I.MX 8 Series Applications Processors
Introduction
The i.MX 8 series of applications processors is a feature- and performance-scalable multicore platform that includes single-, dual-, and quad-core families based on the Arm® Cortex® architecture—including combined Cortex-A72 + Cortex-A53, Cortex-A35, and Cortex-M4 based solutions for advanced graphics, imaging, machine vision, audio, voice, video, and safety-critical applications (NXP).
The available versions are:
- i.MX8(PREPRODUCTION): Advanced Graphics, Performance and Virtualization.
- i.MX8M: Advanced Audio, Voice and Video.
- i.MX8X(PREPRODUCTION): Safety certifiable and efficient performance.
LAST UPDATED: 2018-02-05
Evaluation boards
Following you can find some of the available evaluation kits using the iMX8M offered by different manufacturers (as of today, in preorder):
- NXP: Evaluation Kit for the i.MX 8M Applications Processor
- NXP (iMX8): i.MX 8 Multisensory Enablement Kit
- Boundary Devices: Nitrogen8M
- Wandboard: WandPi 8M
- Variscite: VAR-SOM-MX8
- Toradex: NXP i.MX 8 Computer on Module - Apalis iMX8
Getting started
Following you'll find some information that will help you to get started with the i.MX8 and evaluation boards.
Need help?
NXP offers the i.MX community that can be used to ask for help to other developers:
You can also visit Ridgerun developer Connection and search or the i.MX or i.MX8 categories:
Software
The software for the i.MX8 series processors can be found in this git repository. Following you'll find the branches holding the latest bootloader and kernel source code as of today.
Kernel
The kernel source code can be found in the following repository:
https://source.codeaurora.org/external/imx/linux-imx
Latest branches:
rel_imx_4.9.51_8qm_beta2
bootloader
The bootloader source code can be found in the following repository:
https://source.codeaurora.org/external/imx/uboot-imx
Latest branch:
rel_imx_4.9.51_8qm_beta2