Boundary Devices iMX6 SabreLite Board

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RidgeRun is currently developing an SDK for the iMX6 SabreLite Board from Boundary Devices. You can download the evaluation SDK for the SabreLite from the RidgeRun download center or for the professional version go to our store.

iMX6 SabreLite Board

Sabrelite
Sabrelite

Description

The iMX6 SabreLite Board is a low cost development plataform using the Freescale iMX6Quad processor enabling a rapid development of multimedia applications.

Some of the highlights include:

  • Quad-Core ARM® Cortex A9 processor at 1GHz
  • 1GByte of 64-bit wide DDR3 @ 532MHz
  • Three display ports (RGB, LVDS, and HDMI 1.4a)
  • Two camera ports (1xParallel, 1x MIPI CSI-2)
  • Multi-stream-capable HD video engine delivering
  • H.264 1080p60 decode, 1080p30 encode and 3-D video playback in HD
  • Triple Play Graphics system consisting of a Quad-shader 3D unit capable of 200MT/s, and a separate 2-D and separate OpenVG Vertex acceleration engine for superior 3D, 2D and user interface acceleration
  • Serial ATA 2.5 (SATA) at 3Gbps
  • Dual SD 3.0/SDXC card slots
  • PCIe port (1 lane)
  • Analog (headphone/mic) and Digital (HDMI) audio
  • Compact size (3″x3″)
  • 10/100/Gb IEEE1588 Ethernet
  • 10-pin JTAG interface
  • 3 High speed USB ports (2xHost, 1xOTG)
  • 1xCAN2 port
  • I2C
  • GPIOs 

Features Supported by the SDK

  • U-boot-2013.10 + env function support to read your environment from a *.txt file in a SD card
  • Linux Kernel 3.0.35-4.1.0
  • Gstreamer-0.10.36
  • Freescale gst-plugins 3.0.7
  • X11 support
  • Enlightenment and Matchbox window managers
  • Qt + X11
  • Multi-Display
  • Multi-Overlay
  • Hardware based audio and video codecs
  • Hardware graphics acceleration
  • Hardware Floting point support
  • SD and NFS file system support
  • Boot from SD3, SD4 or SPI-NOR with an easy installation
  • Start kernel via TFTP option
  • Toolchain based on codesourcery 2009q1 and linaro (2012.03 and 2013.03)

Articles related to this board

Getting Started Guide for iMX6 SabreLite
SDK Turrialba for iMX6 SabreLite
IMX6 GStreamer Pipelines - SDK Turrialba
Hardware floating point support for iMX6