I recently got an NXP i.MX 8M Mini EVK board. It has rather powerful Arm Cortex-A53, Cortex-M4, Audio, Voice and Video processors. As a total newbie with no previous experiences on Android Operation System Project (AOSP) or NXP iMX series, this post records my first hands-on.

The nRF5 series of Bluetooth low energy chip is a very popular platform from Nordic Semiconductor. Currently there are four IDEs with compiler supported by Nordic, however, for Linux users there are only two options available: SEGGER Embedded Studio (SES) and GNU/GCC.