The i.MX 93 EVK comes with a pre-built NXP Linux binary demo image flashed on the eMMC. Without modifying the binary inside, booting from the eMMC provides a default system with certain features for building other applications on top of Linux.

The i.MX 93 applications processor is the latest member of thei.MX 9 family. It excels in machine learning, vision, advanced multimedia and industrial IoT applications. Elevating edge intelligence, i.MX 93 processors are the solid foundation for products built for smart homes, smart cities, and industrial applications.

The i.MX 93 EVK for 11x11mm sample provides a platform for comprehensive evaluation of the i.MX 93 applications processors and also includes the ability to measure power consumption on the power rails.

The two-board solution consists of a compute module that contains i.MX 93 SoC, LPDDR4, eMMC, QSPI, NXP’s PMIC PCA9451A and power monitoring circuits and a base board that brings out the broad connectivity including NXP’s IW612 WiFi module. This kit provides an excellent starting point to accelerate your own design.

The i.MX 93 Evaluation Kit (MCIMX93-EVK board) is a platform designed to show the most commonly used features of the i.MX 93 Applications Processor in a small and low-cost package. The MCIMX93-EVK board is an entry-level development board, which helps developers to get familiar with the processor before investing a large amount of resources in more specific designs.MCIMX93-EVK is assembled with two separate boards:

• MCIMX93-SOM: Referred to as "SOM board" in this document

• MCIMX93-BB: Referred to as "Base board" in this document

This board user manual document includes system setup and configurations, and provides detailed information on the overall design and usage of the EVK board from a hardware system perspective.

Some of the documents listed below may be available only under a non-disclosure agreement (NDA). To request access to these documents, contact your local field applications engineer (FAE) or sales representative.

Document

Description

Link / how to access

i.MX 93 Applications Processor Reference Manual

Intended for system software and hardware developers and application programmers who want to develop products with i.MX 93 MPU

面向希望使用 i.MX 93 MPU 开发产品的系统软件和硬件开发人员以及应用程序编程人员

IMX93RM

i.MX 93 Industrial Application Processors Data Sheet

Provides information about electrical characteristics, hardware design considerations, and ordering information

提供有关电气特性、硬件设计注意事项和订购信息的信息

IMX93IEC

i.MX93 Hardware Developer's Guide

This document aims to help hardware engineers design and to test their i.MX 93 processor-based designs. It provides information about board layout recommendations and design checklists to ensure first-pass success and avoidance of board bring-up problems.

本文档旨在帮助硬件工程师设计和测试基于 i.MX 93 处理器的设计。它提供了有关电路板布局建议和设计检查表的信息，以确保一次通过成功并避免电路板调试问题。

IMX93HDG

After power up, the processor starts executing from the on-chip ROM code. With the default boot switch setup, the code reads the fuses to define the media where it is expected to have a bootable image. After it finds a bootable image, the U-Boot execution should begin automatically.

Information is printed in the serial console for the Arm® Cortex®-A55. If you do not stop the U-Boot process, it continues to boot the kernel.

Congratulations, Linux Boot is complete.

Before the Linux OS kernel can boot on an i.MX board, the Linux kernel is loaded to a boot device (SD card, eMMC and so on) and the boot switches are set to boot that device.

The latest pre-built images for the i.MX 93 EVK are available on the Linux download page under the most current version on Linux.

The pre-built NXP Linux binary demo image provides a typical system and basic set of features for using and evaluating the processor. Without modifying the system, the users can evaluate hardware interfaces, test SoC features and run user space applications.

When more flexibility is desired, an SD card can be loaded with individual components (boot loader, kernel, dtb file and rootfs file) one-by-one or the *wic image is loaded and the individual parts are overwritten with the specific components.

Connect the USB1 to the host machine using the proper USB cable.

Turn off the board. Refer to the "Boot Switch Setup" section and configure the board to boot on serial download protocol (SDP) mode.

Depending on the OS used in the host machine, the way to transfer the Linux BSP image onto the storage device can vary.

Download the latest stable files from UUU GitHub page: Releases · nxp-imx/mfgtools · GitHub 

Choose an option below for detailed instructions:

Power up the board and stop the boot process by pressing any key before the U-Boot countdown reaches zero. At the U-Boot prompt on the first terminal, type the following commands.

These commands copy the image file from the partition of the SD card into the Cortex-M33's TCM and releases the Cortex-M33 from reset.