Product Introduction
The X8385 development board is a high-performance AIoT development board based on the MediaTek MT8385 / i500 platform. It is developed, manufactured, and sold by Shenzhen 9Tripod Innovation Technology Co., Ltd. The board consists of the X8385CV1 stamp-hole core board, baseboard, and LCD board. The core board uses a 10-layer PCB design, while the baseboard provides 100M Ethernet, CSI, DSI, UART, SPI, Micro USB, USB 2.0, SDIO, I2S, I2C, TF card, HDMI, and other interfaces. The default display is a 7-inch MIPI LCD panel.
X8385 targets AIoT, AI, industrial control, power, communications, medical, media, security, automotive, finance, consumer electronics, handheld devices, and teaching instruments.

Feature Highlights
- CPU: quad-core ARM Cortex-A73 + quad-core ARM Cortex-A53.
- Clock: A73 quad-core 2GHz + A53 quad-core 2GHz.
- Memory: 2GB / 4GB / 8GB LPDDR4, 2GB standard.
- Flash: multiple eMMC capacity options, 16GB standard.
- Three USB HOST 2.0 ports and one Micro USB OTG port; OTG is shared with USB HOST 2.0.
- Five TTL UART interfaces, one of which is the debug UART.
- One TF-card interface, one reset key, one power key, and four independent keys.
- External speaker, MIC input, headphone output, stepless backlight adjustment, and capacitive touch.
- On-board 2.4G / 5G dual-band Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, RTC, and 100M Ethernet.
- MIPI Camera, MIPI display, USB mouse, and USB keyboard support.
Specification Summary
| Item | Parameter |
|---|---|
| SoC | MediaTek MT8385 / i500 |
| CPU | 4 x Cortex-A73 2GHz + 4 x Cortex-A53 2GHz |
| GPU | Arm Mali-G72 MP3 up to 800MHz, GL ES 3.1 / Vulkan 1.0 / OpenCL ES 1.1 |
| AI | Dual-core AI processor DSP up to 500MHz |
| Memory | 2GB / 4GB / 8GB LPDDR4, 2GB standard |
| Storage | 16GB eMMC standard |
| Wireless | 2.4G / 5G Wi-Fi, BT4.2, GPS / Glonass / BeiDou / Galileo / QZSS |
| Display | MIPI DSI, default 7-inch 1024 x 600 MIPI panel, HDMI 2.0 |
| Camera | Two MIPI Camera inputs |
| Power | 12V DC input on baseboard; 3.1V to 5.25V VSYS on core board |
| Dimensions | Core board 40.5mm x 50.5mm x 3mm, 168-pin stamp-hole package |
Version Information
| Version | Date | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rev.01 | 2021-1-4 | 9Tripod | Initial version |