Texas Instruments (TI) announced today the next generation of its popular OMAP family: the OMAP 5 mobile applications platform based on ARM Cortex A15 MPCore. According to TI, the 28 nanometer OMAP 5 processor offers up to 3x processing performance and five-fold 3D graphics improvement, consuming nearly 60% less power than OMAP 4 platform.

The OMAP 5 processor leverages two ARM Cortex-A15 MPCores – the most advanced ARM architecture to date – capable of speeds of up to 2 GHz per core in the OMAP 5 implementation. In addition to the two Cortex-A15 cores, the OMAP 5 processor includes individual, dedicated engines for: video, imaging and vision, DSP, 3D graphics, 2D graphics, display and security. The processor also includes two ARM Cortex-M4 processors for offloading real-time processing from the Cortex-A15 cores to improve low-level control and responsiveness of mobile devices.

The OMAP 5 processor can support up to four cameras in parallel, as well as record and play back S3D video in 1080p quality, and perform real-time conversion of 2D content to S3D at 1080p resolution. The new processor can also deliver advanced short- and long-range gesturing applications, as well as full-body and multi-body interactive gestures, utilizing either 2D or S3D cameras.

TI’s OMAP 5 platform is expected to sample in the second half of 2011, with devices on the market in the second half of 2012. The OMAP5430 processor is offered in a 14x14mm Package-on-Package (PoP) with LPDDR2 memory support for smartphones. The OMAP5432 processor is offered in a 17x17mm BGA package with DDR3/DDR3L memory support for tablets.
Checkout the video below in which Brain Carlson of TI talks in detail about the new OMAP 5 platform.