Feature | Details |
Main system-on-chip (i.MX8M) |
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Arm Cortex-A53 MPCore platform |
Quad symmetric Cortex-A53 processors:
- 32 KB L1 Instruction Cache
- 32 KB L1 Data Cache
- Support L1 cache RAMs protection with parity/ECC
Support of 64-bit Armv8-A architecture:
- 1 MB unified L2 cache
- Support L2 cache RAMs protection with ECC
- Frequency of 1.5 GHz
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Arm Cortex-M4 core platform |
- 16 KB L1 Instruction Cache
- 16 KB L1 Data Cache
- 256 KB tightly coupled memory (TCM)
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Graphic Processing Unit (GPU) |
- Vivante GC7000Lite
- 4 shaders
- 267 million triangles/sec
- 1.6 Gigapixel/sec
- 32 GFLOPs 32-bit or 64 GFLOPs 16-bit
- Supports OpenGL ES 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.1, Open CL 1.2, and Vulkan
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Video Processing Unit (VPU) |
- 4Kp60 HEVC/H.265 main, and main 10 decoder
- 4Kp60 VP9 and 4Kp30 AVC/H.264 decoder (requires full system resources)
- 1080p60 MPEG-2, MPEG-4p2, VC-1, VP8, RV9, AVS, MJPEG, H.263 decoder
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I/O connectivity |
- 2x USB 3.0/2.0 controllers with integrated PHY interfaces
- 1x Ultra Secure Digital Host Controller (uSDHC) interfaces
- 1x Gigabit Ethernet controller with support for EEE, Ethernet AVB, and IEEE 1588
- 2x UART modules
- 2x I2C modules
- 2x SPI modules
- 16x GPIO lines with interrupt capability
- 4x PWM lines
- Input/output multiplexing controller (IOMUXC) to provide centralized pad control
Note: The list above is the number of signals available to the baseboard (after considering SoC signals used by the SoM). |
On-chip memory |
- Boot ROM (128 KB)
- On-chip RAM (128 KB + 32 KB)
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External memory |
- 32/16-bit DRAM interface: LPDDR4-3200, DDR4-2400, DDR3L-1600
- 8-bit NAND-Flash
- eMMC 5.0 Flash
- SPI NOR Flash
- QuadSPI Flash with support for XIP
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Display |
HDMI Display Interface:
- HDMI 2.0a supporting one display up to 1080p
- Upscale and downscale between 4K and HD video (requires full system resources)
- 20+ Audio interfaces 32-bit @ 384 kHz fs, with Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) support
- SPDIF input and output
- Audio Return Channel (ARC) on HDMI
MIPI-DSI Display Interface:
- MIPI-DSI 4 channels supporting one display, resolution up to 1920 x 1080 at 60 Hz
- LCDIF display controller
- Output can be LCDIF output or DC display controller output
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Audio |
- 1x SPDIF input and output
- 2x synchronous audio interface (SAI) modules supporting I2S, AC97, TDM, and codec/DSP interfaces
- 1x SAI for 8 Tx channels for HDMI output audio
- 1x SPDIF input for HDMI ARC input
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Camera |
- 2x MIPI-CSI2 camera inputs (4-lane each)
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Security |
- Resource Domain Controller (RDC) supports four domains and up to eight regions
- Arm TrustZone (TZ) architecture
- On-chip RAM (OCRAM) secure region protection using OCRAM controller
- High Assurance Boot (HAB)
- Cryptographic acceleration and assurance (CAAM) module
- Secure non-volatile storage (SNVS): Secure real-time clock (RTC)
- Secure JTAG controller (SJC)
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ML accelerator |
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Edge TPU coprocessor |
- ASIC designed by Google that provides high performance ML inferencing for TensorFlow Lite models
- Uses PCIe and I2C/GPIO to interface with the iMX8M SoC
- 4 trillion operations per second (TOPS)
- 2 TOPS per watt
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Memory and storage |
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Random access memory (SDRAM) |
- 1 GB LPDDR4 SDRAM (4-channel, 32-bit bus width)
- 1600 MHz maximum DDR clock
- Interfaces directly to the iMX8M build-in DDR controller
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Flash memory (eMMC) |
- 8 GB NAND eMMC flash memory
- 8-bits MMC mode
- Conforms to JEDEC version 5.0 and 5.1
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Expandable flash (MicroSD) |
- Meets SD/SDIO 3.0 standard
- Runs at 4-bits SDIO mode
- Supports system boot from SD card
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Network amp; wireless |
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Ethernet |
- 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 networks
- Reduced gigabit media-independent interface (RGMII)
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Wi-Fi |
Murata LBEE5U91CQ module:
- Wi-Fi 2x2 MIMO (802.11a/b/g/n/ac 2.4/5 GHz)
- Supports PCIe host interface for W-LAN
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Bluetooth |
Murata LBEE5U91CQ module:
- Bluetooth 4.2 (supports Bluetooth low-energy)
- Supports UART interface
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Security |
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Cryptographic coprocessor |
Microchip ATECC608A cryptographic coprocessor:
- Asymmetric (public/private) key cryptographic signature solution based on Elliptic Curve Cryptography and ECDSA signature protocols
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Hardware interface |
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Baseboard connectors |
3x 100-pin connectors (Hirose DF40C-100DP-0.4V) |
Antenna connectors |
2x coaxial cable connectors (Murata MM8930-2600) |