In industries, the cloud architecture gathers data from thousands of sensors and uses the data to perform sophisticated analytics to manage operations. Automation is increasing day by day in industries. Automotive pieces of equipment rely on various sensor data for accuracy. Industrial sensors are an essential part of factory automation and Industry 4.0. Motion, environmental, and vibration sensors are used to monitor the health of equipment, from linear or angular positioning, tilt sensing, leveling, shock, or fall detection. The number of sensors required in industries is increasing exponentially, and therefore, the corresponding data that requires managing is also rising at the same rate. This arise the need for high-end processors with the capability to control modern automation equipment and perform intelligent services.
TI in February posted about their TI AM64X family of processors on their blog post. Texas Instruments AM64x is a family of 64-bit Arm processors designed for AC servo motor drives, industrial programmable logic controllers (PLCs), motion controllers in factory automation, Internet of Things, gateways in building automation, data concentrators in grid automation, high-precision data-acquisition systems, 3D cameras and many more. The AM64x family uses Arm Cortex-R5F processing cores to enable multicore processing. The processors are designed in a 16-nm process. They integrate multiple functions in a very compact package as compared to multichip solutions. The processors consume less than 1W to 2W depending on the configuration, which simplifies thermal design results in its compact size.
High-end processors of the family AM6442 and AM6441 employ four Cortex-R5F cores. The AM6422 consists of four ARM Cortex-R5F cores running at up to 800 MHz each, offering a total of 6,400 real-time Dhrystone million instructions per second (DMIPS) and enabling high-precision motor-control loops. The family of processors, moreover, allows the motor drivers to communicate in real-time with industrial PLCs or motion controllers using standards such as EtherCAT, Profinet, and Ethernet/IP. Plus, one can run high-level operating systems like Linux and a web or application server on the processor.
Read more: TI AM64X FAMILY OF PROCESSORS FOR PLC’S, MOTOR DRIVES, AND OTHER INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION
