The FALCON is a miniature single board computer, based on the Texas Instruments TMS320DM6446 Davinci Processor and Xilinx Spartan3-FPGA to provide Image Processing acceleration.

Features

The FALCON provides the following features

• MS320DM6446 CPU
• Xilinx Spartan3E-500 Support Processor (Scalability to Spartan 3E-1600)
• NAND Flash Memory for NV Storage supporting Linux 2.6.x and User Filesystem
• EEPROM Memory for NV Storage
• 256MB of DDR2-SDRAM and 512MB of LargePage NAND Flash
• Xilinx FPGA, Flash PROM, and Texas Instruments JTAG Debug Support
• OnBoard CANBus Controller (Microchip MCP2515)
• Direct Xilinx FPGA and Davinci UART-0 Debug Ports
• Multi-Channel NTSC/PAL Video Encoder and Sampling System
• Direct Digital Video Inputs (external CMOS/CCD imager port)
• Analog Video Outputs (Component, S-Video, HD-Video)
• Digital Video Outputs (LCD or RGB888 Display Drive)
• SD/MMC Media Card I/O Ports
• OnBoard 10/100 Ethernet Port (requires only an external RJ45 + Magnetics)
• Software Selectable USB Host and USB Slave Interface
• Stereo Audio Codec TLV320AIC33
• High Efficiency High Speed Switching Regulators
• FALCON allows direct execution of ALL codecs from the DVEVM
• FALCON provides a reference app using a CMOS imager for video capture
• FLE reference NAND Flash Filesystem for On-Board Booting

Falcon Hardware Architecture