Conclusive Engineering KSTR-IMX93 is a single board computer (SBC) powered by an NXP i.MX 93 Cortex-A55/M33 AI SoC and equipped with three Nordic Semi wireless solutions, namely nRF5340 SoC, nRF9151 SiP, and nRF7002 WiFi 6 coprocessor.
This allows the board to offer a wide range of wireless and wired connectivity options with Gigabit Ethernet, dual-band WiFi 6, Bluetooth 5.4 LE, Zigbee, Thread, NB-IoT, LTE Cat-M1, and GNSS. In some way, the KSTR-IMX93 is the equivalent of combining a Nordic Thingy:91 X Cellular IoT development platform with an Arm Linux SBC.
KSTR-IMX93 specifications:
- SoC – NXP i.MX 93
- CPU
- Single or dual-core Arm Cortex-A55 up to 1.7 GHz
- Arm Cortex-M33 up to 250 MHz
- GPU – PXP 2D GPU with blending/composition, resize, color space conversion
- NPU – Arm Ethos-U65 NPU @ 1 GHz up to 0.5 TOPS
- Memory – 640 KB OCRAM w/ ECC
- Security – EdgeLock Secure Enclave
- CPU
- System Memory – 512MB, 1GB, or 2GB LPDDR4/LPDDR4x
- Storage
- Up to 128GB eMMC flash
- MicroSD card slot
- Display Interface – MIPI DSI
- Camera Interface – MIPI CSI
- Networking and Wireless
- Gigabit Ethernet RJ45 port via Realtek RTL8211FS
- Nordic Semi nRF5340 dual-core Cortex-M33 wireless SoC with Bluetooth 5.4 LE, Bluetooth mesh, NFC, Thread, Zigbee, 802.15.4, ANT, and 2.4 GHz proprietary
- Nordic Semi nRF9151 Arm Cortex-M33 SiP with GNSS support and integrated modem supporting LTE Cat-M1, NB-IoT, and DECT NR+
- Nordic Semi nRF7002 dual-band WiFi 6 companion IC
- Built in e-SIM / Soft SIM
- USB – USB 2.0 OTG Type-C
- Expansion
- 40-pin GPIO header compatible with Raspberry Pi GPIO header and connected to the NXP i.MX 93 SoC only
- 44-pin GPIO header connected to NXP SoC and Nordic nRFxx chips
- Ethernet – RGMII
- CAN-FD transceiver
- 4x UART, 3x I2C, 1x SPI
- 4x ADC
- Up to 37x to i.MX93 GPIO
- Up to 15x nRFxx GPIO
- Debugging – JTAG connector
- Power Supply
- 5V via USB Type-C port
- Support for external Li-Ion battery with charging, charge level, and temperature monitoring support
- PoE IEEE 802.3af through RJ45 connector
- Dimensions – 110 x 55 mm
Conclusive Engineering will provide software support for Linux 6.1 & 6.5, U-Boot, the Yocto Project, Buildroot, Ubuntu, FreeBSD (on request only), and Zephyr RTOS (on the Cortex-M33 core) for the NXP i.MX 93 SoC, and Zephyr RTOS for the nRF5340 SoC and nRF9151 SiP.
Target applications include industrial automation (e.g. CAN-FD and Ethernet TSN), Smart Home/Building automation with Matter, Thread, and Zigbee, medical devices, health monitoring systems, and in-vehicle infotainment, telematics, and driver assistance systems.
The KSRT-IMX93 single board computer should become available by the end of June. There’s limited information on the product page right now, but you can join the mailing list if you are interested.
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.
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