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Dacu

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Dacu-top-view.png Applies to Dacu
Lizard.jpg Applies to Lizard

Contents

IntroductionEdit

Dacu is an ARM Cortex-A8 industrial tablet platform, built around a carrier board hosting the Lizard CPU module

The following picture shows block diagram of Dacu:

Quick startEdit

This section describes how to quick start Dacu system.


"Full control" modeEdit

  1. connect the serial cable, provided with the board, to J3 pin-strip connector
  2. connect this cable to PC COM port through a NULL-modem cable (not provided)
  3. start your favourite terminal software on PC; communication parameters are:
    • baud rate: 115200 Bps
    • data bits: 8
    • stop bits: 1
    • parity: none
  4. connect the system to Ethernet LAN (RJ45 connector, J6)
  5. connect a 12Vcc power supply to to the power jack (JP2)

Once power has been applied, U-Boot bootloader will be executed and the following messages will be printed on serial console:


Once the boot process has completed, you'll get the default Android "desktop":

Moreover, you'll have immediate access to the Android shell, so you can use the shell commmands to interact with the system.

"Normal" modeEdit

  1. connect the system to Ethernet LAN (RJ45 connector, J6)
  2. connect a 12Vcc power supply to to the power jack (JP2)

Once power has been applied, the system will boot loading the software components from the internal flash. Once the boot process has completed, you'll get the default Android "desktop":