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Table 7. FRWY-LS1046A LEDs (continued)
Reference LED color
designator
D509 Green
1. It is placed on the bottom side of PCB next to J46 connector.

10 Getting started with FRWY-LS1046A

This section explains:
• Prerequisites on page 10
• Booting FRWY-LS1046A
10.1 Prerequisites
To set up your FRWY-LS1046A board, you need the items listed in the table below.
Table 8. Prerequisites
Item
Host computer system capable of running
a terminal emulator
12 V AC-DC power adapter
USB Type A to micro-B cable
Micro-SD card (optional)
Ethernet cable (optional)
CodeWarrior TAP (optional)
USB-to-UART bridge virtual COM port
(VCP) driver
Layerscape FRWY-LS1046A Board Getting Started Guide, Rev. 0, 26 April 2019
User's Guide
LED name
4_GRN_LED
on page 11
Purpose / required action
Host computer (for example, Windows PC, Linux system, or Mac) to control and
monitor the FRWY-LS1046A from the serial console via a serial terminal emulator,
such as Tera Term.
You can also use a Linux machine to connect to the board console
via a Linux utility, such as minicom.
To connect the board to external power supply
To make a console connection from UART1 (Micro USB) port on chassis front panel
To boot the board from micro-SD card
To connect the board to network to get updated board software
To debug and control the board using CodeWarrior Development Studio for QorIQ
LS series - ARM V8 ISA. You can order a CodeWarrior TAP from nxp.com.
To make the host computer allow a serial connection with the board. Download and
install appropriate driver (based on Windows version) on the host computer from the
following link:
https://www.silabs.com/products/development-tools/software/usb-to-uart-bridge-
vcp-drivers
Table continues on the next page...
Description (when LED is ON)
Four stacked LEDs to indicate:
• Power status
• System readyness
• PROG_SFP fuse programming power enable
Hardware
NOTE
Software
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