RidgeRun is proud to support NXP’s i.MX platforms, which enable a variety of multimedia and display applications.

NXP i.MX Platform

Supported NXP Platforms

The NXP i.MX range is a family of proprietary microcontrollers for multimedia applications based on the ARM® Cortex® architecture, with a focus on low-power consumption.

NXP i.MX8 Series

The i.MX 8 series of applications processors is a feature- and performance-scalable multi-core platform that includes single-, dual-, and quad-core families based on the Arm® Cortex® architecture—including combined Cortex-A72 + Cortex-A53, Cortex-A35, and Cortex-M4 based solutions

The i.MX8 Series offers solutions ideal for advanced graphics, imaging, machine
vision, audio, voice, video, and safety-critical applications,
such as the following:

NXP i.MX8 Software and Tools

• U-boot, linux, firmware, gstreamer

• Yocto - Freescale community BSP - for 3rd party boards

• Yocto - Freescale BSP

NXP i.MX8 Add-on Packages

• GStreamer multi-stream / multi-channel RTSP server element

• The GStreamer pre-record element

• Video Segmenter

• Camera Engine

• GStreamer in-band metadata support

• Motion detection with pluggable detection algorithm

• GStreamer Fast Text/Graphics Overlay

• USB standard UVC / UAC driver

• Manufacturing tests

NXP i.MX8 Versions:

• i.MX 8: Advance graphics and virtualization

• i.MX 8M: Advanced Audio, voice and video

• i.MX 8M Mini: Embedded consumer and industrial applications

• i.MX 8X: Safety certificable and efficient performance

Main Features:

• H264, H264, VP8 and VP9 codecs

• Upto 4Kp60 with High Dynamic Range (h.265, VP9) and 4Kp30
(h.264, VP8) video decode

• Upto 1080p60 H264 video encode

• MIPI-DSI, parallel and HDMI displays upto 4k resolution

• MIPI-CSI, parallel and HDMI camera interfaces

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Applications

NXP i.MX6 Series

The i.MX6 Series is a scalable, multi-core platform which consists of three main applications processors, based on the ARM® Cortex® architecture:

• Cortex-A • Cortex-A9 + Cortex-M4. • Cortex-A7

NXP i.MX6 Applications

The i.MX6 Series offers solutions ideal for advanced graphics, imaging, machine
vision, audio, voice, video, and safety-critical applications,
such as the following:

NXP i.MX6 Software and Tools

• GStreamer multi-stream / multi-channel RTSP server element

• The GStreamer pre-record element

• Video Segmenter

• Camera Engine

• GStreamer in-band metadata support

• Motion detection with pluggable detection algorithm

• GStreamer Fast Text/Graphics Overlay

• USB standard UVC / UAC driver

• Manufacturing tests

NXP i.MX6 Main Features:

• H264, MJPEG codecs

• 1080p30 video encode (H264)

• 1080p60 video decode (H264)

• 2 x 4XGA (2048x1536) or 2 x [1080p + WXGA (1280x720)] displays

• HDMI output

• MIPI-DSI output

• 2x parallel inputs + 1x 4-lane MIPI-CSI (3 simultaneous cameras)

NXP i.MX6 Versions: