Conclusive Engineering has opened a waitlist for its Kestrel KSTR-IMX93 single-board laptop, that includes an NXP Semiconductors i.MX 93 system-on-chip and no fewer than three Nordic Semiconductor wi-fi units: the nRF5340, nRF9151, and nRF7002.
“[The] Kestrel KSTR-IMX93 [is a] highly effective Linux-capable single-board laptop that includes Nordic Semiconductor options,” the corporate says of its creation. “This SBC delivers unparalleled connectivity, strong processing energy, and enhanced safety features. With assist for varied wi-fi protocols similar to Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, LTE Cat-M1/NB-IoT, Thread, and Zigbee, the KSTR-IMX93 is right for industries starting from industrial automation and good residence methods to healthcare and automotive purposes.”
Should you’re searching for a power-sipping SBC with loads of connectivity, the Kestrel KSTR-IMX93 could possibly be it. (📷: Conclusive Engineering)
The pc, delivered to our consideration by CNX Software program, is constructed round NXP’s i.MX 93 system-on-chip, giving it both one or two 64-bit Arm Cortex-A55 cores operating at as much as 1.7GHz and a single 32-bit Arm Cortex-M33 real-time coprocessor operating at as much as 250MHz, plus a alternative of 512MB, 1GB, or 2GB of LPPDR4 or LPDDR4x reminiscence, relying on mannequin. There’s as much as 128GB of eMMC storage plus microSD Card enlargement.
Cor communication, there is a single gigabit Ethernet port plus one other obtainable by way of an RGMII interface and no fewer than three Nordic Semi wi-fi components: the nRF5340, nRF9151, and nRF7002. All collectively, meaning assist for dual-band Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, IEEE 802.15.4 together with Thread and Zigbee, International Navigation Satellite tv for pc System (GNSS) reception, LTE Cat-M1 and NB-IoT mobile with built-in eSIM, and DECT NR+.
The board features a Raspberry Pi-compatible GPIO header, plus further pins from each the NXP and Nordic chips. (📷: Conclusive Engineering)
Different options on the board embody a Raspberry Pi-compatible general-purpose enter/output (GPIO) header, as much as 37 GPIO pins from the i.MX 93 and as much as 15 from the nRF chips, a CAN-FD transceiver, MIPI Show Serial Interface (DSI) video output and Digital camera Serial Enter 2 (CSI 2) enter, 4 UART, three I2C, and one SPI buses, and 4 analog to digital converter (ADC) channels. The i.MX 93 can run Linux 6.1 and 6.5 based mostly working methods together with Canonical’s Ubuntu in addition to customized Yocto and Buildroot builds, with FreeBSD assist obtainable “upon request,” whereas the Cortex-M33 core and the nRF5340 and nRF9151 chips run the Zephyr real-time working system.
events can be part of the ready listing to be notified when the board goes up on the market in June on the Conclusive Engineering web site; pricing had not been disclosed on the time of writing.
