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One other thing that I will mention is that the 21mm x 21mm form factor of the OSD335x-SM enables designs that would not be possible with other SOMs or discrete components since is 60% smaller than a discrete implementation.

Comment · 9 years ago

The AM335x inside the OSD335x uses an SGX hardware core. You can see more details: https://eewiki.net/display/linuxonarm/BeagleBone+Black#Beagl...

Comment · 9 years ago

The AM335x processor is still made by TI. We are able to get silicon wafers from TI and then package them together with DDR, power management and passives into a single BGA device that you can use. This makes design and manufacturing of custom embedded hardware easier and faster.

Comment · 9 years ago

Please contact us directly (https://octavosystems.com/contact/) if you would like to discuss this more.

Comment · 9 years ago

Unfortunately, the AM335x in the OSD335x-SM is general purpose only (i.e. only the non-secure side of the processor is exposed). In our development board (https://octavosystems.com/octavo_products/osd3358-sm-red/) for the OSD335x-SM, we have added a TPM and Secure NOR to allow customers to perform secure boot and have secure key storage. Please contact us (https://octavosystems.com/contact/) if you have any questions about this.

Comment · 9 years ago

The design goal around the EEPROM was to have a small space for device and board configuration information. The EEPROM sits on I2C0 in order to maintain pin compatibility with the AM335x and so the data rates to access that memory are not terribly good. We are considering future products that would integrate larger non-volatile storage as well.

Comment · 9 years ago

The OSD335x-SM contains an AM335x processor from Texas Instruments. This processor has a well established customer base and was used on the BeagleBone Black. Depending on what you want to do, there should be an example (both bare-metal and linux) for what you are trying to do. Feel free to contact us (https://octavosystems.com/contact/) if you have any specific questions.

Comment · 9 years ago

We plan to support our chip longer than TI supports the AM335x (the processor inside the OSD335x-SM).

This is just the second device in what we see is a large space for System-in-Package devices. Please contact us (https://octavosystems.com/contact/) if you would like to discuss plans and goals in more detail.

Comment · 9 years ago

The Cortex-M3 is for power management. You can find details from TI (http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Debugging_AM335x_Sus... http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/AM335x_Linux_Power_M...).

The OSD335x-SM uses the same power management solution as the BBB. The chip itself will consume less power than the BBB since it doesn't have all the additional peripherals.

We currently have stock as DigiKey and Mouser and will maintain stock. If you have additional questions on supply, feel free to contact us (https://octavosystems.com/contact/)

We do have other development boards for this processor (https://octavosystems.com/octavo_products/osd3358-sm-red/) more expensive, but more features.

There are still some issues around RTC. The PMIC that we use (TPS65217C) doesn't support RTC-only mode, so unfortunately, you will still probably want to use the discrete RTC to get the standby time you need.