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Camera compatible with MCIMX6Q-SL in camera interface PPI

Naveenprasad — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 10:51:16 GMT

Hi All,

As i need to interface an parallel camera with MCIMX6Q-SL board which has an parallel interface connector.

Can anyone suggest me an camera which is compatible with the camera interface on MCIMX6Q-SL board.

Adding custom HDMI LCD display supoprt for SABRE Lite

dreamscorner — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 02:12:59 GMT

I am trying to add support on SABRE Lite bsp for a custom HDMI LCD display with non-standard resolution (1280*480).

LCD Panel--> http://www.panelook.com/LQ123K1LG03_SHARP_12.3_LCM_overview_9916.html (please find datasheet attached)

Any pointers/documentation regarding custom LCD porting would help. Thanks in advance!!

Attachments:

[View:/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-discussions-components-files/83/LQ123K1LG03.pdf:15:200]

LQ123K1LG03.pdf

UART Serial connection

rctho — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 21:46:48 GMT

Hello everyone. i'm hoping i can get some help with something i have been working off and on for a while. I have a SABRESD i.MX 6Dual/6Quad on a custom board from some OEM manufacturer. A few of them actually. I want to follow this tutorial to put linux on it. Looks pretty straight fwd. The problem i'm having is im unable to connect to the serial port to stop the U-Boot process if there is one at all. Currently there is Android on it so it's probably Fastboot. I'm guessing that the custom board does not allow a serial connection so it's not tampered with. I found what i think is a tx/rx on the board that connects to the chip for development.

[View:/resized-image/__size/620x120/__key/communityserver-discussions-components-files/83/8270.contentimage_5F00_106689.png:620:120]

Here is the pinout of the connection to the chip. the far left and right are vcc and ground while the two in the center connect to the chip.

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and the headers i soldered onto it

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Sorry for the noob questions. This is all very new to me and this is all i have managed to put together. If there is indeed Fastboot on it, is there a way i can flash U-boot without access to the serial connection that will later have a serial connection for me to connect to?

RE: UART Serial connection

rctho — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 20:46:52 GMT

Updated pics.

on NXP someone suggested using the mfg-tool. I tried that with no luck because of version issues. There are a lot to go through. i'm pretty sure the one i have is the mx6DLL and might be a lil' old. I prefer the buildroot method. I was able to successfully boot to linux through usb, but unfortunately without a display so without the serial connection, i don't really know what's going on. In this time i have come across two more of these boards. If i can fig out one, i can use them all.

RE: UART Serial connection

Jan Cumps — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 11:17:20 GMT

your pictures don’t show. Can you try to edit your post, make a small change and save it again?

That usually fixes it.

i.MX 6Quad development kit

vijay2017 — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 07:03:13 GMT

Hi, i want to know the purpose of the BOOT CONNECTOR for Boot schematic select pins in iMSX6 QUAD DEVELOPMENT KIT BOARD.where should i connect the pins and how to boot.I am asking about the hardware related things.

Attachments:

[View:/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-discussions-components-files/83/schematic-imx6.pdf:15:200]

schematic imx6.pdf

How to mount Element14 SABRElite?

anonymous_engineer_8hflg — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 21:27:29 GMT

Recently bought a SABRElite board for some tasks where it seemed a good choice. Planned to add some "case-like" mounting for safer handling of the board.

But when the board arrived, I found out that Element14/Embest had put some components so close to the mounting holes that typical standoffs won't fit, only the non-fixable short legs that came with the board.

Do any of you earlier adopters of this board know a practical way to mount the Element14 SABRElite in a box or similar?

http://www.element14.com/community/community/designcenter/single-board-computers/sabrelite

clem57 — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 15:05:56 GMT

I cannot find sabre lite board when I press BUY in the above web page.[View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/communityserver-discussions-components-files/83/contentimage_5F00_2.png:16:16]

RE: http://www.element14.com/community/community/designcenter/single-board-computers/sabrelite

gadget.iom — Sat, 23 Jan 2016 23:16:35 GMT

Great. Glad you're sorted.

Paul.

RE: http://www.element14.com/community/community/designcenter/single-board-computers/sabrelite

clem57 — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 20:34:43 GMT

Yes. That's it.

RE: http://www.element14.com/community/community/designcenter/single-board-computers/sabrelite

gadget.iom — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 15:58:19 GMT

This one?

http://uk.farnell.com/nxp/mcimx6q-sl/i-mx6-quad-sabre-lite-dev-kit/dp/2124398

Sabre Lite Yocto Image & LCD8000-97C

Former Member — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 13:12:58 GMT

Hello,

i am really new to embedded linux so hopefully anybody can give me a hint how to succeed with my problem...

I bought the sabre lite board and the LCD8000-97CLCD8000-97C Since i can´t achive CAN communication with the original demo Image i switch to Yocto core-image-base where i add the CAN stuff

Now i have problems to get the LCD8000-97CLCD8000-97C working I tried to add the uBoot environment vars as descriped in the manual but i think the 6xbootscript override this variables and so i can´t get any output to the lcd display

Is it possible to adopt the bootscript with the Yocto build environment?

Or any other suggestions how to get the LCD8000-97CLCD8000-97C working

Many Thanks

Wolfgang

RE: Sabre Lite Yocto Image & LCD8000-97C

jack.chaney56 — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 20:41:24 GMT

Wolfgang,

Great to hear you have the screen working, Usually the bugger task, unless you are lucky to find a pre-built driver that doesn't inflict too many rabbit holes to generate your graphics.

For a hint, which you probably already know, "Linux is the same as UNIX". So any books or techniques you may have used under UNIX will work the same on Linux. Forking to get multiple tasks running, using inter task messaging and semaphores during operations to keep things in sync, and treating everything like a port, either serial or block form. The biggest differences are the additions to the file manager for logging and data protection.

Jack

RE: Sabre Lite Yocto Image & LCD8000-97C

Former Member — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 18:29:42 GMT

Hi,

you are right! Embedded Linux is not plug and play

The good thing is, that the Display works now after modifying and recompiling the 6x_bootscript with Boundary Devices: ARM Single Board Computers - Power over Ethernet Technology

Now I need to get the tochscreen working, hopefully i can use the patch provided by element 14.....

I also like to programming in C, but sadly I am not familiar with doing this Linux things and I really need to get this running for my job.

Thanks

Wolfgang

RE: Sabre Lite Yocto Image & LCD8000-97C

jack.chaney56 — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 13:54:45 GMT

Jumping in the deep end is very courageous. Embedded Linux is different from what you would expect to find on a normal installation. Most of the "tools" you are used to using either would need to be added, or simply would not be available. Things like sed/awk, and grep for starters. Also it is good to understand the principles of a multi-threaded OS. I would suggest tracking down a copy of "Running Linux" from O'Reilly. It has a good description of lots of the innards of the OS and covers many of the connector mechanisms of the OS components.

It might also be a good idea to kind of divorce your thinking from the specific hardware (other than the connections) and consider the programming from the OS level only. Only deal with actual hardware when you need to manage critical timing and routing of signals to specific channels or registers. The last is choosing the programming language to use. I like to do my embedded work in C and not so much C++, because I am an old Assembler hack and it translates better. The key programming element is

#define REG(a) *((volatile {data type}* const) (a))

where {data type} is whatever data structure you need to include, giving access to the physical memory mapped location of the structure.

Hope this proves helpful,

Jack

RE: Datasheet Touch controller VTL CT36X used on LCD8000-97C

Former Member — Tue, 17 Nov 2015 21:51:42 GMT

Hello Erwin, I've searched all the internet trying to find any information about that controller. Could you please send me a copy of that ds?

Datasheet Touch controller VTL CT36X used on LCD8000-97C

Former Member — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 08:28:28 GMT

I am developing a device driver for the Touch controller VTL CT363 which is on LCD8000-97CLCD8000-97C I found a linux driver which helps me a bit but I am looking for the datasheet It should be available on the site from VTL http://www.vtl.com.cn/support/download/ but I am not able to download it for some reason. I also contacted VTL but no response.

Could somebody help me with this datasheet?

Many thanks,

Erwin

Differences between Element 14 Sabrelite and Boundary Devices SabreLite

badger16437 — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 10:53:08 GMT

Hello,

I've been working with the SABRE Lite BSP offered now with WEC2013.

We have 4 of the Element 14 SABRE Lite boards and have successfully booted WinCE 2013, however we have struggled to get HDMI working and some of the board peripherals.

Development platform for i.MX 6Quad - Built to Freescale SABRE Lite design

I recently contacted Boundary Devices about the problems we were having:

"Hi Steve,

The element14 board is not the same SABRE Lite. We did the original design for Freescale, but the files were public at the time so element14 took the files and manufactured their own version.

We have made notable improvements on the SABRE Lite design so I cannot comment on how our software will work with the element14 board.

Boundary Devices Inc"

And then went on to say:

"HI Steve,

Per my previous email, you should buy one of our boards so you can run our software on it.

The Adeneo BSP is the one we are using and it is designed for the latest SABRE Lite boards.

Boundary Devices Inc"

http://boundarydevices.com/product/sabre-lite-imx6-sbc/

Could someone clarify if this is the case ? As from what we can gather the element14 board isn't compatible with the iMX6Q SABRE Lite supplied with WEC2013 bsp.

I've also noticed the two boards mentioned on Timesys who produce the shipped Linux demo image with the element14 board:

LinuxLink Development Center for Freescale i.MX 6 Series Processor | Timesys Embedded Linux

The software version numbers listed appear identical.

Kind Regards

Steve Jones

RE: Differences between Element 14 Sabrelite and Boundary Devices SabreLite

Former Member — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 09:48:35 GMT

Hi Steve,

I have started a new discussion about the memory bandwidth of these 2 boards:

http://www.element14.com/community/thread/42682/l/embest-sabre-lite-memory-bandwidth-vs-boundary-devices-sabre-lite

Embest board seems rather limited.

Florian

Embest SABRE Lite memory bandwidth vs Boundary Devices SABRE Lite

Former Member — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 09:40:20 GMT

I face a performance problem on Embest SABRE Lite board. I suspected a memory bandwidth limitation so I ran bw_mem from lmbench suite.

I have also a Boundary Devices SABRE Lite board. Here are the results with bw_mem -P 1 -N 4 128M what

what	rd	wr	rdwr	cp	fwr	frd	fcp	bzero	bcopy
Embest	507.76	306.41	195.14	204.25	2034.81	257.64	210.23	2033.10	212.76
Boundary Devices	621.20	378.51	287.07	284.16	2253.68	406.55	307.79	2246.99	308.64

The tests clearly show memory bandwidth is significantly lower for all use cases.

I have noticed the memory controller settings are different by displaying the register contents with U-Boot. However, both boards have the same Hynix DDR chip Hynix H5TQ2G63DFR with same speed grade H9C.

Does someone have an idea about this?

Windows on SABRE-Lite!

Former Member — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 15:48:59 GMT

Hello SABRE-Lite developers!

Want to try Windows Embedded Compact 2013 or Windows Embedded Compact 7 on your Element14 Sabre-Lite? Want to develop applications in C# or VB.NET or plain old C/C++ for your Sabre-Lite using Visual Studio?

Take a look here: https://guruce.com/imx6

Free downloadable WEC kernel images and full instructions can be downloaded here: https://guruce.com/imx6-bsp-releases

RE: Windows on SABRE-Lite!

Former Member — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 17:45:39 GMT

The SABRE Lite design can only boot from SPI Flash due to the bootswitches not allowing any other configuration than either boot from SPI or boot from USB (using the FSL Manufacturing Tool). Luckily our bootloader fully supports booting from SPI. The bootloader will proceed to load the big CE kernel image from SATA, SD or uSD. Full instructions on how to set this up can be found in our Getting Started Guide.

On RIoTboard we support booting from SD, uSD and eMMC (because the RIoTboard design supports all boot options through the boot switches). Everything, including how to setup the RIoTboard bootswitches and how to flash our bootloader and kernel, is described in our Getting Started Guide.

We'll post some videos soon to show WEC7 and WEC2013 booting on the various boards we support at the moment. Currently we support the RIoTboard, SABRE Lite, Device Solution Opal6 and Congatec QMX6. Digi ConnectCore 6 support will follow soon, and we are planning to add support for many more off-the-shelf boards and devkits.

LCD8000-97C touch controller

Former Member — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 15:45:46 GMT

Hi,

Can any one tell me the name of touch controller used in LCD8000-97C.

Thanks

Jam

RE: LCD8000-97C touch controller

clem57 — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 12:24:33 GMT

http://down.embest-tech.com/download/LCM%20Specification.pdf is this what you need erwinzwart. Thanks, Clem

RE: Windows on SABRE-Lite!

FreescaleTools_and_Software — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 11:44:49 GMT

Hi Michael

Thank you for sharing the information of this new Windows Embedded BSP compatible with the i.MX6Quad of the Sabre-Lite.

Have you tried to boot Sabre-Lite with your BSP image from an SD card ?
Can you share with the community some instructions/recommendations to create a bootable SD Card for Sabre-Lite with Windows Compact ?

Some pictures/video of the Sabre-Lite booting the Windows OS could be another motivation for the community user to try it

Thanks in advance for your contribution