Hardware requirements

  • USB Type-C cable

  • MCIMX93-QSB board

  • J-Link Debug Probe

  • 12V~20V power supply

  • Personal Computer

  • Headphone

Board settings

No special settings are required.

Note!

  1. This case does not support ddr and flash target.

Prepare the Demo

  1. Connect 12V~20V power supply and J-Link Debug Probe to the board, switch SW301 to power on the board.

  2. Connect a USB Type-C cable between the host PC and the J1401 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. Make sure the FDT file and key bootargs are correctly set before booting the linux kernel. Following is the example commands on A core U-Boot console: =>setenv fdtfile imx93-9x9-qsb-rpmsg.dtb =>setenv mmcargs ‘setenv bootargs ${jh_clk} clk-imx93.mcore_booted console=${console} root=${mmcroot} snd_pcm.max_alloc_per_card=134217728’ =>saveenv

  5. Boot Linux BSP to u-boot, and load M core image from SD card to run. (Put the image into SD card device before) => load mmc 1:1 0x80000000 imx93-9x9-qsb_m33_TCM_sai_low_power_audio.bin => cp.b 0x80000000 0x201e0000 ${filesize} => bootaux 0x1ffe0000 0

NOTE

  1. The 16/24/32bits for PCM Music stream are supported.

  2. Since the music files are typically large, users could create a new large size partition in the SD card to place the music files.

  3. Please make sure audio file (such as xxx.wav) in any filesystem that Linux can access.

Playback command

Note:

  1. Please use the command “cat /proc/asound/cards” to check the wm8962 sound card number (on A core Linux console). E.g: Type command: ~# cat /proc/asound/cards The available sound cards can be shown:

    0 [micfilaudio ]: micfil-audio - micfil-audio micfil-audio 1 [wm8962audio ]: wm8962-audio - wm8962-audio wm8962-audio

Then the wm8962 sound card number is 1.

When playback the .wav file (on A Core Linux console):

  1. If you want to playback with pause/resume command, below command can be used: “aplay -Dhw:1 xxx.wav -N”; press space key on the keyboard to pause, and press the space key again to resume.

  2. 93 board supports audio format of S16/S24/S32, and sample rates could be 32kHz, 48kHz and 96kHz, NOT inlcuding 44.1kHz.

  3. If want to playback with low power mode and specified period-size, could use command: “aplay -Dhw:1 –buffer-size=xxx –period-size=xxx xxx.wav -N &” or “aplay -Dhw:1 –buffer-time=xxx –period-time=xxx xxx.wav -N &”. E.g: “aplay -Dhw:1 –period-time=500000 –buffer-time=10000000 xxx.wav -N &” Now please use “echo mem > /sys/power/state” command to make A core enter suspend mode and the playback work normally. Note, make sure the A core has enough time to fill the audio buffer before going into suspend mode.

When recording sound, could use command: arecord -Dhw:1,0 -c2 -r48000 -fS32_LE test.wav

Running the demo

#################### LOW POWER AUDIO TASK ####################

Build Time: Apr 26 2023--15:55:05

Start SRTM communication

Wait the Linux kernel boot up to create the link between M core and A core.

Handle Peer Core Linkup The rpmsg channel between M core and A core created!

Task A is working now.