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BASEplatform Bring-Up on the Toradex Colibri iMX7

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Close-up view of Toradex Colibri iMX7 in evaluation board.

This article will go over some aspects of the early bring-up experience using the BASEplatform™ on the Toradex Colibri iMX7 System on Module (SoM). It will also cover features and advantages of the Colibri SoM for embedded developers interested in using an RTOS or a bare-metal environment on the NXP i.MX7 SoC. The BASEplatform is … Read more

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

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

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

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

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

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