Hardware requirements

  • Micro USB cable

  • MIMX8ULP-EVK board

  • J-Link Debug Probe

  • 5V power supply

  • Personal Computer

Board settings

No special settings are required.

Please note this application can’t support running with Linux BSP!

Prepare the Demo

  1. Connect 5V power supply and JLink Plus to the board, switch SW10 to power on the board

  2. Connect a micro USB cable between the host PC and the J17 USB port on the target board.

  3. Open a serial terminal with the following settings:

    • 115200 baud rate

    • 8 data bits

    • No parity

    • One stop bit

    • No flow control

  4. Build the project

  5. Generate flash.bin with imx-mkimage and download it according to Getting Started doc

  6. Open two serials lines provided at J17 USB port. (e.g. /dev/ttyUSB0~3, /dev/ttyUSB2 for A Core, /dev/ttyUSB3 for M Core)

  7. Repower on board and stop in U-Boot command line.

Running the demo

When the example runs successfully, the RGB LED(U15) on board will shine with blue light and the following message is displayed in the terminal:

 RGPIO Driver example
 The LED is taking turns to shine.