Avnet i.MX 8M Plus Edge AI Kit

The Avnet i.MX 8M Plus Edge AI Kit consists of a SMARC System-on-Module(SOM) and an Industrial Carrier board bundled together with a dual camera adapter. The high-performance NPU of the i.MX 8M Plus processor allows machine learning and Artificial Intelligence implementations with heavy compute demands to be pushed from the cloud down to the edge.;

When combining this development kit with the NXP eIQ™ Machine Learning Software Development Environment, many options for Inference Engines, Vision Libraries, and ML workflow can be used to quickly deploy applications.

The Avnet i.MX 8M Plus Edge AI Kit is no longer in production.

Highlights

Target Applications:

Stereo vision
Classification
Object Detection
Face Recognition
Sequence Analysis

Key Features:

2.25 TOPs NPU neural accelerator
Quad Core Arm Cortex-A53 ARM applications processor
AR1302 Image Sensor Processor 12MP@30fps
Two onsemi AR1335 camera modules
GC7000UL 2D/3D Graphics Processor with OpenCL and Vulcan Support
Hifi4 Audio DSP
4GB LPDDR4 Memory (inline ECC)
16GB eMMC 5.1 Flash Storage
64Kbit EEPROM for module information and user applications

Kit Includes:

i.MX 8M+ SMARC Module
SMARC Carrier board
10.1" LVDS Display
onsemi SMARC camera adapter
12V Power adapter

Specifications

CPU	NXP i.MX 8M Plus ARM Cortex-A53 Applications Processor * i.MX 8M Plus Quad with ISP, VPU, CAN-FD, 1.6GHz * ARM Cortex-M7 Real Time Processor at 800MHz
Chipset	NXP i.MX 8M+
Flash	16GB eMMC 5.1 Flash Storage
Memory	4GB LPDDR4 SDRAM
Storage Interfaces	MicroSD
USB	1x USB 2.0 Host/Client, 2x USB 2.0 Host, 2x USB3.0 Host
Serial Interfaces	2x UART w/o hand shake
Bus Interfaces	5x I2C up to 320 Kbit/s, 2x CAN-FD / 2.0B, 2x SPI
Display Controller	Vivante GC7000UL 2D/3D Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) 3D Graphics Acceleration, 2 shader, 16 GFLOPs OpenGL ES 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, OpenCL 1.2, Vulkan Video Processing Unit (not available on ”Plus Quad Lite“) with hardware support for 1080p60 HEVC H.265, VP9, H.264, VP8 decode 1080p60 H.264, VP8 encode
Display Interfaces	dual-channel LVDS interface, 18 or 24 bit (up to 1920x1080), or 2 x single-channel LVDS interface (up to 1366x768) (optional), or HDMI 2.0a interface, up to 3840x2160 @ 30fps
Network Interface	2x 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet IEEE 1588 support, one with TSN support
Audio Interface	2x I2S Audio
Power Requirement	Power Supply +5V +/-5%, 5V Standby, Power Consumption 2-7 W typ.
Environment	Temperature Range: 0°C … +70°C operating commercial -40°C … +85°C operating extended -40°C … +85°C storage Humidity: 5 … 95% (operating, non condensing) 5 … 95% (storage, non-condensing)
Cooling	Heatspreader