Embest Altera Lark Board User manual

ENABLED
Lark Board
Quick Start Guide
prepared by
Embest Technology
www.embest-tech.com

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FCC NOTICE: This kit is designed to allow:
(1) Product developers to evaluate electronic components, circuitry, or software
associated with the kit to determine whether to incorporate such items in a finished
product and
(2) Software developers to write software applications for use with the end product.
This kit is not a finished product and when assembled may not be resold or otherwise
marketed unless all required FCC equipment authorizations are first obtained.
Operation is subject to the condition that this product not cause harmful interference to
licensed radio stations and that this product accept harmful interference. For
evaluation only; not FCC approved for resale
European Union Notice: this kit is a custom built evaluation kit destined for
professionals to be used solely at research and development facilities for such
purposes.
For evaluation only; not FCC approved for resale

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Table of Contents
Product Overview ..............................................................................................................1
1. Packing List .......................................................................................................1
2. Factory Default Conditions................................................................................1
Quick Use of Lark Board...................................................................................................2
1. Check the DIP Switches status.........................................................................2
2. The Hardware connection of Debug serial port ................................................2
3. The Configuration of the serial port...................................................................3
4. Lark Board Boot-up ...........................................................................................3
Technical Support and Warranty......................................................................................4

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Product Overview
1. Packing List
Lark Board×1
USB cable for FPGA programming and control×1
19V DC power adapter×1
8GB TF card×1
12V-DC Fan
2. Factory Default Conditions
A Linux system is already programmed in the on-board eMMC and supports
HDMI/VGAdisplay by default; If another display mode is required, please refer to
the Display Mode Configurations in user manual.
Lark Board has no CR1220 battery installed on board; Please purchase it if
necessary.
The TF card that comes with the Lark Board has the CD contents, include documents,
pre-build image, source code, schematic, datasheet and so on. In additional,
customer can download them from
http://www.embest-tech.com/product/pinggubanxilie/lark-board-evaluation-board.htm

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Quick Use of Lark Board
Lark Board has been installed with Yocto image by default so that the board could be
booting and running immediately. This chapter will introduce how to realize a quick use of
Lark Board through simple hardware connections and software configurations. Please
follow the quick steps listed below.
1. Check the DIP Switches status
Set the DIP switches as shown in the following figure;
Figure 1 DIP switch settings
2. The Hardware connection of Debug serial port
Aserial communication between Lark Board and your PC can be established by using the
on-board debugging serial interface, a conversion cable and a serial terminal software. If
the communication is not required, please ignore 2 The Hardware connection of Debug
serial port and 3 The Configuration of the serial port
The debugging serial interfaces of Lark Board include J24 and J25 (either of them can be
selected) which work on 3.3 V TTL level and have 2.0mm and 2.54mm pin pitches
respectively. Please connect Lark Board to your PC via a conversion cable as shown in
the following figure:

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Figure 2
3. The Configuration of the serial port
The debug serial port configurations are shown as below：
Items
Value
Bund Rate
115200
Data Bits
8
Parity
None
Stop bits
1
Flow control
None
4. Lark Board Boot-up
Complete the above configurations, connect a HDMI/VGA monitor to Lark Board, and
then power on the board, Lark Board will boot the system from eMMC
Note:
Disconnect TF card to Lark bard when booting from eMMC
For more information of Lark board, please refer to:
http://www.embest-tech.com/product/pinggubanxilie/lark-board-evaluation-board.html
Visit www.rocketboards.org for the related board.

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Technical Support and Warranty
Technical Support
Embest Technology provides its product with one-year free technical support
including:
Providing software and hardware resources related to the embedded products of
Embest Technology;
Helping customers properly compile and run the source code provided by
Embest Technology;
Providing technical support service if the embedded hardware products do not
function properly under the circumstances that customers operate according to
the instructions in the documents provided by Embest Technology;
Helping customers troubleshoot the products.
The following conditions will not be covered by our technical support service. We will
take appropriate measures accordingly:
Customers encounter issues related to software or hardware during their
development process;
Customers encounter issues caused by any unauthorized alter to the embedded
operating system;
Customers encounter issues related to their own applications;
Customers encounter issues caused by any unauthorized alter to the source
code provided by Embest Technology;
Warranty Conditions
1）12-month free warranty on the PCB under normal conditions of use since the sales

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of the product;
2）The following conditions are not covered by free services; Embest Technology will
charge accordingly:
Customers fail to provide valid purchase vouchers or the product identification
tag is damaged, unreadable, altered or inconsistent with the products.
Products are damaged caused by operations inconsistent with the user manual;
Products are damaged in appearance or function caused by natural disasters
(flood, fire, earthquake, lightning strike or typhoon) or natural aging of
components or other force majeure;
Products are damaged in appearance or function caused by power failure,
external forces, water, animals or foreign materials;
Products malfunction caused by disassembly or alter of components by
customers or, products disassembled or repaired by persons or organizations
unauthorized by Embest Technology, or altered in factory specifications, or
configured or expanded with the components that are not provided or recognized
by Embest Technology and the resulted damage in appearance or function;
Product failures caused by the software or system installed by customers or
inappropriate settings of software or computer viruses;
Products purchased from unauthorized sales;
Warranty (including verbal and written) that is not made by Embest Technology
and not included in the scope of our warranty should be fulfilled by the party who
committed. Embest Technology has no any responsibility;
3）Within the period of warranty, the freight for sending products from customers to
Embest Technology should be paid by customers; the freight from Embest to
customers should be paid by us. The freight in any direction occurs after warranty
period should be paid by customers.
4）Please contact technical support if there is any repair request.
Note:
Embest Technology will not take any responsibility on the products sent back without the
permission of the company.

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Contact Information
Technical Support
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Sales Information
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Fax: [phone]
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Company Information
Website: http://www.embest-tech.com
Address: Tower B 4/F, Shanshui Building, Nanshan Yungu Innovation Industry Park,
Liuxian Ave. No. 1183, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
(518055)