DRA821U-Q1
SoC with Dual Arm® Cortex®-A72, 4 port Ethernet, and 4 lane PCIe for networking and compute
DRA821U-Q1
Processor cores:
- Dual 64-bit Arm Cortex-A72 microprocessor subsystem at up to 2.0 GHz, 24K DMIPS
- 1MB L2 shared cache per dual-core Cortex-A72 cluster
- 32KB L1 DCache and 48KB L1 ICache per A72 core
- 4× Arm Cortex-R5F MCUs at up to 1.0 GHz with optional lockstep operation, 8K DMIPS
- 32K I-Cache, 32K D-Cache, 64K L2 TCM
- 2× Arm Cortex-R5F MCUs in isolated MCU subsystem
- 2× Arm Cortex-R5F MCUs in general compute partition
Memory subsystem:
- 1MB of On-Chip L3 RAM with ECC and coherency
- ECC error protection
- Shared coherent cache
- Supports internal DMA engine
- External Memory Interface (EMIF) module with ECC
- Supports LPDDR4 memory types that comply with the JESD209-4B specification. (No support for byte mode LPDDR4 memories, or memories with more than 17 row address bits)
- Supports speeds up to 3200 MT/s
- 32-bit and 16-bit data bus with inline ECC bus up to 12.8GB/s
- General-Purpose Memory Controller (GPMC)
- 512KB on-chip SRAM in MAIN domain, protected by ECC
Virtualization:
- Hypervisor support in Arm Cortex-A72
- Independent processing subsystems with Arm Cortex-A72, Arm Cortex-R5F with isolated safety MCU island
- IO virtualization support
- Peripheral Virtualization Unit (PVU) for low latency high bandwidth peripheral traffic
- Multi-region firewall support for memory and peripheral isolation
- Virtualization support with Ethernet, PCIe, and DMA
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Device security (on select part numbers):
- Secure boot with secure runtime support
- Customer programmable root key, up to RSA-4K or ECC-512
- Embedded hardware security module
- Crypto hardware accelerators – PKA with ECC, AES, SHA, RNG, DES and 3DES
Functional Safety:
- Functional Safety-Compliant targeted (on select part numbers)
- Developed for functional safety applications
- Documentation will be available to aid ISO 26262 and IEC 61508 functional safety system design up to ASIL-D/SIL-3 targeted
- Systematic capability up to ASIL-D/SIL-3 targeted
- Hardware integrity up to ASIL-D/SIL-3 targeted for MCU Domain
- Hardware integrity up to ASIL-D/SIL-3 targeted for Extended MCU (EMCU) portion of the Main Domain
- Hardware integrity up to ASIL-B/SIL-2 targeted for remainder of the Main Domain
- FFI isolation provided between EMCU and the remainder of the Main Domain
- Safety-related certification
- ISO 26262 and IEC 61508 planned
- AEC-Q100 qualified on part number variants ending in Q1
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High-speed interfaces:
- Integrated Ethernet TSN/AVB switch supporting up to 4 (DRA821U4) or 2 (DRA821U2) external ports:
- One port supports 5Gb, 10Gb USXGMII/XFI
- All ports support 2.5Gb SGMII
- All ports support 1Gb SGMII/RGMII
- DRA821U4: Any single port can support QSGMII (using all 4 internal ports)
- Non-blocking wire-rate store and forward switch
- InterVLAN (Layer3) routing support
- Time synchronization support with IEEE 1588(annex D,E,F)
- TSN/AVB support for traffic scheduling, shaping
- Port mirroring feature for debug and diagnostics
- Policing and rate limiting support
- One RGMII/RMII port in safety MCU island
- Integrated Ethernet TSN/AVB switch supporting up to 4 (DRA821U4) or 2 (DRA821U2) external ports:
- One PCI-Express Gen3 controller
- Gen1, Gen2, and Gen3 operation with auto-negotiation
- 4× lanes
- One USB 3.1 Gen1 dual-role device subsystem
- Supports type-C switching
- Independently configurable as USB host, USB peripheral, or USB dual-role device
Automotive interfaces:
- Twenty CAN-FD ports
- 12× Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter (UART)
- 11× Serial Peripheral Interfaces (SPI)
- One 8-channel ADC
- 10× Inter-Integrated Circuit ( I2C™)
- 2× Improved Inter-Integrated Circuit ( I3C)
Audio interfaces:
- 3× Multichannel Audio Serial Port (McASP) modules
Flash memory interfaces:
- Embedded Multi Media Card ( eMMC™ 5.1) interface
- Support speeds of up to HS400
- One Secure Digital 3.0/Secure Digital Input Output 3.0 (SD3.0/SDIO3.0) interfaces
- One Octal SPI / Xccela™ / HyperBus™ Memory Controller (HBMC) interface
- 16-nm FinFET technology
- 17.2 mm x 17.2 mm, 0.8 mm pitch, IPC Class 3 PCB
Jacinto™ DRA821x processors, based on the Armv8 64-bit architecture, are optimized for gateway systems with cloud connectivity. The System-on-Chip (SoC) design reduces system-level costs and complexity through integration—notably, a system MCU, functional safety and security features, and an Ethernet switch for high-speed communication. Integrated diagnostics and functional safety features are targeted to ASIL-D and SIL 3 certification requirements. Real-time control and low-latency communication are enabled by a PCIe controller and a TSN capable Gigabit Ethernet switch.
Up to four general-purpose Arm® Cortex®-R5F subsystems can handle low-level, timing-critical processing tasks and leave the Arm® Cortex®-A72 core unencumbered for advanced and cloud-based applications.
Jacinto DRA821x processors also include the concept of the Extended MCU (eMCU) domain. This domain is a subset of the processors and peripherals on the main domain targeted at higher functional safety enablement, such as ASIL-D/SIL-3. The functional block diagram highlights which IP are included in the eMCU. For more details about eMCU and functional safety, see the DRA821 Safety Manual Processors Texas Instruments Jacinto™ 7 Family of Products (SPRUIX4).
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