Freescale Semiconductor i.MX35 User manual

i.MX35 PDK 1.5 Linux Quick Start Guide
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Doc Number: 926-78233
Rev. 1.5
04/2009

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Chapter 1 About the Boards................................................................................ 1-1
1.1 About the 3-Stack Platform System........................................................................ 1-1
1.2 CPU Board............................................................................................................ 1-4
1.3 Debug Board.......................................................................................................... 1-5
1.4 Personality Board................................................................................................... 1-9
Chapter 2 Getting Started ................................................................................... 2-1
2.1 Development Kit Content....................................................................................... 2-1
2.2 Provide a Development PC..................................................................................... 2-3
Chapter 3 Building the Platform ......................................................................... 3-1
3.1 Building a Development Platform: Assemble 3 Boards ........................................... 3-2
3.1.1 Connect Personality Board to Debug Board........................................................... 3-2
3.1.2 Connect CPU Board to Personality Board.............................................................. 3-3
3.2 Connect Development Platform to PC; Run Preloaded Image................................. 3-4
3.3 Building a Demo Platform: Assemble Two Boards................................................. 3-5
Chapter 4 Using the Linux Demo Image.............................................................. 4-1
4.1 Downloading Multimedia to the PDK..................................................................... 4-1
4.2 Using an SD Card .................................................................................................. 4-3
4.3 Running the Applications ....................................................................................... 4-4
4.3.1 Running the Video Application............................................................................... 4-4
4.3.2 Running the Audio Application .............................................................................. 4-4
4.3.3 Running the Picture Viewer Application................................................................. 4-5
4.3.4 Running the FM Radio Application ........................................................................ 4-5
4.4 Supported Codecs.................................................................................................. 4-6

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Chapter 1
About the Boards
This chapter provides detailed information about the three boards (CPU, Debug, Personality) and
identifies the locations of the connectors and switches.
1.1 About the 3-Stack Platform System
Freescale introduces the 3-Stack Platform System, which you use to develop multimedia and
connectivity applications using the i.MX35 Applications Processor and the MC13892 Audio and
Power Management device.
The 3-Stack Platform System decreases the time between first development and final product
release by providing you (as the system designer) with a near-to-final product design, which you
can use as a development platform for software and hardware.
There are two Board Support Packages (BSP) for the 3-Stack Platform System, with one BSP for
Windows® and one BSP for Linux operating systems. These BSPs contain drivers optimized for
multimedia operations using the i.MX35 and MC13892 devices.
Freescale's 3-Stack Platform System consists of three small boards: CPU, Debug, and Personality.
•A CPU board contains the i.MX35 CPU, memories and the MC13892 Power
Management IC (PMIC).
•A Debug board provides the debug interfaces (like JTAG), and also has a CPLD that
implements an external Ethernet and serial controller for debug purposes.
•The Personality board implements the functionality of the 3-Stack board system, and
contains hardware to demonstrate most of the i.MX35 chip functionality.. The Personality
board can be modified to meet your specific requirements without the need to modify the
other two boards (CPU, Debug The Personality board was designed to support common
multimedia applications, and has a 7-inch WVGA display, image sensor camera, FM
receiver, SD Card connector, USB OTG, USB Host, ATA connector and TV-Out
connector, as well as additional functionality, which is described in this document.

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Table 1.1 describes the 3-Stack Platform in detail.
Table 1.1 3-Stack Platform Features
Item Description
All boards •Near to final product form-factor demonstration modules and
working platforms
•Solid reference schematics that closely resemble final products
to aid customers' designs
CPU board •i.MX35 ARM11™ Applications Processor
•MC13892 Atlas power management chip
•512MB of Flash Memory
•512MB of 32 bit DDR2 memory
•69.85mm x 69.85 mm
Personality board •Peripheral components
•Interface connectors
•177.62mm x 132mm
Debug board •Two RS-232 interfaces (only one is populated)
•10/100 Base-T Ethernet connector
•Current measure connectors
•71.400 mm x 174.900 mm
Battery Support +4.2 V 2400mAh Battery power supply and Battery Charging
Function
LCD Display 7 inch TFTLCD display panel with touch panel and LED backlight
Camera Interface Image sensor camera connector
Selectable Clock
Sources
System clock source of 24MHz and audio clock source of
24.567MHz
Debug Port RealView®-ICE debug support
Video and Audio Stereo Stereo microphone jack, headphone and video jack, stereo and
mono (ear piece) speaker terminals
GPS Connector One connector to outboard GPS module (GPS module not
included)
FM Receiver
PC Card Expansion SD card connectors, with card sense functionality (also supports
the MMC and MS card).
Network Support Two Ethernet jack connectors, one on personality board (for
applications) and one on debug board (for debug purposes)

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USB •One USB OTG high-speed transceiver with micro-USB
connector
•One USB high-speed host transceiver, with standard USB host
connector
ATA Support ATA5-compliant controller with one 44-position dual row, 2mm
header for small form-factor disk drivers and two CE-ATA
connectors
CAN One DB9 connector for CAN bus and one 10-pin connector for
CAN bus
Expansion Connectors •One 2mm connector for MLB signal
•An audio codec header for connect audio feature card
Serial Port Two RS-232 interfaces with DB-9 connectors, one is driven by
UART channel internal to the MX35 and supports DCE with
optional full modem controls, the other is DTE with optional full
modem controls.
Cables •RS-232 standard serial cable
•Shielded microUSB to type A male cable
•Ethernet straight thru cable
Power Supply 5.0V/5.0A universal power supply kit
Software •Linux Demo Image from Freescale
•Linux BSP available from Freescale
•RedBoot boot loader from Freescale
Application Development
Tools
•Advanced Toolkit (ATK) software
•Linux Target Image Builder (LTIB)
•Linux Toolchain (included in LTIB)

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1.2 CPU Board
Figures 1-1 and 1-2 illustrate the top and bottom of the CPU Board.
Use the J1 board-to-board connector (500 pins) to connect the CPU board to either of the other
two boards:
•Connect the CPU board to a Personality board, for running demos (no Debug board is
needed to run demos that do not use serial console commands).
•Connect the CPU board to a Personality board, (and connect the Personality board to the
Debug board) for developing software. The Personality board plugs in the other side of
the Debug board.
Figure 1-2 CPU Board, top Figure 1-2 CPU Board, bottom

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1.3 Debug Board
Figures 1-3 and 1-4 illustrate the top and bottom of the Debug Board.
Figure 1-3 Debug Board, Top

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Table 1.2 Debug Board Physical Features
Type Physical Features
Switches •S1: Power button
•S2: Debug board reset button
•S3: System reset switch
•S4: Power-on switch
•SW4: Enable switch
Figure 1-4 Debug Board, bottom view