TIDUEW7 May 2020
The primary boot source used for testing TIDA-050043 was the SD card. The primary method for testing was using a pre-built binary image to prepare SD card. The purpose of this section is getting started using the software and assumes the software used is already written onto an SD Card that is inserted into the correct slot on the PCB and the BOOT switches are set properly.
The software used for testing is an embedded Linux Yocto build with drivers written for all of the TI ICs and patches to modify the original SDK written for the NXP i.MX 6ULL processor. Building and installing the image requires a laptop running Ubuntu 16.04 (or later), 120 GB HDD, a fully-assembled TIDA-050043 board, micro-SD card, micro-SD to SD Card adaptor, a micro-USB cable, and a 5-V DC power supply. The procedure for building and installing the software image is outside the scope of this document.