Texas Instruments AM1810 Quick Start Manual page 2

Congratulations on your purchase of the AM1810 EVM and welcome to the Quick Start Guide.
This guide is designed to help you through the initial setup of your EVM. The EVM provides
a product-ready hardware and software platform for evaluating the functionality of the Texas
Instruments (TI) AM1810 processor.
The following items will be used in this Quick Start Guide.
Ethernet
cable
Baseboard, AM1810, 4.3" LCD,
PROFIBUS Daughter Card
(pre-assembled)
Important baseboard locations
(Numbers correspond to the steps on the right.)
2 2
* See back of board
Serial Power supply, USB SD
cable US cord, and card reader
universal AC adapter
(use AC adapter
for regions outside
the US)
* *
4 4
3 3
6 6
1 1
5 5
Quick start setup (OS demo)
Sitara ™
AM1810 EVM
1 Verify DIP switches 6
514232-0001A
SPRW210
Linux SDK
and 7 on S7 are set to
ON and all others are
set to OFF
SD card
(Linux™
SDK)
4 Insert the Linux SDK
SD card in the AM1810
EVM SD slot on back
of board
7 You are now ready to
explore the application
launcher which con-
tains various example
applications and demos.
Matrix GUI shown
2 Connect the supplied 3 Connect Ethernet cable
serial cable to the to the RJ-45 jack on
UART-1/2 DB-9 the board. Connect the
connector. Connect the other end to a router or
other end of the cable Ethernet switch
to a PC or workstation
5 Connect power to 6
baseboard
Connect the USB SD card
reader into your Linux™-
based PC, locate the START
HERE folder on the SD
card and view setup.htm.
The setup.htm fi le includes
the software development
Next steps
8 guide which will provide
information to guide you
To prepare your work-
through the software
station for software devel -
installation.
opment, power off the kit,
remove the SD card and
insert into the included
(Continued on following page)
USB SD card reader
Switch power on