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NAND programming

11 November 2019

Linux root filesystem can be flashed on NAND memory in three different ways: running prfs.sh script provided by Engicam source codes, using ubiformat command of mtd-utils package with .ubi root filesystem, or from U-Boot exploiting TFTP with .ubifs. Each one of these procedures requires thus a ...

How to setting the u-boot devicetree variables

10 December 2018

Refer to carrier board user manual for the Linux console cable connection. Then launch and setting the terminal as follow: Minicom It's a simple terminal program, easy to configure and use. Can be downloaded and installed from your Linux package distribution (Synaptic, apt-get, yum) Minicom ...

How to prepare SD card with standard yocto image for Engicam Boards

04 October 2018

Prepare sdcard with standard yocto image for Engicam Boards. On the engicam Yocto meta layer there are 2 different images: engicam-test-hw An image that contains all unit test for the SOM and some script for programming internal media like nand flash and emmc . If you bringing up a board we ...

Run M4 application from DDR (iCoreMX6SX)

01 August 2018

Communication between A9 and M4 cores This tutorial will explain how to test the communication between ARM Cortex-A9 and ARM Cortex-M4 cores using the pinpong application. Both cores application run on DDR so we need to partition the DDR space available. First 16MB will be assigned to ...

Som Programming

09 May 2018

Som Programming Prepare the sdcard image For onboard emmc wrting you can use some script files present on engicam-test-hw image. First of all you need to create the sdcard imge. Enter in to the yocto build directory (it depends on you installation type) example: ...

How to test Semioty services with engicam microdev board

03 April 2018

How to test Semioty services with engicam microdev board. Prepare the building environment Download the Pyro virtual machine image and run it. Enter into the yocto source folder and update the layers: cd pyro/fsl-community cd sources/ cd meta-engicam #update the engicam layer git pull origin ...

USB MicroDev options

20 March 2018

USB MicroDev options USB_OTG* lines are shared between: display touch screen, umts controls, and expander connector. You must use USB lines in mutual exclusion. For example if you use for display touch screen you can't use for UMTS or expander connector. Available options: By default in a ...

Build root filesystem for icorem6qdl with buildroot

12 March 2018

Build root filesystem for icorem6qdl with buildroot Download the latest buildroot source and uncompress it wget https://buildroot.org/downloads/buildroot-2018.02.tar.bz2 tar -xvf buildroot-2018.02.tar.bz2 cd buildroot-2018.02/ make engicam_imx6qdl_icore_defconfig if you what to add some ...

PXP GEA MX6UL FOR GSTREAMER PIPELINE

09 March 2018

PXP GEA MX6UL FOR GSTREAMER PIPELINE In this section is reported the procedure how to enable pxp module for gstremer pipeline . Added this packages in your recipes IMAGE_INSTALL_append_mx6ul = " \ packagegroup-fslc-gstreamer1.0-full \ gst1.0-fsl-plugin ...

WF111 Wi-Fi

09 March 2018

WF111 Wi-Fi In this section are reported the procedures how to use the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth on device Engicam. The driver for support of these modules are automatically compiled in the recipes engicam-test-hw. AP MODE Create the file "/etc/udhcpd.conf" that will contains the address ...

WIFI+BLUETOOTH STERLING-LWB

09 March 2018

WIFI+BLUETOOTH STERLING-LWB In this section are reported the procedures how to use the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth on device Engicam. The driver for support of these modules are automatically compiled in the recipes engicam-test-hw. AP MODE Create the file "/etc/udhcpd.conf" that will contains ...

APACHE AND PHP

09 March 2018

APACHE AND PHP In this section is reported the procedure how to include APACHE server and PHP on the Engicam Yocto image. Added this packages in your recipes apache2 \ php \ php-cli \ php-modphp \ Added this features in your file local.conf PACKAGECONFIG_append_pn-php = " ...

Azure Demo on Microedev

07 March 2018

Azure Demo on Microedev The demo is based on yocto pyro Sdcard Image setup On yocto source folder , clone the meta-iot-cloud repo: git clone https://github.com/intel-iot-devkit/meta-iot-cloud.git Launch on terminal the yocto setting command: MACHINE=microdev source engicam-setup-environment ...

First Yocto Build

07 March 2018

First Yocto Build Enter in to the yocto build directory (it depends on you installation type) example: /home/user/yocto_daisy/fsl-community-bsp Then run the command of the configuration environment: MACHINE=<machine target> source engicam-setup-environment <target build ...

Test mainline kernel and ubuntu image on iCoreMx6

07 March 2018

Test mainline kernel and ubuntu image on iCoreMx6 Prerequiste packets: install the packet: sudo apt-get install gparted git build-essential libncurses5 wget u-boot-tools zlib1g-dev ncurses-dev \ cmake libc-dev-armhf-cross pkg-config-arm-linux-gnueabihf build-essential checkinstall cmake ...