NXP MIMXRT1060-EVK¶

Overview¶

The i.MX RT1060 is the latest addition to the industry’s first crossover processor series and expands the i.MX RT series to three scalable families.

The i.MX RT1060 doubles the On-Chip SRAM to 1MB while keeping pin-to-pin compatibility with i.MX RT1050. This new series introduces additional features ideal for real-time applications such as High-Speed GPIO, CAN-FD, and synchronous parallel NAND/NOR/PSRAM controller. The i.MX RT1060 runs on the Arm® Cortex-M7® core at 600 MHz.

Hardware¶

MIMXRT1062DVL6A MCU (600 MHz, 1024 KB on-chip memory)
Memory
- 256 Mbit SDRAM
- 64 Mbit QSPI Flash
- 512 Mbit Hyper Flash
- TF socket for SD card
Display
- LCD connector
Ethernet
- 10/100 Mbit/s Ethernet PHY
USB
- USB 2.0 OTG connector
- USB 2.0 host connector
Audio
- 3.5 mm audio stereo headphone jack
- Board-mounted microphone
- Left and right speaker out connectors
Power
- 5 V DC jack
Debug
- JTAG 20-pin connector
- OpenSDA with DAPLink
Sensor
- FXOS8700CQ 6-axis e-compass
- CMOS camera sensor interface
Expansion port
- Arduino interface
CAN bus connector

For more information about the MIMXRT1060 SoC and MIMXRT1060-EVK board, see these references:

Supported Features¶

The mimxrt1060_evk board configuration supports the following hardware features:

Interface	Controller	Driver/Component
NVIC	on-chip	nested vector interrupt controller
SYSTICK	on-chip	systick
DISPLAY	on-chip	display
GPIO	on-chip	gpio
I2C	on-chip	i2c
SDHC	on-chip	disk access
UART	on-chip	serial port-polling; serial port-interrupt
ENET	on-chip	ethernet
USB	on-chip	USB device

The default configuration can be found in the defconfig file: boards/arm/mimxrt1060_evk/mimxrt1060_evk_defconfig

Other hardware features are not currently supported by the port.

Connections and I/Os¶

The MIMXRT1060 SoC has five pairs of pinmux/gpio controllers.

Name	Function	Usage
GPIO_AD_B0_02	LCD_RST	LCD Display
GPIO_AD_B0_05	GPIO	SD Card
GPIO_AD_B0_09	GPIO/ENET_RST	LED
GPIO_AD_B0_10	GPIO/ENET_INT	GPIO/Ethernet
GPIO_AD_B0_11	GPIO	Touch Interrupt
GPIO_AD_B0_12	LPUART1_TX	UART Console
GPIO_AD_B0_13	LPUART1_RX	UART Console
GPIO_AD_B1_00	LPI2C1_SCL	I2C
GPIO_AD_B1_01	LPI2C1_SDA	I2C
GPIO_AD_B1_06	LPUART3_TX	UART BT HCI
GPIO_AD_B1_07	LPUART3_RX	UART BT HCI
WAKEUP	GPIO	SW0
GPIO_B0_00	LCD_CLK	LCD Display
GPIO_B0_01	LCD_ENABLE	LCD Display
GPIO_B0_02	LCD_HSYNC	LCD Display
GPIO_B0_03	LCD_VSYNC	LCD Display
GPIO_B0_04	LCD_DATA00	LCD Display
GPIO_B0_05	LCD_DATA01	LCD Display
GPIO_B0_06	LCD_DATA02	LCD Display
GPIO_B0_07	LCD_DATA03	LCD Display
GPIO_B0_08	LCD_DATA04	LCD Display
GPIO_B0_09	LCD_DATA05	LCD Display
GPIO_B0_10	LCD_DATA06	LCD Display
GPIO_B0_11	LCD_DATA07	LCD Display
GPIO_B0_12	LCD_DATA08	LCD Display
GPIO_B0_13	LCD_DATA09	LCD Display
GPIO_B0_14	LCD_DATA10	LCD Display
GPIO_B0_15	LCD_DATA11	LCD Display
GPIO_B1_00	LCD_DATA12	LCD Display
GPIO_B1_01	LCD_DATA13	LCD Display
GPIO_B1_02	LCD_DATA14	LCD Display
GPIO_B1_03	LCD_DATA15	LCD Display
GPIO_B1_04	ENET_RX_DATA00	Ethernet
GPIO_B1_05	ENET_RX_DATA01	Ethernet
GPIO_B1_06	ENET_RX_EN	Ethernet
GPIO_B1_07	ENET_TX_DATA00	Ethernet
GPIO_B1_08	ENET_TX_DATA01	Ethernet
GPIO_B1_09	ENET_TX_EN	Ethernet
GPIO_B1_10	ENET_REF_CLK	Ethernet
GPIO_B1_11	ENET_RX_ER	Ethernet
GPIO_B1_12	GPIO	SD Card
GPIO_B1_14	USDHC1_VSELECT	SD Card
GPIO_B1_15	BACKLIGHT_CTL	LCD Display
GPIO_EMC_40	ENET_MDC	Ethernet
GPIO_EMC_41	ENET_MDIO	Ethernet
GPIO_AD_B0_09	ENET_RST	Ethernet
GPIO_AD_B0_10	ENET_INT	Ethernet
GPIO_SD_B0_00	USDHC1_CMD	SD Card
GPIO_SD_B0_01	USDHC1_CLK	SD Card
GPIO_SD_B0_02	USDHC1_DATA0	SD Card
GPIO_SD_B0_03	USDHC1_DATA1	SD Card
GPIO_SD_B0_04	USDHC1_DATA2	SD Card
GPIO_SD_B0_05	USDHC1_DATA3	SD Card

System Clock¶

The MIMXRT1060 SoC is configured to use the 24 MHz external oscillator on the board with the on-chip PLL to generate a 600 MHz core clock.

Serial Port¶

The MIMXRT1060 SoC has eight UARTs. LPUART1 is configured for the console, LPUART3 for the Bluetooth Host Controller Interface (BT HCI), and the remaining are not used.

Programming and Debugging¶

Build and flash applications as usual (see Building an Application and Run an Application for more details).

Configuring a Debug Probe¶

A debug probe is used for both flashing and debugging the board. This board is configured by default to use the OpenSDA DAPLink Onboard Debug Probe, however the pyOCD Debug Host Tools do not yet support programming the external flashes on this board so you must reconfigure the board for one of the following debug probes instead.

J-Link External Debug Probe ¶

Install the J-Link Debug Host Tools and make sure they are in your search path.

Attach a J-Link 20-pin connector to J21. Check that jumpers J47 and J48 are off (they are on by default when boards ship from the factory) to ensure SWD signals are disconnected from the OpenSDA microcontroller.

Configuring a Console¶

Regardless of your choice in debug probe, we will use the OpenSDA microcontroller as a usb-to-serial adapter for the serial console. Check that jumpers J45 and J46 are on (they are on by default when boards ship from the factory) to connect UART signals to the OpenSDA microcontroller.

Connect a USB cable from your PC to J41.

Use the following settings with your serial terminal of choice (minicom, putty, etc.):

Speed: 115200
Data: 8 bits
Parity: None
Stop bits: 1

Flashing¶

Here is an example for the Hello World application.

# From the root of the zephyr repository
west build -b mimxrt1060_evk samples/hello_world
west flash

Open a serial terminal, reset the board (press the SW9 button), and you should see the following message in the terminal:

***** Booting Zephyr OS v1.14.0-rc1 *****
Hello World! mimxrt1060_evk

Debugging¶