<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Are those manuals NDA only or available for download? I'm mostly interested in the user manual. I was very impressed with their i.mx53 SDK and documentation. I world of difference compared to the poorly translated or reverse-engineered info available for the Chinese chips. I can't speak for other developers but I know which one I would rather program for. If the pricing is similar and you can afford to wait until the hardware is ready, I would go with a Freescale solution. Too bad their current imx6 dev board is $300 or I would pick one up now to play with until final versions are ready next year.</div>
<div><br></div></div></div></blockquote><div>The manual is under NDA, but you should have no problem to get one through your distributo, as we did.</div><div>I guess they do this because the manual is still preliminary and many signals timing etc is TBD, when they start selling iMX6 in Q1 2013 they will put all info on their web as for the other iMX devices, samples for developers will be available in September.</div>
<div>These $300 boards are with pre-engineering samples and probably have lot of bugs, which now they fixed and run next revision.</div><div>One good concept of iMX6 is that 1-2-4 core devices share same pinout so you can use same hardware design for up to 4.8GHz accumulated processor power (4 cores running at 1.2GHz), and you have HDMI, SATA, 10/100/1000 Ethernet, CAN etc.</div>
</div><br><div>the price of iMX6Solo is lower than A10 for small quantities of 1000 pcs so releasing low cost board is matter of time ;)</div><div><br></div>