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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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Integrating an External Arducam Camera with the Nitrogen95 SMARC SOM
Learn how Ezurio can help integrate external cameras easily to your design
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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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Precision Distance Measurement With Bluetooth Channel Sounding
At Embedded World 2026, Ezurio's VP of Product Management Jonathan Kaye offered a keynote on the exciting technical case of Bluetooth Channel Sounding with multiple antenna support. It offers...
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Community Spotlight: ZAPHOD – Open-Source AT Command Firmware for BLE Modules
ZAPHOD is a new open-source AT Command firmware specifically designed for Bluetooth LE modules.
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Partnerships Combine - Ezurio’s Silicon Labs BT / LoRaWAN Modules + Zephyr!
Ezurio’s partnerships give our customers more silicon choice and more ways to develop their innovations. Now, our software and hardware partnerships combine, resulting in greater support for Zephyr on our Silicon Labs-based modules.
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Choosing the Right Edge AI Platform: 6 Specs That Actually Matter
When building vision AI at the edge, specs like TOPS aren’t enough. Here are six platform features that determine real-world performance and scalability.
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Now In Stock: BL54L10 Series Bluetooth LE + 802.15.4 + NFC
Experience a new pinnacle of flexibility, performance, efficiency, and security with our new BL54L10 series, built on Nordic Semiconductor's powerful nRF54 silicon.
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Nitrogen SMARC SOMs: NXP Based Connected SOMs Now Available with NXP Wi-Fi 6
Largest lineup of SMARC SOMs with NXP processor and NXP Wi-Fi 6 - only from Ezurio
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Smarter, Faster, Connected: Platform Integration for Smart Building Edge Devices
Smart building devices must combine real-time control, wireless, and lifecycle management in compact, low-power form factors. This application study explores how a single platform approach addresses RF complexity, thermal constraints, and long-term software support at the edge.
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Ensuring Compliance with EN18031 and RED: Our Commitment to Cyber Security Resiliency
We have undertaken a structured approach to ensure that our products meet the EN18031 requirements under RED-DA 2022/30.
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Understanding EU Commission Implementation of Decision (EU) 2025/138 - New Harmonized Standards and Restrictions
In this post, Ezurio breaks down the EU's new amendment to RED Implementation Decision (EU) 2022-2191, which adds harmonized standards and restrictions to EN 18031-1:2024, EN 18031-2:2024, and EN 18031-3:2024.
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Full-Solution HMI Systems Across Industries
HMIs face critical challenges, from maintaining stable connectivity to selecting and integrating the right components for optimal performance in fast-paced industries.
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Ensuring Reliable Wi-Fi Performance in Buildings
As building automation systems become more reliant on IoT devices, managing network congestion, energy demands, and security threats has become critical.
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Solving Connectivity Challenges in Quick-Serve Restaurants
Network congestion and connectivity issues are common challenges faced by Quick-Serve Restaurants. Learn how the Nitrogen8M Plus SMARC can streamline customer service and future-proof your technology.
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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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Enhancing Efficiency in Factories with SOMs and Expert Support
Streamline your facilities success with expert guidance for SOM integration, providing top-tier connectivity, compliance, and faster time to market.
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From Handhelds to Slots: Tungsten510 SMARC's Role in Gaming Evolution
Discover how the Tungsten510 SMARC module and its unmatched performance, stunning visuals, and smart AI-driven features are used in the gaming and casino industry.
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Laird Connectivity is Now Ezurio
Unveiling Ezurio: A New Chapter in Connectivity Excellence
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Now Available: Lyra 24 USB
A next-generation Bluetooth LE USB adapter for advanced IoT device development.
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The Value Behind “Made in the USA”
Our new USA-based manufacturing in Irvine, CA is a pledge for not only top of the line quality, but additional benefits to our customers.
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Now Available: New Sub-GHz Antennas Join the FlexPIFA and i-FlexPIFA Families
Peel-and-stick PIFA antennas including standard and inverted mounting options with support for 868MHz and 915MHz
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Future Proofing Your Industrial or Commercial Device Platform
Find out how SOMs, like the NXP i.MX-based solutions from Laird Connectivity address wired and wireless applications. This includes the Summit Suite security solutions offering that provides advanced security to connected systems.
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Coming Soon: New Sub-GHz Antennas Join the FlexPIFA and i-FlexPIFA Families
Peel-and-stick PIFA antennas including standard and inverted mounting options with support for 868MHz and 915MHz frequency bands.
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Introducing the i-FlexPIFA – Inverted Flexible PIFA Antenna
The i-FlexPIFA brings new mount options to our popular line of FlexPIFA antennas, providing additional options for OEMs integrating internal antennas.
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How to Speed Your Bluetooth LE Design to Mass Production
Don’t be fooled – wireless product design is not easy. It can be a time consuming, expensive, and iterative process to get the maximum performance and reliability out of your next-generation...
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Faster, Bigger, Smarter, and Even More Indispensable
The Wi-Fi Alliance has launched two new versions of Wi-Fi that deliver significant advancements in performance, efficiency, latency, and other key areas. Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E represent major leaps...
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Leveraging Next Generation Wi-Fi 6 For Your Embedded Applications
The focus of the presentation will be around the features introduced to the connectivity space by Wi-Fi 6 and how they can be leveraged in the embedded electronics space. Wi-Fi 6 has been promoted...
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Now Available: 5G CFD MIMO DAS Antenna Series
Ultra Low-Profile Ceiling Mount 5G Antennas for Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS) We are pleased to announce that the new CFD 5G two-port MIMO DAS antennas series is now available. This the latest...
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4 Benefits of Made in America Electronics Manufacturing with Boundary Devices
Electronics manufacturing is a key part of Ezurio (formerly Boundary Devices) value proposition. We have always manufactured our products in America. Historically, we worked with 2 key...
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FRAG ATTACK: Putting the pieces back together – Part 2
In our previous blog post on FRAG ATTACK , Ezurio discussed the threat of the vulnerability as disclosed by the Wi-Fi Alliance. In the weeks since, Ezurio has been working to understand the impact...
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Laird Connectivity Announces the Trigger Under-Dash Antenna Family with Significant Performance Advantages over Competing Technologies
Akron, Ohio – June 24th, 2021 – Laird Connectivity, THE Antenna Authority, is announcing the Trigger under-dash telematics antenna family . Offering cellular 3G/4G/5G/ISM/CBRS, Wi-Fi, and GNSS...
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No Ground Plane? No Problem.
The Gar Antenna – Excellent in No-Ground-Plane Installations In-vehicle connectivity is a logistical challenge that demands unique, custom-engineered solutions like our multi-port...
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3 Reasons NOT to use a Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry PI has changed the trajectory of embedded electronics. It has enabled thousands of new applications by providing a low cost embedded platform that is extremely well-supported by...
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What Property Owners Need to Know About FirstNet
Decades Later, a Fulfillment on a Safety Plan Nearly two decades after the 9/11 commission’s recommendations for a nationwide public safety network, FirstNet is being deployed by over...
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Introducing our New Antenna Selector Tool
Find the Perfect Fit When it comes to searching for the right antenna for your application, the degree and variety of choice can be overwhelming. At Ezurio alone, we provide over 1500...
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COVID-19 Response Update
To Our Valued Customers, I am writing to update you about how the Ezurio team is helping healthcare professionals around the world in the fight against COVID-19. I also have updates about...
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Our Four Rules for Successful Certifications
Everywhere, the Same Concerns: Cost, Time, and Support Navigating the certifications process, as we’ve discussed on this blog, is a difficult process. At its best, it requires...
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Webinar: A Simplified Approach to Bluetooth Mesh - Everything You Need to Know to Get Started
Bluetooth mesh has been one of the most anticipated features of Bluetooth, taking the technology from traditional short-range wireless deployments to large-scale device networks. Bluetooth mesh...
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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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Cloud-Connectivity Webinar
Design for Success: Elevating Your Product's Capabilities through a Cloud-Connectivity System The goal of this webinar is to walk through the elements of building a cloud-connectivity system to...
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DECT ULE
DECT ULE: What Is It and Why Use It! Presented by LSR's Director of Hardware Engineering, DSP Group and ULE Alliance, the DECT protocol overview and technical specification review covers application...
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Danfoss Power Electronics
Danfoss Power Electronics designs and manufactures inverters and power conversion equipment for industrial applications that requir anywhere from 90kW to multi-mega watt solutions. They recently...
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Case Study: Compliance Mate
Food safety compliance is more than a matter of following the law. It can also be a serious matter of health, safety, and consumer confidence for a restaurant’s customers. Since 2001,...
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How will the new FCC 14-208 changes impact testing for wireless products?
On December 30, 2014, the FCC released a report, FCC 14-208 (ET Docket No. 13-44), which includes a number of significant changes to FCC Parts 0, 1, 2, and 15 regarding authorization of RF equipment,...
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What is HTML5?
In the last few years, HTML5 has been floating around the web, being brought up in meetings everywhere and used as a catchall for “next-gen” web technologies. I’d like to offer a brief...
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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 2014.04 update release
We just posted an update to our production U-Boot to include support for the Nitrogen6 Max board. This release is still based on U-Boot 2014.04 from up-stream and consists mainly of additional...
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Enabling Secure Wireless Connections in Hospitals
Mobility in hospitals is a growing trend, resulting in an increased number of wireless medical devices in hospitals and contributes to the Connected Hospital . The Connected Hospital is a vision of...
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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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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 U-Boot Production Version
We've recently updated the version of U-Boot that we're shipping with new boards. Many new features have been added since our last production release including: USB keyboard support Splash...
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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 Expansion and Office Re-location
CEDARBURG, WI (April 12, 2013) – Due to continued growth, LSR is pleased to announce the re-location and expansion of its Fitchburg office to Madison, Wisconsin. The new and larger space is...
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DSP Group and LSR Launch DECT/ULE System on Module
Companies extend partnership from DECT to DECT ULE for new system on module, design services for Home Control, healthcare and other verticals DSP Group ® , Inc. (NASDAQ: DSPG), a leading global...
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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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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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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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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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Qt Webkit and Javascript magnetic stripe example
At Ezurio (formerly Boundary Devices), we're relative newcomers to the world of Qt, but we were somewhat surprised to learn about Nokia's decision to favor Windows CE instead of MeeGo for future...
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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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U-Boot splash screens
Buried in the blog post introducing display support for U-Boot, there are some notes about creating splash screens for the boot loader on Nitrogen boards.Using a splash screen isn't specific to...
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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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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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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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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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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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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 in more depth: setting up X-Windows and Fluxbox
This post will detail the steps needed to get a working X-Windows installation on the Debian build that we put together in my last post. In other words, I'll fill in some of the gaps between "run the...
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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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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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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...
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Centurion Wireless Technologies Assists With Hurricane Katrina Recovery Efforts
St. Louis, MO. USA (September 20, 2005) Centurion Wireless Technologies, a unit of Laird Technologies, and a leading designer and manufacturer of antennas and batteries for wireless communications,...