In this video, Pierluigi Passaro, Variscite’s R&D SW Expert, interviews Brian Berner, Processor Platform Marketing Manager, from Texas Instruments, about the AM62x based System on Module features, segments and Variscite-Texas Instruments collaboration.

Watch the recorded video:

Pierluigi Passaro, R&D SW Expert, Variscite:
“Hi, Brian. Can you please provide the description of the feature of the AM62x system on chip?”

Brian Berner, Processor Platform Marketing Manager, Texas Instruments:
“Sure, absolutely. The AM62 family is actually two devices, the AM623 and AM625. The 623, no GPU. 625, you have a 3D GPU from Imagination. Both devices have a single dual or Quad A53 core.”

Pierluigi Passaro, R&D SW Expert, Variscite:
“The VAR-SOM-AM62 boost on the aggressive costs and also a wide range of configuration. In your opinion, in this market, which are the companies that can best benefit of this?”

Brian Berner, Processor Platform Marketing Manager, Texas Instruments:
“I think the low cost design is really attractive because a lot of people are just trying to migrate from an MCU-based system to a processor, and so they have no experience routing DDR, for example. So having that memory capability already in the product. Then obviously the carrier board reference design around it, that they can start from that reference design, copy all the pins that are available there and migrate to a processor family, add display capabilities really quickly. They’re not necessarily trying to reach the highest performance. We have a lot of AI around us, but a lot of the HMI application don’t need with the AI. The core features of a lot of today’s systems like EV charging is a great entry point for the processors.”

Pierluigi Passaro, R&D SW Expert, Variscite:
“Thanks. Which are the benefits, in your opinion, for Variscite to be part of the TI ecosystem system.”

Brian Berner, Processor Platform Marketing Manager, Texas Instruments:
“Yeah. Variscite has a lot of name recognition in the industry, right? Actually, my first exposure to SOMs was through Variscite. I think just seeing the way that you can reach a very global audience, deliver the tools that they need to go to production quickly. To me, it was a no-brainer that Variscite and TI would have a partnership.”

Pierluigi Passaro, R&D SW Expert, Variscite:
“Thanks. One last question. How do you see the future of the Variscite and the TI partnership.”

Brian Berner, Processor Platform Marketing Manager, Texas Instruments:
“Yeah. The future of our partnership, obviously, is to look at expanding the VAR-SOM portfolio. I think the more pin-to-pin options that you can have in a standard ecosystem, maybe developing some boards around the VAR-SOM family that the carrier boards sometimes that you see in our demos are built around modules. Building a reference design for something attractive like robotics or gateways, using the VAR-SOM as a reference design, it’ll be really exciting for us.”

Pierluigi Passaro, R&D SW Expert, Variscite:
“Thanks, Brian.”

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