Apalis iMX6

The Apalis iMX6 is the second product in the new Apalis module family by Toradex. Complementing the existing Colibri module 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 huge 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.

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Apalis iMX6

Highlights

Powered by NXP i.MX 6

Equipped with NXP i.MX 6Q and NXP i.MX 6D SoCs, the Arm Cortex-A9 cores are clocked at 1GHz for commercial temperature variants, while the industrial temperature variant has a peak frequency of 800 MHz.


High-speed interfaces

The module exposes a wide range of industrial interfaces including CAN, UART, I2C, USB, PCIe, SATA, and many more.


Ready for multimedia

With a 3D GPU, h.264 encoder and decoder, the Apalis iMX6 is well suitable for multimedia. MIPI CSI-2, parallel, and Gigabit Ethernet cameras are options for video capture, while for displaying an output you can drive multiple independent screens at once through RGB, HDMI, and LVDS.


Simplified carrier board design

Based on the valuable input of our customers and our engineers‘ in-depth industry expertise, Apalis brings to market many new technologies. Direct Breakout™ considerably simplifies routing of high speed signals on the baseboard. MXM SnapLock™ provides a unique connector mechanism for module fixation. Apalis also comes with support for ready-made passive cooling solutions for the most demanding applications.


Torizon for Remote Updates and Fleet Monitoring

The SoM is available with a tightly integrated Torizon Cloud (formerly Torizon Platform) accelerating the development and maintaining your products. Some key features include highly secure and reliable remote updates, fleet monitoring and remote access.


Toradex Apalis Computer Module Family

The Apalis iMX6 is pin-compatible with the other CoMs in the Apalis family. This allows you to cost-optimize your design with no hardware redesign costs. All of Toradex's Apalis Carrier Boards are compatible with the Apalis iMX6. Extensive product documentation, developer support, service partners and third-party carrier boards build our strong Apalis ecosystem.


Operating Systems

Toradex offers free support and maintenance for Windows Embedded Compact and Embedded Linux on the Apalis iMX6 SoMs. This allows system designers to focus the application instead of focusing on the OS and low-level device drivers. Other OS such as QNX and Android are supported by our partners.

Torizon Embedded Linux OS

Torizon is a ready-to-use Linux-based software platform ideal for use in areas like industry and medicine, where reliability is critical. It is a developer-friendly ecosystem that simplifies the process of developing and maintaining embedded software.


Reference Images for Yocto Project

Toradex develops and maintains a Yocto Project-compatible, production-quality embedded Linux BSP in-house.


Windows Embedded Compact

Windows Embedded Compact 7 and 2013 is supported on Apalis iMX6. The development and maintenance is carried out in-house by Toradex. WEC allows you to use Microsoft .Net Compact Framework and Visual Studio.


Android

Android on Apalis iMX6 is supported by our service partners Kynetics and Antmicro.


QNX

QNX on NXP i.MX 6-based modules is supported by our service partner Triadem.



Features

Up to Quad Arm Cortex-A9 @ 1GHz
Vivante GC2000

4GB flash memory (eMMC)

FRONT

Integrated PMIC
Single 3.3V power supply

Up to 2GB RAM (64-bit DDR3)

BACK
CPU Name NXP i.MX 6Q
NXP i.MX 6D
CPU Type Up to 4x Arm Cortex-A9
CPU Clock Up to 996 MHz
Floating Point Unit VFPv3
NEON Yes
ARM TrustZone Yes
Advanced High Assurance Boot Yes
Cryptographic Acceleration and Assurance Module Yes
Secure Real-Time Clock Yes
Secure JTAG Controller Yes
Secure Non-Volatile Storage Yes
L1 Instruction Cache 32KB
L1 Data Cache 32KB
L2 Cache 1MB
RAM Up to 2GB DDR3 (64 Bit)
Flash Up to 4GB eMMC
USB 2.0 Up to 4x Host / 1x OTG
Ethernet 10/100/1000 Mbit with IEEE 1588
I2C 3x
SPI 3x
UART 5x
PWM 4x
GPIO Up to 135x
Analog Input 4x
SDIO/SD/MMC Up to 3x
CAN 2x
JTAG 1x
Display Controller Single
Digital Audio 3x SAI
Parallel RGB LCD Up to 1920x1200x24bpp
225 Mpixel/s
Display Serial Interface 1x dual-lane MIPI/DSI
HDMI 1.4a up to 1080p60
LVDS 2x single channel 85 Mpixel/s or 1x dual channel 165 Mpixel/s
Up to 1920x1200x24bpp at 60fps
VGA Analog Video 1x
Resistive Touch 4-wire
Parallel Camera Interface Up to 2x 20-bit
Frame size up to 8192x4096 pixels
8/16/20 bit parallel video interfaces
Camera Serial Interface MIPI/CSI-2
Up to 24 bpp
S/PDIF AES/EBU IEC 60958 standard
16x24bit FIFO
24-bit data width
Size 82.0 x 45.0 x 6.0 mm
Temperature -40° to 85° C
Shock / Vibration EN 60068-2-6/50g 20ms
Power Dissipation 1.9 - ~7 W
Product Availability 2036
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Apalis iMX6 Quad
2GB IT (WinEC)
PN: 0028

 
Apalis iMX6 Quad 2GB IT (WinEC)
  • A9
  • A9
  • A9
  • A9
  • 2GB RAM
  • 4GB FLASH
  • GPU
  • VPU
  • -40° to 85° C
Due to limited availability and longer lead times, please consider the Y-Version of the module if you do not need the resistive touch and ADC-functionality of the module. For additional information visit our developer page

Apalis iMX6 Quad
2GB IT
PN: 0085

 
Apalis iMX6 Quad 2GB IT
  • A9
  • A9
  • A9
  • A9
  • 2GB RAM
  • 4GB FLASH
  • GPU
  • VPU
  • -40° to 85° C
Due to limited availability and longer lead times, please consider the Y-Version of the module if you do not need the resistive touch and ADC-functionality of the module. For additional information visit our developer page

Apalis iMX6 Quad
1GB (WinEC)
PN: 0027

 
Apalis iMX6 Quad 1GB (WinEC)
  • A9
  • A9
  • A9
  • A9
  • 1GB RAM
  • 4GB FLASH
  • GPU
  • VPU
  • 0° to 70° C
Due to limited availability and longer lead times, please consider the Y-Version of the module if you do not need the resistive touch and ADC-functionality of the module. For additional information visit our developer page

Apalis iMX6 Quad
1GB
PN: 0083

 
Apalis iMX6 Quad 1GB
  • A9
  • A9
  • A9
  • A9
  • 1GB RAM
  • 4GB FLASH
  • GPU
  • VPU
  • 0° to 70° C
Due to limited availability and longer lead times, please consider the Y-Version of the module if you do not need the resistive touch and ADC-functionality of the module. For additional information visit our developer page

Apalis iMX6 Dual
1GB IT (WinEC)
PN: 0035

 
Apalis iMX6 Dual 1GB IT (WinEC)
  • A9
  • A9
  • 1GB RAM
  • 4GB FLASH
  • GPU
  • VPU
  • -40° to 85° C
Due to limited availability and longer lead times, please consider the Y-Version of the module if you do not need the resistive touch and ADC-functionality of the module. For additional information visit our developer page

Apalis iMX6 Dual
1GB IT
PN: 0084

 
Apalis iMX6 Dual 1GB IT
  • A9
  • A9
  • 1GB RAM
  • 4GB FLASH
  • GPU
  • VPU
  • -40° to 85° C
Due to limited availability and longer lead times, please consider the Y-Version of the module if you do not need the resistive touch and ADC-functionality of the module. For additional information visit our developer page

Apalis iMX6 Dual
512MB (WinEC)
PN: 0029

 
Apalis iMX6 Dual 512MB (WinEC)
  • A9
  • A9
  • 512MB RAM
  • 4GB FLASH
  • GPU
  • VPU
  • 0° to 70° C

Apalis iMX6 Dual
512MB
PN: 0082

 
Apalis iMX6 Dual 512MB
  • A9
  • A9
  • 512MB RAM
  • 4GB FLASH
  • GPU
  • VPU
  • 0° to 70° C

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Apalis iMX6
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Apalis iMX6 Evaluation Kit

$763.60
  • 4x ARM Cortex-A9 792 MHz processor
  • NXP i.MX 6 applications processor
  • Parallel RGB up to 1920x1200 24bit, 225 Mpixel/s
  • Torizon IoT Platform: Linux OS Maintenance, Remote Software Updates & Device Management
  • Linux and other OS Support included
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Apalis iMX6 Evaluation Kit 2

$408.80
  • 4x ARM Cortex-A9 792 MHz processor
  • NXP i.MX 6 applications processor
  • Parallel RGB up to 1366 x 768 x 18bpp
  • Torizon IoT Platform: Linux OS Maintenance, Remote Software Updates & Device Management
  • Linux and other OS Support included
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Carrier Boards

The carrier board provides the necessary signal and power levels to the CoM. It also houses the application-specific connectivity and multimedia interfaces, such as USB, Ethernet, UART and HDMI.

Learn more about SBCs and Carrier Boards

Ixora Carrier Board

Datasheet

Apalis Evaluation Board

Datasheet

Apalis Partner Carrier Boards

Supported Modules
USB 3.0
USB 2.0
Ethernet
PCIe
I2C
SPI
UART
IrDA
PWM
GPIO
Analog Input
Serial ATA
SDIO/SD/MMC
CAN
JTAG
Entire Apalis Family
2x Host
1x Host / 1x OTG
Gigabit
1x (Mini PCIe)
2x
1x
3x RS232
4x
up to 40
4x
1x mSATA
1x 4 Bit (microSD)
2x
Entire Apalis Family
1x Host, 1x OTG
4x Host
Gigabit
2x 1 slot / 1x (Mini PCIe)
3x
2x
2x RS232, 1x RS422/485
1x
4x
up to 135
4x
1x / 1x mSATA (shared)
2x 4 Bit
2x
Yes
Entire Apalis Family
up to 1x Host / 1x OTG
up to 4x Host
up to 11x 10/100/1000 MBit
up to 2x (Mini PCIe)
up to 2x I2C
up to 2x SPI
up to 8x RS-232/422/485
up to 4x PWM
up to 16x
up to 4x Analog Input
up to 1x mSATA
up to 1x SD/MMC 4-Bit
Up to 2x
Switches
LEDs
2x
8x
8x
LVDS
HDMI
Digital Audio
S/PDIF In / Out
VGA
RGB
Capacitive Touch Interface
Resistive Touch
Camera Parallel Interface
Camera Serial Interface
Analog Audio Line in
Analog Audio Mic in
Analog Audio Headphone out
1x Dual Channel
1x
1x / 1x
1x (24 Bit)
Yes
4/5-wire
1x 10 Bit
1x Quad Lane MIPI CSI-2
1x (Stereo)
1x (Mono)
1x (Stereo)
1x Dual Channel
1x (Through DVI-I connector)
7.1 Channel HD Audio Codec (incl. analogue connectors)
1x (Out also on TOSLINK)
1x
1x (24 Bit)
4/5-wire
1x 8/10/12 Bit
On Mezzanine
1x (Stereo)
1x (Mono)
1x (Stereo)
1x Dual Channel
1x
1x / 1x
1x
up to 4/5-wire
up to 3 MIPI CSI-2
1x (Stereo)
1x (Mono)
1x (Stereo)
Type Specific Board Connector
USB-to-RS232 Transceiver
RTC on Board
Altium CAE Data Freely Available
1x
Yes
Yes
1x
1x
Yes
1x
Supply Voltage
On-Board Power Supplies
Size
Temperature
7-27V DC
5V 6A
3.3V 8A
125 x 90 mm
-20° to 85° C
7-27V DC
5V 5A
3.3V 5A
250 x 250 mm
5-36V DC
-40° to 85° C
Intended Use
Pricing
Minimum Product Commitment
For End Products
1-99 : $134.40
>99 : RFQ
2034+
For Evaluation/Development
1 : $349.40

Accessories

Toradex offers off-the-shelf accessories that can be directly used in end products. For a few of these accessories, design files including assembly drawings, schematics and Altium projects are available.
Toradex tests the peripherals listed in its webshop and works directly with vendors of Cameras, Modems, Displays, Sensors, and more, to make the integration with Toradex SoMs as easy as possible.

Learn more on our Developer Center
Apalis Heatsink Type 1
  • Compatible with Apalis iMX6Q IT and Apalis iMX6D IT
  • 4 screws (M3x10mm) included with each heatsink for easy mounting to Apalis Carrier Boards
  • Additional threaded holes available for attaching fan to the carrier board
Apalis Heatsink Type 3
  • Compatible with Apalis iMX6Q, Apalis iMX6D and Apalis TK1
  • 4 screws (M3x10mm) included with each heatsink for easy mounting to Apalis Carrier Boards
  • Additional threaded holes available for attaching fan to the carrier board
Apalis Heatsink Fan
  • Compatible with Apalis Evaluation Board and Ixora Carrier Board
Apalis iMX6 Mezzanine
  • 1x Tactile switch to enter Apalis iMX6 module recovery mode
  • 1x Tactile switch to reset Apalis iMX6 module
Resistive Touch Display 7" Parallel
  • Touch: 4-Wire Resistive Touch
  • 40 pin FFC cable (250mm) to connect it with a Carrier Board
  • No special drivers required
Capacitive Touch Display 7" Parallel
  • 40 pin and 10 pin FFC cable (250mm) to connect it with a Carrier Board
  • Atmel touch driver
LM816 USB WiFi
  • Plug and Play (Windows Compact Embedded 6/7 compatible)
  • BPSK, QPSK, 16 QAM, 64 QAM, DBPSK, DQPSK, and CCK modulation schemes
  • WEP, TKIP, and AES, WPA, WPA2 hardware encryption Schemes
  • Can be setup as a ad-hoc network via peer to peer communications
Analogue Camera Adapter
  • Parallel data output format: 8-Bit Parallel ITU-R BT.656 with external HSync and VSync
  • No external power supply required
  • Compatible with Colibri Evaluation Board and Apalis Evaluation Board
Carrier Board Accessory Kit
  • Power Adapter: 12VDC 30W with international plugs
  • Compatible with: Apalis Evaluation Board, Ixora Carrier Board, Colibri Evaluation Board, Iris Carrier Board, Verdin Development Board, Dahlia Carrier Board

Ecosystem

To get your product to market fast, with low risk and low engineering costs, you need more than just a System on Module with a stable operating system or BSP. We understand this, which is why we at Toradex are collaborating with a wide range of partners to make your life easier. Here are a few highlights. To find more, browse our Developer Page and take a look at our Partner Network.


Toradex Easy Installer

Toradex Easy Installer allows you to install an OS in one click. It comes preinstalled from the factory, so all you need to do is turn on your on Apalis iMX6 and choose an OS!

Learn More

Easy-to-use Rich Graphical User Interfaces

The Apalis iMX6 provides high-performance graphics. Toradex partners closely with leading GUI technology providers to simplify the development process and make sure that hardware resources are utilized effectively.

Qt Framework

Qt is available on Toradex Easy Installer and as Debian containers for Torizon, making it easy to get started with Qt on any embedded device.

Get started with Qt

Crank Storyboard

Crank Storyboard is a GUI design and development tool that lets you rapidly develop high-performance embedded apps. Torizon provides a seamless out-of-the-box experience with Crank Storyboard.

Get started with Crank Storyboard

DiSTI GL Studio

The Apalis iMX6 is ideal for critical applications where safety and reliability are key. These are also the key focus areas for DiSTI’s GL Studio.

Get started with DiSTI GL Studio

TotalCross

TotalCross is an open-source SDK for GUI creation that lets you develop beautiful apps in Java or Kotlin.

Get started with Totalcross

Industrial Automation

CODESYS PLC IEC 61131-3

The Apalis iMX6 is a robust SoM, and its high performance is ideal for demanding industrial automation scenarios. CODESYS allows you to develop easily customized PLCs powered by a proven, long-lived software solution.

Get started with CODESYS on Torizon

Matrikon OPC UA

OPC UA is a standard technology widely used in industrial automation. The stack from Matrikon is a reliable, secure and platform-independent implementation that suits the Apalis iMX6 perfectly.

Watch our webinar with BE.services

Roadmap

Min. Product Commitment
As per NXP Roadmap
2036
 
 
Hardware Roadmap

This roadmap indicates how the product is planned from a Toradex hardware development point of view. This is not a detailed release date representation, but visualization of our internal product development timeline.
For details about the Toradex phase-over policy please refer to the PCN Policy Page.

For more details about PID8 level changes and historical releases please refer to the developer page.


  • Q1'24
  • Q2'24
  • Q3'24
  • Q4'24
  • Q1'25
0028 Apalis iMX6Q 2GB IT (WinEC)

0085 Apalis iMX6Q 2GB IT


0027 Apalis iMX6Q 1GB (WinEC)

0083 Apalis iMX6Q 1GB


0035 Apalis iMX6D 1GB IT (WinEC)

0084 Apalis iMX6D 1GB IT


0029 Apalis iMX6D 512MB (WinEC)

0082 Apalis iMX6D 512MB



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