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MCV Quick Start Guide
Release 2
ARIES Embedded GmbH
April 28, 2020

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  • Page 1 MCV Quick Start Guide Release 2 ARIES Embedded GmbH April 28, 2020...

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    CONTENTS 1 About this manual Imprint ..........Disclaimer .

  • Page 5: About This Manual

    +49 (0) 8141/36 367-67 1.2 Disclaimer ARIES Embedded does not guarantee that the information in this document is up-to-date, correct, complete or of good quality. Liability claims against ARIES Embedded, referring to material or non-material related damages caused, due to usage or non-usage of the information given in this document, or due to usage of erroneous or incomplete information, are exempted, as long as there is no proven intentional or negligent fault of ARIES Embedded.

  • Page 6: Care And Maintenance

    MCV Quick Start Guide, Release 2 1.5 Care and Maintenance • Keep the device dry. Precipitation, humidity, and all types of liquids or moisture can contain minerals that will corrode electronic circuits. If your device does get wet, allow it to dry completely. •...

  • Page 7: Intial Operation

    CHAPTER INTIAL OPERATION The following steps guide you to the correct settings of your MCVEVP. 2.1 Apply Correct Jumper Settings Pin 1 of each header is marked with a yellow dot in the picture. 1. place jumpers on P25 and P29 to activate the UART0 interface 2.

  • Page 8: Mount The Mxxdk Displaykit On Mcvevp

    MCV Quick Start Guide, Release 2 ! CAUTION ! | Electronic components are sensitive against mechanical pressure. Certain contacts/housings may mechanically break when mechanical force is applied to the board. Due to the insertion force that has to be applied to the two board-to- board connectors the user has to press on the MCV pcb to insert it on a baseboard.
  • Page 9 MCV Quick Start Guide, Release 2 Place the FPC cable in the FPC connector on MxxDK, the contact side has to be placed towards the TFT PCB so that the isolation of the cable is on top. Close the FPC connector on the MxxDK carefully. Place the FPC cable in the FPC connector on MCVEVP, the contact side has to be placed towards the TFT PCB so that the isolation of the cable is on top.

  • Page 10: Start Your Linux Computer And Install Ckermit

    MCV Quick Start Guide, Release 2 Place the MxxDK Displaykit on MCVEVP without twisting or disconnecting the FPC cable. Mount the MxxDK Displaykit on MCVEVP by using four screws. 2.3 Start your Linux Computer and install ckermit Boot your Linux Computer and log in. Open a console port and install ckermit (if not already installed): sudo apt-get install ckermit After typing in your sudo password ckermit will be installed.

  • Page 11: Configure Kermit

    MCV Quick Start Guide, Release 2 2.4 Configure kermit Configure ckermit by creating the file .kermit in your home directory: nano .kermit Copy into .kermit: set line /dev/ttyS0 set speed 115200 set carrier-watch off set handshake none set flow-control none robust set file type bin set file name lit...

  • Page 12: Connect Power To Your Kit

    MCV Quick Start Guide, Release 2 2.7 Connect power to your kit Connect the wall plug to P901 on MCVEVK MCV will start booting: U-Boot SPL 2013.01.01-00110-g3cbaeae-dirty (Oct 24 2014 - 18:54:05) BOARD : Altera SOCFPGA Cyclone V Board CLOCK: EOSC1 clock 25000 KHz CLOCK: EOSC2 clock 25000 KHz CLOCK: F2S_SDR_REF clock 0 KHz CLOCK: F2S_PER_REF clock 0 KHz...
  • Page 13 MCV Quick Start Guide, Release 2 RESET: COLD INFO : Watchdog enabled SDRAM: Initializing MMR registers SDRAM: Calibrating PHY SEQ.C: Preparing to start memory calibration SEQ.C: CALIBRATION PASSED SDRAM: 1024 MiB ALTERA DWMMC: 0 U-Boot 2014.10 (Oct 24 2014 - 18:54:19) CPU: Altera SoCFPGA Platform BOARD: Altera SoCFPGA Cyclone5 Board...

  • Page 14: Have Fun

    MCV Quick Start Guide, Release 2 2.8 Have fun ! Start hacking, developing your application, setting up benchmarks..2.9 Shut down your kit To avoid damage of the SD-card alway shut down your kit properly by typing: root@mcvevk:~# poweroff Broadcast message from root@mcvevk (ttyS0) (Fri Oct 24 17:32:06 2014): The system is going down for system halt NOW! INIT: Sending processes the TERM signal Stopping OpenBSD Secure Shell server: sshdstopped /usr/sbin/sshd (pid 296)

  • Page 15: Update Emmc Memory

    CHAPTER THREE UPDATE EMMC MEMORY This guide explains how to update the content of the eMMC memory on MCV. This instruction is based on the assumption that MCV is operational and hosts on a valid image in the eMMC memory, i.e.
  • Page 16 MCV Quick Start Guide, Release 2 CPU: Altera SoCFPGA Platform FPGA: Altera Cyclone V, SE/A2 or SX/C2, version 0x0 BOOT: SD/MMC Internal Transceiver (3.0V) Watchdog enabled I2C: ready DRAM: 1 GiB MMC: dwmmc0@ff704000: 0 *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment serial Out: serial...
  • Page 17 MCV Quick Start Guide, Release 2 This process will take some minutes, depending on the size of the SD-card image you program. After the programming process is terminated switch back to console2 and terminate the USB mass storage function of U-Boot by pressing <Ctrl-C>: =>...
  • Page 18 MCV Quick Start Guide, Release 2 Load Address: 0x00008000 Entry Point: 0x00008000 Hash algo: sha1 Hash value: 867ce5f1e3aa5eff24f507066be43981818f3303 Verifying Hash Integrity ... sha1+ OK Loading fdt from FIT Image at 10000000 ... Using 'conf@socfpga_cyclone5_mcvevk.dtb' configuration Trying 'fdt@socfpga_cyclone5_mcvevk.dtb' fdt subimage Description: Flattened Device Tree blob Created: 2017-12-05...

  • Page 19: Recovery

    CHAPTER FOUR RECOVERY Recovery for software components on MCV. 4.1 Modify boot settings Close Jumper P32 on MCVEVP. 4.2 Connect USB Blaster and USB A-miniB cable On MCVEVP connect the USB blaster to header P8 (pin 1 of P8 is closest to the SoM) and to a host PC. Connect the USB A-miniB cable to the USB miniB connector P201 and a host PC.

  • Page 20: Use Usb Mass Storage

    6. Click ‘Start’ in the left hand panel Note Please contact ARIES Embedded to obtain your version of the correct rescue image for MCV. 4.6 Use USB Mass Storage After the programming finished, the board comes up and immediately starts USB Mass Storage mode. The USB Mass Storage is backed by the eMMC integrated on the MCV SoM.

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