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Hardware requirements

Hardware requirements#

  • Micro USB cable

  • MIMX8ULP-EVK/EVK9 Board

  • J-Link Debug Probe

  • 5V power supply

  • Personal Computer

Board settings#

No special is needed.

Prepare the Demo#

  1. Connect 5V power supply and J-Link Debug Probe to the board.

  2. Connect a USB cable between the host PC and the Debug port on the 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. Generate flash.bin with imx-mkimage on host pc

    git clone

    cd imx-mkimage

    cp .bin imx-mkimage/iMX8ULP/

    for single boot type:

    make SOC=iMX8ULP REV=A1 flash_singleboot_m33 (for A1 sillicon)

    make SOC=iMX8ULP REV=A0 flash_singleboot_m33 (for A0 sillicon)

    for low power boot type/dual boot type:

    make SOC=iMX8ULP REV=A1 flash_dual_m33

    make SOC=iMX8ULP REV=A0 flash_dual_m33

  5. Download flash.bin for single boot type: a. Download to emmc(for single boot type) with uuu

    uuu -b emmc imx-boot-imx8ulpevk-sd.bin-flash_singleboot_m33 flash.bin (Need download the file imx-boot-imx8ulpevk-sd.bin-flash_singleboot_m33 from linux bsp)

    for low power boot type/dual boot type: a. Download to flexspi nor flash of m33 with uboot console(pls refer to the doc Getting Started with MCUXpresso SDK for EVK-MIMX8ULP and EVK9-MIMX8ULP.pdf) b. Download to flexspi nor flash of m33(for low power boot type/dual boot type) with jlink(pls refer to the doc Getting Started with MCUXpresso SDK for EVK-MIMX8ULP and EVK9-MIMX8ULP.pdf) c. Download to flexspi nor flash of m33 with uuu(write a uuu script to write flash.bin to flexspi nor flash of m33, pls refer to uuu manual)

  6. Power Off board and Power on board

  7. Note: Pls not running the demo that use TRDC with debugger(jlink or others)

Running the demo#

When the example runs successfully, you can see the similar information from the terminal as below.

EDMA scatter_gather transfer example begin.

Destination Buffer:
0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0

EDMA scatter_gather transfer example finish.

Destination Buffer:
1       2       3       4       5       6       7       8
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