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BiPOM Electronics MINI-MAX/ARM9260-E Quick Start Manual

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MINI-MAX/ARM9260-E
Single Board Computer

Quick Start Guide

Document Revision: 1.01
Date: 07 October, 2009
BiPOM Electronics, Inc.
16301 Blue Ridge Road, Missouri City, Texas 77489
Telephone: 1-713-283-9970
Fax: 1-281-416-2806
E-mail: info@bipom.com
Web:
www.bipom.com
All trademarked names in this manual are the property of respective owners.
© 2009 BiPOM Electronics, Inc.
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  • Page 1: Quick Start Guide

    Date: 07 October, 2009 BiPOM Electronics, Inc. 16301 Blue Ridge Road, Missouri City, Texas 77489 Telephone: 1-713-283-9970 Fax: 1-281-416-2806 E-mail: info@bipom.com Web: www.bipom.com All trademarked names in this manual are the property of respective owners. © 2009 BiPOM Electronics, Inc. Page 1...
  • Page 2 Thank you for your purchase of the MINI-MAX/ARM9260-E Single Board Computer. MINI- MAX/ARM9260-E is a powerful computer board that is capable of running high-level operating systems such as Linux. This document describes how to quickly get started with MINI-MAX/ARM9260-E and includes the following steps: Requirements •...

  • Page 3: Hardware Setup

    Hardware Setup 1. Place the MINI-MAX/ARM9260-E board on a clean, non-conductive surface. 2. Connect the provided RS-232 Cable to the 10-pin serial port dual-row header on the MINI- MAX/ARM9260-E. Page 3...
  • Page 4 3. Connect the other end of the RS232 cable to a NULL-modem cable. 4. Connect the other end of the NULL-modem cable to a serial port ( typically COM1 ) of your PC. Page 4...
  • Page 5 5. Connect the supplied power adapter to the board. Don’t power the board for now. Page 5...

  • Page 6: Software Setup

    2. In order to configure MINI-MAX/ARM9260-E Linux, start Linux Control Panel software from Start - > All Programs -> MMARM9260E -> Linux Control Panel. After Linux Control Panel starts, open vars.sh file that is located in c:\bipom\devtools\MMARM9260E\sh ( if you installed Linux Control Panel to its default path ).
  • Page 7 - Hardware and Peripherals – allows enabling/disabling of embedded hardware and peripherals - System - allows configuring of system parameters - Network - allows configuring of network parameters - Software - allows configuring various software packages in MINI-MAX/ARM9260-E Linux - User Defined Options - allows configuring of user defined variables IMPORTANT: Please be careful when editing any .sh files (vars.sh, user_cmds.sh, etc.) manually.
  • Page 8 5. Format the USB Flash Drive with FAT32 format on Windows if the USB Flash Drive has not yet been formatted: Page 8...
  • Page 9 6. Copy all the files/folders from folder where you installed MINI-MAX/ARM9260-E Linux Release to the root directory of your USB Flash Drive. 7. Stop your USB Flash Drive using the “Safely Remove Hardware” icon on your Windows taskbar: When you click “Safely Remove Hardware” icon, the “Safely Remove Hardware” dialog will appear.
  • Page 10 Shortly after you click the Stop button, a message will appear: indicating that it is safe to remove the USB Flash Drive. Remove from USB Flash Drive your PC. 8. Insert the USB Flash Drive to any unused USB port of MINI-MAX/ARM9260-E . Page 10...
  • Page 11 9. Run Micro-IDE (Start -> All Programs ->Micro-IDE->Micro-IDE). Configure the terminal using “Options” icon button. 10. Connect the terminal to the board using “Connect” icon button 11. Power the board from a power adapter. 1 RED and 1 GREEN LED’s will get ON. Page 11...
  • Page 12 12. MINI-MAX/ARM9260-E will boot Linux and within few seconds it will be ready to use. Page 12...
  • Page 13 13. This is a typical Linux log on MINI-MAX/ARM9260-E board: Mini-Max/ARM-SAM9260 rev 1.08(10) BiPOM Electronics, Inc. www.bipom.com U-Boot 2008.10 (Mar 1 2009 - 18:37:50) DRAM: 64 MB DataFlash:AT45DB642 Nb pages: 8192 Page Size: 1056 Size= 8650752 bytes Logical address: 0xD0000000...
  • Page 14 1622943 bytes read reading mmfs.gz ....................................................2606700 bytes read ## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 21000000 ... Image Name: Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed) Data Size: 1622879 Bytes = 1.5 MB Load Address: 20008000 Entry Point: 20008000 Verifying Checksum ...
  • Page 15 Freeing initrd memory: 8192K JFFS2 version 2.2. (NAND) ?© 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc. ROMFS MTD (C) 2007 Red Hat, Inc. msgmni has been set to 120 alg: No test for stdrng (krng) io scheduler noop registered io scheduler anticipatory registered (default) atmel_usart.0: ttyS0 at MMIO 0xfefff200 (irq = 1) is a ATMEL_SERIAL atmel_usart.1: ttyS1 at MMIO 0xfffb0000 (irq = 6) is a ATMEL_SERIAL console [ttyS1] enabled...
  • Page 16 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) on device 1:0. Freeing init memory: 112K Starting system... scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access Generic Flash Disk 8.07 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 4028416 512-byte hardware sectors: (2.06 GB/1.92 GiB) sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through sda: sda1...
  • Page 17 You can edit vars.sh and other *.sh files to match your Linux system needs. Lines starting with ‘#’ sign are comment lines and have no effect on configuration. Echo command prints useful information to console. By default, console output goes to MINI-MAX/ARM9260-E ’s serial port.

  • Page 18: Appendix A: Linux Configuration Variables

    Appendix A: Linux Configuration Variables Variable Name : BIPOMVAR_DM9161A_ETHERNET Value ON | OFF Description If set to ON then script will configure DM9161 Ethernet adapter. If set to OFF then script will skip configuration code for this device. Variable Name : BIPOMVAR_DLINK_USB_ETHERNET Value ON | OFF...
  • Page 19 Variable Name : BIPOMVAR_ROOT_PWD Value Text string Description This parameter sets password for ‘root’ user on Linux system. Variable Name : BIPOMVAR_DRIVER_SOURCE_PATH Value UNIX style path Description This parameter sets path to directory where system drivers are located. Variable Name : BIPOMVAR_DRIVER_INSTALL_PATH Value UNIX style path...
  • Page 20 Variable Name : BIPOMVAR_FTP_USER Value Text string Description This parameter sets FTP username. Variable Name : BIPOMVAR_FTP_PWD Value Text string Description This parameter sets FTP password. Variable Name : BIPOMVAR_OPEN_SSH_SERVER Value YES | NO Description If set to YES then script will run SSH server. If set to NO then script will not run SSH server.
  • Page 21 Variable Name : BIPOMVAR_USB_UTILS Value YES | NO Description If set to YES then script creates links to support USB utilities. If set to NO then script will skip configuration of USB utilities. Variable Name : BIPOMVAR_SPCA_VIDEO_SERVER Value YES | NO Description If set to YES then script will run SPCA Video Server.