Texas Instruments TI SITARA manual Universal Parallel Port uPP AM18x only, Value of uPP

Universal Parallel Port (uPP AM18x only)

What Is uPP?

￿High Speed parallel data port

￿Two Bidirectional and

Independent 16bit channels

￿Internal dedicated DMA to

streamline data I/O

￿ Simple I/O Protocol

Value of uPP

uPP Peripheral

CPUConfigI/O

Registers Channel

A

Memory	I/OI/O
Internal
DMA	Channel
CPU	B
Interrupt

External Pins

￿	Efficient Processor to FPGA			Configuration	Throughput (MB/s)
	communication enabled by high
		1	Ch, 16-bit		120
	speed data I/O
		2	Ch, 1	Way, 8-bit	120
￿	Enable multi-processor system
		2	Ch, 1	Way, 16-bit	160
	design in various topologies
￿	Interface with high speed ADCs	2	Ch, 2	Way, 16-bit	240
	andand DACsDACs	HPI (16-bit)			5050

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