High-performance Applications 
				Opal-5 i.MX53 CPU Module  
		NXP i.MX53 System-on-Chip  
	 
	 
	
		
		
NXP i.MX53 Applications Processor 
512MBytes or 1GByte DDR3 RAM 
512Mbytes+ NAND Flash 
10/100 Ethernet PHY 
Power supply components 
2 x 168 high-density connectors 
 
	 
	
	
	
	
										 
				
					
					
						
						
					
				 
			 
		
							
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			Top side of the Opal-5 SoM	
		
	 
 
	
		
		
		
			Bottom side of the Opal-5 SoM showing the high-density connectors.	
		
	 
  					
		
				 
			
							
				Specifications 
											
								
									
Core 
								
								
									
Freescale i.MX53 System-on-Chip 
ARM Cortex A8 core @800MHz with 32KB instruction and data caches 
NEON SIMD media accelerator 
Vector floating point coprocessor 
256KB L2 Cache 
Up to 1GB DDR3 
512MB+ NAND Flash 
 
								 
							 
													
								
									
Connectivity 
								
								
									
10/100 Ethernet with on board PHY 
High-Speed (480Mbps) USB OTG + High-Speed Host 
5 x Serial UART 
3 x I2C 
2 x Enhanced SPI 
2 x FlexCAN 
4 x SD/SDIO/MMC 
3 x 10-bit ADC 
One-wire 
3.3V & 1.8V General Purpose I/O 
JTAG debug 
 
								 
							 
													
								
									
Graphics and User Interface 
								
								
									
5 display interfaces with up to 2 active at any one time.  180Mpixels/second at 24bits/pixel 
Interface to RGB and LVDS TFT panels 
Analog VGA output 
I2C/AC97 Audio interface 
Enhanced Serial Audio Interface (ESAI) 
2 x Digital camera input 
4-wire resistive touch-screen controller 
Keypad controller 
 
								 
							 
													
								
									
Security 
								
								
									
Secure boot option 
Anti-tamper signals 
Crypto acceleration 
 
								 
							 
										 
			
			
							
					Development Kit 
					Prototype new devices and develop software FAST  on the Opal Development Kit 
10/100 Ethernet 
WiFi b/g/n 
GPS 
2 x CAN including transceivers 
4 x USB Host Ports 
Digital and Analog I/O 
7″ LCD with touch screen 
VGA Display Interface 
Dual LVDS Display Interfaces 
USB-serial debugging 
 
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					Software 
					Opal-5 runs Linux, Android and Microsoft’s Windows Embedded Compact 7 Operating Systems.