i.MX 8 Family – Arm^® Cortex^®-A53, Cortex-A72, Virtualization, Vision, 3D Graphics, 4K Video

Overview

Fast multi-OS platform deployment via advanced full-chip hardware virtualization and domain protection
Deploy rich, fully-independent graphics content across 4x HD screens or 1x 4K screen
Incorporate Vision and Speech Recognition interactivity via a powerful vision pipeline and audio processing subsystem
Rapidly deploy multiple products by utilizing pin and power compatible packages and software friendly copy-exact IP blocks
Android^™, Linux^®, FreeRTOS, QNX^™, Green Hills^®, Dornerworks XEN^™
Automotive AEC-Q100 Grade 3 (-40^° to 125^° C Tj), Industrial (-40^° to 105^° C Tj)
Fully supported on NXP’s 10 and 15-year Longevity Program

i.MX 8 applications processors are part of NXP's EdgeVerse™ edge computing platform.

For additional information and sample availability, contact your local NXP^® Sales Office or NXP Authorized Distributor.

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Features

Processor Complex

Core Complex #1: 4x Cortex-A53
Core Complex #2: 2x Cortex-A72
2x Cortex-M4F
1x HIFI4 DSP

Multimedia

16 Vec4-Shader GPU, 32 compute units OpenGL^® ES 3.2 and Vulkan^® support Tessellation and Geometry Shading
Split-GPU architecture enables 2x 8 Shader Cores
Vision Extensions
4k h.265 Decode, 1080p h.264 encode

Connectivity

2x PCIe 3.0 (2-lane or 2x 1-lane)
dual Gigabit Ethernet with audio video bridging (AVB)
3x Flex-CAN
2x 12bit ADC (8 channels each)
1x USB 3.0, 2x USB 2.0 with PHY
3x SD 3.0 and eMMC 5.1
4x SPI, 2x ESAI, 5x SAI, 1x Keypad
5x I²C (High-speed), 8x I²C (Low-speed)
1x SPDIF, 2x MPEG-2 T/S
1x FPGA interface (QuadSPI)

Display

2x Display Processor Controllers with inline blending and WARP
SafeAssure Fail-over capable (per DPC)
2x 4-lane MIPI DSI
2x 4-lane MIPI CSI
2x LVDS
1x HDMI* 2.0 TX with HDCP* 2.2, 1x eDP* 1.2, 1x DP* 1.4
1x HDMI 1.4 RX with HDCP 2.2

Security

High Assurance Boot, SHE
TRNG, AES-128, AES-256, 3DES, ARC4, RSA4096, SHA-1, SHA-2, SHA-256, MD-5
RSA-1024, 2048, 3072, 4096 and secure key storage
Tamper-pins (active and passive)
Inline Encryption Engine (AES-128)

Memory

1x OctoSPI or 2x QuadSPI
SATA 3.0 (or 1x PCIe 3.0 1-lane)

Temperature

Automotive AEC-Q100 Grade 3 (-40^° to 125^° C Tj), Industrial (-40^° to 105^° C Tj)

Advanced Power Management

Recommended PMIC: PF8200: Power Management integrated circuit for i.MX 8 and i.MX 8X families

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Features

Processor Complex

Core Complex #1: 4x Cortex-A53
Core Complex #2: 2x Cortex-A72
2x Cortex-M4F
1x HIFI4 DSP

Multimedia

16 Vec4-Shader GPU, 32 compute units OpenGL^® ES 3.2 and Vulkan^® support Tessellation and Geometry Shading
Split-GPU architecture enables 2x 8 Shader Cores
Vision Extensions
4k h.265 Decode, 1080p h.264 encode

Connectivity

2x PCIe 3.0 (2-lane or 2x 1-lane)
dual Gigabit Ethernet with audio video bridging (AVB)
3x Flex-CAN
2x 12bit ADC (8 channels each)
1x USB 3.0, 2x USB 2.0 with PHY
3x SD 3.0 and eMMC 5.1
4x SPI, 2x ESAI, 5x SAI, 1x Keypad
5x I²C (High-speed), 8x I²C (Low-speed)
1x SPDIF, 2x MPEG-2 T/S
1x FPGA interface (QuadSPI)

Display

2x Display Processor Controllers with inline blending and WARP
SafeAssure Fail-over capable (per DPC)
2x 4-lane MIPI DSI
2x 4-lane MIPI CSI
2x LVDS
1x HDMI* 2.0 TX with HDCP* 2.2, 1x eDP* 1.2, 1x DP* 1.4
1x HDMI 1.4 RX with HDCP 2.2

Security

High Assurance Boot, SHE
TRNG, AES-128, AES-256, 3DES, ARC4, RSA4096, SHA-1, SHA-2, SHA-256, MD-5
RSA-1024, 2048, 3072, 4096 and secure key storage
Tamper-pins (active and passive)
Inline Encryption Engine (AES-128)

Memory

1x OctoSPI or 2x QuadSPI
SATA 3.0 (or 1x PCIe 3.0 1-lane)

Temperature

Automotive AEC-Q100 Grade 3 (-40^° to 125^° C Tj), Industrial (-40^° to 105^° C Tj)

Advanced Power Management

Recommended PMIC: PF8200: Power Management integrated circuit for i.MX 8 and i.MX 8X families

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i.MX 8 Family Block Diagram
i.MX 8QM Software Ecosystem
Smart Retail AI Demo - NXP, Basler, Congatec and Irida Labs
i.MX Automotive Infotainment Platform
i.MX 8-based Neural Networks for Object Recognition
Transfer Learning Between Edge Nodes
Food Classification on i.MX8 + RT1050
Your Future Driver Experience Built on i.MX 8 and i.MX 8X Applications Processors
i.MX 8M Quad at Embedded World 2019
From Simply Smart to Truly Intelligent: Edge Computing with i.MX and Layerscape Processors Enables Future Technology
The Case for FD-SOI Technology - New Products from NXP
Super eCockpits - The Future of Automotive Infotainment