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Please read this chapter first before you start using the board - it will be well spent time! First of all, thank you for buying Embedded Artists’ iMX RT1064 Developer’s Kit based on NXP’s ARM Cortex-M7/M4 i.MX RT1064 Crossover MCU. You will get up-and-running quickly! ...
3. USB OTG connector - this USB interface can, together with a PC application, be used to program the flash memory of the iMX RT1064 uCOM board. 4. UART-to-USB bridge - this gives access to the console UART of the i.MX RT1064 MCU.
RT1064 Developer’s Kit - User Guide Page 7 Mounting the LCD If you are going to work with a display application and use the parallel RGB interface, when continue with mounting the LCD. Follow the instructions in this section of the document.
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RT1064 Developer’s Kit - User Guide Page 8 Next, place the LCD behind the mounts, as illustrated in the picture below. This position makes it easier to connect the two flat cables to the LCD. Make sure the locks on the flat cable connector on the uCOM Carrier Board are open before inserting the two flat cables from the LCD.
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RT1064 Developer’s Kit - User Guide Page 9 The picture illustrates how it will look like from the side. Between the mounts and the LCD, there isthe double-sided tape. Figure 6 – Side View of LCD Mount Make sure the flat cable for the capacitive touch panel is carefully bent over the mounts.
RT1064 Developer’s Kit - User Guide Page 11 Connecting - Get Started It is recommended to visit the Getting Started with uCOM Developer's Kit landing page: https://www.embeddedartists.com/getting-started-with-ucom-developers-kit/ 2.4.1 Console Begin by connecting the micro-B USB connector to position 1) in Figure 1 above. Connect the other end of the USB cable to the PC.
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RT1064 Developer’s Kit - User Guide Page 12 Figure 10 – Tera Term New Connection Window Configure the serial port settings (using the COM port number identified earlier) to 115200 baud rate, 8 data bits, no parity and 1 stop bit. To do this, go to Setup Serial Port and change the settings.
RT1064 Developer’s Kit - User Guide Page 13 2.4.3 PuTTY terminal emulation application Alternatively you can use PuTTY. It is another commonly used terminal emulation application. PuTTY can be downloaded and installed from the link below. http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html Launch PuTTY by either double clicking on the *.exe file you downloaded or from the Start menu, depending on the type of download you selected.
ESD. Never touch directly on the iMX RT1064 uCOM Board and in general as little as possible on the uCOM Carrier Board. The push-buttons on the uCOM Carrier Board have grounded shields to minimize the effect of ESD.
RT1064 Developer's Kit. Due to the nature of the iMX RT1064 Developer's Kit – an evaluation board not for integration into an end-product – fast transient immunity tests and conducted radio-frequency immunity tests have not been executed.
Carrier Board. There is also a separate document on how to set the jumpers in the default state for the iMX RT1064 Developer's Kit. The uCOM Carrier Board schematic can be downloaded in pdf format and is recommended to available when working with the iMX RT1064 Developer's Kit.
Note that there are two 40-pos FPC connectors on the Ethernet adapter, J17 and J37. J17 is the connector closest to the PCB edge. Use this connector for the iMX RT1064 uCOM board. Do not use J37, the inner connector. It is for iMX RT1166 or RT1176 uCOM boards.
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