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Is the iMX6 a Floating point processor or Fixed point processor?
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The iMX6 is a freescale part, It's ARM A9 based with the floating point NEON extension..
http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/taxonomy.jsp?code=imx6x_series Not as powerful as number cruncher as some DSP solutions but I tend to do most of the heavy DSP in the FPGA anyway.
The boundary devices dev board is a good get your feet wet board to play with it. But is not ideal for interfacing with an FPGA board.. (It has interfaces to do it, but it's not standard connectors. But hey, it's just $199.
http://boundarydevices.com/products/nitrogen6x-board-imx6-arm-cortex-a9-sbc/ They also have a SOM, OK for PCIe development, but the flash interface is not available. I haven't used that.
NOVSOM has a iMX6 SOM that exposes everything. It's a small company however, and they are stingy with schematics. And they really crippled their Ethernet solution on the devboard they provide with it. (They use and external spi-ethernet instead of the internal MAC). It's a trade off they did for USB connectivity, but in my opinion was a poor one.
(You can create your own ethernet daugher card and re-enable the internal mac, but it's a pain).
Pete
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