Introduction

Supporting the i.MX 8M  Single/Dual/Quad processor, the MaaXBoard allows designers to concentrate on a broad range of applications to achieve short time-to-market for their innovations.

It offers a number of on-board interface or signals including Gigabit Ethernet interface, USB, HDMI, MIPI_DSI, Camera(MIPI_CSI) signal, WIFI, BLE4.0, Micro SD card slot, UART and GPIO etc., making it ideal for AI, IoT and intensive multimedia applications.

MaaXBoard : Front & Back View

Hardware Features

MaaXBoard is designed on NXP i.MX 8M family processor, the i.MX 8M family of applications processors based on Arm® Cortex®-A53 and Cortex-M4 cores provide industry-leading audio, voice, and video processing for applications that scale from consumer home audio to industrial building automation and mobile computers.

MaaXBoard's Processor i.MX 8M Block Diagram

Multicore processing:

- Quad Arm Cortex-A53; Cortex-M4F

GPU:

- OpenGL/ES 3.1, OpenGL 3.0, Vulkan, OpenCL 1.2

Video Playback:

- 4Kp60 with High Dynamic Range (h.265, VP9), 4Kp30 (h.264), 1080p60 (MPEG2, MPEG4p2, VC1, VP8, RV9, AVS/AVS+, h.263, DiVX), MJPEG - 8x8

Audio:

- Highest levels of pro audio fidelity with more than 20 audio channels each @384KHz, DSD512 audio capability

Board Memory

- 0 ~ 64GB eMMC/SD Card

- Up to 2GB DDR4 SDRAM

User I/O

-          Digital I/O voltage: 3.3V

-          Power In: USB Type C

-          Display: MIPI-DSI,  HDMI

-          Camera: MIPI-CSI

-          Audio : Audio IO via Bluetooth 4.0, Audio via HDMI 2.0a, SAI/I2S on 40 Pin GPIO Expansion Interface, SPDIF

-          Network : Gigabit Ethernet

-          Wireless: Dual-band 802.11ac(2.4GHz, 5GHz), BLE 4.x

-          Connectivity and Expansion: micro-SD Slot, USB , 40 Pin Low Speed Expansion Interface , Raspberry Pi HAT partially Compatible

MaaXBoard Interface Diagram

MaaXBoard System Diagram

Electrical Features

- Dimensions: 85mm x 56 x 12mm

- Temperature: 0 ~ 70 Celsius 

- Humidity: 20% ~ 90% 

- Input Voltage: 5 V

Kit Includes

The set of standard kit only includes bellow, if you want to select some associated accessories, please go to the section accessories below.

- MaaXBoard * 1

- Heatsink * 1

- Antistatic Bag * 1

- Generic Safety Leaflet * 1 

Accessories

We also provide the following accessories for you to select, you can add them into the shopping cart directly.

Software

We offer the industry leading OS software development and aim to help customers get start quickly and develop prodcut efficiently, we have more than 18 year's experiences on designing Arm based hardware and OS development, and we are able to optimize our software and provide customers the safe and stable operating system available.

MaaXBoard supports OS include:

1. Android Feature List：

• U-Boot version: 2018.03

• Kernel version: 4.14.78

• Evaluation image Android P(9)

• Development based on NXP i.MX 8M

• Micro SD boot

• 1 Gigabit Ethernet (RJ45)

• 2 USB 3.0 can work in Host & Device mode

• 2 UART (TTL) include debug port

• External interfaces (I2C, UART, SPI, SAI and GPIO)

• WIFI & BLE 4.2

• MIPI-DSI Display

• HDMI Display and Audio

• MIPI camera and USB Camera

• Bluetooth audio

• USB audio

2. Linux-Debian Feature List：

• U-Boot version: 2018.03

• Kernel version: 4.14.78

• Evaluation image: Debian 10

• Qt 5.10.1 library

• Desktop (Weston 5.0)

• Development based on NXP i.MX 8M

• Micro SD boot / eMMC boot

• HDMI display

• HDMI audio output

• 1 Gigabit Ethernet (RJ45)

• 2 USB 3.0 can work in host & device mode

• 2 UART (TTL) include debug port

• External interfaces(I2C, UART,SPI ,SAI and GPIO)

• WIFI & BLE 4.2

• LVDS display

• MIPI-DSI display

• MIPI camera

• Dual display

3. Linux-Yocto Feature List：

• U-Boot version: 2018.03

• Kernel version: 4.14.78

• Evaluation image Yocto sumo 2.5

• Qt 5.1.1 Library or later

• Desktop

• Development based on NXP i.MX 8M

• Micro SD boot

• HDMI display

• HDMI audio output

• 1 Gigabit Ethernet (RJ45)

• 2 USB 3.0 can work in Host & Device mode

• 3 UART (TTL) include debug port

• External interfaces(I2C, UART,SPI ,SAI and GPIO)

• WIFI & BLE 4.2

• MIPI-LVDS Display

• MIPI-DSI Display

• MIPI camera

• Dual Display 

Applications

• Human-Machine Interaction (HMI) 

• Family entertainment 

• AI device 

• Building automation 

• Education 

• Machine vision 

• Medical imaging 

• Embedded computing

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