i.MX8 - SOC Overview
iMX8 Product Families
The iMX8 series of applications processors is the next generation of multi-core platforms by NXP heavily oriented towards potentiating solutions for advanced graphics, imaging, machine vision, audio, voice, video and in general the infotainment and safety-critical applications.
As part of NXP's go-to-market plan it is foreseen to launch 4 different product families: iMX8, iMX8M, iMX8M Mini and iMX8X. The differences between each of the families can be summarized in the chart provided by NXP and shown below.
It is important to note that, provided to date, iMX8M is the only family that is being commercially distributed, the rest of the families remain the PreProduction stage.
iMX8M product family
Following table shows the different features between the iMX8M family.
Feature | i.MX 8Quad | i.MX 8Dual | i.MX 8QuadLite | i.MX 8Solo |
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ARM CPU | 4 x Cortex-A53 | 2 x Cortex-A53 | 4 x Cortex-A53 | 1 x Cortex-A53 |
1 x Cortex-M4F | 1 x Cortex-M4F | 1 x Cortex-M4F | 1 x Cortex-M4F | |
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Video Acceleration | 4Kp60, H.265, VP9 and H.264 Decoder | None | None | |
Display | Up to 2 displays of 4Kp60 HDR | Up to 2 displays of 4Kp60 | Up to 2 displays of full HD 1080p60 | |
Audio | 20 channels, 32-bits@384KHz, DSD512, SPDIFTx & Rx, HDMI ARC |
For more information of this family: iMX8M Fact Sheet
iMX8 product family
Following table shows the different features between the iMX8M family.
Feature | i.MX 8QuadMax | i.MX 8QuadPlus | i.MX 8Quad | i.MX 8Dual | i.MX 8DualLite |
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ARM CPU | 4 x Cortex-A53 | 4 x Cortex-A53 | 4 x Cortex-A53 | 2 x Cortex-A53 | 2 x Cortex-A53 |
2 x Cortex-M4F | 2 x Cortex-M4F | 2 x Cortex-M4F | 1 x Cortex-M4F | 1 x Cortex-M4F | |
2 x Cortex-A72 | 1 x Cortex-A72 | ||||
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Display | Up to 4 displays of 4Kp60 | Up to 2 displays of full HD 1080p60 | |||
DSP | HiFi 4 DSP |
For more information of this family: iMX8 Fact Sheet
iMX8M Mini product family
iMX8X product family