RDSABRE_FOR_EREADERS: SABRE for eReaders

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• Overview
• Features
• CPU Complex
• Multimedia
• Display
• External Memory Interface
• Advanced Power Management
• Connectivity
• Controllers
• Design Resources

Overview

The NXP^® Smart Application Blueprint for Rapid Engineering (SABRE) series of market-focused reference designs delivers the SABRE platform for eReaders based on the i.MX508 processor.

• The i.MX508 is the first SoC designed specifically for eReaders with a high-performance Arm® Cortex®-A8 CPU and integrated display controller certified by E Ink® for Electronic Paper Display (EPD) panels
• The SABRE platform provides a reference design for EPD display, touch control, audio playback as well as the ability to add WLAN, 3G modem or Bluetooth®
• The platform was designed to facilitate software development with faster time to market through support of both Linux® and Android™ operating systems

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Features

CPU Complex

• Up to 800 MHz Arm Cortex-A8
• 32 KB instruction and data caches
• Unified 256 KB L2 cache
• NEON SIMD media accelerator
• Vector floating point coprocessor

Multimedia

• OpenVG™ 1.1 hardware accelerator
• 32-bit primary display support up to SXGA+ resolution
• 16-bit secondary display support
• EPD Controller supporting beyond 2048 × 1536 at 106 Hz refresh (or 4096 × 4096 at 20 Hz)
• Pixel Processing Pipeline (PxP) supporting CSC, Combine, Rotate, Gamma Mapping

Display

• 6”Electronic Paper Display Panel daughter card powered by E-Ink

External Memory Interface

• Up to 2 GB LP-DDR2, DDR2 and LP-DDR1(mDDR), 16/32-bit
• SLC/MLC NAND flash, 8/16-bit with 32-bit ECC

Advanced Power Management

• Multiple independent power domains
• State Retention Power Gating (SRPG)
• Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS)

Connectivity

• High-Speed USB 2.0 OTG with PHY
• High-Speed USB 2.0 Host with PHY

Controllers

• Wide array of serial interfaces, including SDIO, SPI, I2C and UART
• I2S audio interface
• 10/100 Ethernet controller

Design Resources