Mouser Electronics™, the industry-leading New Product Introduction (NPI) distributor with the widest selection of semiconductors and electronic components, announces that it is now stocking the i.MX 8M Plus applications processor from NXP Semiconductors.

This embedded multicore heterogeneous applications processor is the first in the i.MX family to feature a dedicated Neural Processing Unit (NPU) for advanced machine learning inference at the edge in industrial and Internet of Things (IoT) applications.

The NXP i.MX 8M Plus applications processor, available from Mouser Electronics, integrates two or four Arm® Cortex®-A53 cores running up to 1.8 GHz and an 800 MHz Arm Cortex-M7 core for low-power real-time processing.

The i.MX 8M Plus processor uses an integrated NPU to simultaneously execute highly complex neural network functions, such as human pose and emotion detection, multi-object identification, and speech recognition of over 40,000 English words.

The i.MX 8M Plus features a high-performance 800MHz audio DSP (digital signal processing) for voice and natural language processing. The dual-camera Image Signal Processors (ISP) support two high-definition cameras for real-time stereo vision or one 12-megapixel resolution camera with High Dynamic Range (HDR) and fisheye lens distortion correction.

The device provides a rich visual HMI experience implemented with 2D and 3D graphics and can compress multiple video feeds with an H.265 or H.264 HD video encoder/decoder for cloud streaming or local storage.

The NXP i.MX 8M Plus processor is ideal for applications such as security surveillance, smart retail, robotic vision, home healthcare monitors, smart homes, smart cities, building control, and industrial IoT.