Embedian MXM-6410 Operation & User’s Manual

COM Ports Two USB Hosts LCD Ethernet CompactFlash MXM-6410 Firmware Restore Guide

CHAPTER 1 SYSTEM INFORMATION............................................................................................4 1.1 STARTING EVKM-MXM-6410.......................................................................................................4 1.2 JUMPER SETTING ............................................................................................................................5 1.3 CONNECTORS................................................................................................................................10 CHAPTER 2 FIRMWARE ARCHITECTURE.................................................................................13 2.1 FIRMWARE....................................................................................................................................13 2.2 SWITCHING BOOT OPTION FROM NOR OR NAND.........................................................................13 2.3 FIRMWARE ARCHITECTURE IN NAND FLASH ...............................................................................15 CHAPTER 3 RESTORE THE FIRMWARE IN NAND FLASH.....................................................18 3.1 RESTORE STEPLDR AND EBOOT FROM NOR FLASH ....................................................................18 3.2 RESTORE NK IMAGE FROM EBOOT .............................................................................................28 3.3 RESTORE FIRMWARE IN NAND FLASH FROM SD BOOT ................................................................34 3.3.1. Using PC Tool to Fusing the SD/SDHC card......................................................................34 3.3.2. Using SD boot fusing NAND flash......................................................................................35

to let users quickly pick up how to setting up the system. Section include： z System Setup z Jumper Setting z Firmware architecture in NAND flash

This Chapter gives an introduction of hardware information so that users can quickly set up the system. 1.1 Starting EVKM-MXM-6410 Before starting, please check the jumper to make sure that the jumper configuration is matching your demand. Figure 1.1 shows the steps. Figure 1.1 Starting EVKM-MXM-6410 1. Press the MXM-6410 module and screw it tightly. 2. Connect the console port (UART0, CN20 on figure 1.3) to the console cable, then to a null modem cable and then connect to your PC. Open up the DNW 0.6c (Click “Connect” at “Serial Port” tab) and set the baud rate to 115200, 8N1, no hardware flow control. (At “Configuration” Tab Æ “Options” of DNW program serial port setting.) 3. Connect the backlight invert board power to CN9. 4. Connect the LCD FPC Cable (Top Contact) or LVDS cable. 5. Connect the power cable to power board.

This section gives details of the hardware features of the EVKM-MXM-6410. These include a description of the switches, jumper settings, connectors and connector pin outs. Jumpers The EVKM-MXM-6410 SBC has a number of jumpers that allow you to configure your system to suit your application. All use 2mm shorting blocks (shunts) to select settings. Turn off power of the EVKM-MXM-6410 before changing the position of a shunt. Jumper Location Figure 1.2 Jumper Location

The table below lists the function of various jumpers. Table 1.1 Jumpers Table 1.1 Jumpers Label Function JP1 NOR boot or NAND boot Setting and LCD Scan Direction Setting JP2 LCD Power Setting (3.3V or 5V for both TTL and LVDS) JP3 RS232/422/485 Setting

JP1: Location on Board, D1 Table 1.2 NOR Boot or NAND Boot and LCD Scan Direction Setting (JP1) Table 1.2 NOR Boot or NAND Boot and LCD Scan Direction Setting Setting Function N.C.(Default) NAND Boot JP1 (1-2) NOR Boot JP1 (3-4) Pull-High of CN14 Pin 30 JP1 (5-6) Pull-High of CN14 Pin 31 JP2: Location on Board, C1 Table 1.3 LCD VCC Power Setting for CN14 and CN15 (JP2) (from CPU LVDS and TTL) Table 1.3 LCD VCC Power Setting for CN14 (JP2) (from CPU LVDS and TTL) Setting Function JP2(1-2)(Default) 3.3V JP2(3-4) 5V JP3: Location on Board, B6 Table 1.4 RS232/422/485 Mode Setting Table 1.4 RS232/422/485 Setting Setting Function JP3(1-2)(Default) RS232 JP3(3-4) RS422/RS485 half duplex JP3(5-6) RS422/RS485 full duplex

(UART1) header. If JP3 jumper set to be RS422 and RS485, the connector will be CN22 header. User can only choose one (RS232 or RS422 or RS485) at the same time. S1: Location on Board, D6 Table 1.5 Reset Button Table 1.5 Reset Button Setting Function Press Button and Release Immediately Reset CPU and IO Setting Jumpers You configure your board to match the needs of your application by setting jumpers. A jumper is the simplest kind of electric switch. It consists of two metal pins and a small metal clip (often protected by a plastic cover) that slides over the pins to connect them. To "close" a jumper you connect the pins with the clip. To "open" a jumper you remove the clip. Sometimes a jumper will have three pins, labeled 1, 2 and 3. In this case you would connect either pins 1 and 2 or 2 and 3. The jumper settings are schematically depicted in this manual as follows.

have any doubts about the best hardware configuration for your application, contact your local distributor or sales representative before you make any change. Generally, you simply need a standard cable to make most connections.

LCD panel, a keyboard, an audio headset or CompactFlash and to external communication such as 802.11, USB or Ethernet link. The table below lists the function of each of the board’s connectors. Connector Location Figure 1.3 Connector Location

Table 1.6 List of Connectors Table 1.6 Connector Label Function CN5 JTAG CN6 CF Type I/II Connector CN7 SATA Connector CN8 Power Connector CN9 LCD Backlight Inverter Connector CN10 RTC Battery Connector CN11 Audio (Microphone in, Headphone out, Line in) Connector CN12 Buzzer CN13 S-Video and CVBS Video Connector CN14 TTL Level LCD FPC Connector CN15 LVDS LCD Connector CN16 VGA DSub-15 Connector CN17 Ethernet RJ45 and Double USB Host Type A Connector CN18 Double USB Host Header CN19 USB OTG Type B Connector CN20 UART 0 and UART 1 Header CN21 UART 2 and UART 3 Header CN22 SPI and RS422/485 Header CN23 UART 4 and UART 5 Header CN24 SD/SDHC Connector CN25 GPIO Header CN26 4-Wire Touch Panel Connector CN27 CAN Bus Connector .

firmware architecture of MXM-6410 computer on module. Section include： z Firmware z Switching boot option from NOR or NAND z Firmware architecture in NAND flash

This Chapter gives an overall picture in regarding to the firmware architecture of MXM-6410 computer on module. This helps users understand what they are doing when upgrade or restore the firmware. 2.1 Firmware There are NOR flash (on carrier board) and NAND flash (on the module) reside in the system and play different roles. The firmware in NAND includes stepldr.nb0 (BootStrap Loader), eboot.bin and NK.bin. The system is booting from NAND flash by default. The firmware in NOR flash will not be used during normal operation. It stores some utilities like writing MAC address, checking bad blocks of NAND flash or restoring/upgrading the firmware to NAND when the eboot is gone for somehow. The firmware restoring is especially important in this kind of NAND boot device. All firmware will be factory pre-loaded. 2.2 Switching boot option from NOR or NAND The NAND boot or NOR boot is determined by JP1 jumper setting on Embedian 3.5-inch APC-6410 series single board computers. The default setting (JP1 1-2 open) is NAND boot. And shunt the 1-2 of JP1 will switch to NOR boot. Always power off when changing the jumpers.

Figure 2.1 Jumper Settings of NOR Boot and NAND Boot

Figure 2.2 shows the firmware architecture in NAND flash. Figure 2.2 Firmware Architecture in NAND Flash When power on, the processor will copy the first 4K of BootStrap Loader (stepldr.nb0) to internal RAM. The stepldr will initialize the memory mapping and load the eboot from the 2nd block (0x2, 1 block = 128K) of NAND flash. The WinCE 6.0 kernel (NK.bin) starts from the 6th block (0x6). There are about 97.5MB un-used in NAND for users. User can see the flash information at My Device\NandFlash when booting up. Click the mouse or touch on the icon for a few seconds and Tab the “Properties” as Figure 2.3.

The purposes of this document are to tell users how to restore or upgrade the firmware in NAND flash. The next chapter will detail that.

in NAND flash This Chapter details how to restore the firmware in NAND flash of MXM-6410 computer on module. Section include： z Restore Stepldr.nb0 and EBOOT.bin from NOR flash z Restore NK image from EBOOT z Restore firmware in NAND flash from SD boot

NAND flash This chapter first gives two steps to restore the firmware in NAND flash. If the EBOOT of the system is gone, users need to follow the “Restore Stepldr.nb0 and EBOOT.bin from NOR flash “ that described in section 3.1. If the EBOOT of the system is still alive, users can go to the section 3.2 directly. And in the last section of this chapter, we will introduce how to restore the firmware in NAND flash from SD boot. Before going on, users need to install two kinds of USB drivers that Embedian provided with on your Windows PC first. The “secusb2” is for the USB download during the NOR boot configuration and the “wceusbsh” is the Windows CE USB RNDIS driver. (When plug the USB cable to the Windows PC at first time, Windows will ask you to install the driver. Just point to the directory where your USB driver placed and the installation will be done.) 3.1 Restore Stepldr and EBOOT from NOR flash User will need this chapter in case that your EBOOT is erased by accident or gone for somehow. To write Stepldr and EBOOT images to NAND flash using NOR boot, first, power off device and set the jumper JP1 to NOR flash configuration. (Be sure to power off the system before you changing the jumper.) Install the USB host driver to your Windows system and DNW v0.6C programs that Embedian provided in your host Windows PC. Connect the serial console cable from serial console port (UART 0 in CN20 of Embedian SBC) of device to the COM port of your Windows PC. And connect a USB cable from USB device port (CN19 of Embedian SBC) to USB host port of your Windows PC. In "Serial Port" of your dnw program, click on "Connect" and power on device. In "Configuration" of dnw program, at "Options" set the COM port as the following setting of figure 3.1. And the USB Port Download Address is "0x50030000", this is the DDR DRAM address where the program will be executed. The baud rate is 115200 and the host COM port is this example is "COM 1"

programs as shown in figure 3.2. Figure 3.2 NOR Boot Splash Screen

Figure 3.3 NOR Boot Menu

following screen. Figure 3.4 Download & Run

Figure 3.5 USB Transmit for Download & Run A file browser will pop up and select the folder where you put the EBOOT.nb0 file. Then the EBOOT will be download the DDR RAM and run. You will see the EBOOT “initiating image download in 5 seconds” messages. Press [Space] bar to enter the EBOOT menu during these 5 seconds as shown in figure 3.6.

Step 5 First of all, we recommend you press A) Erase All Blocks to erase everything in NAND flash. Next, press T) Download Target: [*Download to RAM] and change to T) Download Target: [Write to NAND Storage]. (By pressing “T” and you can change back and forth.) This is to tell EBOOT that we are going to write image to NAND flash instead of DDR RAM. Press “W” to save this EBOOT configuration. And press D) Download or Program image (OS image will be launched) You will see the following screen shown as figure 3.7.

At “USB Port” Tab, select UBOOT Æ UBOOT as shown in figure 3.7. (Note: because we are going to write image to NAND flash, choose UBOOT instead Transmit. Here is different from that in step 4.) A file browser will ask you to select a file that you would like to write to NAND flash. Find the file "STEPLDR.nb0" in your PC and click. And you will see the following screen as shown in figure 3.8.

Now you have successfully write the STEPLDR.nb0 file to NAND flash. Next, we would like to write EBOOT.bin to NAND flash. Step 7 Repeat steps 1~6, but DON’T erase all blocks at step 5 because you have already written the STEPLDR.nb0 to NAND flash. And at step 6 choose the EBOOT.bin file. (Note: It is EBOOT.bin instead of EBOOT.nb0.) After writing EBOOT.bin to NAND flash you should be able to see the screen as shown in figure 3.9.

As of now you have successfully written the STEPLDR.nb0 and EBOOT.bin files to NAND flash. You can turn the power off and set the JP1 jumper to NAND boot and turn the power on again. You should able to hear a short beep sound and see the splash screen on the LCD as shown in figure 3.10. Figure 3.10 EBOOT Slash Screen

from NAND flash by using EBOOT. 3.2 Restore NK image from EBOOT In previous section, we detailed how to restore/upgrade the steploader and EBOOT from NOR flash utilities. Once you have steploader and eboot up and running in NAND flash. You can use the EBOOT to restore or upgrade the NK image. Same as section 3.1, first, you need to connect the serial console cable from serial console port (UART 0 in CN20 of Embedian SBC) of device to the COM port of your Windows PC. And connect a USB cable from USB device port (CN19 of Embedian SBC) to USB host port of your Windows PC. In "Serial Port" of your dnw program, click on "Connect" and power on device. In "Configuration" of dnw program, at "Options" set the COM port as the following setting of figure 3.1. And the USB Port Download Address is "0x50030000", this is the DDR DRAM address where the program will be executed. The baud rate is 115200 and the host COM port is this example is "COM 1" Figure 3.11 COM and USB Port Setting of DNW Program

Step 1 Set the JP1 to NAND boot (open 1-2 pin of JP1) and power up the devices. You should be able to hear a short beep sound and splash screen in the LCD. You will see the EBOOT “initiating image download in 5 seconds” messages. Press [Space] bar to enter the EBOOT menu during these 5 seconds as shown in figure 3.12. Figure 3.12 EBOOT Menu Setting Step 2 First of all, press 5) Startup Action after Boot delay: [Launch Existing OS image from Storage] to tell EBOOT to load the NK from NAND flash because we are going to erite NK to NAND flash later. (The default setting should be 5) Startup Action after Boot delay : [*Download New image]. Press “5” to change it.) Next, press K) KITL Configuration : [Disabled] to disable the KITL. Press “W” to save this configuration first.

Reserved Block. This is to format the NK area as BinFS file system and mark the bad blocks in NAND flash. You will see the following message shortly and then enter into the EBOOT menu again. Enter your selection: f Reserving Blocks [0x0 - 0x5] ... Wait for completion Reserving is completed. The last step is to writing NK.bin image into NAND flash by pressing D) Download or Program image (OS image will be launched) And you will see the following screen as shown in figure 3.13. Figure 3.13 Writing NK,bin to NAND flash

because we are going to write image to NAND flash, choose UBOOT instead Transmit.) A file browser will ask you to select a file that you would like to write to NAND flash. Find the file "NK.bin" in your PC and click. Wait for about 30 seconds to let the NK.bin writing into NAND flash. And you will see the following screen as shown in figure 3.14. Figure 3.14 Done with Writing NK.bin to NAND If you have ActiveSync program (user can download this program for free from Microsoft’s website) installed in your Windows PC and the USB cable is connected to your device, you should be able to see the ActiveSync program pop out and ask you to set up a partnership as shown in figure 3.15.

Windows CE 6.0 desktop screen as following now. You can also use the remote desktop tool to see the desktop. Figure 3.16 Windows CE 6.0 Desktop Now, we have done the firmware restore/upgrade of the Windows CE system.

Embedian also provides a very useful way to recover the firmware in NAND flash from SD card. To brief how this be done, use needs to use the PC tool to write the EBOOT bootable file to a SD card first and then plug that SD card into the device. Set the hardware configuration to SD boot and user will see the EBOOT menu. Details will be described in the following sections. 3.3.1. Using PC Tool to Fusing the SD/SDHC card 1. Users should format the SD/SDHC card as FAT32 file systems. 2. Run IROM_Fusing_Tool.exe (Note: for only SD, MMC, HSMMC card only, not SDHC card. Using IROM_Fusing_Tool_SDHC.exe instead if SDHC cards.) 3. Click the browse button to choose IROM_SD_BOOTUP.nb0. (Note: this file already combined the stepldr.nb0, just fusing this file will be fine enough.) 4. Choose the storage drive that SD card is mounted on. If you choose **NOT** SD card storage drive like HDD drive, It might make a serious problem on your HDD. Please Make sure that storage drive is right. Figure 3.17 Use PC Tool to Fusing SD 5. Click “START” button.

6. If there is the message box like that shown in figure 3.18, it’s done. 7. Remove the SD/MMC card on you PC and put it to APC-6410’s SD card slot. 8. Set booting mode as iROM SD booting, and turn on the power and you should see the system boot directly from SD now. Next section, we will detail how to fusing NAND flash using SD boot. 3.3.2. Using SD boot fusing NAND flash After setting the device to SD boot, user should be able to see the following screen after power up.

Once you saw the menu shown in figure 3.19. The fusing procedure will be exactly the same as described in section 3.1 to restore the NAND flash firmware from NOR flash. The following are the detail step-by-step procedures. Step 1 First of all, we recommend you press 3) Erase All Blocks to erase everything in NAND flash. Next, press 6) Download Media Device : [*USB_DNW] to choose “USB_DNW” and press 7) Start to Download. You will see the following screen shown as figure 3.20.

At “USB Port” Tab, select UBOOT Æ UBOOT as shown in figure 3.20. A file browser will ask you to select a file that you would like to write to NAND flash. Find the file "STEPLDR.nb0" in your PC and click. And you will see the following screen as shown in figure 3.21.

Now you have successfully write the STEPLDR.nb0 file to NAND flash. Next, we would like to write EBOOT.bin to NAND flash. Step 3 Repeat steps 1~2, but DON’T erase all blocks at step 1 because you have already written the STEPLDR.nb0 to NAND flash. And at step 2 choose the EBOOT.bin file. (Note: It is EBOOT.bin instead of EBOOT.nb0.) After writing EBOOT.bin to NAND flash you should be able to see the screen as shown in figure 3.22.

As of now you have successfully written the STEPLDR.nb0 and EBOOT.bin files to NAND flash. You can turn the power off and set the jumper to NAND boot and turn the power on again. You should able to hear a short beep sound and see the splash screen on the LCD as shown in figure 3.10. Figure 3.10 EBOOT Slash Screen

image from NAND flash by using EBOOT at NAND.