The PICO - IMX7 - EMMC. A tiny board with big ambitions.

Over the last decade computer systems have become more powerful and smaller with each new generation. Here we are in the early 21st century and this trend continues. Technexion have recently released a new system on a chip (SOC) called the PICO-IMX7-EMMC, it's tiny. This little board measures 36mm by 40mm, the CPU power that this little unit has is just plain amazing.

It's based around the NXP i.IMX7 chipset and has two versions; the 800MHz solo and 1GHz Dual core unit. It utilizes up to 2 GB of DDR3 RAM and has onboard 4GB of eMMC storage. These features alone make it ideal for embedded applications where processing power is needed in a small space but it gets better.

The PICO board has a huge array of IO ports:

Edison I/O @ 1.8V
9 x GPIO
4 x PWM
2 x I2C
1 x I2S
1 x SPI
2 x UART
USB-OTG
SDIO (4-bit)

Additional I/O @ 3.3V
24 bit TTL RGB
RGMII LAN
CAN
USB Host
I2C

Operating systems that run include Linux 3.x, Yocto and Brillo.

The choice for embedded systems now is vast and with boards like the PICO IMX7, more and more power is available in a very small space.

Specifications

Processor	NXP i.MX7 Solo / Dual
Technology	ARM Cortex-A7 single core @800Mhz + Cortex-M4 ARM Cortex-A7 dual core @ 1Ghz + Cortex-M4
Power Management IC	NXP PF3000
System Memory	Upto 2GB LPDDR3
Storage	onboard eMMC (default 4GB)
Operation System	Linux, Yocto, Android , Ubuntu

Connectivity

Gigabit Network RGMII	Signals routed to board-to-board connector
Wireless LAN	Broadcom BCM4339 802.11ac
Bluetooth	Broadcom BCM4339 Bluetooth v. 4.0

Connectors

Board-to-Board

1x Intel Edison compatible connector (Hirose 70-pin) 2x Hirose 70-pin connectors

I/O Interface Signalling

Edison I/O @ 1.8V	9x GPIO 4x PWM 2x I²C 1x I²S 1x SPI 2x UART USB-OTG SDIO (4-bit)
Additional I/O @ 3.3V	24-bit TTL RGB MIPI CSI Camera MIPI DSI Display PCIe RGMII (gigabit LAN) Flex CAN version 2.0B Compliant

Video

PXP	Image re-sizing, rotation, overlay and CSC Pixel Processing Pipeline

Audio

Interface	I²S (1 channel)
Audio Codec	On Carrier Board

 

Power Specifications

Input Power Requirements

4.2 ~ 5.25 VDC

Environmental and Mechanical

Temperature	Commercial : 0° to 60° C Extended : -20° to 70° C Industrial : -35° to 85° C (no WiFi possible)
Humidity	10 - 90%
Dimensions	36 x 40 mm 1⅜ x 1⅝ inch
Weight	8 grams
Certification	Compliant with CE, FCC, RoHS, REACh directives

For more information on the Technexion PICO IMX7 please contact RDS on:

01959 563 345