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Message Text: Texas Instruments today turned the spotlight on
the OMAP 5 platform, illustrating through live demonstrations
the high performance capabilities of the addition to the OMAP
processor family.  The 28nm platform is poised to service
smartphones and numerous other markets-from automotive to smart
home.  The OMAP5430 processor includes two ARM? Cortex-A15 cores
that provide the highest single-thread performance of any ARM
CPU, TI claims.  Unique to the OMAP 5 smart multicore
architecture is the use of two ARM Cortex-M4 cores to complement
the two ARM Cortex-A15 cores. The M-class cores are assigned
real-time control processing of multimedia tasks, like video
encoding and decoding, freeing the main C