NXP Semiconductors

schematics

none (EVK reference designs only)

toolchain

open (Linux/Yocto BSP)

datasheets

public (IMX8MPCEC)

blobs

required (proprietary silicon + NPU firmware)

retail

distributor (commercial via NXP and SoM partners)

Public datasheets and a Linux BSP with broad commercial availability, but proprietary silicon with no open board files. The documentation is the strongest part of the picture: the datasheet identified as "Document Number IMX8MPCEC, Rev. 2.1, 07/2023, i.MX 8M Plus Applications Processor Datasheet for Consumer Products" is mirrored in full and openly downloadable from DigiKey, 111 pages of electrical characteristics, boot modes and pin assignments. The toolchain and the firmware position both come from NXP's own Yocto layer repo - the BSP is public and buildable, and the same README states "The NXP i.MX End User License Agreement (EULA) is displayed during the setup process ... The license must be accepted to allow access to the NXP EULA-licensed recipes", which is the gated-blob half stated by the vendor. No board files are published at all: what the BSP offers is machine configurations for NXP's own EVK and FRDM reference boards, and what the datasheet offers is package and pin data, neither of which is a design. Retail rests on Toradex shipping a Verdin SoM around the part and DigiKey stocking the silicon. www.nxp.com itself is unfetchable - it answers 404 to every path tried including its own root, and browser headers change nothing, so this is the host and not the URL - and these components therefore rest on substitute sources.

• https://www.nxp.com/products/i.MX8MPLUS recorded 2026-06-22

  official page: Cortex-A53/M7, up to 2.3 TOPS NPU, ML/vision focus. Not re-fetchable - www.nxp.com answers HTTP 404 to every automated request including its own root, under every header set tried - so it keeps its recorded read

• https://mm.digikey.com/Volume0/opasdata/d220001/medias/docus/5783/IMX8MPCEC.pdf recorded 2026-08-14

  the named datasheet in full, openly mirrored by DigiKey - "NXP Semiconductors Data Sheet - Technical Data, Document Number IMX8MPCEC, Rev. 2.1, 07/2023"; "a powerful quad Arm Cortex-A53 processor with speed up to 1.8 GHz integrated with a NPU of 2.3 TOPS"; an integrated 800 MHz Cortex-M7; package and pin assignments but no board schematics

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nxp-imx/meta-imx/master/README.md recorded 2026-08-14

  "Yocto Project BSP for NXP i.MX Linux Release LF6.18.20_2.0.0", with i.MX 8M Plus machines imx8mp-lpddr4-evk, imx8mp-ddr4-evk and imx8mp-lpddr4-frdm; and "The NXP i.MX End User License Agreement (EULA) is displayed during the setup process ... The license must be accepted to allow access to the NXP EULA-licensed recipes"

• https://www.toradex.com/computer-on-modules/verdin-arm-family/nxp-imx-8m-plus recorded 2026-08-14

  a SoM partner shipping the part commercially - the Verdin iMX8M Plus module with a Configure Your Own path and availability listed to 2036+