This Hardware Design Considerations for Custom Board document gives an overview of the design considerations to be followed by the board designers while designing custom boards using any of the AM62P / AM62P-Q1 family of processors. This document is intended to be used as a guideline at different stages of custom board design by board designers.
Additionally, links are provided for processor product page, related collaterals, E2E FAQs and other commonly referenced documents that could help the board designers optimize the design efforts and schedule during custom board design.
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The Hardware Design Considerations for Custom Board Using AM62P / AM62P-Q1 Family of Processors user's guide (document) provides a starting point for the board designers designing with any of these processors. This document provides an overview of the recommended design flow at different board design stages and highlights important design requirements that must be addressed. Note that this document does not include all of the information required to complete the custom board design. In many cases, this document refers to the device-specific collaterals and various other documents as sources for specific information.
This document is organized in a sequential manner. It starts from decisions that must be made during the initial planning stages of the custom board design, through the selection of processor and key attached devices, electrical and thermal requirements. For ensuring a successful board design, recommendations discussed in each of the section should be addressed before moving to the next section.
These processors have capabilities to address safety requirements.
The focus of this document is non-safety applications.
The processor family includes wide variety of peripherals and processing capabilities, not all of which will be used in every design. Consequently, the requirements for different designs using the same processor can vary widely depending on the target application. Board designers must understand the requirements before selecting the processor and determining the board level implementation details. In addition, the custom board design may require additional circuitry to operate correctly in the target environment. Refer latest collaterals on TI.com including the device-specific data sheet, silicon errata, TRM and SK user's guide for selecting the processor and to determine the following: