Spectris Arcom VIPER Quick Start Manual page 3

VIPER RedBoot and AEL Quickstart
Contents
Introduction ........................................................................................................................................4
Handling your board safely ....................................................................................................4
About this manual ..............................................................................................................................5
Related documents ................................................................................................................5
Conventions ...........................................................................................................................6
Getting started ...................................................................................................................................7
What's in the kit?....................................................................................................................7
What else do I need? .............................................................................................................8
What peripherals are supported?...........................................................................................9
Unpacking and connecting up..........................................................................................................10
Power supply ...................................................................................................................................12
RedBoot ...........................................................................................................................................13
What is RedBoot? ................................................................................................................13
Arcom Embedded Linux (AEL) ........................................................................................................15
What's in AEL?.....................................................................................................................15
Booting the system ..............................................................................................................16
Logging in ............................................................................................................................17
Setting up networking ..........................................................................................................18
The file system.....................................................................................................................19
Linux kernel..........................................................................................................................20
Hardware configuration........................................................................................................21
Software configuration .....................................................................................................................28
CYCLOPS software configuration........................................................................................28
VIPER-LITE software configuration .....................................................................................28
Support software..............................................................................................................................29
Target support software .......................................................................................................29
Intel Integrated Performance Primitives (IPPs)....................................................................29
Real-time Linux on the VIPER .........................................................................................................30
Obtaining RTLinuxPro..........................................................................................................30
Performance ........................................................................................................................31
Evaluating RTLinuxPro ........................................................................................................31
Appendix - Contacting Arcom ..........................................................................................................33
Index ................................................................................................................................................34
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