Welcome to the information hub for MaaXBoard 8ULP, featuring the NXP i.MX 8ULP processor to achieve ultra-low power, EdgeLock® secured intelligent edge applications. The i.MX 8ULP family features up to two Arm® Cortex®-A35 running at 800 MHz, an Arm Cortex-M33 core, 3D/2D Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and a Cadence® Tensilica® Hifi 4 DSP and Fusion DSP for low-power audio/voice and edge AI/ML processing. This repository serves as a central hub for all resources related to MaaXBoard 8ULP.
Note: Board images can be downloaded from the Releases section
MaaXBoard 8ULP is a power efficient, production ready development board in the popular and compact Raspberry Pi form-factor, which supports a versatile set of I/O interfaces. This NXP i.MX 8ULP processor-based platform is ideal for development of cost-efficient Edge-AI, Machine Learning, Secure Entry Access-Control Systems, Inventory and Asset Monitoring applications and many more.
MaaXBoard 8ULP is also AWS certified.
More information & Specs
The i.MX 8ULP device is architected with 3 separate processing domains: The application domain includes two Arm® Cortex®-A35 (800 MHz) cores plus 3D/2D GPUs for GUI-enabled Linux applications. The Real Time domain includes an Arm Cortex-M33 (216 MHz) core, plus Fusion DSP (200 MHz) core for low-power audio/voice use cases.
Audio applications are supported via onboard audio codec, digital microphone and stereo headphone jack I/O. Power is sourced via a USB-C connector and is managed via NXP's PCA9460B PMIC on the SOM plus three additional voltage regulators.
A unique aspect of this board is it’s debug subsystem which supports remote USB access to three UARTs, 16bit I/O expander-based remote control and monitoring, plus integrated SWD/JTAG (or external header) debugger interface.
The back of the board has an M.2 module connector for easy addition of 801.11ac Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 5.1 wireless connectivity.
The 8ULP processor has on-chip shared RAM (768 KB), while the board is well resourced with power-efficient 32bit wide LPDDR4X DDR (2GB), Octal PSRAM (8 MB), plus eMMC 5.1 flash (32 GB) and Octal SPI NOR flash (4 MB) memory devices.
Yocto Linux Out of Box Image (wic)
Yocto Linux Out of Box Manifest
Available accessory options include a MIPI 7-inch display, MIPI CSI camera, MaaxBoard 8ULP SOM and 5V/3A USB Type C power supply.
- MaaXBoard Metalayer: Contains the Yocto metalayer for MaaXBoards including MaaXBoard 8ULP as well as building information
- U-boot source code: Contains the source code for U-Boot, a boot loader for Embedded boards.
- Linux kernel source code: Contains the source code for the Linux kernel.
- imx-mkimage source code: i.MX Mkimage Bootloader Tool for Yocto and Android.
- imx-atf source code: Trusted Firmware-A (TF-A) is a reference implementation of secure world software for Arm A-Profile architectures.
Search hackster.io for all MaaXBoard 8ULP projects
| Topic | Description | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|
| Connect to AWS IoT Core with Avnet's MaaXBoard 8ULP SBC | Getting started guide for connecting an Avnet MaaXBoard 8ULP SBC to AWS IoT Core. | Advanced |
| Adding Remote Desktop to MaaXBoard 8ULP | Adding remote desktop capability to the MaaXBoard 8ULP using FreeRDP. | Intermediate |