We’ve been providing news / tips & tricks via our blog for years. Although it is a great source of information, we have seen some customers get lost or have difficulty finding information. That is why we are glad to…
Safety Critical HMI with CoreAVI
This blog post features two demonstration videos made by CoreAVI that showcase their OpenGL Safety Critical (SC) driver expertise. The demos are using the CoreAVI OpenGL SC driver, which is designed to support real time and safety critical platforms. Both are running on…
Debugging using Segger J-Link JTAG
JTAG is a useful tool that allows customers additional debugging options. Segger was kind enough to send us a J-Link Plus probe for us to test. This blog post will describe how to setup your environment and use the J-Link…
Digital Signage with DisplayIt!Xpress
This blog post will provide some information about DisplayIt!Xpress from BestWave which is a digital signage turnkey solution. This solution is yet another example of what our platforms can offer. It also shows that our partners offer solutions that can provide exactly what…
Timesys Linux for i.MX6
At the end of March, Timesys announced their support of the Nitrogen6X, our latest offering in the Nitrogen series of i.MX single-board computers. Click here to read the press release Click here to watch Maciej’s first webinar on the offering….
U-Boot conventions for i.MX6 (Nitrogen6X and SabreLite)
A little convention make things easy to use, but only if you know the convention. In this blog post, we’ll explain three key environment variable conventions used on the Nitrogen6X (and Sabre Lite before it). For the impatient: Both of…
Revisiting LTIB and Qt on i.MX51 and i.MX53
In a previous post, we walked through the process of building Qt using the LTIB tool, but we were a bit cavalier about the steps involved. Since that time, we’ve been shipping demo software based on LTIB and Qt with…
Booting into your own application on Android
Here’s another favorite for fixed-point Android users. How do we skip the home screen and go directly into our own custom application on system start? Once again, this is an easy change to make, and we really don’t even have…
i2c-tools under Android
While working with a multi-touch display under Android recently, I had some questions about what data was being received from the touch screen, which is connected to our Nitrogen53 board over i2c. My early debug steps involved instrumenting the kernel,…
Disabling sleep mode on Android
Android’s user-focused, touchscreen-driven interface lends itself well to fixed-point applications such as kiosks and control panels. However, since it was originally designed for mobile devices, there are a few features that need to be tweaked. For example, Android puts itself…
