MCIMX6Q-SL: Development platform for i.MX 6Quad
Built to Freescale®
SABRE Lite design
Doc ID: MCIMX6QSLUM
Rev. 0.9, 11/12/2012
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Demo applications
1.
Timesys Theatre
Timesys theatre showcases a number of the unique capabilites of the i.MX 6Q hardware, most notably:
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Hardware video acceleration
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Multi-core processing
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Video streaming from camera
The main menu for the theatre provides four options:
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Accelerated Video: Play a video using Freescale accelerated codecs
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Non-accelerated Video: Play same video with standard, unaccelerated gstreamer and ffmpeg
codecs
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Camera: see the video capture stream from an attached camera. Includes non-accelerated
gstreamer pipeline elements
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Exit: leave this demo
When selecting any of the first three menu options, you may stress-test the video pipeline to see the
impact of additional computational work on video that is accelerated and non-accelerated. In order to do
this:
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Select "Accelerated Video," "Non-accelerated Video," or "Camera"
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Click anywhere on the screen to bring up the Qt GUI overlay
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Add additional computational load with the "Add CPU Load" button
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View the per-core CPU usage in the top-left corner of the screen
Note that you will see notable video slowdown when adding CPU load for the non-accelerated video
pipeline. Alternatively, you should see nearly no slowdown, if any, for the accelerated pipeline.
To return to the main menu from any of the video streams, hit the "Stop" button in the lower-right corner
of the Qt GUI overlay.
2.
Vivante GPU demos
Vivante provides a binary package of OpenGLES libraries to make 3D graphics acceleration available to the
developer on an i.MX 6Q - based platform.
Two Vivante-developed demos, "3D Spinning Orb" and "3D Spinning Block," show the SABRE-Lite's 3D
graphics acceleration capabilities in a number of simple tests with texturized 3D objects.
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Timesys website
If your element14 i.MX 6Q SABRE-Lite is connected to a DHCP and DNS server through an ethernet cable,
you can access the Web via the Qt application called 'fancybrowser.'
This demo will route you to the Timesys website, after which you may navigate about the Web as you
would with a standard Web browser.
