NXP i.MX RT1170

i.MX RT1170 crossover MCUs are the ground-breaking family that combines superior computing power and multiple media capabilities with ease of use and real-time functionality. The dual core i.MX RT1170 MCU runs on the Arm® Cortex®-M7 core at 1 GHz and Arm Cortex-M4 at 400 MHz, while providing best-in-class security. The i.MX RT1170 MCU offers support over a wide temperature range and is designed for consumer, industrial and automotive markets.

Features

• 6468 CoreMark with Cortex-M7 @ 1 GHz + Arm Cortex-M4 @ 400 MHz
• 2 MB SRAM with 512 KB of TCM for Cortex-M7 and 256 KB of TCM for Cortex-M4
• Advanced security, including secure boot and crypto engines, and is part of the EdgeLock™ Assurance program
• 2 x Gb ENET with AVB and TSN
• 2D GPU
• MIPI^® CSI/DSI
• Supported by MCUXpresso suite of software and tools

i.MX RT1170 MCU family - Ushering in the GHz MCU era

Dual-core ARM Cortex-M based crossover MCU breaks GHz barrier and accelerates advanced applications at the edge

Power efficiency

• Expands the popular i.MX RT series to address the growing performance needs of edge computing for industrial, Internet-Of-Thing (IoT) and automotive applications.

Rich integration

• The combination of GHz performance and high density of on-chip memory speeds up face recognition inference time by up to 5x compared to the today's fastest MCUs in the market, in addition to having processing bandwidth to improve accuracy and immunity against spoofing.
• Advanced security sub-system, that includes High Assurance Boot (HAB) - NXP's version of secure boot, secure key storage, SRAM-based PUF (physically unclonable function), high performance crypto accelerators for AES-128/256, Elliptical Curve Cryptography, RSA-4096 encryption algorithms, hashing acceleration for SHA-256/512, in addition to tamper detection.
  • As well as in-line encryption engine (IEE) and on-the-fly decryption engines (OTFAD) to address the challenge of protecting the confidentiality of data stored in internal and external memories with no latency impact. The IEE is designed to encrypt and decrypt on-chip SRAM and external SRAM/PSRAM/DRAM, while OTFAD operates on external serial and parallel flash memories.
• Industry's first MCU to integrate a 2D vector graphics core with support for VGLite and Open VG 1.1 APIs, enabling the development of attractive user interfaces at low power by off-loading intensive graphics rendering to the GPU.
  • The GHz core also brings 720p displays at 60 fps refresh and 1080p HD screens at 30fps to create immersive visual experiences. The complementary combination of a GPU and high-performance core can be especially useful for smart home, industrial and automotive cockpit applications.

Applications

• IoT
  • Smart home
  • Consumer audio
  • Emerging consumer & retail
• Industrial
  • Factory Automation
  • Power & energy
  • Building control
  • Aerospace, defense & transportation
  • Healthcare
• Automotive
  • In-vehicle HMI
  • Two-wheel motorcycle/scooter cluster

Block diagram

Key features

• Arm Cortex-M4 processor, 400MHz, 16KB/16KB L1 Cache, 256KB TCM
• 2MB on-chip SRAM (including TCM for CPU core)
• Parallel LCD Display up to WXGA (1280x800) @60fps
• 8/16/24-bit Parallel Camera Sensor Interface
• 2-lane MIPI CSI and 2-lane MIPI DSI
• 2D GPU & Graphics Accelerator
• 8/16/32-bit SDRAM controller up to 200MHz
• 8/16-bit Parallel NOR FLASH / NAND FLASH / SRAM
• 2x Dual-channel FlexSPI Interfaces with On-the-Fly decryption, supporting serial NOR, serial NAND, HyperBUS devices
• 2x eMMC 5.0/SD 3.0/SDIO Port
• 2x USB 2.0 OTG, HS/FS, Device or Host with PHY
• Audio: 4x I2S/SAI, 1x S/PDIF Tx/Rx, ASRC, 8-ch digital microphone input
• 3x ENET: 1Gbps ENET w/ AVB + 10/100 ENET w/ IEEE 1588 + 1Gbps ENET w/ TSN 
• 2x 12-bit ADC, 4.2Msample/s, up to 20 input channels total
• 4x Analog comparator, 1x 12-bit DAC
• Full PMU Integration, DCDC+LDOs

The i.MX series includes the following products:

^{*First speed listed is speed for consumer qualified device. Second speed listed is for industrial and automotive qualified devices}

Enablement: Development Boards

All of the variants in the i.MX RT1170 family are supported by the MIMXRT1170-EVK development board. Additionally, there is an optional display which can be purchased separately from NXP and is supported in the MCUXpresso SDK.