Variscite VAR-DVK-AM33 User manual

DART-MX6 based on NXP’s i.MX6
Evaluation Kit Quick Start Guide
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Evaluation Kit initial Setup
1. Carefully remove the 7” LCD and VAR-DT6CustomBoard board from the
package.
2. Connect the 7” LCD Touch and Display cables to the Evaluation Kit connectors
J7, J18 respectively as shown in the upper left picture.
Note: Display cable connector pins 1, 2 (colored in red) should be connected to
J18 pins 1, 2 respectively.
Touch cable –connect cable with metal contacts facing down.
3. Plug the USB type A to micro B cable between the USB debug connector (J102)
and a PC USB port.
4. Plug the wall adapter’s pin into the VAR-DT6CustomBoard
5V power jack (J24) and to a 120VAC~240VAC power source.
Top side:
1. 5V DC In Jack (J24)
2. ON/OFF Button
3. Boot select switch (SW6)
4. Mini PCI Express Connector
5. LVDS0 Header (Secondary Display)
6. RS232 Header
7. LVDS1 Header (PrimaryDisplay) (J18)
8. Miscellaneous Header
9. MIPI CSI-2 Camera [optional add-on]
10. I2C/SPI Header
11. Capacitive Touch (J7)
12. CAN Bus Header
13. Headphones Out
14. Line In
15. DSI Header
16. HDMI
17. Digital Audio Header
18. USB0 Host
19. Parallel Camera Header
20. USB1 Host
21. 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet
22. USER Button1
23. USER Button2
24. USER Button3
25. Reset Button
26. PWR On Switch (SW5)
Bottom side:
27. USB Debug (J102)
28. micro SD Card slot (J101)
29. RTC Battery Holder
30. USB0 OTG

DART-MX6 based on NXP’s i.MX6
Evaluation Kit Quick Start Guide
Setting the Host PC for Debug
1. Download any PC terminal program. Variscite suggests using Putty
2. Set PC terminal software parameters as follows:
- Baud Rate: 115200
- Data bits: 8
- Stop bits: 1
- Parity: None
- Flow Control: None
Using Default file System
1. Set Boot select switch (SW6) left to boot from
DART-MX6 eMMC.
2. Switch ON (upwards) the PWR On switch (SW5).
3. Boot messages are printed within PC’s terminal window.
Booting from micro SD Card
The microSD card is supplied within the package. The image can be
also downloaded from Variscite FTP site. Please refer to “Burning
Recovery File System” section.
1. Verify Switch SW5 is OFF (downwards).
2. Set Boot select switch (SW6) right to boot from microSD Card.
3. Push microSD card into the microSD card slot (J101) of the
VAR-DT6CustomBoard.
4. Switch ON (upwards) the PWR On switch (SW5).
5. Boot messages are printed within PC’s terminal window.
Burning Recovery File System
Please refer to Variscite’s wiki pages for preparing recovery SD card
and burning internal storage (eMCC) at:
http://variwiki.com/index.php?title=Yocto_Recovery_SD_card_latest
Additional Support Links
1. Wiki pages:
http://variwiki.com/index.php?title=Main_Page
2. Variscite Customers Portal:
https://varisciteportal.axosoft.com/login
3. DART-MX6 Evaluation Kits:
http://www.variscite.com/products/evaluation-kits/dart-mx6-kits
4. DART-MX6:
http://www.variscite.com/products/system-on-module-som/cortex-
a9/dart-mx6-cpu-freescale-imx6
5. VAR-DT6CustomBoard:
http://www.variscite.com/products/single-board-computers/var-
dt6customboard
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