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Zigbee vs. 6LoWPAN for sensor networks
Arguably, ZigBee is the most popular low-cost, low-power wireless mesh networking standard available today. Just go to the ZigBee alliance web page and you’ll get a good picture of companies...
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i.MX6 based Nitrogen6X_SOM running QNX
This is a demo of Ezurio (formerly Boundary Devices) Nitrogen6X_SOM module which is based on the multi-core ARM Cortex A9 i.mx6 processor from Freescale. The board is running a QNX demo with QT...
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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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IMX53 Board running QT in Linux on a 15" AUO Panel - Power over Ethernet
This is a demo of our Nitrogen53 board connected via LVDS to a 15″ AUO panel. The Nitrogen53 board features an IMX53 processor from Freescale. In this demo, we are running QT in Linux to...
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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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Demo: Integrating a Wi-Fi + Bluetooth Module with i.MX 6UltraLite Eval Kit on Linux
A new video demonstration for Laird’s Sterling-LWB 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi and Bluetooth module is now available. The five-part demo features the Sterling-LWB module and walks viewers through the process of...
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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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Tight deadlines for your wireless product? InHand rose to the challenge with the help of LSR's certified wireless modules.
When Freescale approached InHand Electronics , they were looking for a company to not only integrate their new Single Chip Module (SCM) microprocessor technology into a single-board computer, but to...
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Timesys Linux for i.MX6
At the end of March, Timesys announced their support of the Nitrogen6X, our latest offering in the Nitrogen series of i.MX single-board computers. Click here to read the press release ...
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Revisiting LTIB and Qt on i.MX51 and i.MX53
In a previous post , we walked through the process of building Qt using the LTIB tool, but we were a bit cavalier about the steps involved.Since that time, we've been shipping demo software based on...
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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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Qt Webkit with Proximity Smart Card (RFID) on Freescale i.MX51
In the previous two blog posts, we described how you can integrate a mag stripe reader and barcode scanner into the Qt Webkit framework by using the Qt Webkit Bridge .In this post, we'll build upon...
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i.MX5x device register access
When developing device drivers and porting code to new hardware, programmers will often operate with source code in one hand and data sheet in the other, and it's often necessary to look at the state...
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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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Debian Squeeze on i.MX51 ARM Cortex-A8 with dual monitors
Named after the aliens in the Toy Story series of movies, the latest release of Debian is a very slick piece of work.Nicely done, folks!We recently had a customer request to put together a...
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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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LTIB and Qt on i.MX51
Many thanks to the team at imxdev.org . Their notes on cross-compilation of Qt helped us greatly in walking through the process of getting Qt up and running on our Nitrogen i.MX51 board under...
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Portrait mode X-Windows on i.MX51
Sometimes this software gig is like wizarding school : you just need the right words and magic happens.I want to thank Richard Johnston for handing me this one: xrandr With the libXrandr ...
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Revisiting LTIB on i.MX5x (this time with Java)
We've recently been hearing from customers that they'd like to use the Nitrogen i.MX51 board as a Java platform, and have customers using both Ubuntu and Debian to develop their applications in Java...
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Omnivision OV5642 Camera Driver for Linux
The first release of our OV5642 camera driver for the i.MX51 is now available on branch boundary20100824 of our kernel git repository.There are still some quirks, and only three resolutions are...
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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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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...
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GPIO drivers for i.MX51 – Part 1: input
There's a lot you can do with just an input pin or two, but getting access to one from userspace can be difficult.To try and make that access simple, we put together some drivers a while ago for...
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LTIB quick start
In the post describing the Freescale GStreamer plugins , I mentioned that the source packages from Freescale such as the L2.6.31_10.04.00_ER_SOURCE tarball are centered around a tool called LTIB,...
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Building GStreamer plugins under Ubuntu
In my previous post, I described the components that comprise the Freescale GStreamer plugins for i.MX processors. In this post, I'll walk through the steps needed to actually build each of...
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Freescale GStreamer plugins
In my previous post, I showed how color-keying can be used in the Freescale mfw_v4lsink plugin, presuming that the reader knew what that was and how to apply a patch to it. Unfortunately, figuring...
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Color Keying with Freescale G-Streamer video4linux plugin
The Freescale i.MX51 has support for color-keying of the video overlay or YUV layer, exposed through the custom frame-buffer ioctl MXCFB_SET_CLR_KEY .Unfortunately, this feature appears to be...