TI’s K2E and K2H System-on-Chip (SoC)

platforms, based on the KeyStone II

multicore architecture, are 28-nm high-

performance platforms that deliver power-

efficient processing solutions for high-end

imaging applications. These devices are

MPCore™ processors with high-performance

TMS320C66x DSP cores, providing

heterogeneous processing at industry-low

power-consumption levels.

The integration of the Cortex-A15 pro-

cessors greatly reduces system cost and

design complexity by removing the need for

a high-end general-purpose processor. With

full support of SMP Linux™, the Cortex-A15

processors enable developers to quickly and

easily migrate existing software designs to the

low-power, high-performance K2E and K2H

platforms.

Many high-end imaging applications require

powerful real-time processing as well as the

need to run operating system and control

code. With the K2H platform, developers of

applications will have for the first time, a full

ARM-based Linux device integrated with the

industry’s highest-performing DSP cores in a

single power-efficient package that can deliver

up to 352 GMACS, 198 GFLOPS and 19,600

Dhrystone MIPS. Coupled with industry-best

development tools and multicore software

developers can easily parallelize code and run

it on the ARM or DSP cores and quickly create

code that scales across the different devices

within the K2H and K2E platforms, allowing for

the most cost- and power-efficient designs.

Application Segments

Industrial Automation: Industrial automation

systems are implemented to increase

production throughput and productivity and

to improve the quality and consistency of a

product or process. These systems perform a

wide array of functions including:

• Imagelocationandenhancement

• 1D/2Dcodereading

Industrial Imaging

Applications of the K2H and K2E platforms in

high-end imaging

Applications Brief

Multicore Navigator

PCIE

Packet AccelerationPac

Security AccelerationPac

EthernetSwitch

DDR3/3L

64/72b

DDR3/3L

64/72b

4 MB

011100

100010

001111

1 MB

011100

1 MB

011100

1 MB

011100

1 MB

011100

6 MB

EMIF 16

UART

SPI

IC

2

HyperLink

USB 3

SRIO

®

Ethernet

System

Services

Power

Manager

Debug

System

Monitor

EDMA

Multicore Shared Memory Controller

011100

100010

001111

++ **

-- <<

C66x DSP

<<

++ **

-- <<

C66x DSP

<<

++ **

-- <<

C66x DSP

<<

++ **

-- <<

C66x DSP

<<

++ **

-- <<

C66x DSP

<<

++ **

-- <<

C66x DSP

<<

++ **

-- <<

C66x DSP

<<

++ **

-- <<

C66x DSP

<<

1 MB

011100

1 MB

011100

1 MB

011100

1 MB

011100

ARM A15 ARM A15 ARM A15 ARM A15

Figure 1 – TI’s 66AK2H12 SoC with four Cortex-A15 processors and eight C66x DSP cores

Cortex™-A15

C66x DSP

5-Port 1 GbE

Switch

3-Port 10 GbE

Switch

NetCP

K2E

AM5K2E02

2

0

1

0

1

AM5K2E04

4

0

2

2

2

66AK2E05

4

1

2

2

2

66AK2E02

1

1

1

0

1

K2H

66AK2H12

4

8

1

0

1

66AK2H06

2

4

1

0

1

Table 1 – Devices in the KeyStone II architecture