Conclusive Engineering has opened a waitlist for its Kestrel KSTR-IMX93 single-board computer, featuring an NXP Semiconductors i.MX 93 system-on-chip and no fewer than three Nordic Semiconductor wireless devices: the nRF5340, nRF9151, and nRF7002.
“[The] Kestrel KSTR-IMX93 [is a] powerful Linux-capable single-board computer featuring Nordic Semiconductor solutions,” the company says of its creation. “This SBC delivers unparalleled connectivity, robust processing power, and enhanced security features. With support for various wireless protocols such as Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, LTE Cat-M1/NB-IoT, Thread, and Zigbee, the KSTR-IMX93 is ideal for industries ranging from industrial automation and smart home systems to healthcare and automotive applications.”
If you’re looking for a power-sipping SBC with plenty of connectivity, the Kestrel KSTR-IMX93 could be it. (📷: Conclusive Engineering)
The computer, brought to our attention by CNX Software, is built around NXP’s i.MX 93 system-on-chip, giving it either one or two 64-bit Arm Cortex-A55 cores running at up to 1.7GHz and a single 32-bit Arm Cortex-M33 real-time coprocessor running at up to 250MHz, plus a choice of 512MB, 1GB, or 2GB of LPPDR4 or LPDDR4x memory, depending on model. There’s up to 128GB of eMMC storage plus microSD Card expansion.
Cor communication, there’s a single gigabit Ethernet port plus another available via an RGMII interface and no fewer than three Nordic Semi wireless parts: the nRF5340, nRF9151, and nRF7002. All together, that means support for dual-band Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, IEEE 802.15.4 including Thread and Zigbee, Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) reception, LTE Cat-M1 and NB-IoT cellular with built-in eSIM, and DECT NR+.
The board includes a Raspberry Pi-compatible GPIO header, plus additional pins from both the NXP and Nordic chips. (📷: Conclusive Engineering)
Other features on the board include a Raspberry Pi-compatible general-purpose input/output (GPIO) header, up to 37 GPIO pins from the i.MX 93 and up to 15 from the nRF chips, a CAN-FD transceiver, MIPI Display Serial Interface (DSI) video output and Camera Serial Input 2 (CSI 2) input, four UART, three I2C, and one SPI buses, and four analog to digital converter (ADC) channels. The i.MX 93 can run Linux 6.1 and 6.5 based operating systems including Canonical’s Ubuntu as well as custom Yocto and Buildroot builds, with FreeBSD support available “upon request,” while the Cortex-M33 core and the nRF5340 and nRF9151 chips run the Zephyr real-time operating system.
Interested parties can join the waiting list to be notified when the board goes up for sale in June on the Conclusive Engineering website; pricing had not been disclosed at the time of writing.
