On mid Oct 2017, researchers revealed details of a new exploit called KRACK that takes advantage of vulnerabilities in Wi-Fi security to let attackers eavesdrop on traffic between computers and wireless access points.It takes advantage of several key management vulnerabilities in the WPA2 security protocol, the popular authentication scheme used to protect personal and enterprise Wi-Fi networks. Google has already fixed the problem for customers running supported versions of Android version 5,6,7 and 8. The formal patches has already released in 2017-11-06 security patch. The URL is:    Android Security Bulletin—November 2017    And these patches are listed in  chapter 2017-11-06 security patch, System section. Please all i.mx series devices that use the security patch level  earlier than 2017-11-06 must include all applicable patches to fix this wifi vulnerability on Android. Here these patch has been applied for imx Android mm6.0 and ng7.0 release, to avoid this wifi vulnerability, it is recommended to have these patches in this attach applied, which should be applied to external/wpa_supplicant_8.

It sounds almost like a tale: Every Year again all the Experts of the Embedded Market meet in a little old Town in the Forrest of Bavaria. They are coming from all nations in flying machines to see the latest inovation and talk to each other in a language filled with Buzz words only few might understand if they not belong to this totally Engineering group.... Also this Year Embedded World took place like always in end of February. I have been on a few times on Embedded Worlds now, but it is always great to go again. Every year there is something new to spot and I also enjoy to meet old friends and silicon vendors to discuss about the latest evolution/revolution. This Year I attended the Show for TechNexion and we showed our latest Products based on NXP's ARM chips, like our tiny PICO Modules which are also available with NXP i.MX6UL now and the ideal choice for multimedia applications or where not much space is available. With i.MX6 and i.MX7 options it ofers a nice scalability. Not to forget the fitting baseboard which makes us the HW provider of choice for NXP and Google for the Brillo OS Of Course we also showed our EDM Modules, the work horse of the industry. Reliable. Rugged. Open Source Standard. With 82mm x 60mm it's a small formfactor with a great scalability from Single to DualLite or Quad core. And of course also available with i.MX7 New have been our TEK-Series, a Series of ruggedized, fan-less, cable-less BoxPC's with a Modular approach so Customer can choose the right configuration from off-the-shelf components Also new have been our TEP-Seriees, which is a Series of HMI's ranging from 7" to 10" and 15", also based on the same modular, cable-free- fan-less approach like the TEK-Series. Embedded World has been very busy for us, but never less we found the time to record a video, introducing our Company (for the few who don't know about us yet..) and in the second half of the video having a detailed introduction of our new products. You can watch the video here: TechNexion Company Introduction (@Embedded-News.TV) or directly on YouTube here: TechNexion Company Introduction and Product presentation (@YouTube) Thanks all our visitors and Looking forward to see you again next year!! Any Questions in the meantime? Contact us!​

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc_YFQ5v_w0 iWave Systems Technologies, an ISO 9001:2008 certified company, established in the year 1999, offers Product Engineering services from concept to market. Today, iWave is one of the leading design houses for Embedded Systems, basically focuses on providing the featured services for Hardware, FPGA and Software, which made this company to deliver the turn-key embedded solutions under one roof. Being in this particular business for long years, iWave has developed rich expertise on ARM architecture based processor platforms and has delivered the robust designs for exciting embedded applications in Industrial, Automotive and Medical domains. Being a certified Silver Partner of Microsoft, iWave provides Windows Embedded Compact BSP to its customers for catering high-end applications.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 iWave has been an innovator in developing highly integrated, high performance, low power and low cost System-On-Modules (SOM) and Development Platforms. The company designs and develops advanced cutting edge products & solutions for its customers using SOMs in the shortest possible time at the most optimized design cost. iWave’s flexible business models for onsite and offshore design support will enable the clients to go for their choice of trade.  Being partnered with the silicon provider Freescale, iWave has worked on many of the ARM based Processors designed by Freescale in its timeline. iWave systems offers Freescale processor based Standard and Proprietory SOMs to meet the market needs for creating innovative end-applications. Also For each of the modules, iWave provides the Development Platforms to facilitate quick software prototyping associated with the Board Support Packages (BSPs) especially for the Linux, Windows Embedded, Android, QNX, VxWorks and iTRON operating systems. Today, we are going to discuss about iWave’s expertise on Freescale processor based products. From the time initial Qseven draft specification was announced, iWave Systems has worked on typical Qseven standard modules based on Freescale processors with generic Qseven carrier board targeting Industrial, Automotive IVI and Medical Applications. i.MX processor based Qseven SOMs: iWave has worked on Freescale’s latest i.MX6 processor based Qseven SOM, with 1GB DDR3 RAM, 2MB SPI flash, 4GB NAND flash and 4GB eMMC flash. It supports Linux, WEC7, and Android operating systems. Freescale’s i.MX51 processor based Qseven SOM from iWave is provided with 128MB DDR2 SDRAM Expandable up to 512MB, NAND Flash of 128MB and supports Linux, Android & WINCE 6.0. Moreover, iWave’s Qseven expertise ranges in delivering the high class Development Platforms like i.MX6 Qseven Development Kit and i.MX51 Qseven development kit. iWave’s Qseven modules offers the best cost & performance solution for many Mobile and Handheld applications. Also, iWave’s Qseven modules provide wide range of features and functions for designing any kind of embedded applications. iWave’s Qseven form factor modules provide fast serial interfaces like PCIe Express, SATA, USB Port, HDMI Display Port, Gigabit Ethernet etc for the high-end developments in designing a product. i.MX processor based MXM System on Modules: Freescale’s latest i.MX6 processor based MXM SOM from iWave comes with a ruggedized MXM connector which provides the carrier board interface to carry all the I/O signals. This module functions with 1GB DDR3 RAM, 2MB SPI flash, 4GB eMMC flash and NAND Flash. It supports Linux and Android operating systems.            iWave has also worked on Freescale's i.MX53 processor based MXM system on module with the automotive temperature grade. This module is provided with 512MB DDR2 RAM, 4GB eMMC Flash, 16MB SPI NOR Flash and supports Linux, Android and WEC7 BSP. With the support for numerous essential interfaces and diverse features, and keeping the main focus on automotive, industrial and medical sectors, these MXM modules are tailored to excel in the performance. i.MX processor based Single Board Computers: The Freescale processor family in iWave has got bigger with the addition of Single Board Computers (SBCs). iWave has developed SBCs based on various Freescale application processors like i.MX6, i.MX50 and i.MX27. They are equipped with all the necessary functions that the embedded world demands on a single board and readily available to deploy in product design. iWave’s i.MX6 Pico ITX SBC measuring just 10cm x 7.2cm, is the industry’s latest Single Board Computer around Freescale’s i.MX6 processor that includes single, dual, and quad-core families based on the ARM Cortex-A9 architecture. This product is iWave’s 4th i.MX6 processor based design and is supplied with 512MB DDR3 RAM, On-board MicroSD slot, Standard SD/SDIO slot, eMMC support, SPI flash etc. It supports Linux, Android and WEC7 BSP. The i.MX50 Quick Start Board (QSB) is a low cost development platform based on Freescale’s i.MX50 processor, which incorporates high performance 800MHz ARM Cortex-A8 processor Electronic Paper Display (EPD) Controller and numerous connectivity options. The i.MX27/ARM9 processor based SBC and Development Platform, helps developers to prototype their applications on Windows CE 6.0, Android and Linux. Around this platform, about 15+ designs have been developed. The SBCs integrate all standard interfaces into a single board providing ultra-compact yet highly integrated platform that can be utilized across multiple embedded PC, system and industrial designs. Apart from these products, iWave specializes in providing complete turnkey design services for system engineering and product development including all hardware and software customized for your applications. iWave has provided complete customized solutions with end applications to several customers and these accomplished projects are successfully serving the purpose of their requirements. iWave’s i.MX SOM modules/services are already being used for variety of applications in focused domains. The company has worked on plenty of fully integrated systems like Digital Signage, Driver Console System, ECG Product Development, Automobile Infotainment, Industrial HMI, Skin Analyser, Video Phone, Quad Display System etc. For more details on all these products and services, kindly visit our website www.iwavesystems.com OR E-mail us on [email protected]..... Thank you!!

This post is about adding cellular modem support on the Boundary Devices i.MX6 boards under Ubuntu.  Many customers have requested cellular modem support on our i.MX6 boards (BD-SL-i.MX6, Nitrogen6X, Nitrogen6_Lite and Nitrogen6_MAX).  Since most cell modems are USB or PCIe devices, configuration is a software task, and mostly done in userspace. The steps are also different for Android, embedded Linux and desktop distributions.  In other words, its complicated. In this post, we’ll walk through all of the steps needed to configure a specific set of modems under Ubuntu as a reference. If you’re using another modem or another userspace, the details may be different, but the fundamentals will be the same. We used the Huawei E3131 USB dongle , and Huawei MU609 Mini-PCIe during this process, and will be adding them to our default kernels going forward. As you can see in this patch, we did have to add some USB device ids and make minor updates to the kernel as provided by the vendor. In the process, we should now also support the following Huawei models for various regions and carriers: MC323   CDMA: Downlink:153.6 kbps, Uplink: 153.6 kbps MU509   WDCMA: Downlink:3.6 Mbps, Uplink: 384 kbps MC509   EVDO: Downlink:3.1 Mbps, Uplink: 1.8 Mbps MU609   HSPA+: Downlink:14.4 Mbps, Uplink: 5.76 Mbps MU709   HSPA+: Downlink:21.6 Mbps, Uplink: 5.76 Mbps ME906   LTE: Downlink:100 Mbps, Uplink: 50 Mbps ME909   LTE: Downlink:100 Mbps, Uplink: 50 Mbps ME936   LTE: Downlink:100 Mbps, Uplink: 50 Mbps For more details including links to images as well as detailed descriptions on how to implement, please visit this blog post:  http://boundarydevices.com/cellular-modems-on-i-mx6-boards/

Now we are debugging audio quality with sgtl5000 on i.mx6DL platform. The test audio curve is attached, what we need now is to get 8dB more gain at 90Hz and 15dB more at 5KHz. Can anyone help on setting regs in sgtl5000 codec?How? Thanks in advance.

iWave has been one of the early adopters of i.MX6. As a result of this, iWave dived into the design and manufacture of one of the early i.MX6 Qseven System on Modules to keep up the commitment to clients. As recently Freescale has rolled out the Power Management Companion Chip for i.MX6, iWave has come up with the improved i.MX6 Qseven SOM integrated with PMIC to adhere to our corporate policy of constant improvement of design to meet customers’ needs. iWave is now happy to announce the launch of the new improved feature-rich i.MX6 Quad/Dual/Dual Lite/Solo Qseven SOM module with enhanced performance. Basically, the predecessor SOM is based on Qseven R1.2 specifications whereas the new SOM is compliant to Qseven R2.0 specifications. Freescale’s latest PMIC is integrated to the SOM for better power management. This feature enables various power management options to the customers including the dynamic voltage frequency scaling (DVFS) supported by the i.MX6 CPU. The new SOM is compliance to the latest R2.0 Qseven specification. The SOM supports 8 GPIOs on the LPC interface and additional UART port proposed in the latest R2.0 Qseven specification. These new SOMs will be supported with Linux, Android and Windows Embedded Compact 7 BSP. The SOMs will be software compatible with existing non-PMIC based i.MX6 Qseven SOMs with additional BSP patches. These new PMIC based SOMs and their associated heat spreader part samples are available for customer evaluation. For further information or inquiries please write to [email protected]

e-con Systems announces the launch of eSOMiMX7 System on Module. The eSOMiMX7 is based on NXP/Freescale i.MX7 processor. eSOMiMX7 is a ready to use System-On-Module using Solo / Dual core ARM® Cortex™ A7 @ 1GHz along with dedicated real time ARM® Cortex™ - M4 MCU. It encompasses eMMC Flash whose capacity ranges from 4GB to 64GB, LPDDR3 with capacity as high as 2GB. To cater to the customer's demand of a small SOM for building IoT Applications, Industrial HMI, Test and Measurement, Industrial HMI, eBook Reader and  Wearables, eSOMiMX7 is launched with a small form factor of 55mm x30mm. eSOMiMX7 is an ultra-low power system on module which consumes only 3mA current during the deep sleep mode. eSOMiMX7 System-On-Module is available with latest Linux Kernel version v4.9.11, latest Yocto rootfs version 2.2 and Free RTOS version 8. Pricing and Availability: The eSOMiMX7 at volumes is available at USD34 onwards and samples can be bought from the Webstore. Evaluation kit: Customers  willing to evaluate the eSOMiMX7, can evaluate using the EVM, Acacia - eSOMiMX7 development kit from e-con Systems' Webstore.