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i.MX53 Quick Start board - wall comments

admin — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:49:46 GMT

The i.MX53 Quick Start board is a 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 embedded computer in a three-inch by three-inch board. Offered for $149.00, this development board offers 1GB of RAM, Freescale MC34708 PMIC, and ships with Linux Ubuntu out of the box!
(Part: MCIMX53-START-R)

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powerplay — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 06:18:40 GMT

great news but lcd screen is not cheap !

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MXLuser — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 22:23:41 GMT

Anyone know when this board will actually ship?

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XXiao1z — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 14:39:43 GMT

yes the DA9053 also puzzled me...why not using MC138xx?

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XXiao1z — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 00:39:26 GMT

looks great, but we can't get one, wait until May? that's like a joke.

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XXiao1z — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:59:51 GMT

i thought fsl provides android bsp already for the 53 board?

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MXLuser — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 01:28:32 GMT

I just got a Quickstart board from Digikey today. They show no stock now - whatever they got must have been drained by back orders....

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XXiao1z — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 01:49:57 GMT

just booted up the stocked ubuntu image on the board(received yesterday), worked very well.

where to buy those add-on cards?

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JimDonelson — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 02:32:44 GMT

just unboxed mine..I've had a few Linux boards and this is certianly the most impressive in terms of both design and support. How wonderful to be able to develop right on the target with so little effort. The prebuilt VM ware image is a brilliant idea. Need to get a SATA drive as SD cards are slow.

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JimDonelson — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:32:08 GMT

Some VM hints:

Up the memory in the VM to 1-1.5G. Uncheck connect at power on for floppy, CD and any other device you don't need.

I prefer Bridged network over NAT.

If you have a multi-core box, give it 2 cores.

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MXLuser — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:39:18 GMT

mx53 chip gets awfully hot compared to the mx51EVK. I guess running the bus at 400MHz vs 200MHz takes a lot of power. Does anyone else think it is running kind of hot? I measure around 55C case, ambient 25C

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EricBacnard — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 21:07:14 GMT

Same thing here : the CPU is over 60°C after a few minutes running video & 3D demos in a 22°C ambient ...

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TrevorWoerner — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 21:44:04 GMT

I believe VMware player only supports x86 CPUs, as such I can only assume the VM is for cross-development (and is not for running the target on, say, QEMU)? Does anyone know if the VM is available for download (i.e. so I can start working with it before my board arrives)?

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JimDonelson — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:58:58 GMT

If you run VMware on a 64 bit os, then it can run a 64 bit guest. It is not an emulator, the guest runs on the host machine's hardware, so you need to have the 64 bit hardware and a 64 bit os so VM ware can "see" the 64 bit hardware.

But this one is x86. Don't know if it is available for download.

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XXiao1z — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 13:28:02 GMT

is imx53 loco the same as this Quickstart board? imx53evk, imx53loco, imx53quickstart, imx53 SABRE, what are the difference?

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marshachang — Thu, 05 May 2011 22:51:30 GMT

@ X Xiao
The available production boards for the i.MX53 are the i.MX53 Quick Start board (MCIMX53-START) and the i.MX53 SABRE for Tablets (MCIMX53SMD) located on the following pages: www.freescale.com/imxquickstart and www.freescale.com/imxsabre

The other boards are not available.

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marshachang — Thu, 05 May 2011 23:02:21 GMT

FYI yes, loco is the pre-production name for the i.MX53 Quick Start board.

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JimDonelson — Fri, 06 May 2011 01:01:37 GMT

Marsha,

Could you get FSL to put a link to the LCD that goes with the QSB on the buy page for QSB?

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marshachang — Fri, 06 May 2011 16:51:06 GMT

Hi Jim,

Unfortunately, the web system only allows the tie in to one product page. Its already on the i.MX28 page. If you go to www.freescale.com/imxquickstart, there is a link on the top right pointing to the i.MX28 LCD

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MXLuser — Tue, 10 May 2011 23:25:48 GMT

Marsha or whomever -

Where can I get schematics for the MCIMX53HDMICARD adapter?