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NXP announces i.MX 8M Nano power-optimized scalable multi-core heterogeneous applications processors built in advanced 14nm LPC FinFET processPin-compatible with i.MX 8M Mini and software-compatible within the i.MX 8M family the announcement reaffirms NXPs commitment to provide scalable high-performance solutions for industrial and Internet-of-Things IoT edge compute machine learning and media streaming applicationsNXP joins Microsoft in announcing Azure IoT Edge enablement across all i.MX applications processor platforms to harness the full power of Azure in edge computing applicationsNUREMBERG Germany Feb. 26 2019 GLOBE NEWSWIRE - Embedded World 2019 NXP Semiconductors N.V. unveiled the i.MX 8M Nano a pin-compatible expansion to its popular i.MX 8M applications processors. The multi-core i.MX 8M Nano is scalable from one two or four Arm Cortex-A53 cores running up to 1.5GHz plus an Arm Cortex-M7 that can run up to 600MHz yet power-optimized for less than 2W total dynamic power TDP and sub-watt in many Internet-of-Things IoT edge applications. The device features general-purpose 3D graphics GC7000UL with support for Vulkan in high-performance real-time graphics and OpenCL1.2 in advanced machine learning applications. The i.MX 8M Nano is the first to provide hardware acceleration for asynchronous sample rate conversion ASRC for up to 32 channels of high-quality audio streaming with extremely low noise and distortion. With the i.MX 8M Nano developers will have access to up to 12 software-compatible and nine pin-compatible high-performance applications processors across the i.MX 8M family with support from a fast-expanding software and hardware developer ecosystem.With i.MX 8M Nano NXP reaffirms leadership in providing developers with choices said Martyn Humphries vice president and general manager of i.MX applications processors at NXP. One size does not fit all. Our customers need processors that best fit their applications that dont require restarting software and hardware development with every new product. The introduction of the i.MX 8M Nano provides greater flexibility as the newest member of the growing i.MX 8M family and is specifically optimized for power-sensitive high-performance needs of the intelligent edge.Levitons recently announced Decora Voice Dimmer with Amazon Alexa Built-in featuring NXPs high performance i.MX 8M Mini applications processor adds even more intelligence combining the convenience of hands-free voice control and intelligent management of smart home devices with Levitons best-in-class smart lighting controls without the need for additional hardware said Aaron Ard Senior Director of Engineering at Leviton. Were excited to see the introduction of the new i.MX 8M Nano as its innovative future-proof pin-compatibility answers our need to continue to make our solutions accessible to customers at a value they can appreciate. Ideal Combination of Flexibility High-Performance and Low PowerNXPs i.MX 8M Nano is pin-compatible with the i.MX 8M Mini and software-compatible with the i.MX 8M providing customers with ultimate scalability when designing their system. It also makes it easy for developers to maximize design and software reuse across multiple applications. Furthermore all i.MX 8M processors are qualified to stringent industrial quality standards making them ideal for Industry 4.0 applications.The i.MX 8M Nano is NXPs second platform built in advanced 14nm LPC FinFET technology node that enables high performance at low power. Power consumption of less than one watt is possible in many IoT applications even with all four Cortex-A53 cores running making it ideal for power-sensitive edge computing applications. The real-time processing domain powered by high-performance Cortex-M7 core up to 600MHz enables further power reduction through task offload from Cortex-A cores power-optimized audio playback low-power system-level task monitoring and more.Cloud Enablement Tools and EcosystemBuilt upon the decades-long success of NXPs i.MX 6 and i.MX 7 series of general purpose applications processors the i.MX 8M families are fully supported on Linux and Android operating systems OS. In addition NXP and Microsoft are working to bring Azure IoT Edge to i.MX 8M applications processors across Linux and Windows 10 IoT core OS. As part of this effort Azure IoT Edge will be enabled across all i.MX applications processor platforms and customers can deploy and manage IoT Edge container applications from the Azure cloud dashboard. NXP customers will have access to industrys widest range of applications processors from i.MX 6 to i.MX 7 and i.MX 88M that are able to seamlessly connect and harness the full power of Azure capabilities in their intelligent edge products.The i.MX 8M families are supported by a fast-growing ecosystem of software and hardware developers for example the i.MX 8M ini is now supported by over eighteen world-wide board developers Embedded Board Systems EBS partners. This growing ecosystem support will extend to i.MX 8M Nano. The Nano development board EVK is a two-board solution that consists of a compact compute module and a larger base board that brings out the broad connectivity that is needed for product evaluation. The compute module is designed to support a variety of memory types LPDDR4 DDR4 DDR3L alongside the i.MX 8M Nano PMIC eMMC and soldered-down Wi-FiBT module for connectivity out of the box. The same EVK design is used for the i.MX 8M Mini making it easy for developers to switch to the compute module that best fits their product needs.