Introduction - Advantech ROM-5721 User Manual

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Introduction

Advantech ROM-5721 SMARC 2.0/2.1 Computer-on-Module is powered by NXP i.MX8M
Mini SOC which includes up to 4 Arm Cortex-A53 cores in combination with one Cortex-M4
real time processor and Vivante GC320 , GC NanoUltra 3D graphics engine. It provides
USB2.0, Gigabit Ethernet, MIPI-CSI, PCI Express, Dual channel LVDS shared with MIPI-DSI for
embedded applications
ROM-5721 is paired with Advantech ROM-DB5901 carrier board for faster end product
peripheral integration and time-to-market. The reference schematics and layout checklists
documentations for carrier board development will be provided along with the open-
sourced Linux BSP, test utilities, hardware design utilities and reference drive
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HMI (Human Machine Interface)
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Industrial controller
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IoT gateway engine
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Medical Application
The main features of ROM-5721 as following
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NXP i.MX 8M Mini processor with up to 4 Arm Cortex A53 cores
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1 x Arm Cortex-M4 cores
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Onboard 2GB LPDDR4 memory and eMMC 8GB
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1 x Dual channel LVDS; 1 x 4 lane MIPI-CSI
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4 x USB2.0, 1 x USB 2.0 OTG, 4 x UART, 4 x I2C, 12 x GPIO, 1 x PCIe2.0, 1x Gigabit LAN
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Support OpenGL ES 2.0/1.1 by hardware accelerators
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Low power consumption design
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Support Linux, Ubuntu and Android BSP
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