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Vendor Lock-In in SOM Selection
Why Ezurio built EZ BSP on open source foundations and what that means for your product roadmap
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Meet the Vela IF310 Bluetooth Classic & LE Audio Module
Refresh legacy Bluetooth designs and unlock Bluetooth Core 6.0 LE Audio in one rugged, ready module.
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Choosing the Right SOM: Why MediaTek Genio Stands Out
Find out where the MediaTek's Genio-based SOMs, Tungsten 510 and Tungsten700, differentiate.
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Demo: Developing with .NET and Android on the Nitrogen8M Plus EVK
In their demonstration, our partners at Kynetics put forward that Android has become a powerful and mature platform for embedded development – and back it up by building and deploying sample applications on our Nitrogen8M Plus via .NET Core and Maui
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Now Available: Tungsten510 SMARC with Optional Wi-Fi 6 + Bluetooth 5.4
A Robust SMARC SOM seamlessly integrating the processor and wireless capabilities of the MediaTek Genio 510 & Filogic 320 (MT7921)
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Now Available: Nitrogen8M Mini SMARC SOM
A SMARC SOM with powerful NXP edge processing based on i.MX 8M Mini processor
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Introducing the Nitrogen8M Mini SMARC SOM
Delivers multiple display, video, and audio interface options which are ideal for industrial HMI applications
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i.MX6 board running Android 4.0 ICS - Nitrogen6X
This is a demo of the Nitrogen6X running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich on an HDMI monitor. The Nitrogen6X features a multi-core ARM Cortex A9 i.MX6 processor from Freescale. The demo has a 5MP...
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Nitrogen6X running Power over Ethernet POE i.mx6 demo
This is a demo of the Nitrogen6X board driving a 7″ 1024×600 display with capacitive touch all powered by a POE injector. Power over Ethernet capability can be very advantageous in...
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i.MX53 Android 2.3 Tablet with 7" 1024x600 Display
7″ Android Tablet with outdoor readable Hitachi 1024×600 display. The tablet features i.MX53 processor from Freescale, 1GB DDR2 memory, 16GB eMMC, 1D Barcode scanner from Motorola,...
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Come see Boundary Devices i.MX7 and i.MX6 Quad PLUS Demos at Embedded World
Come see Ezurio (formerly Boundary Devices)' recently announced Nitrogen7 and Nit6QP_MAX boards at Embedded World in the NXP booth. The Nitrogen7 is a multi-purpose i.MX7 single board...
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Deliver Maximum Flexibility with New BT900-US Intelligent USB Dongle
Laird recently announced a new member to the BT900 Series, the BT900-US, an intelligent BTv4.0 dual-mode dongle for Classic Bluetooth and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE). The dongle is designed to simply...
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Lollipop's Sweet Enterprise Security Features
By Natalie Sheerer, Applications Engineer I Android's latest 5.0 release, Lollipop, might be Google's most ambitious update yet and the new features don't just benefit the consumer. Updates to...
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U-Boot USB Mass Storage gadget
Thanks to the efforts of many in the U-Boot community, the upcoming v2014.07 release of U-Boot for our boards will include a new feature: the USB Mass Storage Gadget , or ums . Since this feature...
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New BL600 Android Toolkit App
This week, Laird released the BL600 Toolkit App, the first of several Android applications in development. The app includes a heart rate monitor, blood pressure monitor, temperature sensor, and...
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LSR Announces the Addition of SmartPhone/Tablet Application Development Group for iOS and Android Devices to Product Development Services Group
CEDARBURG, WI (September 6, 2013) – Bill Steinike, president of LSR is excited to announce that in addition to being a leading provider of wireless product development, including RF design, EMC...
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New Bluetooth APIs to Foster Growth of BLE Devices
By: Jordan Manser, Marketing Intern In our recent blog post, Google Staff Discusses Bluetooth Low Energy , we discussed Google’s announcement of upcoming Android support for Bluetooth Low...
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Google Staff on Bluetooth Low Energy
Google recently announced upcoming Android support for Bluetooth Smart Ready and Bluetooth Smart devices. According to the press release , the native Android support for Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)...
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Google Announces Android Support for BLE
Google recently announced upcoming Android support for Bluetooth Smart Ready and Bluetooth Smart devices. According to the press release , the native Android support for Bluetooth Low Energy...
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Can Microsoft Rebound in the Mobile Computer Space?
A few years ago, nearly every mobile computer ran a version of Windows®, with handheld computers running Windows CE or Windows Mobile, and forklift-mounted computers running Windows XP or Windows 7...
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New Android Support Announced for 40 Series Radio Modules
40 Series radio modules now offer support for Android 2.3 Gingerbread®. The same enterprise-grade feature set is available on both Windows® Embedded and Android®. That feature set includes: ...
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What OS Is Best for a Medical Device?
According to Alan Cohen, the director of systems engineering at Logic PD®, Android® is a good operating system - OS - choice for some medical devices. Cohen’s column in Medical Electronics...
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U-Boot conventions for i.MX6 (Nitrogen6X and SabreLite)
A little convention make things easy to use, but only if you know the convention.In this blog post, we'll explain three key environment variable conventions used on the Nitrogen6X (and Sabre Lite...
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Booting into your own application on Android
Here's another favorite for fixed-point Android users. How do we skip the home screen and go directly into our own custom application on system start? Once again, this is an easy change...
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i2c-tools under Android
While working with a multi-touch display under Android recently, I had some questions about what data was being received from the touch screen, which is connected to our Nitrogen53 board over...
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Disabling sleep mode on Android
Android's user-focused, touchscreen-driven interface lends itself well to fixed-point applications such as kiosks and control panels. However, since it was originally designed for mobile...
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Set Android default orientation to portrait mode
The default screen orientation for the Android-ready Nitrogen and Nitrogen53 is landscape. That's fine for most people, but say you want it in portrait. Or upside down, or whatever. That's a...
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Camera subsystem overview for i.MX Gingerbread
That's kind of how I felt as a naive software intern thumbing through the vast amount of information in the Android source code. There's a lot to take in: Android covers an enormous set of use...
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How to write an Android camera app
Now that we've covered the internals , we can talk a little about how the surface application should look. As a reference we'll use the AOSP's own default Camera app; you can find the source here...
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Linux kernel 2.6.35 for i.MX51/i.MX53
Just a quick note: we've integrated and validated the latest BSP from Freescale on both i.MX51 and i.MX53.Our kernel patches are in branch boundary-imx-android-r9.4 of our git repository and...
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Android Froyo release 9.2 for i.MX
Freescale's moving fast on the Android front. It appears that our blog posts are a couple of versions behind.Release 9.1 from Freescale included a large number of fixes and enhancements: Add...
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Boot scripts for Nitrogen (i.MX51)
In earlier blog posts, e-mails, and the fledgling Nitrogen User's Manual we've described the setup of the U-Boot variables bootcmd and bootargs for particular use cases. Because changing these...
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i.MX51 kernel compilation in four easy steps
Step 1: Get a toolchain that supports Cortex-A8.We suggest using Codesourcery because they did the heavy lifting for Cortex-A8. They also provide very nice packages in both free and...
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Using Buildroot on Nitrogen
And now for something completely different . In prior posts, we've covered some of the basic steps involved in using Desktop-oriented distributions such as Ubuntu and Debian and the Android...
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Camera driver example code
In my previous post, I promised a sample program for the camera driver, and you can now find it in our git repository .The sample program is camera_to_fb2 and is compilable both under Android and...
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Android WLAN – the rest of the story
R.I.P. Paul Harvey .It seems I was a bit naive when calling the WLAN updates completes in my earlier blog post. While the previous post did show the process of getting and installing the driver, and...
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Tweaking Froyo for Nitrogen Part 3: housekeeping and custom WLAN
So far in this series of posts on Froyo, we've mostly ignored the fact that the Nitrogen board isn't a Freescale Babbage board. We generally have fewer stock peripherals and have left the...
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Tweaking Froyo for Nitrogen Part 1: touch support
If you walked through the steps from the previous post, you'll now have a semi-working Froyo release. You should see the Android desktop, but if you're running on a 7" Chi Mei panel, you'll have some...
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Tweaking Froyo for Nitrogen Part 2: sound and media
In my previous post, I walked through the process of configuring touch support, so the system is now usable. You should be able to load up the settings pages to change the screen brightness and...
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Froyo on Nitrogen-E
Froyo for i.MX51 has arrived!We've been waiting for the Froyo release from Freescale to enable our efforts in Android integration, and the wait is now over. Freescale's imx-android-r9 release is...