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USER USER EAC-3000 Manual Manual NVIDIA ® Jetson AGX Xavier™ Edge AI Computing System 5 GigE LAN with 4 PoE , 8 GMSL2, -20°C to 70°C Operation 1.0.0 Edition 20220912...
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This manual is released by Vecow Co., Ltd. for reference purpose only. All product offerings and specifications are subject to change without prior notice. It does not represent commitment of Vecow Co., Ltd. Vecow shall not be liable for direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages arising out of the use of the product or documentation or any infringements upon the rights of third parties, which may result from such use.
2.4 Main Board Connector & Jumper Locations 2.5 Main Board Jumper Settings 2.6 Ignition Control CHAPTER 3 SYSTEM SETUP 3.1 How to Open Your EAC-3000/EAC-3000F 3.2 Installing Nano SIM Card 3.3 Installing Micro SD Card 3.4 Installing M.2 3.5 Installing Antenna Cable 3.6 Mounting Your EAC-3000/EAC-3000F...
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CHAPTER 4 SOFTWARE SETUP 4.1 Peripheral Interface Guide 4.2 Determine Available Drive Space 4.3 Install the CUDA package 4.4 Flash image to Your EAC-3000/EAC-3000F 4.5 Software Ignition Control APPENDIX A : GMSL Camera Guide APPENDIX B : Power Consumption APPENDIX C : Supported Expansion Module List...
GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1.1 Overview Vecow EAC-3000 Series is an Arm-based Edge AI Computing System. Powered ® by NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier™ system-on-module, Vecow EAC-3000 Series delivers great power efficiency in a small form factor. Featuring 8 GMSL2 automotive cameras via rugged FAKRA-Z connectors, the EAC-3000 is well suited for industrial and outdoor environments.
EAC-3000/EAC-3000F 2.1 Packing List 2.1.1 EAC-3000 Packing List Item Description EAC-3000 Edge AI Computing System (According to the configuration of your order, EAC-3000 series may contain micro SD and M.2 modules. Please verify these items if necessary.) Item Description Outlook...
2.2 Front Panel I/O & Functions 2.2.1 Functions of EAC-3000 In Vecow EAC-3000 series, Most of the I/O connectors are located on the front panels. Most of the general connections to computer devices, such as USB, LAN, Digital Display Port, Force Recovery button, Power Button,Reset Button, indicators are placed on the front panel.
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2.2.1.6 USB 3.2 Gen1 There are 4 USB 3.2 Gen1 connections available supporting up to 5Gb per second data rate in the front panel of EAC-3000. It is also compliant with the requirements of Speed (SS), High Speed (HS), Full Speed (FS) and Low Speed (LS).
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2.2.1.7 LAN2~LAN5: PoE Ports There are 4 RJ45 connectors in the front panel of EAC-3000. It supports IEEE 802.3at (PoE+) Power over Ethernet (PoE) connection delivering up to 37W/54V per port and 1000BASE-T gigabit data signals over standard Ethernet Cat 5/ ®...
2.3 Rear Panel I/O & Functions 2.3.1 Functions of EAC-3000 In Vecow EAC-3000 series, Some of the I/O connectors are located on the rear panels. Such as GMSL Camera, LAN, CAN Port, COM Port, Power input,Debug Port,Flash Port indicators are placed on the rear panel.
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2.3.1.4 LAN1 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet Port This is 8-pin RJ-45 jacks supporting 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet connections on the rear panel of EAC-3000. LAN 1 is powered by Microchip USB3.2 to Giga ETH Controller. 2.3.1.5 COM Port COM 1,2 can be configured for RS-232, RS-422, or RS-485 with auto flow control communication.
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USB_DATA+ 2.3.1.7 Flash Port The EAC-3000 USB Recovery mode provides an alternate boot device (USB). In this mode, the system is connected to a host system and boots over USB. This is used when a new image needs to be flashed. USB0 must be available to use as USB Device for USB Recovery Mode.
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2.3.1.8 GMSL Camera Port There are eight FAKRA connectors in the rear side of EAC-3000. Each camera connects to the EAC-3000 through a single coax cable. Using GMSL2 (Gigabit Multimedia Serial Link) connections, the cameras are connected to a two-port deserializer.
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2.4.1.1 JCOM1,JCOM2 Connector EAC-3000 provides 2 serial ports (COM1-COM2) headers for internal COM port cable and the pin define are listed in the following table. Pin No. Signal Name Pin No. Signal Name Ground 2.4.1.2 Fan Connector (SYS_FAN1) SYS_FAN1 Fan power connector supports for additional thermal requirements. The pin assignments of SYS_FAN1 is listed in the following table.
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2.4.1.7 J1 : Jetson AGX Xavier Connector only for Jetson Xavier AGX module. 2.4.1.8 JSPI1 : SPI/I2C Signal Connector This is SPI+I2C headers, it offered SPI Bus and I2C Bus, in EAC-3000 series. Pin No. JSPI1 Definition +3.3V SPI1_MOSI SPI1_MISO...
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The system's real-time clock is powered by a lithium battery. It is Equipped with Panasonic BR2032 190mAh lithium battery. It is recommended that you not replace the lithium battery on your own. If the battery needs to be changed, please contact the Vecow RMA service team. BAT1 2.4.1.12 M.2 KEY-M (M2M_CN1) M.2 key M Connector (2280, PCIe Gen3x2)
2.5 Main Board Jumper Settings 2.5.1.1 Board Top View of EAC-3000 Main Board with Jumper. The figure below is the top view of EAC-3000 main board which is the main board. It shows the location of the jumpers. JP20 JPOE_PWR1 You may configure your card to match the needs of your application by setting jumpers.
The built-in MCU monitors the ignition signal and turns on/off the system according to pre-defined on/off delay period. 2.6.1 Adjust Ignition Control Modes EAC-3000 series provides 16 modes of different power on/off delay periods adjustable via SW1 switch. The default DIP switch is set to 0 in ATX power mode.
SOFTWARE SETUP 4.1 Peripheral Interface Guide 4.1.1 UART EAC-3000/EAC-3000F have two UARTs, you can access the following path to find an application to config the UART type : $ cd /usr/src/tools/EAC-3000/uart/ 4.1.2 CAN Bus You can access the following path to find a CAN FD example : $ cd /usr/src/tools/EAC-3000/canbus/ 4.1.3 I2S...
To determine the amount of available drive space, you can issue the following commands : $ sudo df -h 4.3 Install the CUDA package To install the CUDA package on EAC-3000/EAC-3000F, you can issue the following commands : $ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install nvidia-cuda 4.4 Flash image to Your EAC-3000/EAC-3000F...
4.5 Software Ignition Control Vecow provides Ignition Software to control power on/off delay periods. To activte software ignition control, you need to adjust the JIGNMODE1 jumper to 2-3. You can access the following path to find an application for software...
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