Apalis ARM Family

Apalis is a Computer on Module architecture that aims at seamlessly complementing the existing Colibri ARM family. Apalis comes with a wide range of new and exciting features, ensuring customers can develop the most advanced, robust products with minimum overhead and risk. Apalis supports a wide variety of industry standard interfaces, while at the same time providing advanced multimedia and high speed connectivity making it suitable for an almost unlimited number of applications.

The Apalis specification has been developed from in-depth research into diverse existing and emerging technologies. While primarily aimed at supporting ARM^® based processors such as the NVIDIA^® Tegra™ and NXP^®/Freescale i.MX™, this standard is specifically designed to be device and chip architecture independent. The objective is to ensure future proofing of the interfaces, benefiting customers by providing for long product lifecycles and by continuing to offer access to leading edge technologies without compromise. Windows Embedded Compact, Embedded Linux and Android, support is available for these modules.

The Apalis standard white paper summarizes the many benefits of this architecture

Apalis standard white paper

The following document is a design guide for Apalis carrier boards, but also applies to any high speed hardware designs

Apalis carrier board design guide

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CPU
CPU Name	NVIDIA® Tegra™ K1 NXP® Kinetis™ K20 Companion MCU	NXP® i.MX 8QuadMax	NVIDIA® Tegra™ 3	NXP®/Freescale i.MX 6Quad / NXP®/Freescale i.MX 6Dual
CPU Type	ARM Cortex™-A15 Cortex™-M4 (Companion MCU)	ARM Cortex™-A72, Cortex™-A53, Cortex™-M4	ARM Cortex™-A9	ARM Cortex™-A9
Multicore	Quad Core (A15) Heteregenous (M4 Companion MCU)	Dual Core (A72), Quad Core (A53), Dual Core (M4)	Quad Core	Quad Core / Dual Core
CPU Clock	Up to 2.1 GHz (A15) 100 MHz (M4)	1.6GHz (A72), 1.2GHz (A53), 266MHz (M4)	Up to 1.4 GHz	800 MHz / 1.0 GHz
Floating Point Unit	VFPv4	Yes	VFPv3	VFPv3
NEON	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
CUDA	Yes	—	—	—
L1 Instruction Cache	32KByte per core	32KB (A72), 32KB (A53), 16KB (M4)	32KByte per core	32KByte per core
L1 Data Cache	32KByte per core	32KB (A72), 32KB (A53), 16KB (M4)	32KByte per core	32KByte per core
L2 Cache	2MByte	1MB (A72), 1MB (A53)	1MByte	1MByte
Memory
RAM	2GB DDR3L (64 Bit)	TBD	2GB DDR3L (32 Bit) / 1GB DDR3L (32 Bit)	2GB DDR3 (64 Bit) / 1GB DDR3 (64 Bit) / 512MB DDR3 (64 Bit)
Flash	16GB eMMC (8 Bit)	TBD	8GB eMMC (8 Bit) / 4GB eMMC (8 Bit)	4GB eMMC (8 Bit)
Connectivity
USB 3.0	1x Host (Super Speed) 1x OTG (Super Speed)	1x OTG (Super Speed)	—	—
PCIe	1 x2 (Gen 2)	2 x1 (Gen 3)	1 x1 (Gen 1) 1 x4 (Gen 1)	1 x1 (Gen 2)
USB	1x Host (High Speed)	3x Host (High Speed)	2x Host (High Speed) 1x OTG (High Speed)	4x Host (High Speed) 1x OTG (High Speed)
I2C	7x	4x	4x	3x
SPI	5x	4x	4x	4x
One-Wire	—	—	1x	—
UART	10x	7x	5x	5x
IrDA	1x	1x	1x	1x
PWM	16x	4x	4x	4x
GPIO	Up to 92	Up to 137	Up to 127	Up to 135
Analog Input	21x (12 Bit)	8x	4x (12 Bit)	4x (12 Bit)
Ethernet	10/100/1000 Mbit IEEE1588	10/100/1000 Mbit IEEE1588	10/100/1000 Mbit IEEE1588	10/100/1000 Mbit IEEE1588
Wi-Fi	—	Dual-Band 802.11ac	—	—
Bluetooth	—	4.2/BLE (Dual-Mode)	—	—
Serial ATA	1x (SATA-II)	1x (SATA-III)	1x (SATA-II)	1x (SATA-II)
SDIO/SD/MMC	3x 4 Bit (2x UHS-I)	1x 8 Bit, 1x 4 Bit	2x 8 Bit (1x UHS-I) 1x 4 Bit	3x 8 Bit
CAN	2x	3x	2x	2x
Multimedia
Individual Displays	4x	4x	2x	4x
Graphics Controller	NVIDIA® Kepler™ GPU	Dual Vivante GC7000XSVX	Integrated Ultra-low power NVIDIA GeForce GPU	Vivante GC2000
Video Decoder	H.264, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, MJPEG, VC-1, WEBM, XviD	Yes	DiVX 4/5/6, H.263, H.264, JPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, WMV9 VC-1, XviD	DivX 3/4/5/6, H.263, H.264, MJPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, VC1
Video Encoder	H.263, H.264, MJPEG, MPEG-4, VC1, WEBM VP8	Yes	H.263, H.264, JPEG, MPEG-4	H.263, H.264, MJPEG, MPEG-4
Display Serial Interface	1x Quad Lane 1x Dual Lane	1x Quad Lane	2x Dual Lane	1x Dual Lane
LVDS	1x 1920x1200x24bpp Single	2x 1366 x 768 x 24bpp Single 1x 1920 x 1200 x 24bpp Dual	1x 1280x1024x24bpp Single or 1x 2048x1536x24bpp Dual	2x 1366x768x24bpp Single or 1x 1920x1200x24bpp Dual
Digital Audio	1x I2S	2x AC97 or 2x I2S	1x HDA or 1x I2S	3x AC97 or 3x I2S 1x ESAI
S/PDIF In / Out	1x	1x	1x	1x
2D Acceleration	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
3D Acceleration	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
HDMI	4K UltraHD (V1.4b, 2160p)	4K UltraHD (V2.0a, 2160p)	Full HD (V1.4a, 1080p)	Full HD (V1.4a, 1080p)
VGA	—	—	—	1280x1024
RGB	—	—	2048x1536x24bpp	1920x1200x24bpp
Resistive Touch	4-wire	4-wire	4-wire	4-wire
Camera Parallel Interface	—	—	1x 8 Bit / 10 Bit / 1x	2x 8 Bit / 16 Bit / 20 Bit
Camera Serial Interface	2x Quad Lane 1x Single Lane	2x Quad Lane	1x Quad Lane or 2x Dual Lane	1x Quad Lane
Analog Audio Line in	1x (Stereo)	1x (Stereo)	1x (Stereo)	1x (Stereo)
Analog Audio Mic in	1x (Mono)	1x (Mono)	1x (Mono)	1x (Mono)
Analog Audio Headphone out	1x (Stereo)	1x (Stereo)	1x (Stereo)	1x (Stereo)
Operating System
Windows Embedded Compact 7	—	—	Supported	Supported
Windows Embedded Compact 2013	—	—	Supported	Supported
Embedded Linux	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
Android	Coming Soon	—	Supported by third party	Supported by third party
QNX	—	—	—	Supported by third party
FreeRTOS	—	Supported	—	—
Preinstalled OS	Linux	Linux	Linux	Linux
Physical
Size	82.0 x 45.0 x 6.0 mm	82.0 x 45.0 x 6.0 mm	82.0 x 45.0 x 6.0 mm	82.0 x 45.0 x 6.0 mm
Temperature	-25° to +85° C	0° to 70° C -40° to +85° C	0° to 70° C / -40° to +85° C	-40° to +85° C / 0° to 70° C
Power Dissipation	3 - ~15 W	TBD	1.4 - ~6 W	1.9 - ~7 W
Minimum Availability(1)	2025	2030	2025	2028

General: Some interfaces are available on pins that are not entirely compatible within the Apalis Computer on Module family. There are restrictions to using different interfaces simultaneously, please check the respective datasheet for exact details.