Texas Instruments Cortex-A72 Jacinto™ 7 TDA4 and DRA8 SoC family
The Arm® Cortex®-A72 based Jacinto™ 7 processors TDA4 and DRA8 are highly integrated processors designed for next-generation of ADAS and gateway applications.
The TDA4 family is targeting ADAS and autonomous vehicle (AV) applications.
Key Features
- Dual 64-bit Arm® Cortex®-A72 microprocessor subsystem at up to 2.0 GHz
- Six Arm® Cortex®-R5F MCUs at up to 1.0 GHz
- Embedded MultiMediaCard Interface ( eMMC)
- Two simultaneous flash interfaces configured as
- One OSPI and one QSPI flash interfaces
- or one HyperBus™ and one QSPI flash interface
The DRA8 family is optimized for gateway systems with cloud connectivity.
Key Features
- Dual 64-bit Arm® Cortex®-A72 microprocessor subsystem at up to 2.0 GHz
- 4× Arm® Cortex®-R5F MCUs at up to 1.0 GHz with optional lockstep operation
- Embedded MultiMediaCard Interface ( eMMC)
- One Octal SPI / Xccela™ / HyperBus™ Memory Controller (HBMC) interface
UDE - Universal Debug Engine for Jacinto™ 7 TDA4 and DRA8 SoC family
UDE - Universal Debug Engine - is a flexible debug and test platform for multi-core debugging of the Texas Instruments Jacinto™ 7 TDA4 and DRA8.
UDE Key Features for TDA4 and DRA8
- Multicore debugging
- In one common debugger environment
- Synchronized run-control
- Multicore breakpoints
- Core support
- Armv8-A 64 bit instruction set
- Cortex-R
- Device Management Security Controller (DMSC), if debugging is not blocked
- FLASH programming
Texas Instruments TDA4 and DRA8 Microcontrollers supported by UDE
- Jacinto DRA8 processor family: DRA821, DRA829
- Jacinto TDA4 processor family: TDA4VM
Texas Instruments TDA4 and DRA8 Debug, Trace and Test Features supported by UDE
- Microcontroller debug support
- Multi-core Debugging support
- FLASH Memory programming
- Test Automation and Test Scripting Support with Python and other scripting languages
- Serial Wire Debug SWD support
- Eclipse Plug-in
UDE - Universal Debug Engine with multi-core support - Cortex Debugger and Emulator for Cortex-A72 TDA4 TDA8 Jacinto 7
UDE - Universal Debug Engine - is a flexible debug and emulator platform with Multicore debugging for Cortex-A72 TDA4 TDA8 Jacinto 7.