Could use some advice on selecting I-Pi SMARC IMX8M Plus board.

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  Cor Jansen

  5/24/23, 8:46 AM

  Hi,

  For our full-motion simulator project we need a powerfull processor board to do some main control plus head/body tracking and multi channel 3D audio rendering.
  
  We think the I-Pi SMARC IMX8M Plus is perfect for that. But to be sure we have some questions about it. I hope you people can help so that we can make the right decission.

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  We want low level (bare metal) access to the pheripherals (gpio, I2C and I2S). We do not want to use the Linux way of access through the /dev structure. Is that possible? Can we access all peripherals using the M-core using a HAL layer?
  (is Linux mandatory?)
  
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  We need some CPU cores for special processing. On Ubuntu 20.04 it is possible to isolate a core from Ubuntu and use it for your own processes. Is that possible with the OS in this board too?

  3
  Can we use two (or more) USB (UVC compliant) cameras on this system? We can not use the MIPI because of the distance between board and cameras.

  4
  On the IO-headers, are the pins available for:
  - I2S based audio (we need 16 channels output)
  - the 4 signals for the 8 PMD microphones
  so that we can connect our own hardware to this.

  5
  How can we program the audio DSP? Are there special dev tools available for that?

  Any info and advice on this is welcome! Thx.

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  Master of SMARC Staff member

  5/25/23, 3:08 AM

  Hello Cor, 

  the 8M plus SOC is well able to handle all the tasks you list, but not in it's SMARC version.

  We go down to carrier with a single i2s, and connect to a fairly simple Wolfson WM890 audio codec that outputs 2 channel audio which is a very nice solution in 99% of the cases,  you need way more than this.

  If you don't mind I would like to contact you via email to see if we can bring a solution up that matches your expectations.

   

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