i.MX515 Processors|Advanced HMI

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The i.MX515 multimedia applications processor offers high performance processing optimized for the lowest power consumption for smartbooks, netbooks, and many other consumer and industrial applications as well including: portable media players, gaming consoles, secure handheld devices and applications requiring an advanced HMI. It features Our advanced and power-efficient implementation of the Arm^® Cortex^®-A8 core, which operates at speeds up to 800 MHz. Extended temperature is available for industrial focused devices running at up to 600 MHZ.

The i.MX515 is supported by companion NXP^® power management ICs (PMIC), MC13892, MC34704, MC34709 and MMPF0100.

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Product Details

Block Diagram

i.MX515 Multimedia Applications Processor Block Diagram

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Features

CPU Complex

800 MHz Arm Cortex-A8 CPU
32KB instruction and data caches
Unified 256KB L2 cache
NEON SIMD media accelerator
Vector floating point co-processor

Multimedia

OpenGL^® ES 2.0 and OpenVG^™ 1.1 hardware accelerators
Multi-format HD 720p video decoder and D1 video encoder hardware engine
24-bit primary display support up to WXGA resolution
18-bit secondary display support
Analog HD720p component TV output
High quality hardware video de-interlacing
Image and video resize, inversion, and rotation hardware
Alpha blending and color space conversion
Video/graphics combining: four planes plus hardware cursor
Display quality enhancement: color correction, gamut mapping, gamma correction

External Memory Interface

mDDR and DDR2 SDRAM, 16/32-bit, 200MHz
SLC/MLC NAND flash, 8/16-bit

Security

The i.MX51 processor provides additional security features making it the ideal solution for SOHO networking, routers or any other type of product needing secure system boot and tamper detection.

General

Interface Flexibility
Advanced Power Management
Increased Security

Product Longevity

This product is included in NXP’s product longevity program, with assured supply for a minimum of 10 years after launch

Design Resources

Design Files

1 design file

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IMX51_EVK16_DESIGN_FILES

ZIPRev 2.0Mar 14, 201116.0 MBI.MX51EVK_DESIGN_FILES
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Hardware

4 hardware offerings

^{Emulators, Probes, and Programmers}
Source Code for the i.MX manufacturing tool used for downloading OS images to the i.MX53, i.MX51, i.MX50, i.MX28 and i.MX23.

IMX_MFG_TOOL_SOURCE
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Windows Tool for the creation of boot SD cards for the i.MX platforms. Includes binaries and sources files.

CF_IMAGER
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IMX_MFG_TOOL

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i.MX51 Evaluation Kit

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