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…
High Assurance Boot (HAB) – i.MX8M edition
This post intends to provide all the information you need to understand and use the HAB (High Assurance Boot) on your Boundary Devices Nitrogen8 platform. The goal is also to provide an update to our HAB for Dummies blog post…
BD-SDMAC Bluetooth Update – Now BT 5.0 Compatible
We are pleased to announce that our BD-SDMAC Wifi + BT module is now Bluetooth 5.0 Compatible! We have updated our qcacld-2.0 driver and qca-firmware in order to support this. Our latest Yocto Zeus images already have this support included….
HDMI Input for i.MX8 boards via MIPI-CSI
We are pleased to announce support for the BD_HDMI_MIPI on our i.MX8 based Nitrogen boards. Although the i.MX8M and i.MX8M Mini processors do not natively support HDMI input, the Toshiba TC358743XBG HDMI to MIPI-CSI bridge enables this feature. You can…
Programming eMMC on i.MX platforms
This post intends to answer the question of programming the eMMC memory you can find on our devices. Although there are many different approaches available based on Linux or the MFG Tools, this post will focus on two solutions provided under U-Boot. Solution…
Cellular modems on i.MX8 boards, Nitrogen8M and Nitrogen8M Mini under Ubuntu
In this post, we’ll walk through all of the steps needed to configure a specific set of modems under Ubuntu as a reference. We’ll use Quectel EC25 modem in this showcase, if you’re using another modem or another userspace, the…
Official Release of the Nitrogen8M_Mini Featuring i.MX8M Mini
Boundary Devices is pleased to announce the official release of our Nitrogen8M_Mini SBC & SOM for the general embedded and IoT markets. As an NXP Early Access Partner we were able to design and manufacture a commercially ready SBC AND…
Nitrogen8M – Android and Qt Demo
The latest addition to our Nitrogen family, the Nitrogen8M, based on the NXP i.MX8MQ processor, will start shipping soon so it is time to show some demos of it. The Setup For this demo, we simply use: A Nitrogen8M platform…
Android Tools Windows Support for Nitrogen Platforms
Many topics in our Android Getting Started Guide rely on Android Tools such as ADB for application debugging or Fastboot for image flashing. Unfortunately, the guide assumed that the user was using a Linux distribution for all the commands involving Android…