ARIA
"ARIA" COM Express embedded SOM based on MPC5121
ARIA is the flexible off-the-shelf solution for most applications in Industrial Automation, Transportation, Infotainment and even Gaming.
Offering a good level of conformity with respect to the PICMG COM Express (COM.0) specification, ARIA is one of the first available modular embedded solutions in the market which complies to an open standard and therefore offers scalability in terms of features and performance. To offer the maximum flexibility in each design, ARIA combines the MPC5121e with a powerful FPGA, which optionally offers flexible I/O-expansion as well as complete IP-cores for additonal customized interfaces.
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ARIA is available as
- COM Express type 2 compliant version,
- COM Express type 2 version where unused pins like PCI Express Graphics are dedicated to board specific signals (i.e. EMB, CAN, FPGA, etc.)
- Connector pin out like b. where board specific pins are routed to the third optional connector.
Based on the powerful Freescale MPC5121e CPU, ARIA will offer full support for mainline U-Boot and Linux in recent versions.
ARIA block diagram
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ARIA feature set
- Freescale MPC5121 or MPC5123 CPU
- 400 MHz CPU speed (up to 760 MIPS)
- e300 core built on Power Architecture technology
- PowerVR® MBX graphics block
- Superior 2D and 3D graphics performance
- Dedicated hardware graphics coprocessor
- Supports OpenVG 1.0, OpenGL
- ES 1.1
- DIU Integrated Display Controller
- up to 1280x720 or 1024x768 resolutions
- up to 60 Hz refresh rate
- up to 24 bpp color depth
- Hardware n-plane accelerated blending
- Power modes include doze, nap, sleep, deep sleep, and hibernate
- up to 1 GiB DDR2 SDRAM
- up to 128MiB NOR Flash
- up to 1GiB NAND Flash
- 4x USB2.0
- up to 4x UART
- 2x CAN
- Touch Screen Controller
- 100BaseT Ethernet
- 1x Parallel ATA
- Compliant with ATA-6 specification
- Supports PIO mode 0 to 4
- Supports MDMA mode 0 to 2
- 1x Serial ATA (available with next silicon revision)
- PCI bus
- JTAG interfaces for CPU and FPGA
- FPGA on board for I/O extensions and additional custom peripherals like i.e.
- UART
- CAN
- Keyboard controller
- Bluetooth
- Brushless DC motor controller
- temperature sensor
- unique ID
- Standard COM Express version type 2
- Extended COM Express versions with CPU- and FPGA-specific expansions
- Temperature range 0°...70°C, optional -40°C...+85°C
- Size only 95mm x 84mm
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