Developing software for the NXP i.MX8M Plus board

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The Getting started with AI on NXP i.MX8M Plus guide is currently under active development. Some sections may be incomplete or change without notice.

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Getting started with AI on NXP i.MX8M Plus
Introduction
Overview i.MX8M Plus hardware specifications Development tools Development kit DART-MX8M-PLUS Development kit Quick getting started Yocto minimal image Flashing SD card First steps on the board
Development
Gatesgarth and Hardknott Yocto versions Downloading Yocto images for NXP based BSP Building an imx-core-image Flashing SD card Integrating multimedia software stack Installing GStreamer Installing OpenCV Integrating Artificial Intelligence software stack Installing TensorFlow Lite for NXP based images Installing R2Inference Installing GstInference Developing software for the board Building the SDK Crosscompiling apps for GStreamer, TensorFlow Lite, and OpenCV Exploring TensorFlow Lite delegates for prototyping
Neural Processing Unit
Introduction Profiling the NPU Installing gputop Setting the board on debug mode Use Case experiments: Smart Parking Introduction to the use case License Plate Detection TinyYOLO version 3 Training a model compatible with GstInference License Plate Recognition Rosetta Getting the model prototyping Bash scripts for CPU usage and time estimation Serial experiments Parallel Experiments Results
GStreamer
Exploring Rosetta element for character recognition Example pipelines Smart Parking Video inferences Image inferences Video streaming
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This section is going to show how to build the toolchain in order to crosscompile apps using GStreamer, OpenCV, TensorFlow Lite libraries:

• Building the SDK.

• Examples for apps that use multimedia and AI libraries.

• Exploring AI delegates for hardware accelerators.