Multimedia Applications Processors - Integrated Electronic Paper Display (EPD), High Performance, Arm® Cortex®-A8 Core

i.MX508

The i.MX508 processor is the first system-on-chip (SoC) designed specifically for eReaders that incorporates a high performance 800MHz Arm® Cortex®-A8 processor and an integrated hardware Electronic Paper Display (EPD) Controller certified by E Ink® to drive the latest and next generation Pearl™ panels. The i.MX508 enables reduced system cost, longer battery life and higher performance for faster page flips and a better reading experience.

The i.MX508 is supported by a companion NXP® power management IC, MMPF0100.

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Block Diagram

i.MX508 Multimedia Applications Processor Block Diagram

i.MX508 Multimedia Applications Processor Block Diagram
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Features

CPU Complex

  • Up to 800 MHz Arm® Cortex®-A8
  • 32 KB instruction and data caches
  • Unified 256 KB L2 cache
  • NEON™ SIMD media accelerator
  • Vector floating point coprocessor

Multimedia

  • OpenVG™ 1.1 hardware accelerator
  • 32-bit primary display support up to SXGA+ resolution
  • EPD Controller supporting up to 4096 x 4096
  • Simultaneous EPD and LCD support
  • Enhanced Pixel Processing Pipeline (PxP) supporting CSC, Combine, Rotate, Gamma Mapping

External Memory Interface

  • Up to 2 GB LP-DDR2, DDR2 and LP-DDR1(mDDR), 16/32-bit
  • SLC/MLC NAND flash, 8/16-bit with 32-bit ECC

Advanced Power Management

  • Multiple independent power domains
  • State Retention Power Gating (SRPG)
  • Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS)

Connectivity

  • High-Speed USB 2.0 OTG with PHY
  • High-Speed USB 2.0 Host with PHY
  • 10/100 Ethernet controller

Controllers

  • Wide array of serial interfaces, including SDIO, SPI, I2C and UART
  • I2S audio interface

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Design Files

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  • Printed Circuit Boards and Schematics

    i.MX50 EVK Board Schematics

    ZIPRev 1Jul 6, 2011 00:00:004.7 MBI.MX50_EVK_REV._D_DESIGN_FILES
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Hardware

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    Emulators, Probes, and Programmers

    Command-line tool used to download a firmware image to target platform to run in RAM. Supports i.MX23/28/508 platforms.

    IMX_SB_LOADER
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    Emulators, Probes, and Programmers

    IMX_MFG_TOOL

    IMXMFG_TOOL
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    Evaluation and Development Boards

    i.MX50 Evaluation Kit

    IMX50EVK

Software

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  • BSP, Drivers and Middleware

    File and Instructions to create an SD with an Ubuntu Demo Image like the one provided with the EVK.

    GZRev 2011.04Feb 23, 2012 00:00:001772974 KBUBUNTU_SD_DEMO_IMAGE
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  • Code Snippets

    IOMUX_TOOL

    ZIPRev 2.0.27Aug 22, 2011 00:00:00956 KBIO_MUX_TOOL
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  • Test, Debug and Analyzer Software

    On-Board Diagnostic Suit for the i.MX50

    GZRev 1Feb 9, 2012 00:00:009.3 MBIMX50_OBDS
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  • Code Generation Tools

    i.MX High Assurance Boot Reference Code Signing Tool

    TGZRev 3.1.0Oct 15, 2018 00:00:0015871 KBIMX_CST_TOOL
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Engineering Services

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