December 14, 2015

Boot2Qt Getting Started Guide

Introduction Developing an embedded product requires 3 main steps:  selection of the proper hardware platform, operating system selection/setup, and User Interface (UI) development.  All 3 of these steps are very closely tied together.  t is critical to select …

January 8, 2015

Qt for Device Creation

If you don’t already, you should know about The Qt Company’s enterprise device creation offering, a Qt-optimized pre-built software stack that lets you immediately get started with prototyping on a real device for embedded Linux and Android development. …

December 15, 2014

Ubuntu Trusty December 2014 release

It’s the middle of December and time for an updated image with Ubuntu 14.04 (code name Trusty) for our i.MX6 boards. It’s also time that we pushed a console-only image for those using our boards in applications that …

June 20, 2013

Qt4 Demo Image

Get it We’ve created a qt4 demo image using Yocto to build the root filesystem. Grab the the file: yocto-qt4e-demo-image.tar.bz2 Extract it to an SD card and you’re good to go. Notes There is no hardware acceleration or …

June 18, 2013

Boot to Qt

A couple of weeks ago, we found out about some work that the folks at Digia are doing for embedded developers. Known as Boot To Qt, this upcoming offering does precisely what many of you need: it boots …

July 10, 2012

i.MX6 builds

The following is a list of the i.MX6 images available for download. Each of them is a link to a blog post describing the image, where to get it, and how to create an SD card image. Each …

June 16, 2012

Timesys demo image

The team at Timesys put together a very nice package to showcase various hardware and software features of the i.MX6 in general and the Nitrogen6X in particular. We’ll be showing this in our booth at FTF Americas in …

June 11, 2012

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 …

December 11, 2011

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 …