Articles by subject: mcu & soc

Close up shot of the NXP i.MX7 Sabre development board showing the SoC BGA chip.

i.MX7D M4 Bare-Metal Bring-up and Benchmark

Following up on the last piece about the NXP i.MX 7, this article looks at the ARM Cortex-M4 companion of the Cortex-A7 present in the i.MX 7. Or to put it another way, a Kinetis-on-chip since it’s very similar to a high-end Cortex-M4 based Kinetis. This article summarizes my experience writing a brand new bare

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Close up shot of the NXP i.MX7 Sabre development board showing the SoC BGA chip.

i.MX7D Sabre Bare-Metal Bring-up and Benchmark

One of our specialties at JBLopen is board bring-up, either for bare metal or various commercial and open source RTOSes. Despite the number of different platforms, CPU architectures and RTOSes out there, low level bring-up, BSP and driver development are rarely discussed in blogs and articles on the web. The same can be said about

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krtkl snickerdoodle with connector down configuration and SD Card installed in cage.

snickerdoodle says Hello World!

What would make a better first post about embedded software than a hello world project on a brand-new development board. It’s the krtkl snickerdoodle I received with much excitement last week. The SoM is based on the Xilinx Zynq-7000 SoC along with storage and wifi on the SoM. In these next series of articles, I’m

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Articles by subject: mcu & soc

Close up shot of the NXP i.MX7 Sabre development board showing the SoC BGA chip.

i.MX7D M4 Bare-Metal Bring-up and Benchmark

Following up on the last piece about the NXP i.MX 7, this article looks at the ARM Cortex-M4 companion of the Cortex-A7 present in the i.MX 7. Or to put it another way, a Kinetis-on-chip since it’s very similar to a high-end Cortex-M4 based Kinetis. This article summarizes my experience writing a brand new bare

Read More »
Close up shot of the NXP i.MX7 Sabre development board showing the SoC BGA chip.

i.MX7D Sabre Bare-Metal Bring-up and Benchmark

One of our specialties at JBLopen is board bring-up, either for bare metal or various commercial and open source RTOSes. Despite the number of different platforms, CPU architectures and RTOSes out there, low level bring-up, BSP and driver development are rarely discussed in blogs and articles on the web. The same can be said about

Read More »
krtkl snickerdoodle with connector down configuration and SD Card installed in cage.

snickerdoodle says Hello World!

What would make a better first post about embedded software than a hello world project on a brand-new development board. It’s the krtkl snickerdoodle I received with much excitement last week. The SoM is based on the Xilinx Zynq-7000 SoC along with storage and wifi on the SoM. In these next series of articles, I’m

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