Taiwan based Innocomm Mobile Technology has been working on their own NXP i.MX 8M quad core system-on-module – namely WB10 – which includes a wireless module with WiFi and Bluetooth, as well as a Gigabit Ethernet transceiver.
The module connects to the carrier board through three 80-pin board-to-board connectors exposing many of the I/Os provided by the latest NXP processor.
WB10 module specifications:
- SoC – NXP i.MX8M Quad processor with 4x Cortex A53 cores, 1x Cortex-M4F core, and a Vivante GC7000Lite GPU
- System Memory – 2GB LPDDR4-3200
- Storage – 8GB eMMC flash
- Connectivity
- Gigabit Ethernet transceiver
- Wireless module supporting 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac 2×2 MIMO WiFi, Bluetooth 4.2, two u.FL antenna connectors on-module
- Power Management & Audio Codec – ROHM PMIC
- 3x 80-pin board-to- board (1.27mm pitch) connectors exposing:
- Display Interfaces – HDMI 2.0a with support for 4K HDR, MIPI DSI
- Audio Interfaces – 4x SAI, S/PDIF Rx/Tx, DSD512
- Camera Interfaces – 2x CSI
- USB – USB 2.0/3.0 host, USB 2.0 device
- 2x I2C, 1x SPI, 3x UART, PWM
- GPIO
- PCIe
- Supply Voltage – 5V DC
- Dimensions – 50 x 50mm
No word about software support, but we should expect the usual Android and Linux BSPs. The company also provides a development kit with the module and a baseboard with Gigabit Ethernet, HDMI port, USB type C port, mini PCIe slot, 40-pin I/Os header, and likely more, but I just don’t know since the only public information is the photo below.
InnoComm i.MX8M SoM is said to targets the Audio Video streaming applications such as Internet Audio, Entertainment and Home Audio, as well as Internet of Things and industrial applications.
It’s unclear whether the module and development kits are available now, but you can request a quotation via the product page or inquire for more details.
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If the board offers a better price than wandpi 8M, they will have my money!
BTW, the thing close to wifi module is a ssd port?
@jeanz
WandPi 8M will be cheaper. This kind of board with SoM + baseboard is mostly designed for company designing their own baseboard, and using the module to avoid more complex design issues and simplify things like certifications. So the devkit is normally not optimized for cost…
The connector is a mini PCIe slot. No SATA interface in the SoM.
It’s an M.2 slot, but the kind that doesn’t support storage drives.