Overview

The i.MX51 family of processors represents Freescale’s advanced and power-efficient implementation of the ARM Cortex™-A8 core. Freescale’s i.MX51 products provide high performance processing optimized for the lowest power consumption for a number of application
spaces where performance and power are critical. The consumer version of the i.MX51 products are targeted to run at 800 MHz while the industrial versions run at 600 MHz. Optimized for low power consumption, this i.MX offering is part of a growing family of multimedia-focused products offering high-performance processing.

Key Features

CPU Complex
• 800 MHz ARM Cortex-A8 CPU
• 32 KB instruction and data caches
• Unified 256 KB L2 cache
• NEON SIMD media accelerator
• Vector floating point coprocessor

Multimedia
• OpenGL® ES 2.0 and OpenVG™ 1.1 hardware accelerators
• Multi-format HD720p video decoder and D1 video encoder hardware engine
• 24-bit primary display support up to WXGA resolution
• 18-bit secondary display support
• Analog HD720p component TV output
• High-quality hardware video de-interlacing
• Image and video resize, inversion and rotation hardware
• Alpha blending and color space conversion
• Video/graphics combining: four planes plus hardware cursor
• Display quality enhancement: color correction, gamut mapping and gamma correction

External Memory Interface
• mDDR and DDR2 SDRAM, 16/32-bit, 200 MHz
• SLC/MLC NAND flash, 8/16-bit

Advanced Power Management
• Multiple independent power domains
• Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling
• Dynamic process and temperature compensation
• Proprietary power gating

Connectivity
• High-Speed USB OTG with PHY
• Three additional High-Speed USB controllers
• Wide array of serial interfaces, including SDIO, SPI, I2C and UART
• I2S and S/PDIF audio interfaces
• 10/100 Ethernet controller
• P-ATA

Security
• Security controller, including secure RAM and security monitor
• High assurance boot, JTAG controller and real-time clock
• Cipher and random number generator accelerators
• Run-time integrity checker
• Universal unique identification
• Tamper detection

General
• 19 mm x 19 mm, 0.8 mm pitch MAPBGA package
• Consumer, consumer extended and automotive temperature grades also available. See the i.MX51 data sheet

Benefits
• Very high-performance processing and multimedia capabilities
• High level of integration reduces overall system BOM
• Hardware acceleration enables very low power consumption for video and graphics

Development Tools
Freescale delivers the cost-effective i.MX51 evaluation kit, allowing customers to develop, debug and demonstrate their next great product without compromising performance. As part of our new price, performance and personality series, the evaluation kit is designed to support all the features of the device in a small, single board design to enable designers to complete a development platform at a low price point. The i.MX51 EVK has two optional add-on modules: an LCD module and an expansion board which includes a camera, TV-out, keypad and UART. For more information, visit  www.freescale.com/imx51evk

Data Sheet

i.MX51

Brief

i.MX51