How to boot imx using ramdisk
This post explains how to load a ramdisk on iMX boards. The initrd and initramfs are two ways for achieving this. This tutorial approaches only the initrd (...
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Andres Lopez de Vergara
System Controller Unit (SCU) Introduction for i.MX 8QXP MEK
The newly released i.MX 8QXP introduces a new concept for manipulating resource allocation, power, clocking and IO configuration and muxing. Due to the archi...
i.MX 8QXP MEK launch and preview
The i.MX 8QXP MEK is the latest release from NXP’s i.MX 8 family. This is the most powerful i.MX to date and promises capabilities directed to the industrial...
MikroE RELAY Click board enablement on WaRP7
The WaRP7 IO board includes a mikroBUS connector which allows a large amount of Click boards to interact with the i.MX7S chip. This post discusses the enable...
MikroE REED Click board enablement on WaRP7
The WaRP7 IO board includes a mikroBUS connector which allows a large amount of Click boards to interact with the i.MX7S chip. This post discusses the enable...
WaRP7 user guide v1_2 released
A new release of the WaRP7 user guide has been made available on the WaRP7 GitHub repository.
WaRP7 possible brick and solution
It can be the case that the user partition on the WaRP7 is unlocked. Burning an image that doesn’t contain U-Boot into the eMMC while on this state erases th...
IMX7D configuration with legacy IMXEBOOKDC3
The i.MX7D SDB board can be purchased from NXP with a IMXEBOOKDC4 expansion board for E-ink prototyping.
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WaRP7 launch and preview
WaRP7 is a project from NXP in conjunction with Element14. The idea behind WaRP7 is to speed the development of Internet of Things(IoT) and wearable devices ...
Breno Matheus Lima
Understanding how to burn eFuses on i.MX8 and i.MX8x families
On the i.MX8 and i.MX8x families the OTP (One Time Programmable) memory is part of the security subsystem and is controlled by the SCU (System Controller Uni...
How to boot Kernel and access root file system from the network
This tutorial explains how to load a Kernel image using TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol) and access a root file system located your host PC through the ...
Interacting with i.MX6UL EVK sensors
The imx6ulevk baseboard includes the following NXP sensors connected to the I2C1 bus.
Setting boot configuration on i.MX
Boot configuration
Burning eFuses on i.MX6 and i.MX7
Burning eFuses
Running Netflix on iMX6 Android Marshmallow
This post explains how to setup Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow and install Netflix on i.MX6 boards. It covers all the required steps to prepare a android SD card,...
Avoiding binder issue on android pre-built image
When working with pre-built Android images you may face the binder issue, this post shows a workaround to avoid this error by changing to a non-secure boot. ...
Enabling and use cases for WaRP7 sensors
WaRP7 daughter card includes 3 NXP sensors:
Daiane Angolini
How to use UUU to flash the iMX boards
UUU is the next version of MFGTools, a tool used to load the software on the RAM or flash it to a list of boot media supported by several i.MX boards. UUU is...
How to dump the SDCard content to an image file
This post shows a way to dump the content of a booting SDCard to an image file with purpose of duplicating the SDCard or sharing its image.
How to inspect OpenEmbedded kickstart wic files
The disk image format used in the Yocto Project is wic. Follow this link to understand what it is and its history. In addition to the complete manual.
How to install apt-get to the Yocto Project image
This post brings the step-by-step on how to configure an Yocto Project image to get apt-get installed in your development machine.
The Linux L4.9.11_1.0.0 RFP(GA) IMX Release
The Linux L4.9.11_1.0.0 RFP/GA release is available on .
How to install a lot of gstreamer ugly plugins
Are you in a hurry and need to install every ugly plugin in yocto? Don’t think twice.
How to create a Debian image to iMX 6Quad SABRE-SD
Prepare the host machine installing the following packages:
Audio loopback between two imx using USB UAC2
UAC can be used to transfer audio using the USB connection. This tutorial shows in 5 command lines how to get a loopback to hear the microphone from one imx ...
The Linux L4.1.15_2.0.0_GA release
The Linux L4.1.15_2.0.0 GA release is available on www.nxp.com.
WaRP7 Linux Kernel status including upstream
We have been working to code and upstream as much WaRP7 features as we can. Currently we are working on a 3 different Linux Kernel source code repositories, ...
WaRP7 supported on Yocto Project by meta-fsl-arm-extra
WaRP7 is supported in Yocto Project since Krogoth, but now it uses the kernel from linux-warp7 by default. Of course, it’s also available on master branch.
Install SDL devel
When working with imx-4.1.15-1.0.0_ga you may face the following error
The machine imx6ul-pico-hobbit is now supported in the Yocto Project!
The imx6ul-pico-hobbit board is defined by TechNexion here and by Wandboard.org here
David DiCarlo
Profiling iMX Application Power Consumption with Kinetis
Measuring the power consumed by i.MX application processor in a system does not necessarily require fancy, multi-thousand dollar tools. This article details ...
Diego Dorta
Creating Qt Application for iMX
The following tutorials provide sample guides to develop Qt Applications for running on i.MX platform.
How to decrease boot time on iMX6
This tutorial shows how to decrease boot time on a NXP i.MX6 Sabre SD using Falcon mode. The Kernel used is the 4.8 linux stable version.
Booting i.MX6 under one second
I’m running the NXP i.MX6Q SDB using U-Boot Falcon mode to reduce booting time. I currently managed to boot a complete Linux image up to the login prompt in ...
Fabio Estevam
Decoding video with a mainline kernel on i.MX6
The i.MX6 processors contain a Video Processing Unit (VPU) that allows video decoding and encoding to be done in hardware.
Running QT5.9 with mainline kernel on mx6sabresd board
In embedded systems it is very common to have an LCD that shows a graphical interface to the user.
Running kmscube with Etnaviv on mx6sabresd board
The Etnaviv developers have made outstanding progress making it possible to run 3D graphics applications on i.MX6 with mainline kernel and standard open sour...
Using the imx_usb_loader tool
The imx_usb_loader tool is a very helpful utility that allows to download and execute code on NXP i.MX5/i.MX6/i.MX7 and Vybrid SoCs through the Serial Downl...
Booting a single image on different mx6sabresd boards
The traditional way in U-Boot to build for the different mx6sabreboard variants is like this:
Using UUID to specify the root file system location
In embedded systems it is common to store the root file system in a SD card or eMMC type of media. Typically the kernel command line has something like: root...
Marcelo Macedo
How to run and debug the Cortex-M4 on i.MX 7ULP using IAR Embedded Workbench
This post covers the required steps to setup the MCUXpresso BSP and IAR toolchain to run and debug the Cortex-M4 on the i.MX 7ULP SoC.
Marco Antonio Franchi
How to use dual display on i.MX8 including 4k decoding
In this first post about i.MX 8M SoCs, you can check how easy is to use one or two HDMI displays and decoding 4k video file at 60fps in the i.MX 8MQ EVK.
MikroE Air Quality Click Board on i.MX7D
This tutorial shows how to use the Air Quality Click board on the i.MX 7Dual SABRE-SD and its mikroBUS compatible socket.
Gateworks plugin RTSP variable is supported on Yocto Community now
Recently was shared a post explaining how to use gstreamer1.0-rtsp-server package on i.MX6DL/Q SABRE-SD to stream video files and camera using RTSP protocol.
H.264 GStreamer pipelines examples for non-VPU SoCs - Part 2 stream
This post shows some GStreamer pipelines examples for video streaming using H.264 on non-VPU boards.
H.264 GStreamer pipelines examples for non-VPU SoCs - Part 1 playback
This post shows some GStreamer pipelines examples for ramping you up on using H.264 on non-VPU SoCs.
i.MX 6DL/Q SABRE-SD RTSP video and camera stream
This article shows how to use the open source gstreamer1.0-rtsp-server package on i.MX6DL/Q SABRE-SD to stream video files and camera using RTSP protocol. It...
MikroE NFC Click Board on i.MX7D
This tutorial guides on setting up and running the NFC Demo App using the PN7120 NFC Click board with the i.MX 7Dual SABRE-SD and its mikroBUS socket compati...
How to add DT support for a driver
The platform device scheme has been extensively used to describe hardware platforms. But its main disadvantage is the need to instantiate each device by code...
How to use OV5640 with i.MX 6UltraLite EVK
The i.MX 6UltraLite EVK kernel release includes the parallel camera OV5640 support by default. However, depending on the base board revision, this camera mig...
How to use HDMI output on i.MX 6SoloX SABRE-SD
The i.MX 6SoloX SABRE-SD supports the parallel Seiko WVGA LCD by default. However, there is also a HDMI Port Card expander board that provides HDMI output. T...
Encoding and decoding H.264 without VPU
There are SoCs such as i.MX6UL and i.MX7D that do not have VPU to accelerate video encoding or decoding. However, there are GStreamer plugins capable of enco...
VPU H.264 transcoding streamer
This article shows how to use the i.MX6DL/Q to transcode and stream videos on 1080i/p @ 24fps and 720p @ 30fps. For this test, we used one i.MX6DL as server ...
Pierre-jean Texier
How to use the meta-warp7-distro
This article is intented to present and explain how to work with the meta-warp7-distro, which is a new dedicated DISTRO layer for the WaRP7.
Rogerio Pimentel da Silva
How to build Yocto SDK and compile for i.MX
The first step is to create the Yocto SDK. After building an image (e.g. bitbake fsl-image-gui), build the Yocto SDK using the command:
Vanessa Ayumi Maegima
Enabling Cortex-M4 on i.MX 8QXP MEK
The i.MX 8QuadXPlus Multisensory Enablement Kit (MEK) is a NXP development platform based on Cortex A-35 + Cortex-M4 cores. Built with high-level integration...
i.MX 7ULP possible fix for U-Boot hang on “Starting kernel”
Sometimes when working with i.MX 7ULP the Cortex-A7 loading process can get stuck in the “Starting kernel” message. This can happen for many reasons, but a v...
i.MX 7ULP Heterogeneous Architecture and Different Boot Modes
The i.MX 7ULP is an heterogeneous SoC that presents a power domain architecture different than the other i.MX SoCs. In this architecture, both cores have con...
How to build and flash a bootable image for Cortex-M4 on i.MX 7ULP
The i.MX 7ULP processor aims on reduced power consumption (Ultra Low Power) and for this reason its architecture is a bit different than the other i.MX proce...
The imx7d-pico board is now supported in FSL Community BSP
The imx7d-pico is a TechNexion board defined here. It is now supported in meta-freescale-3rdparty in the master branch.
The imx7d-pico board is now supported in Buildroot
The imx7d-pico is a TechNexion board defined here. It is now supported by Buildroot in the next branch.
Multicore communication on WaRP7 using Remote Processor Messaging bus (RPMsg)
The Remote Processor Messaging (RPMsg) is a messaging bus that allows the communication between cores in a multicore processor.
How to measure power consumption in i.MX applications
This post is intended to show a method to determine the power consumption in i.MX boards and to share some relevant information about this topic, such as ope...