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Evaluation Kits

Alp Lab ships two evaluation kits, one per form factor. Both EVKs double as reference designs that customer carriers can fork — most production carriers inherit ~80 % of the EVK's chip population.

EVKForm factorHostsReference
E1M EVK35 × 35 carrierE1M-AEN family, E1M-N93 familydocs/boards/e1m-evk.md
E1M-X EVK45 × 65 carrierE1M-X V2N family, V2N-M1 familydocs/boards/e1m-x-evk.md

E1M EVK (UG-E1M-001)​

The 35 × 35 mm carrier hosts AEN and i.MX 93 family modules. Populated peripherals include:

  • 6-axis IMU (lsm6dso), 3-axis accelerometer (lis2dw12), gyroscope (bmi323, icm42670)
  • Barometric pressure sensor (bmp581)
  • Current monitors (ina236)
  • Temperature sensor (tmp112)
  • I/O expander (tcal9538)
  • Monochrome OLED (ssd1306), small colour OLED (ssd1331)
  • Camera (ov5640 MIPI CSI + cam_mux)
  • Speaker amp (tas2563), PDM microphone (pdm_mic)
  • Rotary encoder + RGB LED + button-LED helper
  • JTAG/SWD header, BOOT/reset/module-enable

The SDK ships a carrier preset covering this population — declaring carrier.name: E1M-EVK in your board.yaml enables them all.

E1M-X EVK​

The 45 × 65 mm carrier hosts V2N family and V2N-M1 family modules. It exposes:

  • Dual gigabit Ethernet (two RJ45 ports, both routed to the RTL8211FDI PHYs on-module)
  • USB-C host + USB-C device
  • MIPI CSI-2 camera connector (OV5640 + camera-mux on the EVK)
  • MIPI DSI display connector
  • Industrial-grade audio (TAS2563 + PDM mic)
  • CAN-FD transceiver
  • Header-broken-out PWM channels (driven by the V2N's on-module GD32 supervisor)
  • microSD slot, JTAG header

Declare carrier.name: E1M-X-EVK to pick up the populated chip list.

Using an EVK as a reference design​

Two patterns to fork the EVK preset for a custom carrier:

(a) Reference + override (small derivatives)​

carrier:
  name: E1M-EVK
  populated:
    tas2563: false   # production board has no speaker amp
    ina236:  false   # no current monitors
    ssd1306: false   # no on-board display

The loader merges your deltas over the EVK preset's defaults.

(b) Fork the carrier preset (full custom boards)​

cp metadata/carriers/e1m-evk.yaml metadata/carriers/my-board.yaml
$EDITOR metadata/carriers/my-board.yaml

Then in board.yaml:

carrier:
  name: my-board

See board.yaml reference for the full schema.

Ordering​

Request a Dev Kit to receive an EVK paired with a SoM of your choice.

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