RDSABRE_FOR_EREADERS: SABRE for eReaders

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