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Polyhex Technology Company Limited
BPC-iMX8MP-03 Industrial
Computer User Guide
Version: V1.0(2023-02)
Complied by: Polyhex Technology Company Limited（http://www.polyhex.net/）
BPC-iMX8MP-03 Industrial Computer is a ruggedized and protected computer. It is composed
of a DEBIX SOM A (core board), a DEBIX SOM A I/O board (carrier board) and a steel and
aluminum enclosure. It combines various types of harsh environment resistance features,
including ruggedness, dustproof, anti-vibration, shock resistance, wide temperature,
portability and other indicators.
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  • Page 1 BPC-iMX8MP-03 Industrial Computer is a ruggedized and protected computer. It is composed of a DEBIX SOM A (core board), a DEBIX SOM A I/O board (carrier board) and a steel and aluminum enclosure. It combines various types of harsh environment resistance features, including ruggedness, dustproof, anti-vibration, shock resistance, wide temperature, portability and other indicators.

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    1.3.7. GPIO Interface ....................13 1.3.8. LED and Key ....................14 1.4. Safety Precaution and Instruction ................15 Chapter 2 Getting started with BPC-iMX8MP-03 Industrial Computer ........18 2.1. Installation ......................... 18 2.2. Power on ........................19 Chapter 3 Software Application Examples ................20 3.1.

  • Page 3: Chapter 1 Bpc-Imx8Mp-03 Industrial Computer Introduction

    Chapter 1 BPC-iMX8MP-03 Industrial Computer Introduction BPC-iMX8MP-03 Industrial Computer is a compact and secure computer, which designed for industrial applications and can be widely used in machine vision and machine learning, advanced multimedia, smart cities, edge computing and other solutions that require high reliability.

  • Page 4: Overview Of Industrial Computer

    Figure 2 Figure 3 BPC-iMX8MP-03 Industrial Computer uses DEBIX SOM A and DEBIX SOM A I/O Board connection as the main board, which supports dual Gigabit Ethernet, three boot modes, shock and vibration resistance, etc.. The specific specifications are as follows.
  • Page 5 1) Support DEBIX SOM A board eMCC boot (default) Boot Mode 2) Support DEBIX SOM A I/O Board Micro SD card boot 3) Support DEBIX SOM A I/O Board SPI Nor Flash boot Ubuntu 20.04, Android 11, Yocto-L5.10.72_2.2.0, Windows 10 IoT...
  • Page 6 Gross Weight 812g Heat Dissipation No fan, heat dissipation through the vent at the bottom of the enclosure CPU Temperature -20 °C to 70 °C(Industrial grade) Relative Humidity 10%~90% MTBF >50000 hours Shock 15G half-sine 11ms duration 6 / 36 www.debix.io...

  • Page 7: Composition Of Industrial Computer

    1Grms random 5-500Hz hr/axis 1.2. Composition of Industrial Computer Figure 4 BPC-iMX8MP-03 Industrial Computer assembly consists of these main components: DEBIX SOM A + I/O Board, enclosure and antenna. Figure 5 DEBIX SOM A + I/O Board 7 / 36...

  • Page 8: External Interface Of Industrial Computer

    Polyhex Technology Company Limited Figure 6 Enclosure and antenna 1.3. External Interface of Industrial Computer 1.3.1. Power Interface There is 1 power connector (DC socket), with default DC 12V power input. As shown in the figure below. Figure 7 8 / 36 www.debix.io...

  • Page 9: Hdmi Interface

    There is a combined headphone and microphone input interface. The connector is a 3.5mm socket, compatible with the built-in needle socket design, has audio input/output functions, and supports rated voltage 1.5V MIC audio input. As shown in the Figure 9. Figure 9 9 / 36 www.debix.io...

  • Page 10: Ethernet Interface

    2: LAN2), both support POE power supply (Additional POE power supply module is required), connect DEBIX to the network through the network cable of the RJ45 connector, and there is also a set of status indicators below the interface to display the signal, one is Link and the other is Active.

  • Page 11: Rs485/Rs232/Can Interface

    The default configuration is an RS485 interface. RS485, RS232, and CAN on the same socket, only one can be used at the same time. Above the rear of the BPC-iMX8MP-03 Industrial Computer there is a row of 2 x RS485/RS232/CAN interfaces compatible with the UART TTL 3.3V serial port without physical isolation.
  • Page 12 RS232_TXD1 RS232 sender COM2 RS232_RXD2 RS232 receiver /dev/ttymxc2 RS232_TXD2 RS232 sender COM3 RS232_RXD3 RS232 receiver /dev/ttyWCH3 RS232_TXD3 RS232 sender COM4 RS232_RXD4 RS232 receiver /dev/ttyWCH2 RS232_TXD4 RS232 sender The 4 x RS232 interface is defined as follows: 12 / 36 www.debix.io...

  • Page 13: Gpio Interface

    RS232_TXD 1.3.7. GPIO Interface Above the rear of BPC-iMX8MP-03 Industrial Computer there is a GPIO interface with isolated type (from left to right, DI interface, DO interface), physically isolated DI, supports dry node input and wet node input. To the right of the DI interface is the DO interface, physically isolated DO, supports wet node, and is compatible with external relay dry nodes.

  • Page 14: Led And Key

    When the SOM A signal is high level, the corresponding DO signal output voltage is 0.  1.3.8. LED and Key On the rear of BPC-iMX8MP-03 Industrial Computer there are two LED indicators and a power ON/OFF key, as shown in the figure below. SYS PWR ON/OFF key...

  • Page 15: Safety Precaution And Instruction

    Polyhex Technology Company Limited LED and Key Status Description Lighting DEBIX works normally DEBIX works abnormally Lighting Power is on Power is off ON/OFF button Short press Screen off/wake up Long press Power off/on 1.4. Safety Precaution and Instruction The following messages inform how to make each cable connection. In most cases, you will simply need to connect a standard cable.
  • Page 16 70°C (158°F). This will damage the machine. It needs to be kept in an environment at controlled temperature. 12．Due to the sensitive nature of the equipment, it must be stored in a restricted access location, only accessible by qualified engineer. 16 / 36 www.debix.io...
  • Page 17  Product name  Description of your peripheral attachments  Description of your software(operating system, version, application software, etc.)  A complete description of the problem  The exact wording of any error messages 17 / 36 www.debix.io...

  • Page 18: Chapter 2 Getting Started With Bpc-Imx8Mp-03 Industrial Computer

    Polyhex Technology Company Limited Chapter 2 Getting started with BPC-iMX8MP-03 Industrial Computer 2.1. Installation BPC-iMX8MP-03 Industrial Computer product list: 1 x WiFi antenna  1 x Power adapter  1 x DEBIX SOM A box  After receiving the product, install the accessories as follows.

  • Page 19: Power On

    Figure 17 Power adapter 2.2. Power on Note: The factory default boot mode of BPC-iMX8MP-03 Industrial Computer is eMCC boot. If you need to change to other boot modes, please contact our engineer for modification before leaving the factory, and do not disassemble the machine by yourself.

  • Page 20: Chapter 3 Software Application Examples

    As shown above: eth33 network card corresponds to the network port of the device silkscreen "LAN1" (Figure 10, right side); eth34 network card corresponds to the network port of the device silkscreen "LAN2" (Figure 10, left side). Apply ping command. ping 192.168.1.18 Query the speed of the network port. 20 / 36 www.debix.io...
  • Page 21 Polyhex Technology Company Limited sudo ethtool ens33 The desktop settings of the BPC-iMX8MP-03 Industrial Computer Ethernet (Settings >> Network) are as follows. 21 / 36 www.debix.io...

  • Page 22: Use Of Wifi

    Polyhex Technology Company Limited Figure 18 3.2. Use of WiFi Unplug the network cable, DEBIX connect WiFi (polyhex_mi), query the WiFi network  port via ifconfig wlan0. 22 / 36 www.debix.io...
  • Page 23 Reconnect to the new WiFi network (ChinaNet-polyhex), use the ping command, and the same screen appears as above. The desktop settings of the BPC-iMX8MP-03 Industrial Computer WIFI (Settings >> Wi-Fi) are as follows. Turn on the Wi-Fi function, as shown in Figure 20.

  • Page 24: Use Of Bluetooth

    Query Bluetooth devices via the hciconfig command.  Get root permission.  Start bluetooth and match bluetooth.  hciconfig hci0 up bluetoothctl power on agent on default-agent scan on pair yourDeviceMAC #Match the Bluetooth MAC address 24 / 36 www.debix.io...

  • Page 25: Use Of Usb

    The desktop settings of the BPC-iMX8MP-03 Industrial Computer Bluetooth (Settings >> Bluetooth) are as follows. Example: Turn on Bluetooth on both the phone and DEBIX, the phone Bluetooth can detect the DEBIX Bluetooth device, the DEBIX can detect the phone Bluetooth device, click on the Bluetooth device, connect, enter the key for pairing, as shown in the following figure.
  • Page 26 Access the U disk in FAT32 format, the system will automatically mount it to the /mnt path. df -h If the U disk is not mounted, you can mount the U disk with the following command:   Query the U disk letter: fdisk -l 26 / 36 www.debix.io...
  • Page 27 -c "sync && echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" Write speed test. sh -c "sync && echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" // clear cache dd if=/dev/zero of=./test_write count=1 bs=1G Reading speed test. sh -c "sync && echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" // clear cache 27 / 36 www.debix.io...

  • Page 28: Verification Of Rs485/Rs232/Can

    3.5. Verification of RS485/RS232/CAN Note: RS485, RS232, and CAN on the same socket, only one can be used at the same time. Install cutecom serial port tool on BPC-iMX8MP-03 Industrial Computer. sudo apt update sudo apt install cutecom qtwayland5 The serial port parameters are set as follows.
  • Page 29 Send and receive data via cutecom. Enter the test string in the cutecom input box, press  Enter to send, you can see that another cutecom receiving box receives the same message, indicating that the communication is successful, and the result is as follows: Figure 24 29 / 36 www.debix.io...
  • Page 30 Send and receive data via cutecom. Enter the test string in the cutecom input box, press  Enter to send, you can see that another cutecom receiving box receives the same message, indicating that the communication is successful, and the result is as follows: 30 / 36 www.debix.io...
  • Page 31 Polyhex Technology Company Limited Figure 27 Connect Pin1 to Pin4, and connect Pin2 to Pin5 (that is, H to H, and L to L). The wiring is shown in the following figure. Figure 28 31 / 36 www.debix.io...
  • Page 32 123#1122334455667788 CAN1 receives data, CAN0 sends data  In the Terminal sent by CAN1, switch can1 to receiving state. candump can1 In the Terminal receiving CAN0, press Ctrl+Z to end receiving. And switch can0 to send 32 / 36 www.debix.io...

  • Page 33: Verification Of Di/Do

    Get root permission first.  Take the dry node connection as an example, all ports of DI operate in the same way, here take DI_1 as an example, and connect the DI_1 to ground in series. 33 / 36 www.debix.io...
  • Page 34 GPIO output is low, DO_1 open-drain output is high configuration, and the relay is turned off. echo 0 > brightness GPIO output is high, DO_1 output is low, and the relay is on. echo 1 > brightness The other DO verification methods are the same, the DOUT_1, DOUT_2, DOUT_3, and 34 / 36 www.debix.io...

  • Page 35: Verification Of Led And Key

    PWR is the power status indicator, the indicator is on when power is applied; otherwise,  the indicator is off when power is off. BPC-iMX8MP-03 Industrial Computer is automatically turned on when power is applied. Short press   SYS green light is off, the system enters into sleep.
  • Page 36 Unlock "Date & Time" to turn on or off automatic time.  Set "Time Zone" as local zone.  Set "Time Format" to 24-hour.  Figure 29 Read the RTC time of the Industrial Computer via hwclock -r command, as shown in the following figure. 36 / 36 www.debix.io...

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