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IGEP AQUILA Expansion should unmount J101 jumper to boot from microSD card.
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With all the peripherals attached, plug in the wall adapter (5V DC) and power on your board. You will see a few lights flash, see how to IGEP COM AQUILA red led light up and after a few seconds may light up a fixed green led too. The sequence will be different based on software version.
 
With all the peripherals attached, plug in the wall adapter (5V DC) and power on your board. You will see a few lights flash, see how to IGEP COM AQUILA red led light up and after a few seconds may light up a fixed green led too. The sequence will be different based on software version.
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"Under the hood" the bootloader is preparing to load the linux kernel. The linux kernel loads and initializes the hardware and mounts the root file system. Finally, you will see a screen desktop like the following screenshot.
 
"Under the hood" the bootloader is preparing to load the linux kernel. The linux kernel loads and initializes the hardware and mounts the root file system. Finally, you will see a screen desktop like the following screenshot.
  
The firmware in its uSD card consists of a minimal Linux-based distribution with a lite X Window System and GNOME Mobile based applications created with Poky Platform Builder.
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The firmware in its microSD card consists of a minimal Linux-based distribution with a lite X Window System and GNOME Mobile based applications created with Poky Platform Builder.
  
 
You can use the mouse and the keyboard to dive into the desktop.
 
You can use the mouse and the keyboard to dive into the desktop.

Revision as of 12:09, 30 December 2013

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Overview

This is the 1/3 chapter of the Getting Started with IGEP AQUILA EXPANSION Tutorial Guide. In this first chapter, we will learn :

  • Connect some peripherals, including monitor and USBs.
  • Boot the board and touring the default firmware.
  • Connect remotely to the board via Serial interface.

Upon completion, you will be ready to continue with chapter 2/3 that explains more advanced tasks.

Requirements

In this tutorial we are going to use the following peripherals:

  • IGEP COM AQUILA with its uSD card
  • IGEP AQUILA EXPANSION with its power supply
  • FTDI cable
  • Monitor compatible with HDMI
  • HDMI cable
  • Powered USB HUB 2.0
  • USB keyboard and a mouse
  • Network cable
  • PC

Getting started

Connect IGEP AQUILA Expansion with IGEP COM AQUILA Board

The IGEP AQUILA Expansion connects to the IGEP COM AQUILA Board through K1 connector and J800 connector (optionally).

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Monitor

The board will connect to your HDMI monitor. You can use a HDMI cable to connect the board to the monitor. Your monitor should be able to support 1024 x 768 @ 60 Hz, which is the default resolution used by the firmware.

Network

You may now plug the Ethernet cable into the 10/100 Ethernet jack of the board to get network access. The default firmware configures the Ethernet device with static IP address (192.168.5.1) and dynamic IP address via DHCP.

Keyboard/Mouse

Connect an USB hub to the USB Host and plug your keyboard and mouse into the hub.

Booting

Before booting, unmount J101 jumper to boot from microSD card.

With all the peripherals attached, plug in the wall adapter (5V DC) and power on your board. You will see a few lights flash, see how to IGEP COM AQUILA red led light up and after a few seconds may light up a fixed green led too. The sequence will be different based on software version.

"Under the hood" the bootloader is preparing to load the linux kernel. The linux kernel loads and initializes the hardware and mounts the root file system. Finally, you will see a screen desktop like the following screenshot.

The firmware in its microSD card consists of a minimal Linux-based distribution with a lite X Window System and GNOME Mobile based applications created with Poky Platform Builder.

You can use the mouse and the keyboard to dive into the desktop.

Igep0033 login screen.JPG

Remote connection via Serial interface

Overview

Serial header (J803) lets you debug system with an USB to 3V3 TTL level serial like TTL-232R-3V3 converter from FTDI or compatible reference. The TTL-232R-3V3 converter has 6 pins and IGEP AQUILA EXPANSION add a 7th way (3v3 power). The next image shows how to connect it:

Block diagram from IGEP0033


Setting up connection

PuTTY is a multiplatform SSH and telnet client. You can download it from: putty.org

  • Open PuTTy.
  • Choose Serial line. If you are running PuTTy on Windows, the USB Serial converter line will be like (COM1 or COM2 or COM3, etc.). If you are running PuTTy on Ubuntu, the USB Serial converter line will be like (/dev/ttyUSB0 or /dev/ttyUSB1 or /dev/ttyUSB3, etc.).
  • Configure Speed to 115200
  • Select Serial Connection type
  • Press on Open button

You will successfully started the console.



You have successfully completed this chapter of the guide.


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