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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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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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Don’t I need Linux?
With the latest System-on-Chip (SoC) technologies, the complexity of Wi-Fi has been pushed into the wireless module, allowing developers to focus on their application data instead of designing a...
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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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Addressing Security Concerns in Linux Software
In the past weeks a few vulnerabilities have been published that apply to the code components used on Laird’s WB line of products. While these vulnerabilities do not pose a large threat to us,...
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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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Shellshock 101: What you should know about the “Bash bug”
By Steve deRosier, Systems Engineer III Let's get this out of the way first: Laird Embedded Wireless Solutions' Linux Wireless Bridge modules (WB40 and WB45) are in no way affected by the new...
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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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U-Boot 2014.01
We're about to start shipping U-Boot version 2014.01 in production on our i.MX6 boards. This release contains over 68000 new lines of code , so we won't go through all of the details, but wanted to...
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u-boot-2013-10-release/
Beginning today, we'll start shipping boards with a new release of U-Boot, aligned with the 2013.10 release from main-line. A binary package is available here: u-boot-production.tar.gz If...
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Displaying a Splash Screen with U-Boot
2014-02-22: N.B. Some of this post has flaws At least with a GCC 4.7 cross compiler and the latest U-Boot sources, it is necessary to align bitmaps on a memory address with an offset of an odd...
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LSR announces availability of BeagleBone Cape with TiWi-BLE™ or TiWi5™
CEDARBURG, WI (January 7, 2013) – LSR today announced availability of the BeagleBone Cape with TiWi-BLE™ or TiWi5™, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth® 2.1+EDR, Bluetooth low energy (BLE) 4.0, FCC / IC / CE...
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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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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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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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Barcode input to the Qt Webkit browser
In our previous post we described how you could hook up a magnetic stripe reader to the Qt Webkit browser using the Qt Webkit Bridge and a relatively simple set of C++ code.This approach of using...
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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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Magnetic stripe driver for Linux GPIO
For those of you working with Neuron insertion-style, single-track card readers, there is a driver available here on the 2.6.35 branch of our kernel repository. The driver performs stripe decoding...
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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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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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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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Customizing U-Boot on i.MX
Many of our customers have needs at the boot loader level that differ slightly from our standard releases.Some choose to track these changes in their own version control systems and periodically pull...
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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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U-Boot display support on i.MX51
At long last, the boundary20100817 branch of our U-Boot tree has support for text and graphics output on up to two displays. Operating system support Eventually, you'll be able to configure the...
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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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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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Going serial (eeprom)
The i.MX51 has a very flexible bootstrap scheme, driven by an internal ROM and fuses. It can boot directly from USB, serial (RS-232), serial EEPROM, NAND flash and SD cards.Early versions of the...
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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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Debian in more depth: adding touch support
There are two options for touchscreen support in X-Windows: xserver-xorg-input-evtouch - Touchscreen-Driver for X.Org/XFree86 serverxserver-xorg-input-tslib - tslib touchscreen driver for...
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Debian quick start for Nitrogen boards
So you want to run Debian on a Nitrogen board.Thanks to the efforts of the top-notch Debian ARM team, this is really painless. The instructions I'll list below use the 'netboot' armel image along...
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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...