The SPEAR-MX8 Development Kit and Starter Kit can serve as a complete development platform for both evaluation and application development purposes. The kits provide a great showcase of the SPEAR-MX8 connectivity features and performance.

    Specifications

    SPEAR-MX8 Starter Kit Starter KitSPEAR-MX8 Development Kit Development Kit

    Included SOM

    SPEAR-MX8

    SPEAR-MX8

    Included Carrier Board

    VAR-SP8CustomBoard

    VAR-SP8CustomBoard

    Display

    7″ WVGA

    Touch Panel

    Capacitive

    Micro-USB Debug Cable

    v

    v

    Ethernet Cable

    v

    12V Power Supply

    v

    Antenna

    v

    v

    Boot/Rescue SD Cards

    v

    v

    Carrier Board Design Package

    v

    v

    Camera Module

    Optional – i.MX8 Serial Camera Board

    Optional – i.MX8 Serial Camera Board

    Part number

    VAR-STK-SP8

    VAR-DVK-SP8

    SPEAR-MX8

    System on Module

    SPEAR-MX8

    CPU Name

    NXP iMX8 QuadMax

    CPU Type

    2x Cortex™-A72 + 4x Cortex™-A53

    CPU Cores

    6

    CPU Clock

    1600MHz Cortex A72 with 1200MHz Cortex A53

    RAM

    4 GB LPDDR4

    eMMC

    16 GB

    Ethernet

    2x GbE PHY

    Wi-Fi

    Certified 802.11 ac/a/b/g/n

    Bluetooth

    5.2 / BLE

    Audio codec

    Yes

    OS support

    Linux / Android (coming soon)

    Temperature

    -25 to 85°C

    Part number

    SPEAR-MX8QM_1612C_4096R_1…

    Symphony-Board

    Carrier Board

    VAR-SP8CustomBoard

    B2B socket

    Supporting the SPEAR-MX8

    LVDS

    Dual 18-bit / 24-bit

    HDMI in

    1x HDMI 2.0a

    HDMI

    2.0a

    DP

    1.3

    eDP

    1.4 via display extension board (not included)

    DSI

    Header

    Backlight Driver

    PWM Control

    Resistive touch panel

    4-wire touch panel (4-pin FFC/FPC)

    Capacitive touch panel

    Capacitive touch panel (6-pin FFC/FPC)

    Headphone

    3.5 mm connector

    Line – in

    3.5 mm connector

    Digital microphone

    On-board

    PCI-Express

    mini-PCIe connector

    SATA

    SATA Connector on PCIe/SATA Interface

    SPEAR-MX8 Evaluation Kits Block Diagram Diagram

    VAR-[DVK / STK]-MX8_[x]O

    STK

    Starter kit

    DVK

    Development kit

    [x]O

    L: Linux, A: Android

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