
Documentation Support
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Documentation Support
Extensive documentation supports all OMAP platform of devices from product announcement through
applications development. The following types of documentation are available to support the design and use
of the OMAP platform of applications processor devices:
Device-specific data sheets
Development-support tools
Hardware and software application reports
A series of DSP textbooks is published by Prentice-Hall and John Wiley & Sons to support digital signal
processing research and education. The TMS320 DSP newsletter,
Details on Signal Processing
, is published
quarterly and distributed to update TMS320 DSP customers on product information.
Information regarding Texas Instruments (TI) OMAP and DSP products is also available on the Worldwide
Web at
http://www.ti.com
uniform resource locator (URL).
4.1
Device and Development-Support Tool Nomenclature
To designate the stages in the product development cycle, TI assigns prefixes to the part numbers of all
OMAP
devices and support tools. Each OMAP
commercial family member has one of three prefixes: X, P,
or Null (e.g.,
X
OMAP-DM270MGVL-B). Texas Instruments recommends two of three possible prefix
designators for its support tools: TMDX and TMDS. These prefixes represent evolutionary stages of product
development from engineering prototypes (X/TMDX) through fully qualified production devices/tools
(Null/TMDS).
Device development evolutionary flow:
X or P
Experimental device that is not necessarily representative of the final device’s electrical
specifications
P
Final silicon die that conforms to the device’s electrical specifications but has not completed
quality and reliability verification
Null
Fully-qualified production device
Support tool development evolutionary flow:
TMDX
Development support product that has not yet completed Texas Instruments internal qualification
testing.
TMDS
Fully qualified development support product
X and P devices and TMDX development-support tools are shipped against the following disclaimer:
“Developmental product is intended for internal evaluation purposes.”
Null devices and TMDS development-support tools have been characterized fully, and the quality and
reliability of the device have been demonstrated fully. TI’s standard warranty applies.
Predictions show that prototype devices (X or P) have a greater failure rate than the standard production
devices. Texas Instruments recommends that these devices not be used in any production system because
their expected end-use failure rate still is undefined. Only qualified production devices are to be used.