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      we are doing the flat design with imx6ul with 2 RAMs(MT41K512M8DA-107P). So how can i configure this in barebox source. is any reference is available with 2 RAMs?

Oftentimes, developing an end application is like a scary game of maze. One can easily get lost in its winding paths lined with unseen twists and obstacles. A wrong choice can lead you to start all over again, making the journey grim, and the goal out of reach.

For developers, the challenges are real and huge, turning the development process into a difficult chase to fulfill performance and time to market objectives while achieving customer expectations as well.

From prototype, integration to development, there are a multitude of bottlenecks lurking in every path. With so many design challenges to overcome, developers often find it hard to integrate cutting edge technologies in their end applications and optimize their designs with the best performance and features.

QNX is a Unix-like Real Time Operating System primarily developed for safety and mission critical embedded systems and includes the following unique features;

Microkernel architecture

• Dynamically upgradable services and applications
• Fine-grained fault isolation and recovery
• Message-passing design for modular, well-formed systems

Instrumented microkernel

•  System-wide performance analysis and optimization
•  Fast detection of timing conflicts, hidden faults, etc.

EmSA recently released some updates to FAIM support on LPC84x devices in their popular Flash Magic tool. If you are using this unique feature of the LPC84x device series be sure to update to version 12.65 or later to get access to command line support and the latest fixes for some previous bogus errors/warnings that were appearing.

Our MCUXpresso SDK is expanding to include more and more graphics examples, including LittleVGL and emWIN support for SPI-based LCDs. The examples we provide can be ported to different controllers, but are based/tested on a shield from Adafruit (product ID:1947) with an ILI9341 TFT controller and FT6206 cap touch controller. Adafruit have released different versions of this shield; early ones (marked as v2.3) work out of the box with NXP's boards, but later versions (that don't have a version number!) need a couple of simple modifications.

NXP provides MCUXpresso SDKs that are configured for use with our standard evaluation boards. These can be used when carrying out your initial evaluation of our MCUs and early development work. However, in most cases you will reach the point of having your own development or production board. This will mean modifying the pins, clocks and other configuration settings from the evaluation board originally used, generally using the MCUXpresso Config Tools, to match your own board. This will initially be done on a per-project basis.

We are pleased to announce that Config Tools for i.MX Application Processors v7 are now available.

The Config Tools for i.MX is a set of configuration tools that provide an efficient method
for evaluation and configuration of pins routing and DDR memory settings when designing
with NXP's application processors based on Arm® Cortex®-A cores, including i.MX MPUs.

We are pleased to announce that MCUXpresso Secure Provisioning Tool v1 is now available.

MCUXpresso Secure Provisioning Tools is a graphical user interface (GUI) tool covering the secure boot
process, aimed primarily at microcontroller customers. It provides unified GUI front-end over existing
command-line tools - FlashLoader, elftosb, blhost, cst.

NXP's MCUXpresso Software and Tools has expanded to include a new Secure Provisioning Tool, support for integrated third software solutions and has major improvements in the user experience for software selection. This newly updated suite further augments the easy-to-use SDK, IDE and Configuration Tools for streamlined development with Arm® Cortex®-M cores, including NXP’s LPC and Kinetis MCUs and the  i.MX RT Crossover Processors. A (comprehensive) list of supported devices can be found in the MCUXpresso community here: https://community.nxp.com/docs/DOC-333073

MCUXpresso software and tools bring together the best of NXP’s software enablement (core technologies) and integrated solutions from select partners (enabling technologies) into one enablement ecosystem for a shared software experience across a broad set of Arm® Cortex®-M MCUs.

New versions of MCUXpresso SDK, IDE, and Configuration Tools are now available, along with a new Secure Provisioning Tool.

We are pleased to announce that MCUXpresso Config Tools v7 are now available.

MCUXpresso Configuration Tools is a product with set of tools that help users of all levels with a Cortex-M-based MCU solution.

Features

• Available as Web, Desktop application and MCUXpresso IDE plug-ins
• MCUXpresso SDK v2 support
• Multicore support
• GUI localized for English and Simplified Chinese
• On-Demand device data download for latest features and support
• Integrated directly within MCUXpresso IDE, standalone version supports other compilers and IDEs

• Currently there are the following tools available

We are pleased to announce that MCUXpresso IDE v11.1.0 (build 3209) is now available. This is a major new version of the IDE, and contains many new features and enhancements over the previous MCUXpresso IDE v11.0.1 and earlier releases.

The 5V KE MCU series has been designed to maintain high reliability and robustness in harsh electrical noise environments primarily targeting white goods and industrial applications, but now extending its success to consumer applications where touch sensing, safety and motor control capabilities have become a “must have” in the embedded design. 

NXP understands that in addition to offering breakthrough innovations its ongoing investment and commitment to longevity is critical to being your trusted supplier. This paired with the continued demand and broad market use of NXP’s MCU portfolio makes it priority for us to extend the longevity¹ on the following parts/families by an additional five years.

More products today include graphical user interfaces than ever before, and consumers have a growing expectation that they be visually appealing and intuitive to use. Luckily, NXP and its partners make the process of adding a GUI of any level of complexity to your product seamless.

Announced in October, the i.MX RT1170 is NXP’s latest break-through technology within the i.MX RT series of Crossover MCUs.  What makes the i.MX RT1170 so cutting edge?

开发板是imx8M mini，我们自己做的板子，使用官方镜像yocto 4.14.98，OV5640 mipi摄像头，验证及其测试：

root@imx8mmevk:~# uname -a
Linux imx8mmevk 4.14.98-imx_4.14.98_2.0.0_ga+g5d6cbea #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Dec 12 08:23:58 UTC 2019 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux

我这里用的是I2C4的接口，所以设备树修改arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/fsl-imx8mm-evk.dts

Based on the ultra-low-power Arm® Cortex ®-M0+ Core the LPC800 MCU series offers a range of memory, small footprint and low-pin options for basic microcontroller applications. By being fully compatible with the Cortex-M architecture and instruction set, this series efficiently handles 32-bit data, requiring less code, memory and 30% less dynamic power outperforming 8- and 16-bit MCUs.

The next generation of machine interfaces is here. As embedded technology evolves, NXP continues to innovate with technologies like cloud-based/local voice control and face recognition for secure access/authentication. Resources for these technologies are abundant, but how can NXP continue to offer an efficient, easy, and quick path to development for people who do not want to reinvent the wheel? How do we make it easier to innovate?

Enter NXP’s turnkey, production-grade IoT ML/AI edge computing solutions. NXP provides the option of an integrated approach to development, with solutions that include out-of-box hardware, software, schematics, layouts, documentation, certifications, and BOMs to enable developers to add sensor-based capabilities into their design easily and quickly. The advantage is a faster time to market with the ability to leverage popular services like the Alexa Voice Service for AWS IoT Core Integration or compute completely offline when it comes to face recognition, for instance. 

A lot of discussion recently has been around the i.MX RT1010 crossover MCU -and why not?  It is the latest and greatest achievement for high-end crossover MCUs.  But, you probably noticed that the i.MX RT1010 MCU left off some features in order to keep the cost low.  So, what if you need a high performance MCU with all the bells and whistles?

The LPC5500 MCU series, world’s first Arm® Cortex®-M33 based MCU series for the mass market, has introduced new levels of performance efficiency, advanced security and functionality in the MCU space. With up to 150Mhz of core frequency (dual-core options included), 32uA/MHz of active power consumption, and tightly couple accelerators for signal processing and cryptography, the LPC5500 MCU series has become a key player in consumer electronics, building control and automation, secure applications and Industrial IoT markets.

Launched in October, the i.MX RT1010 crossover MCU further expands NXP’s popular i.MX RT series and introduces the world to the next generation of low-cost, high-performance MCUs.

Building upon the market success and broad adoption of the Kinetis MCU portfolio, the K32 L3 MCU family leverages the combination of high-efficiency and low-power capabilities of the Arm® Cortex®-M4 while adding another Cortex-M0+ providing new enhancements such as low-leakage power-optimized peripherals, a DC-DC converter, numerous serial communication interfaces and up to 1.25MB flash and 384KB of SRAM memory.  

Focusing on low-power and fast wake up times, the K32 L2 MCU family – based on the Arm® Cortex®-M0+ - targets power-conscious end nodes and can enable a wide range of general purpose industrial and IoT applications. Today, the K32 L2 MCU family is being brought to market in a scalable set of packages, core performance and memory configurations, from 64KB to 512KB flash, and backed by unmatched enablement, led by NXP’s complementary suite of MCUXpresso software and tools with example projects utilizing IAR, Keil, and GCC based toolchains.

Innovation means being first. And with more than 20 years of firsts, NXP’s MCU portfolio has grown into a powerhouse of more than 200 Arm®-based MCU families scaling from low-power Cortex®-M0+ to high performance Cortex®-M7 crossover MCUs.

MCUXpresso IDE is currently supported on macOS 10.12 to 10.14.

In macOS 10.15 (Catalina), Apple have introduced a new additional "signing" mechanism for software that is download outside of the Apple App Store, know as "Notarization". Currently MCUXpresso IDE for macOS is signed using NXP's Apple Developer ID, but has not yet gone through Apple's notarization process. This means that by default you will not be able to install if you are running macOS 10.15.

Have you ever checked your smartphone or your IoT device and received an alert for software updates? All you have to do is to simply accept the update when you have the network connectivity and the rest will be taken care of automatically by the software. Isn’t it simply amazing to be able to refresh your device, no matter where you are in the world? This update process is widely known as OTA (over the air).

OTA is a technology that manages software and lets you wirelessly upgrade the operating system/files of your platform.

As part of the MCUXpresso IDE v11.0.1 release, we had to make some major changes to our LinkServer debugging mechanism to support the latest silicon revision of the LPC55xx family of devices (revision 1B) and the more secure debug request mechanism required by these parts. Such silicon is supplied on LPC55S69-EVK boards marked Revision A2 (or later) on the board silkscreen.

iWave systems recently launched a new SMARC System on Module (SOM) based on the powerful NXP® i.MX 8QuadMax applications processors. This high performance SOM features an intelligent blend of MPUs+MCU power in a single device and integrates heterogeneous multicore 64 bit ARM® processors (Dual Cortex® A72@ 1.8 GHz + Quad Cortex® A53 @ 1.2 GHz and Dual Cortex® -M4F @ 266 MHz), targeted for applications that demand advanced real-time processing, multi-media performance as well as in applications that requires simultaneous multi-OS operations. For more details refer to the link: i.MX8 QuadMax NXP SMARC SOM

Today I conclude my countdown of top reasons to use i.MX RT1010, and I wanted to end the blog series in the same way that it began – by talking about how to get started. It is has been  2 weeks since my first post, so hopefully by now you have found the $10.10 in your couch cushion to order your i.MX RT1010 EVK. Maybe you even already have the EVK on your desk and followed the instructions on the Getting Started webpage which leads you to download the software and tools. But what is MCUXpresso and how much does it cost?