iWave is upgrading Android KitKat 4.4 BSP for its all variants of i.MX6 Qseven SOMs. The KitKat BSP supports following features and will be available in end of Q2 2015: i.MX6 ARM Cortex A9 Quad, Dual, Dual Lite & Solo CPU 1GB DDR3 RAM (Quad, Dual, Dual Lite CPU version)/ 512MB DDR3 (Solo CPU version) Freescale PMIC SPI NOR Flash eMMC Flash uSD slot Standard SD slot USB 2.0 Host USB 2.0 device 10/100/1000 Ethernet PCIex1 Port CAN Port LVDS display port Capacitive multi-touch PWM for backlight HDMI Port with Audio SATA (Support available only in i.MX6Q/D) Hardware Codecs (Encode/Decode) 2D/3D Graphics MIPI CSI camera port AC97 Audio In/Out Console UART Besides the Android support, Linux and WEC7 board support packages are also available for the i.MX6 Qseven SOMs from iWave systems. More details about the i.MX6 Qseven SOM & software features can be found in the i.MX6 Qseven product page. Device drivers will be supported for specific interface chipsets, which are used in iWave's Qseven Carrier board. More details about iWave i.MX6 Qseven development kit can be found in the following webpage: http://www.iwavesystems.com/product/development-platform/i-mx6-q7-development-kit-54.html

23 February 2016, Nürnberg, Germany: Toradex is pleased to announce a new member of its System on Module (SOM) product line based on the NXP i.MX 7 series applications processors. The processors offer an excellent performance/power ratio, advanced security features, and a heterogeneous multicore architecture based on ARM ® Cortex-A7 and Cortex-M4 cores, which make the platform a perfect fit for products targeting the rapidly growing IoT market. Some of the features of new SOMs: Colibri iMX7S and Colibri iMX7D are; NXP i.MX 7Solo and i.MX 7Dual applications processors 1x/2x ARM ® Cortex-A7 up to 1GHz & 1x Cortex-M4 at 200MHz 256MB/512MB RAM, 512MB on-board Flash Asymmetric/ Heterogeneous multicore processing Low power consumption/ high efficiency Advanced security features Connectivity: CAN, Ethernet, USB, I2C, UART, etc. Multimedia: Touch, RGB, Camera Parallel Interface, Analog Audio, etc. Temperature range -20° to 85° C The additional Cortex-M4 core is tailored for time-critical applications. This unique heterogeneous multicore architecture allows to clearly separate real time tasks from any server or GUI-related applications. The i.MX 7 processor also includes many additional security features such as secure boot, cryptographic acceleration and tamper detection, which are of high value for the IoT market. Toradex's internal benchmarks prove the effectiveness of the new architecture used for i.MX 7 processors. While the performance is comparable to the very successful i.MX 6Solo processor (ARM ® Cortex-A9 1GHz) SoC, the power consumption in operating mode is in the range of the Colibri VF61 (ARM ® Cortex-A5 500MHz) or less than 75% of the power consumption of i.MX 6Solo. When looking at the standby mode, i.MX 7 requires even less than a third compared to the power consumption of i.MX 6Solo.                                                                                                       *Results are based on nbench benchmarking, which uses a single-core, so performance & power consumption figures                                                                                                                 are comparable between dual-core i.MX 7Dual and single-core SoCs such as i.MX 6Solo, VF61 & VF50 The Colibri iMX7S/D SOMs are an extension to the robust and compact Toradex embedded computing SOMs and customized Single Board Computers (SBC), which are used in variety of industries such as industrial automation, medical, automotive, robotics and many more. Toradex’s products are ideal for quickly creating proof-of-concepts as well as scaling seamlessly from prototypes to tens of thousands of devices, without the need to redesign the embedded computer. “We are happy to be one of the first companies in the world providing a product based on the NXP ® i.MX 7 series. This processor offers an upgrade path from our pin-compatible VFxx-based platforms while retaining the unique combination of two different cores on the same die. By controlling sensors and actuators through the Cortex-M4 core and running non-time critical tasks on the Cortex-A7 core, many customers can massively reduce both the system complexity and the BOM cost. This great product is another result of a longstanding and strong partnership between Toradex and NXP,” said Stephan Dubach, CEO, Toradex. “NXP is looking to drive wide adoption of the i.MX7, critical to our success are system level board designs from our partners that enable our customers to effectively accelerate time to market. Toradex’s Colibri i.MX7 SOM is a highly efficient, powerful module that offers advanced security features in a small form factor. This combined with an extensive ecosystem, will allow customers to immediate start development and shorten time to market,” said Robert Thompson, Chief Enablement Architect for i.MX applications processors, NXP Semiconductors. Technical Specifications: Technical details of Colibri iMX7 SOMs can be found at https://www.toradex.com/computer-on-modules/colibri-arm-family/nxp-freescale-imx7 Availability: Toradex’s Colibri iMX7 SOMs will be available for sales from 23 February 2016 on the Toradex webshop. Webinar: Toradex is hosting a webinar on 09 March 2016 with NXP. Register now: Introducing the i.MX 7 System-on-Chip - presented by Toradex and NXP About Toradex: Toradex is a Swiss based company with offices around the world, offering ARM ® -based System on Modules (SOMs) and Customized SBCs. Powered by NXP ® i.MX 6, i.MX 7 & Vybrid, and NVIDIA ® Tegra processors, the pin compatible SOMs offer scalability in terms of price, performance, power consumption, and I/Os. Complemented with direct online sales and long-term product availability, Toradex offers direct premium support and ex-stock availability with local warehouses. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/create/extension/

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.

Toradex is thrilled to announce the arrival of the newest member in its Apalis family of computer-on-modules, the Apalis iMX6. The module is based on Freescale i.MX 6 series of SoC, runs a quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 CPU, and offers an operating frequency of up to 1.2 GHz. Apart from the benefits of long term product availability (of more than 10 years), and compatibility with the existing Apalis T30 module, this module is also qualified for industrial temperature range -40° C to 85° C. More details including datasheet shall be published by the last week of February. For a preliminary look at the datasheet, please click here. For more details on Apalis family, click here. To know more about the Apalis T30 module, click here. Here's a first look at the module.

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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 mktg@iwavesystems.com

iWave now has released the official Yocto BSP for its i.MX6 Qseven modules (iW-RainboW-G15M-Q7) and development kit variants. The release is based on Linux 3.10.17 kernel and supports the following features; i.MX6 ARM Cortex A9 Quad, Dual, Dual Lite & Solo CPU 1GB DDR3 RAM (Quad, Dual, Dual Lite CPU version)/ 512MB DDR3 (Solo CPU version) Freescale PMIC SPI NOR Flash (default boot) eMMC Flash (default OS storage) Data UART uSD slot Standard SD slot USB 2.0 Host USB 2.0 device 10/100/1000 Ethernet PCIex1 Port SATA Port CAN Port LVDS display port (Dual) PWM for backlight HDMI Port with Audio 7”TFT LCD with capacitive touch Hardware Codecs (Encode/Decode) 2D/3D Graphics CMOS CSI camera port MIPI CSI camera port AC97 Audio In/Out Console UART RTC (i.MX6 Internal) I2C Port Sensors Watchdog GPIOs This release supports single BSP, Binary image & MFG tool for all the four i.MX6 CPU version (Quad/Dual/Dual Lite/Solo) based Qseven SOMs. Besides the Linux Yocto BSP support, Android Jelly Bean and Windows Embedded Compact 7 (WEC7) board support packages are also supported for the i.MX6 Qseven modules (Rainbow G15M-Q7) by iWave. More details about the i.MX6 Qseven modules (Rainbow G15M-Q7) hardware & software features can be found in the i.MX6 Qseven SOM product page.

Hi. We are using iMX6 SABRESD board with ltib-4.1.0. We need blit functionality for OpenGL framebuffer objects. It is present in OpenGL GL_EXT_framebuffer_blit extension, but is missing on iMX6. We use QOpenGLFramebufferObject class from Qt. There is blitFramebuffer() method that was working fine on desktop and Android devices. Its method hasOpenGLFramebufferBlit() returns false on iMX6 which means extension is not present. As expected, blitFramebuffer() itself is not working (screen remains black). We need this extension enabled. Why is it missing on iMX6 and is it possible to add it? Regards, Federico