Toradex Titan Evaluation Kit features NXP i.MX 95 AI processor for IoT, industrial, and automotive applications

Toradex Titan Evaluation Kit features the NXP i.MX 95 Cortex-A55/M33/M7 heterogenous AI processor introduced at the beginning of the year with an NXP eIQ Neutron Neural Network Accelerator (NPU) for automotive, industrial, and IoT applications.

The design is comprised of a carrier board and a SO-DIMM system-on-module with the NXP i.MX 95 SoC, up to 16GB LPPDR5 memory, up to 128GB eMMC flash storage, a WiFi 5 and Bluetooth 5.0 wireless module, a gigabit Ethernet controller, a PMIC, and a few other components. The carrier board also comes with 10GbE and Gigabit Ethernet ports, HDMI video output, a few USB ports, and various expansion connectors and headers.

Toradex Titan evaluation kit specifications:

SoC – NXP i.MX 95 with
- Up to 6x Arm Cortex-A55 application cores clocked at 2.0 GHz with 32K I-cache and D-cache, 64KB L2 cache, and 512KB L3 cache
- 1x Arm Cortex-M7 real-time core clocked at 800 MHz
- 1x Arm Cortex-M33 safety core clocked at 333 MHz
- Arm Mali-G310 V2 GPU for 2D/3D acceleration
- NXP eIQ Neutron 2 TOPS neural processing unit (NPU) with 750 inf/sec
System Memory – Up to 16GB LPDDR5 (32-bit)
Storage
- Up to 128GB eMMC flash
- 1x OSPI Flash (fast boot use cases)
- 4-bit microSD card slot
Display interfaces
- 4-lane MIPI DSI
- Dual-channel LVDS
- HDMI output via add-on board, apparently part of the kit
Camera I/F – 2x 4-lane MIPI CSI-2
Audio – 1x SAI with WM8904 Audio Codec with Line in/HP out/MIC
Networking & Wireless
- 10 Gigabit Ethernet RJ45 connector via Marvell AQR113C controller on the carrier board
- 2x Gigabit Ethernet RJ45 connectors with TSN support via RTL8211 controllers (one of the SoM, the other on the carrier board)
- WiFi 5 802.11ac/a/b/g/n 2×2 MU-MIMO and Bluetooth 5.0; Note: an NXP IW612 WiFi 6E module is also in the works
USB – 1x USB 3.0 Type-C port, 2x USB 2.0 Type-A ports
Debugging – UART via FTDI on USB-C connector, JTAG connector
Expansion
- 1x mPCIe slot
- 1x M.2 Key E socket
- Headers with 4x I2C, 8x analog inputs
- 2x CAN-FD with Signal Improvement Capability
Power Supply – 12V DC via power barrel connector
Dimensions
- SoM Size – 69.60 x 47.00mm
- Carrier Board Size – 194.5 x 129.5mm
Temperature Range – -25°C to +85°C (TBC)

NXP i.MX 95 development kit block diagram — Block diagram

Toradex says the Titan EVK aims to help developers kickstart projects for a range of machine vision and edge applications across several markets such as automotive edge, industry 4.0, robotics, healthcare, transportation, and smart office. This is an early announcement so we have limited details about software support. The company still says they’ll provide Torizon industrial/embedded Linux OS for the module and evaluation kit with support for full-stack remote updates (OTA), device monitoring, remote IoT device management platform, remote access, and more.

Toradex’s Titan Evaluation Kit is available today but as part of an Early Access Program which means your company would have to provide details about the project, excepted volume, timeline, and other information to qualify for a kit. Visit the product page to apply and/or get more information about the NXP i.MX 95 evaluation kit. As one would expect, Toradex is not the only company to work on NXP i.MX 95 solution, and a few days ago we were also contacted by Variscite with another early announcement about their upcoming DART-MX95 system-on-module, but not quite enough details to warrant an article just yet.

Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft)

Jean-Luc started CNX Software in 2010 as a part-time endeavor, before quitting his job as a software engineering manager, and starting to write daily news, and reviews full time later in 2011.