Seeed Drops i.MX RT1052-Based Arch Mix Development Board

Seeed Studio has recently introduced its Arch Mix development board designed around NXP’s i.MX RT1052 SoC, and packs the most advanced…

Cabe Atwell
5 years ago

Seeed Studio has recently introduced its Arch Mix development board designed around NXP’s i.MX RT1052 SoC, and packs the most advanced implementation of the Arm Cortex-M7 (3020 CoreMark/1284 DMIPS @ 600 MHz).

“This development board comes pre-installed RT-Thread real-time operating system (RTOS) and built-in MicroPython, which makes it suitable for industrial control, especially for scenes with large code and high real-time application requirements.”

The Arch Mix isn’t the only game in town that sports the i.MX RT1052, Embedded Artists released their i.MX RT1052 OEM module back in 2018 and Emcraft dropped their slower uCLinux BSP i.MX RT1050 EVK board a year earlier in 2017. The differences between these boards and Seeed’s offering is most notable in the price difference, with the Arch Mix retailing for $29.90 (available now), while the others will set you back $90 and up.

Beyond the I.MX RT1052, the Arch Mix is equipped with 1X USB 2.0 (Host), 1X USB 2.0 (OTG), a pair of 22-pin headers (RMII, CAN, I2C, UART, CSI, etc.), boot config DIP switch, and 24-bit RGB LCD interface. It also features a micro SD card slot, RTC 3V battery connector, several buttons (on/off, reset, user), and power/user LEDs.

The Arch Mix is said to be well-suited for industrial control, smart buildings, automation and process control, human-machine interfaces, as well as robotics. Seeed expects to offer a Grove breakout board with available MicroPython libraries for the platform at some point shortly, which will enable plug-and-play prototyping for those IoT applications.

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