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SOM-SMARC-QCS5430 / QCS6490 (E81)

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QCS6490 and QCS5430 are chipsets that deliver premium features with advanced camera, AI, and compute for high performance at low-power. These chipsets are built for industrial and commercial IoT applications such as ruggedized handhelds and tablets, kiosks, industrial scanners, point of sale systems, human machine interface systems, robotics, drone and controllers, cameras, and edge AI boxes.

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Depending on the configuration and following revisions, the board's features are subject to change. For detailed information on hardware specifications, please visit www.seco.com.

SOM-SMARC-MX8M-Plus is a SMARC Rel. 2.1.1 compliant module with NXP i.MX 8M Plus Applications Processors.

For ordering purposes, the SOM-SMARC-MX8M-Plus is referred to by its base code, "D18".

Get started with SOM-SMARC-QCS6490 / QCS6490 (E81)
This guide is designed to walk you through everything you need to know to get started: from understanding your new device, to installing and configuring it for your specific industrial or AI-based project.

Technical Documents​

At the following Links you will find documentations like Manual and Rev. specific documents.

Manual​

[Manual] SOM-SMARC-QCS6490 (Coming soon)
[Manual] SOM-SMARC-QCS5430 (Coming soon)

Datasheet​

[Datasheet] SOM-SMARC-QCS6490
[Datasheet] SOM-SMARC-QCS5430

Product page​

SOM-SMARC-QCS6490
SOM-SMARC-QCS5430

Connect to Clea Cloud​

Step by step guide to register a Clea OS device and configure endpoints and credentials to enable cloud connectivity and device management.

Register your Device on Clea Cloud

Documentation​

For a complete explanation of Clea OS and detailed installation instructions, refer to the official documentation:

Clea OS Documentation

Download Clea OS Images​

To quickly get started, download the latest complete prebuild Clea OS images (or other binaries like U-Boot, Linux Kernel, SDKs) from the official release page:

Download Clea OS images here
Installation instructions for NXP SOM-SMARC-QCS6490 and SOM-SMARC-QCS5430

Build Clea OS​

The source code for Clea OS can be found at the following Gitlab organization. To build a complete BSP image from source you can check the Get Started pages of the documentation.

Technical specifications​

Processors

Qualcomm QCS Family:

QCS5430 (FP1) (Total 6 cores)

Kryo Gold: 2 x CPU subsystem based on A78 at 2.13 GHz

Kryo Silver: 4 x CPU subsystem based on A55 at 1.8 GHz

QCS5430 (FP2) ( Total 6 cores)

Kryo Prime: 1 x CPU subsystem based on A78 at 2.2 GHz

Kryo Gold: 3 x CPU subsystem based on A78 at 2.13 GHz

Kryo Silver: 4 x CPU subsystem based on A55 at 1.8 GHz

QCS6490 (total

Kryo Prime: 1 CPU subsystem based on A78 at 2.7 GHz

Kryo Gold: 3 x CPU subsystem based on A78 at 2.4 GHz

Kryo Silver : 4 x CPU subsystem based on A55 at 1.9 GHz

Graphics

  • Integrated Graphics Processing Unit Qualcomm® Adreno™ 642L (QCS5430)

  • Integrated Graphics Processing Unit Qualcomm® Adreno™ 643L(QCS6490)

  • supports 2 independent displays, OpenGL , Open CL , Vulkan.

A 64-bit LPDDR5-6400 interface is used for memory. There are a number of other interfaces for connecting peripherals, such as displays, cameras and sensors, which are extended by components already available on the module:

Video Interfaces

  • LVDS dual channel 18/ 24 bit, eDP V1.4, MIPI DSI 4 lanes,

  • Display Port through USB 3.1 Type C

Video Resolution

  • Primary display: FHD+ @120 fps

  • Secondary display: up to 4k Ultra HD @60Hz

Embedded VPU

  • supports H/ W decoding of HEVC/ H.265, AVC/ H.264

  • supports H/ W encoding of HEVC/ H.265, AVC/ H.264

Mass Storage

  • eMMC 5.1 Drive soldered on-board, up to 64GB

  • SD 4-bit interface (boot device) opt. UFS 2.x/ 3.1 flash

  • 2x 1Gbit Ethernet

  • 1x USB 3.1, 1x USB 2.0 OTG , 1x USB 2.0 or 4x USB 2.0 (Hub option)

  • 1x 2-Line MIPI CSI ,2x 4-Line MIPI CSI, with ISP support

  • I2C

  • SPI

  • TPM

  • RTC

  • Watchdog

  • EEPROM

  • PWM

  • Powermanagement

PCI Express

  • PCIe lanes Gen3: 2 ports x1 lanes, 1 port x2 lanes (QPS615)

Audio

  • 2x I2S Audio interface

Serial ports

  • 2 x UART Tx/ Rx / RTS / CTS

  • 2 x UART Tx/ Rx

  • 1 x CAN via SPI

Power supply voltage: +5V DC (+5V Standby opt)

Ultra Low Power RTC