FlexSPI + QSPI NOR on the i.MX RT1062: Configuration and Verifying Max Speed

How FlexSPI talks to a QSPI NOR on the i.MX RT1062: the two access paths, the LUT, the sampling clock that caps your frequency, and how to prove you run at full speed. Read speed is checked against the bus, write speed against the flash datasheet.

November 10, 2026 · 9 min · 1872 words · Hoa Nguyen

From Board Bring-Up to Production: 5 Lessons from an i.MX RT Control Unit

Five lessons from taking an i.MX RT control unit from first boot toward production: the bootloader that hides your SDRAM setup, the flash size nobody measured, writing the flash you execute from, firmware updates as a protocol, and surviving the power cut.

November 10, 2026 · 9 min · 1771 words · Hoa Nguyen

i.MX RT Pin Config: Pull/Keeper, Drive Strength and Slew Rate

What each IOMUXC pad-control field on the i.MX RT10xx actually does, how to derive its value from the schematic and the protocol spec instead of trusting generated defaults, and a microSD interface as a worked example.

November 10, 2026 · 8 min · 1569 words · Hoa Nguyen