We are pleased to announce a partnership with Mender and provide support for Mender on our Nitrogen8M and Nitrogen8M Mini platforms based on i.MX8 processors! We also plan to support Nitrogen8M Nano and Nitrogen8M Plus in the near future. What…
FreeRTOS SDK v2.9 release for i.MX 8M platforms
One of the many advantages of developing with NXP’s i.MX 8M Family of application processors is the ability to utilize both the Cortex-A53 as well as the Cortex-M core. This blog post will first present the architecture of the i.MX 8M…
ML – Facemask Detection i.MX 8M Plus NPU Demo
This blog post will detail how Boundary Devices created its Facemask Detection app for the i.MX 8M Plus-based Nitrogen8MP and its NPU! It was done as part of our i.MX 8M Plus Machine Learning webinar which you can see here:…
U-Boot 2020.10 for i.MX platforms
Boundary Devices is happy to release the latest U-Boot 2020.10 with support for all our Nitrogen Families of SBCs and SOMs. https://github.com/boundarydevices/u-boot-imx6/tree/boundary-v2020.10 For the impatient Our build server automatically generates and uploads all the latest binaries to this address: http://linode.boundarydevices.com/u-boot-images-2020.10/ The…
ML – Performance Analysis on i.MX Platforms
This blog post will show some Machine Learning (ML) performance analysis across our platforms and especially with the i.MX 8M Plus based Nitrogen8MP! It was done as part of our i.MX 8M Plus Machine Learning webinar which you can see…
3 Reasons NOT to use a Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry PI has changed the trajectory of embedded electronics. It has enabled thousands of new applications by providing a low cost embedded platform that is extremely well-supported by a large community of developers. It has helped fuel the explosion…
Nitrogen8MP Yocto Zeus release
We are pleased to release a Yocto Zeus image for our Nitrogen8MP SOM! This release is based upon NXP Beta 2 5.4.47_2.2.0 release. For the Impatient You can download the Yocto image for Nitrogen8MP here: 20201222-imx-image-full-nitrogen8mp.wic.gz You can program the…
Android 10 update release for Nitrogen8 family
We are glad to deliver the latest Android 10 2.5.0 release for all our i.MX 8M-based Nitrogen platforms: Nitrogen8M (and SOM) Nitrogen8M Mini (and SOM) Nitrogen8M Nano (and SOM) Nitrogen8M Plus SOM For the impatient You can download the Android 10…
Debian Buster images for Nitrogen8 family boards with kernel 5.4.x
We’re proud to release our new Debian Buster images for Nitrogen8 boards! These boards support only the Wayland graphical backend. We use Weston, the reference Wayland compositor, in this system. This image boots up the Weston compositor at start. This…
Using the OptConnect ema Modem with Nitrogen8M
We are pleased to announce support for the OptConnect ema Smart Embedded Modem on our Nitrogen8M board! We will discuss how to connect the modem via USB to the Nitrogen8M using a mPCIe adapter card, as well as instructions on…
