Step by step: load fusion fw to 8ulp flash

In this article, I'd like to share the steps to run fusion dsp fw in 8ulp, including all the issues I have encountered.

Pre-steps

To follow the steps, you will need:

• An 8ULP A1 EVK board
• 8ULP L5.15.52 image https://www.nxp.com/webapp/Download?colCode=L5.15.52_2.1.0_MX8ULP-BETA4&appType=license
• uboot and imx-mkimage
• SDK_2_12_1_EVK-MIMX8ULP_PRC4 - https://mcuxpresso.nxp.com/download/3b8a2df3ddcfce9bbe402722d28c85d9
• IAR IDE 9.30.1 - https://www.iar.com/
• Jlink V7.50 - https://www.segger.com/downloads/jlink/
• Access to Tensilica Tools - https://tensilicatools.com/download/i-mx-8ulp-fusion-dsp-sdk

The race is on

The automotive industry is being revolutionized by innovations in efficient energy management, new vehicle architectures and software-defined vehicles (SDVs).  Automakers are racing to develop new solutions, taking advantage of these paradigm shifts in the market to establish themselves as innovators and to secure competitive positioning for their products.   

Market adoption of electrified vehicles is ramping quickly, propelled by government legislation for improved efficiency and reduced carbon emissions.  Vehicle networks have become increasingly complex, and manufacturers are recognizing significant opportunities to reduce cost, vehicle weight and development cycle times by moving to domain and zonal architectures that consolidate functions into fewer electronic control units with increased processing power.  Software-defined vehicles, which take full advantage of these new vehicle architectures, will provide life-long upgrade possibilities, resulting in vehicles that improve in performance over their lifetime and enable new revenue streams for vehicle manufacturers. 

The RT685-AUD-EVK allowed me to validate my custom frontend circuitry and get started on other critical DSP software development.  I was able to connect the piezoelectric saddle pickups on my engineering guitar into the test bed via the custom daughtercard. From here I can focus on firmware in the MCU and DSP cores in the RT685. 

Please find document which is missing in the latest SDK bundle location for RT devices \docs\wireless\Release Notes.

The new S32Z and S32E automotive real-time processor families supercharge real-time vehicle compute and control applications. This article highlights how the complementary S32G vehicle network processor for service-oriented gateways, combined with the S32Z and S32E real-time processor can enable new automotive applications. Combining real-time compute with secure cloud connectivity supports advanced sensing, processing and control applications that can adapt with the life of your vehicle.

Vehicle electrical architectures are going through a transformation to achieve the consumers demand for driver assistance, electrification and service functions.  To support modern software-defined vehicles and reduce the cost of the vehicle network, and the associated wiring harness, it is being transitioned to a domain and zonal architectures (or a combination of them). While this evolution helps address the software and cost challenges, it brings other challenges, such as how to partition safety critical real time control operations, like vehicle propulsion.  

As automotive manufacturers are modernizing their vehicle networks, they are increasingly integrating related functions into a single ECU. Choosing a processor for these new ECUs is a critical task, which NXP makes easier with the new S32Z/E Real-Time Processor families

A beginner-level model example that can be implemented using NXP's Model-Based Design Toolbox. Learn how to design, build and deploy an embedded program that can run on any MCU.

The disruptive technologies of multi-gigabit Automotive Ethernet, IEEE time-sensitive networking (TSN) protocols and automotive cloud-native DevOps are coming together to enable the Software-Defined Vehicle (SDV). NXP is at the leading edge of these technology trends and recently announced the S32Z and S32E real-time processors families. 

This article lays out some of the progress on the disruptive technology front and explains how NXP plays a critical role with the launch of the S32 real-time processors by enabling the integration of vehicle-wide, real-time functions and supporting new vehicle architectures involving central compute, domain control and the zonal edge.  

This launch introduces our Smart Card Trust Provisioning Solution, bringing customers a major new capability in protecting their Software Intellectual Property (IP) and guarding against over-production and cloning.

A singular article is simply not enough to do this component justice, so I wanted to follow up and highlight some other features that make the LPC5536 unique.

The latest release of NXP's free UI design tool for LVGL is out now - GUI Guider 1.3.1 features major improvements in usability and optimization. 

Hooking up to the external world usually means that our MCUs must learn to  “speak” analog.   A high-performance analog system was added to the LPC553x family to enable more integrated, lower external component count designs.

NXP's free UI design tool for the open source LVGL graphics library continues to add great new features and capabilities. GUI Guider 1.3.0 was released on January 24th 2022 and includes exciting new widgets, more host platform support, Keil project output and Micropython.

We are pleased to announce that Config Tools for i.MX Application Processors v11 are now available.

DDR tool supports i.MX8M family and LX2160A. DDR tool is part of Config tools for i.MX offering configuration, inspection, optimization, vTSA, stressing and code generation. It can be downloaded from 

https://www.nxp.com/design/designs/config-tools-for-i-mx-applications-processors:CONFIG-TOOLS-IMX

After setting my new 16” M1Max Macbook Pro, I found some surprising results for the kernel compile time. The Ubuntu Virtual Machine on my M1 MBP compiled the i.MX Linux kernel faster than an Intel i9 3650 Dell Precision workstation running native Ubuntu. Since the comparison is a bit like apple to oranges, I tried to minimize the variables, and, I also compared an older i7 Dell Precision M4700 and a Xeon.

The SuperMonkey is here!  Come see the bring-up of an i.MX RT685 based design that uses QSPI flash connected to FlexSPI Port A.

NXP has now introduced MCU-Link Pro - the second incarnation of the MCU-Link debug probe architecture, adding several powerful capabilities and features to build on the entry level MCU-Link standalone model. This includes power/energy measurement, USB bridging and a J-Link firmware option.

NXP has released a new library, replacing LPCUSBSIO, to enable communication via USB bridges available on evaluation boards with LPC-Link2 and upcoming MCU-Link probes. User documentation and a Python wrapper are also available.

An interactive tutorial on how to create your own MATLAB Simulink temperature sensor application by applying the model-based design approach, how to configure and use the i.MXRT1060 EVK using NXP MCUXpresso, a thermistor module and the IMXRT Toolbox.

We are pleased to announce that MCUXpresso Secure Provisioning Tool v3.1 is now available.

Join this hackathon with Resideo and see what innovation awaits!

NXP's innovative MCUs, based on Arm® Cortex®-M cores and part of the EdgeVerse™ edge computing platform, continue to transform the industry landscape with increasing performance and integration, further complemented by outstanding enablement including MCUXpresso software and tools and an extensive ecosystem of partners. Get started now!

We are pleased to announce that Config Tools for i.MX Application Processors v10 are now available.

Announcement that MCUXpresso Config Tools v10 are now available.

USL：https://community.nxp.com/t5/MCUs-Community-Articles/LPC5500-MCU-Series-There-s-a-lot-under-the-hood...

由 Eli Hughes于 2020-01-21 创建的文档

在一生的大部分时间里，我热衷于编程和嵌入式微控制器。在我的职业生涯中，我积累了许多不同体系结构的经验，包括一些专门用于特定应用程序的体系结构。即使在当前专用设备市场多样化的情况下，我仍然坚持寻找最有趣的通用微控制器市场。我认为这源于我对计算机最初的热爱。这可以追溯到七年级，当我们使用Apple IIe计算机学习“计算机素养”时。在课程中，学生们学习了如何使用BASIC语言编写程序。项目涵盖了从简单图形、打印到游戏的所有内容。与此同时，我了解到，我那些玩Nintendo™的其他7年级同学的热情与计算机素养的活动有关。通过一本流行的游戏杂志，我发现为任天堂供电的芯片是为学校计算机供电的设备，即古老的“ 6502”。那是顿悟的时刻。如果CPU既可以是游戏系统又可以是文字处理器，那么它真的可以*做我想做的任何事情*。不久之后，我便开始挖掘6502的复杂细节来为我的作品提供动力。6502是我的第一个通用CPU。

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最后更新：12-05-2019 更新：Omar Cruz