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Critical Link, LLC    MityDSP-L138F System on Module 
www.CriticalLink.com    18-Jun-2019 
 
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Specifications Subject to Change 
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OMAP-L138 Camera and Video Interfaces 
The OMAP-L138 includes an optional video port I/O interface commonly used to drive 
LCD screens as well as a camera input interface.  These interfaces have been routed to 
the  FPGA,  which  may  be  routed  to  the  FPGA  output  pins  on  the  SO-DIMM-200 
connector.  By routing the video data through the FPGA, additional user customization 
and/or  processing  (e.g.,  overlays  of  video  output,  preprocessing  or  filtering of  camera 
input) may be offloaded from the OMAP-L138 to the FPGA for computation intensive 
applications. 
 
OMAP-L138 RTC  
The OMAP-L138 features an integrated real-time clock, RTC. MityDSP-L138F modules 
have a 32.768KHz tuning fork crystal connected to RTC XI & RTC XO of the OMAP-
L138 to support the RTC functionality. Additionally there is a battery input, module Pin 
35,  which  will  power  the  RTC  when  the  module  is  off,  if  utilized.    Please  visit  our 
Redmine  Wiki  pages  at  support.criticallink.com  for  additional  details  about  the  RTC 
feature. 
 
Debug Interface 
Both the JTAG interface signals for the FPGA and the JTAG and emulator signals for the 
OMAP-L138 processor have been brought out to a Hirose header that is intended for use 
with an available breakout adapter, Critical Link part number 80-000286. This header can 
be removed for production units; please contact Critical Link at info@criticallink.com for 
details. 
 
This adapter is not included with individual modules but is included with each Critical 
Link Development Kit that is ordered. Additional adapters are available through Critical 
Link distribution partners. 
 
Software and Application Development Support 
Users  of  the  MityDSP-L138F  are  encouraged  to  develop  applications  and  FPGA 
firmware using  the hardware and  software  development kit  provided by Critical  Link.  
The  development  kit  includes  a  board  support  package  providing  a  Linux  based 
distribution  and  compatible  gcc  compiler  tool-chain  with  debugger.  In  addition,  the 
development kit includes support libraries necessary to program the DSP core using the 
TI Code Composer Studio DSP compiler tool-chain.  
 
To support rapid FPGA and applications development, netlist components - compatible 
with  the  Xilinx  ISE  FPGA  synthesis  tool  –  for  commonly  used  FPGA  designs  and  a 
corresponding  set  of  Linux  loadable  kernel  modules  and/or  DSP  interface  APIs  are 
included.      The  libraries  provide  the  necessary  functions  needed  to  configure  the 
MityDSP-L138F,  program  standalone  embedded  applications,  and  interface  with  the 
various  hardware  components  both  on  the  processor  board  as  well  as  a  custom 
application carrier card.  The libraries include several interface “cores” – FPGA and DSP 
software  modules  designed  to  interface  with  various  high  performance  data  converter 
modules (ADCs, DACs, LCD and touchscreen interfaces, etc) – as well as bootloading 
and FLASH programming utilities.