INTRODUCTION REQUIREMENTS HARDWARE CONNECTIONS IMPLEMENTATION FUNCTIONAL DEMONSTRATION     1. INTRODUCTION   This document explains how to establish communication between the A9 core running Linux and the M4 core running an Arduino sketch on a UDOO NEO board to remotely control a robotic arm over Wi-Fi.   Figure 1: UDOO NEO board connected to the robotic arm   For more information about getting started with UDOO NEO board please refer to: Introduction - UDOO Neo Docs     2. REQUIREMENTS a) UDOO NEO board with UDOObuntu image and proper connectivity. The Linux image used is UDOObuntu 2 RC1 or RC2 (Ubuntu 14.04), available for download from the following link:      ARM Development Boards | Extended Support from UDOO For creating a bootable SD card and other basic setup please refer to the following guidelines:      Very First Start - UDOO Neo Docs Then, it is required to install the proper drivers to ensure connectivity, including USB communication with Linux terminal of the target board. Please refer to the link below:      Usb Direct Connection - UDOO Neo Docs b) The robotic arm itself. In this case, the used arm has four servomotors: three for articulation and one for open/close the clamp. c) A Wi-Fi router, and an additional Wi-Fi device with any SSH client application for the remote control of the arm.     3. HARDWARE CONNECTIONS   a) The first connection to consider is the USB Direct connection of the UDOO NEO board with the host PC, in order to configure the Wi-Fi network and remotely view of the desktop (VNC client) for Arduino sketch programming.   b) Then, it is required to consider the arm connection, which consists of four servomotors. Therefore, the motors must be powered by a separate power supply and controlled by four PWM signals. In this case, they will be connected to PWM_1, PWM_2, PWM_3 and PWM_4 signals of J4 connector (Arduino signals). Figure 2 shows the mentioned connection:   Figure 2: Servomotors connection to UDOO NEO board.     4. IMPLEMENTATION   4.1 Connecting to a Wi-Fi network. After turning on the UDOO NEO board, the USB Direct connection will install a virtual NIC on the host PC, in order to access to the “Dashboard”, a configuration webpage loaded on the NEO board that could be viewed from any web browser at address 192.168.7.2. You can connect to wireless networks by using the Web Control Panel, in Configuration/Network settings. After establishing connection with the Wi-Fi router, the Dashboard must indicate the assigned IP address of the NEO board as indicated on Figure 3. It is important to remember such address in order to establish the wireless access to the NEO board later (optionally, the NEO could be configured for a static IP address, or the router could be configure to assign the same IP address to the NEO board).   Figure 3: Dashboard showing the IP address of the NEO board.   Now the USB direct connection could be removed, as the Dashboard, remote terminal and VNC server are also available over Wi-Fi using the Wi-Fi IP address.   4.2. Programming the Arduino sketch. The remote desktop of the NEO could be viewed with any VNC client on the host PC, indicating the NEO’s IP address, user and password (same as SSH remote Terminal). The UDOObuntu image already include Arduino IDE configured for UDOO NEO board, so it is just required opening it to start writing the code. Figure 3 shows the UDOO NEO Desktop, which includes a Terminal window and the Arduino IDE. The sketch is available as attachment.   Figure 4: Desktop of UDOO NEO board.   4.3. Arduino sketch functionality. The Arduino program starts waiting for any incoming data over the serial port. After receiving any serial data, the four servomotors are initialized to the default position (90°). The serial port communication is established between a virtual serial port on Arduino side (Serial0), and the virtual serial port for the Multi-Core Communication (ttyMCC), like shown on Figure 5. For additional information please refer to the link below: Communication - UDOO Neo Docs Figure 5: Communication between cores. Once the motors are initialized, each movement is defined by a key to increase and decrease the angle position of the motors, except for the clamp, which is adjusted to open/close positions. Keys 'Q' and 'W' adjust the first motor; keys 'A' and 'S' adjust the second motor; keys 'D' and 'F' adjust the third motor, and finally, keys 'Z' and 'X' are used to open/close the clamp. Additionally, key 'R' resets all motors to default positions; key 'C' is used to enable/disable the PWM signals, and key 'V' prints the angle values of all motors. The adjust step of motors is defined with the macro “ANGLE_STEP”; the units are degrees.     5. FUNCTIONAL DEMONSTRATION   For demonstrative functionality, the UDOO NEO board running the Arduino sketch was connected to a Wi-Fi network, and it is also connected to the same network an Android phone with SSH app used to control the robotic arm. Figure 6 shows a screen capture of the mentioned app controlling the robotic arm. Figure 6: SSH app accessing to UDOO NEO.   Finally, the following video shows the functionality of the application:   Original Attachment has been moved to: robo_arm.ino.zip

Question: When working with v1.6.0.55 using the standard profile for i.MX35 the tool fails most of the time when transferring the target root file system, on v1.6.0.42 it works just fine. The tags on the internal git don’t clearly mention a tool version, but a BSP. Wwhat are the differences between v1.6.0.55 and v1.6.0.42? Or to which tag(or commit) they correspond on git? Answer: 1.6.042 commit by looking at "Apps/MfgTool.exe/docs/changelog.txt": 1ca2a16df736ac51979a67423fef6a09bed6b7e2 And 1.6.055: "06a4f9190e34297b7273fc4bb4a92737e5bc837f"

///////////////////////////create device node /dev/galcore///////////////////////////// $home/myandroid/kernel_imx/drivers/mxc/gpu-viv/Kbuild MODULE_NAME ?= galcore /* define node name*/ $home/myandroid/kernel_imx/drivers/mxc/gpu-viv/hal/os/linux/kernel/gc_hal_kernel_linux.h define DEVICE_NAME "galcore" $home/myandroid/kernel_imx/drivers/mxc/gpu-viv/hal/os/linux/kernel/gc_hal_kernel_probe.c drv_init call ret = register_chrdev(major, DEVICE_NAME, &driver_fops); ///////////////////////////////opengles2 functios/////////////////////////////////////////// myandroid/device/fsl-proprietary/gpu-viv/lib/egl/libGLESv2_VIVANTE.so glActiveTexture glBindBuffer ... ... ... //those glxxxxxx call into sub_D40C int __fastcall sub_D40C(int a1, int a2, int a3) //address 0x0000D40C { int result; // r0@1 int v4; int v5; v4 = a2;   v5 = a3;   gcoOS_GetTLS(&v4);  //------------> goto libGAL.so   result = v4;   if ( v4 )     result = *(_DWORD *)(v4 + 36);   return result; } and $home/myandroid/device/fsl-proprietary/gpu-viv/lib/libGAL.so //export function signed int __fastcall gcoOS_GetTLS(void **a1) { ... ... gcoOS_GetTLS v4 = open("/dev/galcore", 2); ... ... } and device node /dev/galcore pass command into module galcore $home/myandroid/kernel_imx/drivers/mxc/gpu-viv/hal/kernel/gc_hal_kernel.c gckKERNEL_Dispatch This document was generated from the following discussion: Share Vivante 3d gc2000 work flow

If you cannot access the www.youtube.com, you may watch the citrix demo in Youku, the link as fellow: Citrix Receiver for Linux is a software client to access the desktops, applications, and data easily and securely from many types of Linux devices. About Installing Citrix Receiver,please go to Citrix website Receiver The i.MX 6DQ processor incorporates the hardware accelerators Video Processing Unit(VPU) and 3D/2D Graphics Processing Unit. By taking the advantage of i.MX 6DQ hardware accelerators, Freescale integrates H264 hardware decoder to Citrix Receiver for Linux on i.MX6DQ Ubuntu. With accelerated hardware decoding, the computing is offloaded and better performance is achieved. Configuration in the demo: Hardware i.MX6Q: i.MX 6Quad Processors: Quad Core, ARM® Cortex®-A9 Core 1920x1080 HDMI panel Software: Linux kernel 3.0.35 Ubuntu 12.04 hardfloat rootfs Citrix Receiver13.1 with Freescale H264 plug-in

Recently, I was asked about software/hardware floating point support on i.MX6. There are some great articles on the freescale community already but lacks of introduction. This document shares some basic knowledge on it. VFP is ARM's "Vector Floating Point" unit. SIMD operations can be better performed on several FPU extensions provided by ARM (NEON as in Cortex-A8 and Cortex-A9) [1]. To test if hardware floating support on freescale's toolchain, I used a simple application below: $ cat haha.c #include <stdio.h>; int main() {         float a = 0.3f, b=1.2f;         printf("%f\n", a * b);         return 0; } Compile it as below, and got the hardware floating point enabled. $ arm-linux-gcc -march=armv7-a -mfpu=neon -mfloat-abi=hard -o haha haha.c This can be checked by readelf. If Tag_ABI_VFP_args[2] shows VFP, it is hard floating. Otherwise, soft floating. $ arm-linux-readelf -A haha Attribute Section: aeabi File Attributes   Tag_CPU_name: "7-A"   Tag_CPU_arch: v7   Tag_CPU_arch_profile: Application   Tag_ARM_ISA_use: Yes   Tag_THUMB_ISA_use: Thumb-2   Tag_FP_arch: VFPv3   Tag_ABI_PCS_wchar_t: 4   Tag_ABI_FP_denormal: Needed   Tag_ABI_FP_exceptions: Needed   Tag_ABI_FP_number_model: IEEE 754   Tag_ABI_align_needed: 8-byte   Tag_ABI_align_preserved: 8-byte, except leaf SP   Tag_ABI_enum_size: int   Tag_ABI_HardFP_use: SP and DP   Tag_ABI_VFP_args: VFP registers   Tag_DIV_use: Not allowed Compared to the one by not specifying floating, compiler use soft floating by default, $ arm-linux-gcc -o haha_soft haha.c And readelf won't have Tag_ABI_VFP_args. $ arm-linux-readelf -A haha_soft Attribute Section: aeabi File Attributes   Tag_CPU_name: "ARM10TDMI"   Tag_CPU_arch: v5T   Tag_ARM_ISA_use: Yes   Tag_THUMB_ISA_use: Thumb-1   Tag_ABI_PCS_wchar_t: 4   Tag_ABI_FP_denormal: Needed   Tag_ABI_FP_exceptions: Needed   Tag_ABI_FP_number_model: IEEE 754   Tag_ABI_align8_needed: Yes   Tag_ABI_align8_preserved: Yes, except leaf SP   Tag_ABI_enum_size: int   Tag_unknown_44: 1 (0x1) [1]: https://wiki.debian.org/ArmHardFloatPort/VfpComparison [2]: For more detail on the Tag expression, check http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ihi0045d/IHI0045D_ABI_addenda.pdf

Introduction This document describes the Spread Spectrum support for displays on i.MX 8QuadMax and i.MX 8QuadXPlus, specific for LVDS display. It describes the underlying HW function, how to enable it and the intended capability. The display controller (DC) subsystem on i.MX 8QuadMax and i.MX 8QuadXPlus uses an AVPLL to generate the reference clock for operation of the LVDS PHYs.  Enabling Spread Spectrum on the reference clock will result in the PHY interfaces being spread as well. This Spread Spectrum feature is controlled by the SCU firmware and can be enabled or disabled by configuring the board file of the SCU firmware porting kit. (The Spread Spectrum feature is added starting from SCFW porting kit V1.2.2 release which can be download from NXP web site “i.MX Software and Development Tool”.) The User Guide will include following content: 1. Introduction ............................................................................ 1 2. Configuration of the frequency modulation ......................... 2 3. Support in SCFW Porting Kit ............................................... 4 4. Modulation Characteristics ................................................... 4 5. Enablement Example ............................................................. 5 6. Revision History .................................................................... 7 For more information, please check the attachment "User Guide of Spread Spectrum for i.MX8QM_QXP Display.pdf".   Rev2.0 Update For SCFW Porting Kit V1.2.5 and later version, please check document "User Guide of Spread Spectrum for i.MX8QM_QXP Display 2.0.pdf" with updated algorithm. Rev2.1 Update For SCFW Porting Kit V1.2.10 and later version, please check document "User Guide of Spread Spectrum for i.MX8QM_QXP Display 2.1.pdf" with fspread value selection feature. Users can choose the percentage of frequency spread from following values: 0%, 0.4%, 1.0%, 1.4%, 2.0%.

We are pleased to announce that Pins Tool for i.MX Applications Processors v5 is now available.   The Pins Tool for i.MX Applications Processors is used for pin routing configuration, validation and code generation, including pin functional/electrical properties, power rails, run-time configurations. Features Desktop application Muxing and pin configuration with consistency checking Multicore support Localized for English and Simplified Chinese Mostly Connected: On-Demand device data download Integrates with any compiler and IDE Supports English and Chinese (simplified) languages, based on locale settings. Please refer to user manual for details. ANSI-C initialization code Graphical processor package view Multiple configuration blocks/functions Easy-to-use device configuration Selection of Pins and Peripherals Package with IP blocks Routed pins with electrical characteristics Registers with configured and reset values Power Groups with assigned voltage levels Source code for C/C++ applications Documented and easy to understand source code CSV Report and Device Tree File     Downloads To download the installer for all platforms, please login to our download site via:  http://www.nxp.com/pinsimx Please refer to Pins Tool Documentation  for installation and quick start guides.   Overview of Changes - version 5 New Configuration Wizard allows to specify the default core for multi-core processors. Data Manager - allows overview of downloaded data, their versions, tool support information, update out dated, or manually download new data. Copy/Paste of pin(s) supported in Routed Pins view. Added in-tool tutorials - eclipse Cheat Sheets integration. Overview of Changes - version 4.1 Undo/Redo supported. Product based on Eclipse Oxygen release 3. Unified import wizard. A single import source is implemented. It allows you to import all supported types of C files. Community i.MX Processors 

Overview Resources Download Ubuntu 12.04.01 Download i.MX28EVK BSP and Documents Ubuntu Host Setup Host Package Update Ubuntu Configuration PDF Sudo Priviledges Default Shell CCACHE Directory Layout Extract SDK and Documents Install BSP Sources Ubuntu Software Packages for LTIB Patching LTIB Create SD Card Using Ubuntu Host Media Booting Selection Cable Connections   Overview Freescale's i.M28EVK development kit provides a platform for running software and evaluating features of the i.MX28 processor. This document provides the details for running the Linux Board Support Package (BSP) on the Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit Precise Pangolin Host on an Intel/AMD architecture computer. The 32-bit host is not covered in this document and does have different configuration steps than described here.   An Ubuntu Linux host is used to cross-compile the BSP creating ARM images. The BSP provides a build system named Linux Target Image Builder, (LTIB),  the GNU tool suite for compiling and debugging, U-Boot boot loader, Linux kernel, and a root file system. Resources i.M28EVK- i.MX28 Evaluation Kit Web Page MCIMX28EVKJ Product Summary Page- i.MX28 Download Collateral L2.6.36_MX28_SDK_10.12_Source- BSP Source Download Linux documentation - i.MX28EVK Documentation Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS (Precise Pangolin)- Ubuntu 12.04 Release Download Ubuntu 12.04.01 A dedicated computer running Ubuntu or a Virtual Machine, (VMware or VirtualBox), can be used for running the Host Ubuntu software. The Ubuntu image is available for downloaded from the Ubuntu site: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS (Precise Pangolin).   This Ubuntu host ISO was used with the md5 checksum: ubuntu-12.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso  06472ddf11382c8da1f32e9487435c3d   One way to acquire the ISO is to use zsync to download: zsync http://releases.ubuntu.com/12.04/ubuntu-12.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso.zsync  Once downloaded, installing the ISO is user preference - either a dedicated Linux PC or in a Virtual Machine.   Download i.MX28EVK BSP and Documents The BSP download is from this site L2.6.36_MX28_SDK_10.12_Source and the documents from Linux documentation that requires a free registration to specify login credentials,   436e0b8e1c7976c657d530a45f9dbd0c L2.6.35_10.12.01_SDK_source_bundle.tar.gz de0274320a17c1e989d1ef5c088973e2 L2.6.35_10.12.01_SDK_docs.tar.gz   Ubuntu Host Setup Ubuntu login credentials of User: user Password: user are used for this documents. Host Package Update Once logged in to the Ubuntu host, the existing packages are brought up to date to the latest version before installing the BSP. The Ubuntu package manager used is apt-get. $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get upgrade  01. Check all installed packages for new revisions 02. all newer packages found are installed.   Addtional packages are required for the ltib build system. Ubuntu Configuration PDF evince is the default pdf reader, another option is zathura. $ sudo apt-get install zathura Sudo Priviledges LTIB requires super user priviledges for some operations. To enable a visudo entry is added to the sudo'ers file. For more information run 'man visudo'.   $ sudo visudo  The first word, user, is the login account 'user' This can be changed to whatever login you used, or if you have groups configured you can provide a group that developers are in - refer to the man page for sudo for details. Add this line:   user ALL =NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/rpm/ /opt/freescale/ltib/usr/bin/rpm   Default Shell Ubuntu uses the default shell 'dash'. This however causes failures on bash scripting which is part of the ltib system. Change the default shell from 'dash' to 'bash'   $ sudo update-alternatives --install /bin/sh sh /bin/bash 1  CCACHE ccache provides a fast C/C++ compiler cache which is supported in the ltib system. To configure once the ccache package has been installed: $ sudo apt-get install ccache $ ccache -M 50M $ ccache -c  02. Set the cache limit to 50 Meg 03. Clear the cache folder   Directory Layout The following directory structure is used: /home/user/freescale/imx28/ |-- archive |-- L2.6.35_10.12.01_ER_source |-- L2.6.35_10.12.01_SDK_docs |-- L2.6.35_10.12.01_SDK_scripts |-- ltib |-- ubuntu-imx28-ltib-patch   The archive directory is where the BSP and documents are stored; command to create the directory: $ mkdir -p ~/freescale/imx28/archive   Extract SDK and Documents The following instructions were used to extract the contents of the Software Development Kit:   $ cd ~/freescale/imx28/archive $ tar -zxf L2.6.35_10.12.01_SDK_source_bundle.tar.gz -C ..    01. Change into the directory containing the tar ball that is compressed. 02. Extract the contents into the directory above (-C ..) the current directory -z unzip -x extract -f L2.6.35_10.12.01_SDK_source_bundle.tar.gz   $ tar -zxf L2.6.35_10.12.01_SDK_docs.tar.gz  01. Extract the contents into the directory above (-C ..) the current directory     -z unzip     -x extract     -f L2.6.35_10.12.01_SDK_docs.tar.gz this file The contents of both tar files are now in the directory /home/user/freescale/imx28. Install BSP Sources After extracting the content from the L2.6.35_10.12.01_SDK_source_bundle.tar.gz the file L2.6.35_10.12.01_SDK.source.tar.gz contains all the sources and the build system. Extract the contents and install. This will create the ltib directory which is the build system. $ tar -zxf L2.6.35_10.12.01_SDK_source.tar.gz $ cd L2.6.35_10.12.01_ER_source $ ./install  Read the license information and accept by entering YES. An installation directory is then asked for, providing:  .. which is the parent directory. The installation script copies the packages and will inform you that 'Installation complete, your ltib installation has been placed in ../ltib, to complete the installation: cd .../ltib ./ltib  HOWEVER before doing this, there are packages and patches that need to be applied to run ltib on Ubuntu 12.04.01. Ubuntu Software Packages for LTIB The following packages are required. The script pkg-setup.sh attached below has these packages which can be downloaded and executed to install. $ sh pkg-setup.sh  sudo apt-get -y install gettext libgtk2.0-dev rpm bison m4 libfreetype6-dev sudo apt-get -y install libdbus-glib-1-dev liborbit2-dev intltool sudo apt-get -y install ccache zlib1g zlib1g-dev gcc g++ libtool sudo apt-get -y install uuid-dev liblzo2-dev tcl wget libncurses5-dev sudo apt-get -y install libncursesw5-dev lib32z1 libglib2.0-dev xsltproc sudo apt-get -y install ia32-libs libc6-dev-i386 The file pkg2-setup.sh contains optional packages for development. To install, download and execute: $ sh pkg2-setup.sh Please refer to the document ltib_build_host_setup.pdf for more information on host setup. Patching LTIB The location of files from the glibc-devel and zlib Ubuntu 12.04 packages has changed from 9.0.4 Ubuntu which the original ltib was released against. To update ltib operation the following patches are implemented from the directory ~/freescale/imx28/ltib 1. The file ltib is changed at line 2387 adding the '-v' option to the rpm call OLD:     system('rpm --force-debian 2>/dev/null') == 0? NEW:     system('rpm -v --force-debian 2>/dev/null') == 0? 2. The file bin/Ltibutils.pm is updated to support glibc-devel and zlib.   glibc-devel update: Line 563 add check for /usr/lib32/libm.so 'glibc-devel' => sub {-f 'usr/lib/libm.so' || -f '/usr/lib64/libz.so' || -f '/usr/lib32/libm.so'},   zlibc update: Line 584 add /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so* zlib => sub{my @f = (glob('/usr/lib/libz.so*'),               glob('/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so*'),               glob('/lib/libz.so*'),   The above patches are also in the attachment 0001-patches-for-12.04-ubuntu.patch.   LTIB packages also need adjustments to correctly build on Ubuntu. The tar file below, ubuntu-imx28-ltib-patch.tgz contains all the updates. Download and extract the contents at the same directory level as your ltib source directory. $ tar -zxf ubuntu-imx28-ltib-patch.tgz ├── ltib ├── ubuntu-imx28-ltib-patch └── ubuntu-imx28-ltib-patch.tgz Change directories to ubuntu-imx28-ltib-patch and then run the install-patches.sh script. $ cd ubuntu-imx28-ltib-patch $ ./install-patches.sh   The following packages are updated: lkc mtd-utils mux_server sparse Create SD Card Using Ubuntu Host The tar file L2.6.35_10.12.01_SDK_scripts.tar.gz contains scripts for writing the images from the ltib build to a SD card. Extract the content, copy the scripts to the ltib directory, and update the mk_mx28_sd script to work with the updated fdisk command.   $ tar -zxf L2.6.35_10.12.01_SDK_scripts.tar.gz $ cd L2.6.35_10.12.01_SDK_scripts $ cp mk_hdr.sh ~/freescale/imx28/ltib $ cp mk_mx28_sd ~/freescale/imx28/ltib $ cd ~/freescale/imx28/ltib  Edit mk_mx28_sd script and add the 'u' at line 177 then the o command after. This changes cylinders to sectors.   OLD: echo "o n   NEW: echo "u o n   Once updated to create the SD card which is at /dev/sdb: $ ./mk_mx28_sd /dev/sdb  NOTE: if mounted automatically, you need to unmount for the script to work $ sudo umount /dev/sdb*      Media Booting Selection The i.MX28EVK has a boot option to execute from the SD Card in Slot 0 which is located on the bottom of the EVK. On the top of the EVK there are switches that are read during the start up process to determine what boot media to use. The SD Card in slot 0 is used for this example which requires the settings: B3/DIP1 B2/DIP2 B1/DIP3 B0/DIP4 1 0 0 1 Refer to the user guide, i.MX28_Linux_BSP_UG.pdf section 3.2.1. Boot Modes for all options. The user guide is found in the Linux documentation bundle documentation.  Refer to the next section for a picture showing the boot switch location and the SD Card Slot 0 location. Cable Connections A computer serial port is connected to the i.MX28EVK serial port. The communication setting is 115200 baud, 8 data bits, No parity, and 1 stop bit. There is NO flow control set for this port. This is typically shown as 115200, 8N1. The power supply is connected  

Issue: During DDR3 Burst Write, the DQS strobe signal must be driven low for a minimum of 0.3 x cycle period on the last data clock cycle before it is released. This ensures sufficient time for the write to be strobed correctly. When measuring this timing parameter, it has often been found to be too short. This may be contributing to write errors on customer boards, depending on the signal layout used by the board. Root Cause: The internal DQS strobe enable signal is controlled by the MMDC, which is tied to the SDCLK clock signal. But the DQS strobe signal can be delayed in the MMDC to match different SDCLK trace lengths by using Write Leveling parameters to ensure the the DQS strobe edge reaches the DDR3 device at the same time the SDCLK edges reaches the device. If the write level delay is too long, the MMDC can crop the end of the DQS strobe signal too short, causing a violation of the Write Post Amble Delay timing specification and potentially leading to  write errors. How much delay in the Write Leveling parameter would cause this problem? The Reference Manual states that a delay around half a cycle may cause problems, but testing on some boards indicates that delays even as short as 1/4 a cycle could cause violations of the Write Post Amble Delay. Solution: The MMDC was designed with the ability to add extra time to the strobe enable period during write procedures. This parameter is referred to as Write Additional Latency. It is found in the MMDCx_MDMISC register and the field is labeled as WALAT. Incrementing the value of this register field by one adds a full clock cycle delay to the Write Post Amble period, and ensures enough time at the end of a burst write to guarantee a correct write. There is no maximum value to Write Post Amble Delay. Setting WALAT = 1 (or larger if WL parameters are larger) will cause a small hit in overall performance, but will add to the reliability of write operations, particularly on boards that require larger WL parameter settings.

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  Some our customers want to use the mfgtool to download the images to QSPI and boot up. When download the demo images on our website (Linux 4.1.15) to the QSPI-NOR on IMX7D SABRE-SDB. The error occurred as follows: Is it able to program the QSPI-NOR on i.MX7D SABRE-SDB by using MFG-Tool? Answer is yes. In the above error message we can see that the system can not find and detect the qspi, so it can not excute the following code,<CMD state="body="$ flash_erase /dev/mtd0 0 20">Erasing Boot partition</CMD>Updater" type="push" when use the mfgtool to download the images to the QSPI-NOR . The board i.MX7D SABRE-SDB and default BSP are boot up from EPDC.  Here customer want to boot up from QSPI, When using QSPI, you need to de-populate R388-R391, R396-R399 and populate R392-R395, R299, R300 in your hardware. QSPI signals are muxed with EPDC_D[7:0]. You can see the schematic, details you can see as follow. After hardware modify, you can use the mfgtool2-yocto-mx-sabresd-qspi-nor-mx25l51245g.vbs to download. And then boot up from qspi, boot mode you can refer to the schematic boot up setting. Both software and mfgtool you can download here http://www.nxp.com/products/microcontrollers-and-processors/arm-processors/i.mx-applications-processors/i.mx-software-and-tools:IMXSW_HOME. Demo images can documents you can also get.    

Atlas PMIC i.MX Platforms uses Freescale Atlas chipset as power management IC (PMIC). PMIC is connected with i.MX processor through SPI port. Reading and Changing PMIC Registers pmic_reg is a simple program that allows to read and change PMIC registers through SPI. Click here to download the binary Click here to download the source package Click here to download the spec file pmic_reg Installation To use pmic_reg, you can simply download the binary file and move it to your system. To build the source code, download and mv the source package (in this case "pmic_reg-1.0.tar.gz") to /opt/freescale/pkgs: sudo mv pmic_reg-1.0.tar.gz /opt/freescale/pkgs Download the spec file to spec directory: mkdir <ltib directory>/dist/lfs-5.1/pmic_reg cp pmic_reg.spec <ltib directory>/dist/lfs-5.1/pmic_reg On <ltib directory>, extract, build and deploy pmic_reg: ./ltib -p pmic_reg.spec -m prep ./ltib -p pmic_reg.spec -m scbuild ./ltib -p pmic_reg.spec -m scdeploy Source files will be located at <ltib directory>/rpm/BUILD/pmic_reg-1.0 and binary will be located at /usr/bin on your i.MX system rootfs. pmic_reg Usage To get pmic_reg help, just type pmic_reg: PMIC_REG v1.0 (2009.12.15) Usage To read all PMIC registers: pmic_reg r To write to a specific register: pmic_reg w <register address> <register value>

Features Additional Information Detailed Features List of i.MX31ADS board This is a development tool which is designed to run software applications designed for i.MX31 (MCIMX31) microprocessor unit (MPU). The MCIMX31ADS includes a baseboard, a CPU board, a power management board, an LCD display panel, a keypad, a NAND Flash card, an image sensor, etc. It supports application software, target-board debugging, or optional extra memory. Features Three board system Base board with display and interface connectors CPU board with i.MX31 ARM-11 MCU Power management board with MC13783 Atlas chip +5.0 VDC, 2.4 A universal power supply QVGA LCD display panel with touchscreen capability and LED backlight Keypad with 64 push button keys Image sensor camera Configurable intelligent management of system power Separate selectable voltage regulators for running the CPU board in stand-alone mode Two selectable system clock sources, 32.768 kHz and 26 MHz Onboard CPLD that manages memory-mapped expansion I/O, interrupts, and general-purpose I/O Multi-ICE debug support 32 MB of 16-bit NOR burst flash memory 16 MB of 16-bit PSRAM 128 MB of 32-bit DDR SDRAM memory Two sets of two memory card connectors, selectable as SD/MMC (on Base board) or MS (on CPU board), with card-sense functionality 1G-bit x8 data NOR Flash on a removable card SIMM card connector PCMCIA connector NAND Flash card connector Three RS-232 interfaces with DB-9 connectors driven by UART channels internal to the MX31. Each interface has two UART options and power up enable DIP switches. One supports DCE with optional full modem controls, another is DTE with optional full modem controls, and the third is DTE with RTS/CTS controls only. An external DUART configured as two RS-232 DCE channels (one DB9 connector, one 10-pin header) Two USB host transceivers, one full-speed and one high-speed, with standard USB host connectors Three USB OTG transceivers, one full-speed and one high-speed on the Base board, one full-speed on the Atlas board, with mini AB connectors 10 Base-T Ethernet controller with RJ-45 connector with built-in data flow LED indicators IrDA Specification 1.4 transceiver supports fast, medium, and slow operating modes ATA5 controller with 44-position dual row, 2 mm header for small form-factor disk drives I2C interface with one of two selectable MCU interfaces CSPI connector Two CSI connectors, with different image sensor orientations Smart serial LCD display connector QVGA LCD display connector with touch screen interface plus companion connector with additional control signals Two smart parallel LCD display connectors TV encoder connector Keypad connector Interface connector to baseband processor Audio synthesizer chip with microphone and line inputs (3.5 mm jacks); line, voice, and headphone outputs (3.5 mm jacks); and speaker output (screw terminals) Eight DIP configuration switches with user-definable functions Software-readable CPU and Base board versions LED indicators for +5V IN, 3.3V, vibrator output, and synthesizer output. Two LED indicators for user-defined function Piezoelectric audible alert and vibratory alert Three RGB funlight indicators and funlight connector Push button Reset (on CPU) or reset control from Atlas 1-wire EPROM • Push button interrupt source Two Mictor LA/SW Analysis Connectors (Base board) Four Samtec LA Connectors (CPU) Three Extension connectors, two are compatible with the MX21 ADS Extension connectors Special Atlas board features Stereo microphone jack, normal microphone jack, external TXIN jack, headphone jack, low level stereo input and output jacks, stereo and mono (ear piece) speaker terminals Main battery emulation from +5V Main battery connection terminals Back up battery emulation (super cap) Coin cell (backup) battery connection terminals Battery charger input terminals Backlight LED indicators Three Push button switches to act as power on/off switches DIP switches to select default power up power and power sequencing. USB mode, USB enable, and WDI disable DIP Switches. Audio clock source selection DIP Switches. Individual test point and LED indicator for each Atlas voltage USB cables, RS-232 serial cable, and two RJ-45 Ethernet cables, network, and crossover Additional Resources Booting Linux From NAND Flash on the i.MX 31 ADS IMX31ADS Compiling Linux kernel mainline

On L4.1.15 BSP, PWM output clock may be not stable, for example, it may switch between 200KHz and 50KHz. PWM clock source is perclk, in running mode, perclk is 24MHz, while in low power idle mode, perclk is reduced to 6MHz, so PWM output clock is reduced to 1/4. To keep PWM output stable clock, we should let perclk stay in 24MHz in low power idle mode. Attached is the patch for 6UL and 6ULL.

If you are a Windows user and don't want to install Linux on your machine, VMware is a virtual machine used to install Linux under Windows. It's a good way to start with Linux (if you're unfamiliar with it) and also start your i.MX development. Installing VMWare - VMWare Workstation [VMWare Workstation (Click here to go to Download page)] VMWare Workstation is available in commercial and trial versions. With Workstation is possible to create your own installation image—installing a new operating system as you would install it in a new machine. - VMWare Player [VMWare Player (Click here to go to Download page)] VMWare Player is available in a free version. With Player is only possible to run images previously made. - VMWare Images at ThoughtPolice site [ThoughtPolice site (Click here to go to Download page)] This site has many ready VMWare images from many Linux distributions. It just needs to be downloaded, unziped and it's ready to be used with VMware. Workstation or Player.

Quick guide on how to get started with Linux on i.MX 6UL EVK board using MfgTool from L3.14.52 release: Download MfgTool from here (Version is IMX6_L3.14.52_MFG_TOOL (REV L3.14.52_1.1.0) under “Programmers (Flash, etc.)”): http://www.nxp.com/products/microcontrollers-and-processors/arm-processors/i.mx-applications-processors/i.mx-6-processors/i.mx6qp/i.mx-6ultralite-processor-low-power-secure-arm-cortex-a7-core:i.MX6UL?fpsp=1&tab=Design_Tools_Tab Unpack the archive and unpack mfgtools-with-rootfs.tar.gz edit cfg.ini and change following entries: mmc needs to be set to 1 6uluboot needs to be set to evk 6uldtb needs to be set to 14x14-evk Connect USB cable, USB debug cable to your PC.Open terminal to serial port (115200, 8N1). Insert uSD card to the slot on i.MX 6UL CPU module Set boot switches on SW602 [2:1] to on:off Power on the board Start MfgTool2.exe. HID device should be detected. Press "Start" button. Downloading should start. Executed steps are visible in the debug terminal. When you see "Done" printed, downloading has succeeded. Set boot switches on SW602 [2:1] to off:on, SW601[4:1] TO off:on:off:on Reset i.MX 6UL EVK (or power off then on), and boot to Linux. In case of any error, inspect serial output on debug terminal to see what has gone wrong. This document was generated from the following discussion: Getting started with i.MX6UL EVK and MfgTool L3.14.52

Q: Can OpenGL/OpenVG work on any of our boards with a 16-bit DDR bus? Here is GPU state dump when run some of the GPU SDK tutorials on their imx6 solo board with a 16-bit DDR bus: Mounting rootfs VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem) readonly on device 0:12. Freeing init memory: 156K Starting init GPU[0]: ************************** ***   GPU STATE DUMP   *** **************************   axi      = 0x000000B1   idle     = 0x7FFFFF86     FE not idle     SH not idle     PA not idle     SE not idle     RA not idle   DMA appears to be stuck at this address:     0x1882F230   dmaLow   = 0x08010583   dmaHigh  = 0x80003400   dmaState = 0x00000904     command state       = 4 (PAR_ADR1_ST)     command DMA state   = 1 (CMD_START_ST)     command fetch state = 2 (FET_VALID_ST)     DMA request state   = 0 (REQ_IDLE_ST)     cal state           = 0 (CAL_IDLE_ST)     VE request state    = 0 (VER_IDLE_ST)   RA debug registers:     [0x00] 0x0108C378     [0x01] 0x0042FB12     [0x02] 0x0042FB11     [0x03] 0x0000022C     [0x04] 0x10220033     [0x05] 0x0885C800     [0x06] 0xC054CBFE     [0x07] 0x68100000     [0x08] 0x00000000     [0x09] 0x00000000     [0x0A] 0x00000000     [0x0B] 0x00000000     [0x0C] 0x12344321     [0x0D] 0x12344321     [0x0E] 0x12344321     [0x0F] 0x12344321     signature = 0x12344321 (1 read attempt(s))   TX debug registers:     [0x00] 0x00000000     [0x01] 0x00000000     [0x02] 0x00000000     [0x03] 0x00000000     [0x04] 0x00000000     [0x05] 0x00000000     [0x06] 0x00000000     [0x07] 0x00000000     [0x08] 0x00000000     [0x09] 0x00000000     [0x0A] 0x00000000     [0x0B] 0x00000000     [0x0C] 0x00000000     [0x0D] 0x00000000     [0x0E] 0x00000000     [0x0F] 0x00000000     failed to obtain the signature (read 0x00000000).   FE debug registers:     [0x00] 0x1882F450     [0x01] 0x08010594     [0x02] 0x00000001     [0x03] 0x00000256     [0x04] 0x00080049     [0x05] 0x0000000D     [0x06] 0x00009571     [0x07] 0x00007445     [0x08] 0x00000004     [0x09] 0x00000000     [0x0A] 0x00000000     [0x0B] 0x00000000     [0x0C] 0x00000000     [0x0D] 0xA3105D67     [0x0E] 0x000000D0     [0x0F] 0xBABEF00D     signature = 0xBABEF00D (1 read attempt(s))   PE debug registers:     [0x00] 0x0108C369     [0x01] 0x00000000     [0x02] 0x0108C369     [0x03] 0x00000000     [0x04] 0xA0000000     [0x05] 0xABC00000     [0x06] 0xBC000000     [0x07] 0xCDE00000     [0x08] 0xD04045C0     [0x09] 0x204045C0     [0x0A] 0x0D863084     [0x0B] 0x00000000     [0x0C] 0xBABEF00D     [0x0D] 0xBABEF00D     [0x0E] 0xBABEF00D     [0x0F] 0xBABEF00D     signature = 0xBABEF00D (1 read attempt(s))   DE debug registers:     [0x00] 0x00000000     [0x01] 0x00000000     [0x02] 0x00000000     [0x03] 0x00000000     [0x04] 0x00000000     [0x05] 0x00000000     [0x06] 0x00000000     [0x07] 0x00000000     [0x08] 0x00000000     [0x09] 0x00000000     [0x0A] 0x00000000     [0x0B] 0x00000000     [0x0C] 0x00000000     [0x0D] 0x00000000     [0x0E] 0x00000000     [0x0F] 0x00000000     failed to obtain the signature (read 0x00000000).   SH debug registers:     [0x00] 0x0049AB4C     [0x01] 0x0000000B     [0x02] 0x00000411     [0x03] 0x00020A95     [0x04] 0x00000000     [0x05] 0x000F024E     [0x06] 0x000F424C     [0x07] 0x010BEC30     [0x08] 0x0108C368     [0x09] 0x000020DF     [0x0A] 0x00000693     [0x0B] 0x00000000     [0x0C] 0x00000000     [0x0D] 0x00000000     [0x0E] 0x00000000     [0x0F] 0xDEADBEEF     signature = 0xDEADBEEF (1 read attempt(s))   PA debug registers:     [0x00] 0x640006FE     [0x01] 0x64000000     [0x02] 0x00000810     [0x03] 0x00000690     [0x04] 0x00000230     [0x05] 0x0000022D     [0x06] 0x00000000     [0x07] 0x00000000     [0x08] 0x00000003     [0x09] 0x0000AAAA     [0x0A] 0x0000AAAA     [0x0B] 0x0000AAAA     [0x0C] 0x0000AAAA     [0x0D] 0x0000AAAA     [0x0E] 0x0000AAAA     [0x0F] 0x0000AAAA     signature = 0x0000AAAA (1 read attempt(s))   SE debug registers:     [0x00] 0x00000000     [0x01] 0x00000000     [0x02] 0x00000000     [0x03] 0x00000000     [0x04] 0x00000000     [0x05] 0x00000000     [0x06] 0x00000000     [0x07] 0x00000000     [0x08] 0x00000000     [0x09] 0x00000000     [0x0A] 0x00000000     [0x0B] 0x00000000     [0x0C] 0x00000000     [0x0D] 0x00000000     [0x0E] 0x00000000     [0x0F] 0x00000000     failed to obtain the signature (read 0x00000000).   MC debug registers:     [0x00] 0x00000000     [0x01] 0x00000000     [0x02] 0x00000000     [0x03] 0x00000000     [0x04] 0x12345678     [0x05] 0x12345678     [0x06] 0x12345678     [0x07] 0x12345678     [0x08] 0x12345678     [0x09] 0x12345678     [0x0A] 0x12345678     [0x0B] 0x12345678     [0x0C] 0x12345678     [0x0D] 0x12345678     [0x0E] 0x12345678     [0x0F] 0x12345678     signature = 0x12345678 (1 read attempt(s))   HI debug registers:     [0x00] 0x0000F719     [0x01] 0x19C020C8     [0x02] 0x1EBC2426     [0x03] 0xAAAAAAAA     [0x04] 0xAAAAAAAA     [0x05] 0xAAAAAAAA     [0x06] 0xAAAAAAAA     [0x07] 0xAAAAAAAA     [0x08] 0xAAAAAAAA     [0x09] 0xAAAAAAAA     [0x0A] 0xAAAAAAAA     [0x0B] 0xAAAAAAAA     [0x0C] 0xAAAAAAAA     [0x0D] 0xAAAAAAAA     [0x0E] 0xAAAAAAAA     [0x0F] 0xAAAAAAAA     signature = 0xAAAAAAAA (1 read attempt(s))   Other Registers:     [0x0040] 0x00924A66     [0x0044] 0x06F47370     [0x004C] 0x06F47370     [0x0050] 0x00DE8E6E     [0x0054] 0x00DE8E6E     [0x0058] 0x00924A66     [0x005C] 0x001254D6     [0x0060] 0x001254D6     [0x043C] 0x00000000     [0x0440] 0x00000000     [0x0444] 0x00000000     [0x0414] 0x3C000000 [<8003b21c>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0xfc) from [<80308114>] (_DumpGPUState+0x4ec/0x6b4) [<80308114>] (_DumpGPUState+0x4ec/0x6b4) from [<80308324>] (gckOS_Broadcast+0x38/0xe8) [<80308324>] (gckOS_Broadcast+0x38/0xe8) from [<80311008>] (gckEVENT_GetEvent+0x184/0x1b4) [<80311008>] (gckEVENT_GetEvent+0x184/0x1b4) from [<80311294>] (gckEVENT_Submit+0x8c/0x328) [<80311294>] (gckEVENT_Submit+0x8c/0x328) from [<8030dedc>] (gckCOMMAND_Commit+0x4d4/0xa28) [<8030dedc>] (gckCOMMAND_Commit+0x4d4/0xa28) from [<8030c1d0>] (gckKERNEL_Dispatch+0x4b4/0x112c) [<8030c1d0>] (gckKERNEL_Dispatch+0x4b4/0x112c) from [<80306580>] (drv_ioctl+0x108/0x250) [<80306580>] (drv_ioctl+0x108/0x250) from [<800ed704>] (do_vfs_ioctl+0x80/0x5e0) [<800ed704>] (do_vfs_ioctl+0x80/0x5e0) from [<800edc9c>] (sys_ioctl+0x38/0x60) [<800edc9c>] (sys_ioctl+0x38/0x60) from [<80035580>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x30) A: This GPU driver stack dump indicates GPU stuck when VDDPU_CAP was under spec values (1.2V) so GPU was not correctly powered. Was fixed by adjusting PMU_REG_CORE[REG1_TARG]. AFAIK, GPU drivers have some DDR bank configuration, so you may see a different problem though.

Hardware : i.MX8MNLPDDR4EVK Build Yocto Image [Linux 4.14.98_2.3.1] Yocto Project Setup          $: mkdir imx-yocto-bsp          $: cd imx-yocto-bsp                $: repo init -u https://source.codeaurora.org/external/imx/imx-manifest -b imx-linux-sumo -m imx-4.14.98-2.3.1.xml          $: repo sync  copy marvell bb.file into yocto source         $: cp  0001-Porting-mrvl-8987-wifi.patch   imx-yocto-bsp/sources/meta-fsl-bsp-release/imx/meta-bsp         $: git apply 0001-Porting-mrvl-8987-wifi.patch Image Build         $: DISTRO=fsl-imx-xwayland MACHINE=imx8mnlpddr4evk source fsl-setup-release.sh -b build-xwayland         $:bitbake fsl-image-qt5-validation-imx Enable wifi and BT (These operations is on EVK) WiFi $:insmod /lib/modules/4.14.98-2.3.1+g860ec89/extra/sd8xxx.ko fw_name=/mrvl/sduart8987_combo.bin cal_data_cfg=none cfg80211_wext=0xf BT $:hciattach /dev/ttymxc0 any -s 115200 115200 flow dtron $:hciconfig hci0 reset $:hcitool -ihci0 cmd 0x3f 0x0009 0xc0 0xc6 0x2d 0x00 & $:killall hcitool $:killall hciattach $:hciattach /dev/ttymxc0 any -s 3000000 3000000 flow dtron Build  Android Image[Android P9_2.3.4] These patches in  Android-2.3.4-patch. Getting i.MX Android release source code        $: cd ~ (or any other directory you like)        $: tar xzvf imx-p9.0.0_2.3.4.tar.gz        $: mkdir ~/bin        $: curl https://storage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo > ~/bin/repo        $: chmod a+x ~/bin/repo        $: export PATH=${PATH}:~/bin        $: source ~/imx-p9.0.0_2.3.0/imx_android_setup.sh        # By default, the imx_android_setup.sh script will create the source code build environemnt        in the folder ~/android_build        # ${MY_ANDROID} will be refered as the i.MX Android source code root directory in all i.MX        Andorid release documentation.        $ : export MY_ANDROID=~/android_build Copy 88W8987 firmware and driver into  Android release code        $:copy -r Android-2.3.4-patch/mrvl    android_build/vendor/nxp/fsl-proprietary  Apply these patches.The name of these patches is the patche installation path.            example:  0001-android_build-hardware-marvell-wlan.patch         $: cp 0001-android_build-hardware-marvell-wlan.patch   android_build/hardware/marvell/wlan            (if not exist android_build/hardware/marvell/wlan, mkdir -p android_build/hardware/marvell/wlan)         $: git apply 0001-android_build-hardware-marvell-wlan.patch  Building Android images          $: cd  android_build          $: source build/envsetup.sh          $: lunch evk_8mn-userdebug          $: make 

$ git log --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit 6f0c058 Linux 3.7-rc2 198190a Merge tag 'arm64-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmarinas/linux-aarch64 aeed41a arm64: fix alignment padding in assembly code 31fd84b use clamp_t in UNAME26 fix 8c1bee6 Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 45bff41 perf python: Properly link with libtraceevent