MarS Board An Evaluation Board Based on NXP's i.MX 6Dual Processor with 9.7 inch LCD

The MarS Board is a low-cost, highly-integrated controller board based on NXP’s i.MX6Dual ARM Cortex-A9 application processor which encompasses a dual-core platform running at up to 1 GHz with 1 MB of L2 cache and 64-bit DDR3 or 2-ch., 32-bit LPDDR2 support. Integrated FlexCAN, MLB busses, PCI Express® and SATA-2 provide excellent connectivity, while integrating LVDS, MIPI display port, MIPI camera port and HDMI v1.4, the i.MX 6Dual provides a scalable solution for consumer, automotive and industrial applications.

The MarS Board has 4GB eMMC, 4*256MByte DDR3 SDRAM and 2MByte SPI Flash on board and features 4 USB Host and 1 USB OTG, 10M/100M/1Gbps Ethernet, TF card socket and three display ports on board (HDMI, RGB, LVDS). Extra peripheral signals have been brought out from a pair of 2.54mm space 2*20-pin board-to-board female connectors such as UARTs, CAN, SPI, I2C, PWM, etc.

The MarS Board is a ready-to-run platform with ported Linux 3.0.15 or Android 4.0.4. Additionally, Embest provides a demo for uC/OS-II V2.92.05. It is an ideal core processing component for your end devices based on a single hardware design. This will greatly improve the efficiency and agility of design, shorten the development process, and accelerate the products to market.

Embest also provides many add-on options for the MarS Board such as a USB WiFi module (Wi-Pi), a HDMI-to-VGA conversion module (Pi-View) and a 4.3 inch or 7 inch TFT LCD including touch screen. These modules have further extended the functions of the MarS Board.

Key Applications: Consumer, Automotive and Industrial applications.

The MarS Board is a compact controller board featuring the powerful i.MX 6Dual Application Processor. The hardware specifications for the MarS Board are the following:

Mechanical Parameters

• Working Temperature: 0°C 50°C
• Humidity Range: 20% 90%
• Dimensions: 65.46mm by 102.04mm
• Input Voltage: 5V

Processor

• ARM Cortex A9 MPCore™ 2xCPU Processor at 1GHz
• 1 MB L2 cache
• 32 KB instruction and data caches
• NEON SIMD media accelerator
• HD class 1080p encode/decode video engine
• 2D 3D Hardware Graphics Accelerators (3 GPUs, 200Mtri/s)

Memories

• 4GByte eMMC
• 1GByte (4*256MByte) DDR3 SDRAM
• 2MByte SPI FLASH

Media Interfaces

• LVDS interface
• HDMI 1.4a interface
• Parallel RGB interface

Data Transfer Interfaces

• USB Ports:
  • 1 x USB2.0 OTG, micro USB, high-speed, 480Mbps
  • 2 x USB2.0 HOST, Type A, high-speed, 480Mbps
  • 2 x USB2.0 HOST, 2.54mm pitch 10-pin connector, high-speed, 480Mbps
• Serial Port: 1 x RS232 Debug serial port, micro USB connector
• TF card interface
• 10M/100M/1Gbps Ethernet Interface (RJ45 jack)

Others

• Boot mode configuration interface
• 1 DC Jack
• 1 Reset button
• Expansion connectors (2.54mm 2*20-pin SMT Female Pin Header) bring out signals below:
  • AUDMUX (Digital Audio Multiplexer);
  • Two channel CAN;
  • ECSPI2 (Enhanced Configurable SPI);
  • Two channel I2C;
  • Camera/ Parallel, 8bit or 10bit;
  • KPP (Keypad Port);
  • PWM (Pulse Width Modulation);
  • GPMI (General Purpose Memory Interface);
  • SPDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface);
  • Four channel UARTs;
  • USDHC1 (Ultra Secured Digital Host Controller)
  • ESAI (Enhanced Serial Audio Interface)

• One MarS Board
• 9.7inch TFT LVDS(including touch screen)