OpenRex – Open Source Hardware Project

Re:OpenRex – Open Source Hardware Project by joezydeco on Thursday January 10, 2019 @05:10PM (#18878779)

I've been developing on i.MX6 for the past 6-7 years and it's been the easiest Linux processor to work with out of the lot (looking at you, Renesas!)

And there's no shame with using a processor/RAM/eMMC combo on a SOM, either. Doing the high speed DDR layout on 6 or 8 layers of PCB is not a task for novices. Saving the low-speed interface work for a larger 2-layer carrier PCB makes the project go really smoothly (just watch the EMI off those right angle card-edge connectors!)

There are plenty of companies selling the IMX in all kinds of configurations for really decent volume prices. TechNexion and Boundary have been my favorites so far.

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Re:OpenRex – Open Source Hardware Project by fest on Thursday January 10, 2019 @05:23PM (#18878906)

I concur. i.MX6 not the fastest nor least expensive nor most power efficient SoC but the documentation and wide variety of SOMs make it competitive for lots of products.

I've designed it in a thermal imaging product, where it's 20 bit wide DVP support came in very handy.

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Re:OpenRex – Open Source Hardware Project by stusmall on Thursday January 10, 2019 @05:29PM (#18878968)

I remember having a lot of problems with their Android BSP for it. It came along with some pretty questionable patches to the framework, but I never had any issues with the actual Linux kernel.

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