The OrCam, powered by the i.MX 6, is a clip-on wearable designed for users with vision impairments. The OrCam clips-on to a pair of eye glasses and continually scans the user's field of vision, detecting objects, and providing aural feedback via a bone conduction ear piece. For a quick overview of the OrCam, the following video is worth watching
OrCam Powered by Freescale i.MX 6Quad Processor and PMIC
The Kindle Fire HD 6 tablet also has an i.MX 6 processor. Keep an eye out for wearables, watches, and glasses that have an i.MX 6 processor.
When it comes to development, the i.MX 6 is almost ideal. The manuals and data sheets for the processor are very long. However; the one time programmable memory locations or eFuses on the i.MX 6 are highly configurable. eFuses are standard in higher end microprocessors. The eFuses can be read or blown (one-time write to an on-chip memory location) via u-boot or the Freescale manufacturing tool. They can also be pulled via the Linux sysfs interface. There are over typically over 100 eFuses on higher end microprocessors. A few of the important values that are stored in one-time programmable memory (eFuses) include the MAC address, boot configuration parameters, high-assurance boot (HAB) configuration parameters, and master key. As a side note, many chips have on-chip memory locations that can only be written to one time. U-boot conveniently supports reading and writing (blowing) the eFuses on many different microprocessors. U-boot is open source and it supports one-time programmable memory (eFuses or OTP) on ARM®-based processors. The U-Boot boot loader supports a large number of chip sets; including ARM®, AVR32, Blackfin, MicroBlaze, MIPS, PPC, and x86.
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