The board integrates an Agilex 5 FPGA fabric with 138K logic elements together with a dual-cluster hard processor system that combines two Cortex-A76 and two Cortex-A55 cores. This arrangement supports both reconfigurable hardware design and software execution in a single device.
The hardware configuration is based on the RP2350B processor, which integrates dual Cortex-M33 or dual RISC-V cores operating at 150MHz. It includes 520KB of on-chip SRAM, while the external flash and optional PSRAM expand resources for more demanding applications. The BB48R variant adds a microSD slot that enables additional data handling capabilities.
The HAT connects directly to the PCIe 2.0 interface on Raspberry Pi 5 through a flex-rigid PCB, eliminating the need for a separate ribbon cable.
Coming more than three months after Kali Linux 2025.2, the Kali Linux 2025.3 release introduces Nexmon support, a “patched” firmware for certain wireless chips to extend their functionality, which finally implements monitor mode and injection mode for Raspberry Pi‘s in-built Wi-Fi.
Coming two and a half months after OBS Studio 31.1, the OBS Studio 32.0 release introduces a new plugin manager, Voice Activity Detection (VAD) support for NVIDIA RTX Audio Effects, which improves noise suppression for speech, Hybrid MOV support, and improved format selection for PipeWire video capture.
Powered by the Linux 6.12 LTS kernel series on the standard editions and a Linux 6.15 Liquorix kernel on the AHS (Advanced Hardware Support) editions, MX Linux 25 (codename Infinity) ships with the Xfce 4.20, KDE Plasma 6.3.6, and Fluxbox 1.3.7 graphical environments by default.
