MIPI camera modules for
NXP i.MX 8M Mini/Nano/Plus:
Jumpstart your development!

For proof-of-concept and rapid prototyping, Toradex, together with Vision Components and AU-Zone, has developed a modular AI Vision Kit with NXP's i.MX8M Plus processor. With its neural network processor unit and integrated ISP, the processor is ideally suited for demanding embedded vision applications.

The kit is based on a Toradex Verdin i.MX8M Plus system-on-module, which is compatible with all Verdin baseboards. Vision Components MIPI CAMERA MODULES are part of the development kit as well as a variable SoM adapter and connector board from Au-Zone. This provides customers with all components for image acquisition and image processing as well as the required interfaces and I/Os for their individual RAPID PROTOTYPING SOLUTIONS - whether in automation and robotics, for medical technology or the agricultural industry. 

Tordex's industrial-grade software platform Torizon offers ready-to-use Linux distributions. Torizon is an open source software platform that simplifies the development and maintenance of embedded Linux software. It brings comprehensive frameworks for rapid development entry, over-the-air updates and security features. The platform runs Au-Zone's DeepView Machine Learning Toolkit, which allows users to easily develop, test and implement their own deep learning solutions in the processor's NPU.

From now on Vision Components provides drivers for direct connection and support of VC MIPI® CAMERA MODULES to the processors of the NXP Semiconductors i.MX 8M family.

Initially, corresponding drivers are available for the platforms of the Toradex Verdin SoM series, for the MSC/Avnet Smarc series and the Kontron SOM-SL series. Support for other manufacturers, single board computers and embedded solutions with i.MX 8M processors is already being planned.

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