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Welcome
First of all, welcome to the IGEP Community Wiki!
This is a collaborative site for developers like you that share their knowledge of the IGEP Technology.
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Introducing the developing tools for IGEP Technology
All IGEP Technology devices have many free developing tools and resources. Here is a little introduction to this developing environment:
IGEP SDK Virtual Machine
The IGEP SDK Virtual Machine is a ready to use virtual machine that includes all the developer tools for IGEP Technology. You can download it for free from the ISEE website.
Features
- Includes the official Software Development Kit (SDK) from ISEE with:
- IGEP SDK Yocto Toolchain (see description below)
- Eclipse IDE with Yocto Plug-in and Linux Tools
- Qt creator IDE
Highlights
- Best choice for beginners
- All components are already installed and configured to speed up your developing process
- Suitable for VMware and Virtualbox. Compatible with Windows/Linux/MacOS host
First steps
- Download the IGEP SDK Virtual Machine from the ISEE website
- Follow the steps of the IGEP SDK Virtual Machine manual
- Know more in the IGEP SDK Virtual Machine article
IGEP SDK Yocto Toolchain
The IGEP SDK Yocto Toolchain consists on a set of all necessary tools like a cross compiler, embedded libraries, etc. to compile program sources for IGEP devices from a different device, such a PC. You can download it for free from the ISEE website.
The IGEP SDK Yocto Toolchain is already installed and configured in the IGEP SDK Virtual Machine (see description above).
Features
- Compile your projects for IGEP Technology in your own Linux computer
- It can be integrated with some popular IDEs such Eclipse, QT Creator and Codeblocks
Highlights
- Easy to install
- Develop in your own Linux machine
What's included
IDEs
An Interactive Development Environment (IDE) is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development.
IGEP SDK Yocto Toolchain is compatible with the following IDEs:
- Eclipse: multi-language software development environment comprising an IDE and an extensible plug-in system. This IDE is a Complete solution with debugging capabilities
- If you are using the IGEP SDK Virtual Machine visit: How to develop with Eclipse IDE under IGEP Technology
- If you want to install Eclipse in your computer visit: How to install Eclipse IDE
- QT Creator: This IDE is focused to develop graphical applications:
- If you are using the IGEP SDK Virtual Machine visit: How to develop with Qt under IGEP Technology
- If you want to install Eclipse in your computer visit: How to install Qt Creator
- Codeblocks: This IDE is an open source cross-platform IDE which supports multiple compilers including GCC and MSVC.
- Know how to install and use Codeblocks in your IGEP SDK Virtual Machine (not installed by default)
Hardware Virtualization
Computer hardware virtualization is the virtualization of computers or operating systems. It hides the physical characteristics of a computing platform from users, instead showing another abstract computing platform. IGEP Processor Boards are compatible with:
- QEMU: it lets run Run your projects applications for IGEP Technology in your own computer
First steps
- Download the IGEP SDK Yocto Toolchain from the ISEE website
- Download the Software Reference Manual
- Follow the steps of the IGEP SDK Yocto Toolchain article
- Visit the QEMU article in the IGEP Community Wiki
IGEP DSP Gstreamer Framework
The IGEP DSP Gstreamer Framework provides all DSP essential packages and the "gstreamer DSP plugin" ready to use with all IGEP Technology Devices. You can download from the ISEE website.
Features
- Based on TI DVSDK
- Focus development efforts on "WOW" features of an application rather than spending time on base functionality.
- Enable DaVinci and OMAP devices to use existing applications built on top of GStreamer.
- Leverage the modular design to decrease the time required to develop new applications and enable more re-use of existing code
First steps
- Download the IGEP DSP Gstreamer Framework from the ISEE website
- Visit the Gstreamer category in the IGEP Community Wiki
Introducing the IGEP Firmware
About the preinstalled Firmware
All brand new IGEP Processor Boards have a preinstalled firmware provided and installed on it by ISEE.
By default, if you power up your board it will run the software on the flash. But you can prepare a MicroSD card and boot from it by inserting it to the MicroSD card reader of your IGEP Processor Board, as it has more priority than the flash.
The pre-installed software consists of:
- The IGEP X-loader: a bootloader compatible with all IGEP Processor Boards.
- IGEP Linux Kernel: a Linux Kernel maintained by ISEE.
- IGEP firmware Yocto: the software distribution consists of a lite X Window System and GNOME Mobile based applications created with Yocto tools.
Update the preinstalled software
If you wish to update to the latest available version of the pre-installed software you need to follow these steps:
- Download the latest firmware from ISEE in a Linux PC.
- Run a script that will automatically setup and create a MicroSD card with the latest software in your host PC.
- Then boot your IGEP Processor Board from that MicroSD card you have just created.
- Finally, you can write the updated software from the MicroSD to the flash memory on your IGEP device.
Create a MicroSD Card with a different software distribution
You can create a custom MicroSD with a different software distribution. The article How to boot from MicroSD Card will guide you in the process of creating a MicroSD. For more information go to software distributions category
Community and official support resources
There are many different available support resources. Visit the Resources page to find out what you are looking for.
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