Features

The i.MX RT1050 processors are based on Arm Cortex-M7 Core™ Platform, which has the following

features:

• Supports single Arm Cortex-M7 Core with:

— 32 KB L1 Instruction Cache

— 32 KB L1 Data Cache

— Full featured Floating Point Unit (FPU) with support of the VFPv5 architecture

— Support the Armv7-M Thumb instruction set

• Integrated MPU, up to 16 individual protection regions

• Up to 512 KB I-TCM and D-TCM in total

• Frequency of 528 MHz

• Cortex M7 CoreSight™ components integration for debug

• Frequency of the core, as per Table 10, Operating ranges, on page 21.

The SoC-level memory system consists of the following additional components:

— Boot ROM (96 KB)

— On-chip RAM (512 KB)

– Configurable RAM size up to 512 KB shared with M7 TCM

• External memory interfaces:

— 8/16-bit SDRAM, up to SDRAM-166

— 8/16-bit SLC NAND FLASH, with ECC handled in software

— SD/eMMC

— SPI NOR/NAND FLASH

— Parallel NOR FLASH with XIP support

— Single/Dual channel Quad SPI FLASH with XIP support

• Timers and PWMs:

— Two General Programmable Timers (GPT)

– 4-channel generic 32-bit resolution timer

– Each support standard capture and compare operation

— Four Periodical Interrupt Timer (PIT)

– Generic 16-bit resolution timer

– Periodical interrupt generation

— Four Quad Timers (QTimer)

– 4-channel generic 16-bit resolution timer for each

– Each support standard capture and compare operation

– Quadrature decoder integrated

— Four FlexPWMs

– Up to 8 individual PWM channels for each

– 16-bit resolution PWM suitable for Motor Control applications

— Four Quadrature Encoder/Decoders

Each i.MX RT1050 processor enables the following interfaces to external devices (some of them are

muxed and not available simultaneously):

• Display Interface:

— Parallel RGB LCD interface

– Support 8/16/24 bit interface

– Support up to 1366 x 768 WXGA resolution

– Support Index color with 256 entry x 24 bit color LUT

– Smart LCD display with 8/16-bit MPU/8080 interface

• Audio:

— S/PDIF input and output

— Three synchronous audio interface (SAI) modules supporting I2S, AC97, TDM, and

codec/DSP interfaces

— MQS interface for medium quality audio via GPIO pads

• Generic 2D graphics engine:

— BitBlit

— Flexible image composition options—alpha, chroma key

— Image rotation (90, 180, 270)

— Porter-Daff operation

— Image size

— Color space conversion

— Multiple pixel format support (RGB, YUV444, YUV422, YUV420, YUV400)

— Standard 2D-DMA operation

• Camera sensors:

— Support 24-bit, 16-bit, and 8-bit CSI input

• Connectivity:

— Two USB 2.0 OTG controllers with integrated PHY interfaces

— Two Ultra Secure Digital Host Controller (uSDHC) interfaces

– MMC 4.5 compliance with HS200 support up to 200 MB/sec

– SD/SDIO 3.0 compliance with 200 MHz SDR signaling to support up to 100 MB/sec

– Support for SDXC (extended capacity)

— One 10/100 M Ethernet controller with support for IEEE1588

— Eight universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter (UARTs) modules

— Four I2C modules

— Four SPI modules

— Two FlexCAN modules

• GPIO and Pin Multiplexing:

— General-purpose input/output (GPIO) modules with interrupt capability

— Input/output multiplexing controller (IOMUXC) to provide centralized pad control

— Two FlexIOs

The i.MX RT1050 processors integrate advanced power management unit and controllers:

• Full PMIC integration. On-chip DCDC and LDO

• Temperature sensor with programmable trip points

• GPC hardware power management controller

The i.MX RT1050 processors support the following system debug:

• Arm CoreSight debug and trace architecture

• Trace Port Interface Unit (TPIU) to support off-chip real-time trace

• Support for 5-pin (JTAG) and SWD debug interfaces selected by eFuse

Security functions are enabled and accelerated by the following hardware:

• High Assurance Boot (HAB)

• Data Co-Processor (DCP):

— AES-128, ECB, and CBC mode

— SHA-1 and SHA-256

— CRC-32

• Bus Encryption Engine (BEE)

— AES-128, ECB, and CTR mode

— On-the-fly QSPI Flash decryption

• True random number generation (TRNG)

• Secure Non-Volatile Storage (SNVS)

— Secure real-time clock (RTC)

— Zero Master Key (ZMK)

• Secure JTAG Controller (SJC)