Data Sheet
System power
The Coral Dev Board must be powered by 2-3A at 5V DC using the USB Type-C power port (see figure 4).
Caution: Do not attempt to power the board by connecting it to your computer.
The SoM has one primary PMIC (BD71837MWV) from Rohm for the iMX8M SoC complex, LPDDR4, eMMC, and Wi-
Fi/Bluetooth. It integrates 8 DC-DC buck regulators and 7 LDOs to provide all power rails required by iMX8M SoC and
commonly used peripherals.
Boot mode
The baseboard includes 4 switches (indicated in figure 7 to control the boot mode. By default, they are set to boot from
eMMC. You can change the boot mode as follows.
Figure 7. Boot mode switches, set to boot from eMMC
Version 1.6 (July 2020)
Table 5. Boot mode switches
Boot mode Switch 1 Switch 2 Switch 3 Switch 4
Serial download Off On [Don't care] [Don't care]
eMMC On Off Off Off
SD card On Off On On
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