar code scanners, point of service, portable mobile radios, and test and measurement. These markets include human machine interfaces (HMI) to IoT gateways to industrial automation. The processors run at 1GHz and feature a new generation of programmable real time unit (PRU) subsystems. These PRUs enable simultaneous industrial Ethernet protocols and motor feedback protocols, such as EnDAT. Leveraging the PRU, this processor is optimized for industrial drive applications, offering integrated industrial Ethernet communications, motor control peripherals, sigma-delta modulator for current sensing, position feedback protocols and various fieldbus communication options on a single chip.