The Dutch semiconductor giant NXP announced at Computex its i.MX 91, the latest processor in its i.MX 9 series of application processors for industrial, medical, consumer, and IoT use cases.
During his keynote, NXP Secure Connected Edge Executive Vice President and General Manager Rafael Sotomayor gave some details about the new processor. Its features include a chi8p Cortex-M7 of 800 MHz for real-time control and a Cortex-M33 for network management, together with Gbps integrated with support for time-sensitive networking and industrial protocols. It is protected by NPX EdgeLock Secure Enclave and has functional safety software libraries.
A use case for the i.MX 91 is smart factories. The i.MX 91 is the core of NPX's industrial platform for smart factories and connects EdgeLock, other devices, NXP's PF5020 (the company's multi-channel device for high-performance and industrial applications), and the N-X front-end. Afe from NXP, which runs sensors and actuators.
Another example of use of iMX 91 is smart homes. The i.MX/MCU family can be combined with NXP's IW612 monolithic tri-radio to integrate radios into Matter, its connectivity standard designed to help smart home devices communicate with each other.
The i.MX 91 family is part of NXP's product longevity program, which ensures qualified products are available for at least 10 years, with designated participating products developed for the automotive, telecom and medical segments available for a minimum of 15 years. i.MX 91 combines Arm Cortex-A55 processor cores and is embedded with EdgeLock Secure Enclave.
