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System Chapter 1 This part details the A20 system construction from following aspects: OVERVIEW A20 BLOCK DIAGRAM MEMORY MAPPING CPU CONFIGURATION CCU BOOT SYSTEM SYSTEM CONTROL PWM TIMER HIGH SPEED TIMER ...
Allwinner A20 processor is a dual-core ARM Cortex-A7 mobile application solution designed for tablet and smart TV applications. A20 processor is based on a dual-core ARM Cortex-A7 CPU architecture, which is the most energy efficient application processor from ARM so far and incorporates all the features of Cortex-A15. It also integrates the powerful ARM Mali400 MP2 GPU, delivering a reliable system performance as well as good game compatibility.
The CCU (Clock Control Unit) is made up of 8 PLLs, a main oscillator, an on-chip RC oscillator and a 32768Hz low-power oscillator. A20 integrates two crystal oscillators: The 24MHz crystal is mandatory, which is used to provide clock source for the PLL and the main digital blocks, and the 32768Hz oscillator, which is only used to provide a low power, accurate reference for the RTC.
1.6. System Boot 1.6.1. Overview A20 supports system boot from NAND Flash, SPI NOR Flash (SPI0), SD card (SDC 0/2), and USB. After power on, the system will try to boot from SDC0, NAND Flash, SDC2, SPI0, and USB successively, but if the Boot Select Pin, or BSP, an external pin that is used to select system boot method, is checked to be in low level state, the system will direclty boot from USB.
Image Chapter 4 This chapter introduces the image section of A20 processor, including: CSI0 CSI1 TVD Here is the CMOS sensor and TV decoder with YUV data process diagram: Camera0 / TV BT601/BT656 CSI0 decoder Frame Buffer...
Display Chapter 5 This chapter provides a detailed description of the display feature of A20 processor from following aspects: TCON HDMI DISPLAY ENGINE FRONTEND DISPLAY ENGINE BACKEND TVE Here is the application block diagram of display module: A20 User Manual (Revision 1.2)
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