Product Brief
Intel
®
PXA270 Development
Platform:
Portable Media Player
Intel
®
PXA270 Development Platform:
Portable Media Player
Pictures, music and video are all quickly making
the transition to digital formats. Consumers
now have the ability to do things that were
once only dreamed of—sharing digital pic-
tures across the globe, digitally recording
a TV show and watching it on a portable
device, downloading a movie off the Web,
creating audio mixes in minutes, and many
more functions are possible today.
The Intel
®
PXA270 Development Platform:
Portable Media Player
is a platform that lever-
ages the outstanding capabilities of Intel XScale
®
technology based processors, providing a complete hardware and software
package, to enable faster time to market.
This new platform combines industry standard tools such as JTAG debug-
ging, Intel debugging tools, Microsoft Platform Builder*, and a wide array
of peripheral support in a single robust development platform. A broad
commitment from Microsoft* for software and board support packages
for both Microsoft Windows Mobile* 5.0 and Linux* make the Intel PXA270
Development Platform:
Portable Media Player
an ideal solution for the most
popular digital applications today.
Built on the foundation of Intel XScale
®
Technology
Designed to optimize low power consumption and high performance processing, the Intel PXA270
Development Platform:
Portable Media Player
is based on Intel XScale
®
microarchitecture with Intel
®
Wireless MMX
™
technology. Intel XScale technology based processors deliver advanced integration,
leading multimedia performance and superior power savings across a wide range of applications and
rich services for handheld devices.
The Intel PXA270 Development Platform:
Portable Media Player
takes advantage of some of the most
advanced features developed on the Intel XScale technology based platforms:
•
Wireless Intel SpeedStep
®
Power Manager
delivers the ability to dynamically adjust the
frequency and voltage of the processor for advanced power savings.
•
Intel
®
Wireless Trusted Platform
provides fundamental security building blocks in hardware and
software to protect content and secure user information.
•
Intel
®
VTune
™
Performance Analyzer
locates and removes performance bottlenecks.
•
Intel
®
Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel
®
IPP)
are cross-platform libraries that increase
application performance and functionality while speeding development.
•
Intel
®
Thread Compiler
implements various optimization techniques including scheduling, support
for double load and store, interprocedural optimization, and more.
Intel
®
PXA270 Development Platform:
Portable Media Player
DC
Power
Smart
Battery
RS232
USB 1.1
OTG
JTAG
SD/MMC/SDIO
Power
Management
Intel XScale
®
Technology
Based Processor
SDRAM
Intel Flash
HDD
AC ’97
CODEC
Video Accelerator
(Optional)
FPGA OR CPLD
NTSC/PAL
Decoder
TV Encoder
NTSC/PAL
USB 2.0
Controller
Power and
Status LEDs
Audio
In/Out
Composite
S-Video
LCD
640x480
Compact
Flash
Composite
S-Video
USB 2.0
Keypads
(19 buttons)
Comprehensive Features Drive
Performance
The Intel PXA270 Development Platform:
Portable Media Player
brings the best that Intel has to offer in the portable environment
by offering a highly extensible, media-optimized platform
centered around the Intel PXA270 Development Platform:
Portable Media Player.
•
Media Decode:
support for audio, video and imaging
CODECs that have been optimized for Intel XScale technology
provide industry-compliant support for the latest MPEG4,
MPEG2, and H.264 implementations for immediate deploy-
ment. In addition, WMV9 is supported with CODECs from
Microsoft*.
•
BSP for Windows Mobile* 5.0:
a complete board support
package speeds time to market and reduces the amount of
engineering required to develop a product based on the Intel
development platform.
•
BSP for Linux*:
in addition to standard Intel XScale technology
support for Linux, Intel also makes a Linux board support
package available that is designed specifically for media player
devices. The BSP contains all necessary drivers and compo-
nents for generic Linux distribution on the platform.
•
Portable Media Center* Version 2:
the Intel PXA270
Development Platform:
Portable Media Player
is directly sup-
ported by Microsoft, and supported by the upcoming release
of Portable Media Center Edition, version 2, offering cus-
tomers the ability to leverage the work done by two of the
driving forces behind portable electronic devices.
•
Extendability:
because it is based on a flexible, scalable
architecture, the platform supports additional capabilities such
as camera modules for still and motion capture, wireless net-
working, Voice over IP, Digital Video Broadcast, and GPS to
allow customers the flexibility to differentiate their products for
their markets.
•
Forward Compatibility:
Intel XScale microarchitecture
maximizes reuse of the customer’s investment in software and
applications development, for better total cost reduction over
time and across product generations.
Broad Industry Support
Intel is a leader in creating comprehensive developer support for
processors. The Intel PXA270 Development Platform:
Portable
Media Player
is code-compatible with all ARM* and Intel XScale
technology based solutions, providing an opportunity for devel-
opers and manufacturers to leverage investments made across
the industry.
In addition, the Intel PXA270 Development Platform:
Portable
Media Player
is supported by an array of complementary refer-
ence platforms, compilers, debuggers, code analyzers, audio
and video codecs, integrated primitives, middleware and appli-
cations, easing development and improving time-to-market.
Specifications
Intel
®
PXA270 Development Platform:
Portable Media Player,
23x23x1mm package,
520MHz clock; 208MHz PXBus;
104MHz memory bus
Intel
®
Wireless MMX
™
Technology
Intel SpeedStep
™
Technology
Intel
®
Wireless Trusted Platform security
Intel
®
VTune
™
Performance Analyzer
Intel
®
Integrated Performance Primitives
Intel
®
Thread Compiler
64 MB SDRAM
64 MB Intel StrataFlash
®
Technology
JTAG, 10 Mb Ethernet/CF, 1 Serial
6.4” 640x480, 16bpp TFT, VGA,
Optional 3.6” 320x240, 18bpp TFT, QVGA
USB 2.0 Client, USB 1.1 Host, USB 1.1 OTG (Option)
1.8” 20GB ATA Hard Drive,
Storage Card (CF, SD)
WMV9 up to 720x480 @ 30fps, MP, 4Mb/s
MPEG-2 up to 720x480 @ 30fps, MP@ML, 8Mb/s
MPEG-4 up to 720x480 @ 30fps, ASP, 6Mb/s
H.264 up to 320x240 @ 30fps, BP, 1Mb/s
DivX 4 & 5 up to 720x480 @ 30fps, 6Mb/s
LCD
NTSC/PAL (Macrovision* Ready)
WMV9 up to 480x360 (
1
/
2
D1) @ 30fps, 2Mb/s
MPEG-4, up to 320x240 @ 30fps, 200Kb/s
NTSC/PAL w/Macrovision* detection
MP3 / AAC / WMA
Real-Time Clock
128-bit UUID
Headphone
Line-out, Stereo
Line-in, Stereo
S-Video, Composite In and out
DC
Mini-USB type B 2.0
Play/Pause, Stop, FF, Rewind
Navigation: Up, Down, Left, Right, Enter
Power (suspend), Reset, Control Lock
Spare Development Buttons (~6)
Smart Battery
Power Management
Battery status LED
Memory
Debug
Display
Connectivity
Storage
Video Decode
(includes optional ADI Blackfin* DSP with
eM10 firmware, scaling and deinterlacing)
Video Output
Video Encode
(includes optional ADI Blackfin* DSP with
eM10 firmware, scaling and deinterlacing)
Audio Decode
Digital Rights Management
Connectors
Input Devices
Advanced power saving features
Intel Access
Developer Web Site
Embedded Intel
®
PCA Processors Home Page
Intel
®
Technical Documentation Center
General Information Hotline
developer.intel.com
intel.com/design/embeddedpca/applicationsprocessors/index.htm
intel.com/go/techdoc
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The Intel
®
PXA270 Development Platform:
Portable Media Player
may contain design defects or errors known as errata, which may cause the product
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