Wandboard Solo User manual

WANDBOARD USER GUIDE
(20130208)

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WANDBOARD DESIGN AND DISCLAIMER
These design materials referred to in this document are *NOT
SUPPORTED* and DO NOT constitute a reference design. Only
"community" support is allowed via resources at Wandboard.org forums.
THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE DESIGN MATERIALS, TO THE EXTENT
PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN
WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE
THE DESIGN MATERIALS "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND
PERFORMANCE OF THE DESIGN MATERIALS IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE
DESIGN MATERIALS PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL
NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
This board was designed as an evaluation and development tool. It was
not designed with any other application in mind. As such, these design
materials may or may not be suitable for any other purposes. If used, the
design material becomes your responsibility as to whether or not it meets
your specific needs or your specific applications and may require changes
to meet your requirements.

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Block Diagram

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Overview
Wi-Fi chip iMX6 CPU
uFL IPEX connector
for Wi-Fi & Bluetooth Memory
SD-card (OS) Camera header
EDM-Standard
Connector Reset button
Expansion Pin headers

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Digital line Out SATA (not populated)
Digital line in Serial
Microphone USB Host
S/PDIF SD-card
(applications)
HDMI
Gigabit LAN
5VDC in USB OTG

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Expansion pin headers

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Camera header

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Quick Start Guide
a) Connect display: use a quality
HDMI cable to connect to your
HDMI TV or Monitor.
b) Connect network: use a standard
RJ45 LAN cable to connect your
wired network (optional)
c) Connect wireless antenna (sold
separately). This option is only
available on Wandboard dual)
d) Connect a standard USB mouse
or keyboard
e) Insert the microSD (orange
microSD card slot)
Read the last 2 pages of this document
to create a microSD card containing
the Operating System.
f) Power up: Plug in a power supply
(5 VDC at 2A is recommended)
(Storage)
(for OS)

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Preparing the bootable microSD card for
your Wandboard
The microSD card that is created below will contain the Wandboard
operating system. A large number of demo runtime images are available.
1. Procedures to get you started
a) Download your preferred Wandboard runtime image
http://www.wandboard.org/index.php/downloads
b) Extract the file that you just downloaded
Right click on the file and choose “Extract all”.
The extracted files will contain a file ending in .img
2. Instructions for Linux users
This paragraph explains how to create a SD card using Linux desktop or
notebook. The SD card can be made using a standard terminal.
# dd if=*.img of=/dev/sdd bs=1M
replace *.img with the full name of the SD card image and replace
/dev/sdd with your SD card device".
3. Instructions for Windows users
This paragraph explains how to create a SD card using Windows desktop
or notebook.
Note: the .img file can only be written to your microSD card by special
disk imaging software. This disk imaging software is included in the
downloads at wandboard.org or can be downloaded according the
instructions in paragraph 3.1.
3.1 Download the Win32DiskImager software
a) Download win32diskimager-binary.zip from:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/
b) Right click on the file and choose “Extract all”.
c) This will create a new folder called win32diskimager-binary