 The Great Search brought to you by Digikey and Adafruit. Thank you so much, Digikey. Every single week, they need user power of engineering to help you, yes, you find parts that you need a little more. What are you looking for this week on digikey.com? Okay, I wanted everyone to know that this week that the IMX RT series chips are back in stock at Digikey. Not every single one of them, but the ones that I'm looking for, the RT-1011D, but I also wanted to show all the different kinds of IMX RT chips so you can decide which ones are for you and also have a couple of samples here that I can show off so people can see, like when I say BGA, how big is the BGA? When I say QFP, how big is the QFP? So let's go to the computer. Don't forget, if you are using IMX, we have a little tutorial on how to install the Tina U of 2 bootloader, second stage bootloader that we publish on GitHub to your IMX board. So like I said, the chip that we're using, there's the IMX RT-1011C and the 1011D. The 1011C runs at 400 megahertz or 1011D, runs at 500, I love more Hertz, so I'm going with that. And then if you're like, what's the difference between these, this link which we'll post in the video and also you can just Google for IMX crossover MCUs and it's on NXP's website, you can see that they tell you the difference, like it goes from most complex to least and there's some good stuff. So let me tell you some of the differences here. So like I said, we're using the 1010 series. So it's a little confusing because it's called the IMX 1010 but there is no actual IMX 1010. Like I don't believe that actually exists. There's the 1011. It's like, it's either, you know what I mean? There's like a series called the 1010 but the actual component is called the 1011. Let me see if they have the part number here. I think, yeah. So these are the parametrics. Okay, so you can always go to the NXP site if you want more details because they'll have like the exact, you know, perfect setup. So the C series, 400 megahertz. Whoa, didn't want to buy that. 400 megahertz, both have 128K of SRAM. If you want more SRAM, I'll show you the next series. Two I squared C, two SPI for UART. And like if you're used to some of the chips like the NRF 52 or the ESP32 where you can kind of like move whatever peripheral around that's not true. The pins are set, not set, but there's, you can't put them on any IO. There are like chunks that are like UART and I squared C and SPI. So you have to muck them out. That's not unusual. There's a lot of pins available but, you know, they're not super fixed like the same, you know, the, at mega, 328 and they're not super flexible like the NRF 52. Both have 16 bit PWMs, both have ADCs, no DACs, looks like the C series has a slightly wider temperature as well. So slower but wider temperature range. Both are LQFP 80. If you're like, oh, you know, I like the 1010 but like I want more RAM, the 1020 is kind of the next update. That has, if you just want more pins, you can go to the 1015. That goes from an 80 to 100 LQFP. So you probably get like another 16 GPIO, still 128K RAM. The 1020 is the big leap to 256K RAM and then the 1024, this is actually interesting. I think we covered this on INPI when it came out. The 1024 is exactly the same as the 1020 except it has four megabytes of flash built in. So you don't need an external QSPY flash chip. I'll say though, like the pricing isn't like, like it's not good enough in my opinion. Like I would just take the 1020 because then you can stick whatever chip you want. But if you're like spacing constraint because it is 144 LQFP, this is a big ass chip. You can get of course the version that has the flash, bonded inside. And then after the 10, 10, 10, 20 series, you actually get into like the pretty like, not like something that pops up to like very advanced peripherals. So you're still gonna be looking at, 500, 600 megahertz, right? But the SRAM gets huge, 500 or even one megabyte of SRAM. This one, the 1064 even has the, that flash memory built in. There's a GPU, the graph acceleration and it has parallel display interface. So this is parallel TFT out. So that's, you know, a 24 bit TFT display with H-sync and V-sync. Of course, you could always run SPI displays, but if you want like a seven inch, 10 inch display, eight inch display, 10 inch display, basically everything before LVDS or MIPI, parallel is your way to go. This still was the 1040, 1050 and 1060 are still gonna have the I-squared CSPI peripherals, but they're gonna add CAN and built-in ethernet. Now, for the ethernet, you'll still need a PHY. It's just like the low level, that's not the low, low level part of ethernet. It's like the software side of the ethernet. And you'll still need a TLS stack and like LWIP or whatever to run the ethernet. So, you know, I know people who've used the teensy, which is I think the 1050 and 1060 series, there's code there for controlling the ethernet peripheral. And then, oh, another thing that's interesting, once you get to the 1050, 1060, two USBs so you can have one host, one peripheral. And by the way, these are all high-speed USB. The 1010 even has high-speed USB. So, it's impressive because it's where to see high-speed USB in a microcontroller. Usually it's full-speed like the ESP32, RP2040, SAMD series are all full-speed, not high-speed. So, let me show you really quickly the chips on the overhead. If it's possible to go, thank you. So, I don't have a ton, I'll be honest with you, but I have a couple 1010. So, this is the 1011, so this is what the 80LQFP looks like. You know, it's designed for a two-layer board. Got a four-layer, of course, for easier routing, but you can absolutely make it work on a two-layer because I did it. Four-layer will just make it easier to route all the pads and of course you can route them underneath. This is some 1062s, I've got, I've got a couple. So, BGAs, you know, pretty, I think these are 0.8, so they're not super fine pitch. You'll need to fan them out, but it's not too bad. The 1060 series. And then, let me see what else I've got here. This is, I've got some 1051s, just like five. Maybe this is the 0.8. Oh yeah, sorry, totally different. So, you can see the difference in the BGAs. So, sorry, this is, I think this is the 0.8 pitch. Check the datasheet though. This is like 0.5 or 0.4, maybe? No, 0.5, 0.6. So, this one's gonna be a lot easier to route. Still four-layer, this one, you might not have to go with a six-layer board for that. So, nice chips. And then, let me think, what else I've got? Show off. I've got a, that's pretty much it. Okay, so you've got the QFP and then small BGA and large BGA. So, let's just go to, did you key again? And I'll show you, searching for them. So, this is the Mimx RT series. And there's lots of evaluation boards. Don't forget, you can also use a TNT to develop with these, especially the 1050, 1060 for microcontrollers. Even though, again, once you get to the 1060, it's actually kind of good enough you could run Linux on it in theory. So, there's quite a few in stock of a few different versions, the 1052, the 10106 series, couple other like, it looks like there's a few from a different family. I said the 1011 is in stock, lots of them, 1051, 1042, so 1062 is over here. So, if you are interested in playing with these, especially, you know, like I said, the 1011D, 1011C, there's also an evaluation board, RT 1011. Let's see if they have an evaluation board. I did purchase one, but I don't know if it exists anymore. Hold on, let me see what this is called. I could also be incorrect. Oh, and by the way, I think, wow, this one has a free scale logo. I guess this used to be free scale. Yeah, I have this a 1011D dev board, but it looks like it may not be available anymore, but this is what it looked like it had. Oh, sorry, can you go to the overhead? The Mimix 1010EVK. Also, you know what, maybe I'll search for 1010EVK. 1010EVK, and let me see. Oh yeah, can you, sorry, can you go to the computer? So that's what it was under. Thank you. They do have them in stock. It's called the 1010EVK, but again, comes with the 1011, less than 50 bucks, comes with, you know, debug, port, crystal, like, looks like a WM8960, so an I2S Kodak for microphone speaker, and Arduino headers. So the one I recommend to, well, pick this one up, if you're interested, but the one I'm using is the 1011D. So this is my pick for the great search. And that's a great search? That's right. Where did you get?