NVIDIA® Jetson™ TX2 NX Getting Started for DSBOARD-NX2 (Rev. 1.1)
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN?
1- The pinout of I/O connector
2- Power socket polarization
3- Examples of I/O connector
ENVIRONMENT
Hardware: DSBOARD-NX2 (Rev. 1.1)
OS:
Language:
This blog post is suitable for:
• DSBOARD-NX2 (Rev. 1.1) with Jetson TX2 NX SOM
• DSBOX-TX2NX
DSBOARD-NX2 is industrial carrier board for NVIDIA Jetson TX2 NX/ Nano/ Xavier NX . We will explain how to get started with Jetson TX2 NX on this blog post.
Before you plug in DC power cable, you should plug in Ethernet cable, keyboard and mouse’s USB cables to USB ports, HDMI cable to HDMI port socket for monitoring the system and the Jetson TX2 NX module to its socket.
Power socket polarization
After connections are done, you can plug in the DC power cable to “DC IN” socket. The DC Power Source should be in the range of 9-28 Volt DC. If you have auto power version device, the system runs as soon as you plug the DC power cable. If you have other version, you should press power button which is located on the front side.
You can see the power connector pinout below. First and third pins are positive polarization, second and fourth pins are negative polarization.
After you energize the board, the system runs. The industrial box PC has preinstalled operating system (Ubuntu 18.04) (the user name and the password are “nvidia”).
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The pinout of I/O connector
Examples of I/O connector
CAN Bus Interface
First, let's look the I/O connector. On the connector, there are 2 pins for CAN Bus and 1 for isolated ground. When using CAN Bus always double check which ground pin you are using. You must use digital ground for CAN Bus applications.
To test CAN Bus functionality, we used USB-CAN adapter. Connect that adapter to the USB port of the host PC and install its driver software if necessary. To the other side of the adapter connect your device’s CAN pins.
On next step, activate CAN drivers and activate CAN interface with “ip link” command. On host side, be sure that you are using same bitrate with your device.
• sudo modprobe can
• sudo modprobe can-raw
• sudo modprobe mttcan
• sudo ip link set can0 up type can bitrate 500000
Lastly, you can use can-utils tools to communicate.
Use cangen to write random data:
• cangen can0 -v
Use cansend to write data:
• cansend can0 123#1122334455667788
Use candump to listen bus:
• candump can0
IIO (Industrial Input Output) Interface
On the IO connector, there are 3 isolated outputs, 2 isolated inputs and 1 isolated ground. Also, you can get 2 more isolated input pins with simple hardware rework. When using IIO always double check which ground pin you are using. You must use isolated ground for IIO applications.
Digital IN0 Test
Find sysfs equivalent of the connected input pin from the table. For this setup it is gpio-248. After proper hardware connection, we can continue on the software side.
Set gpio248 (DIGITAL_IN0) as input and read sensor value. To do this, you could use the commands below.
• sudo echo 248 > /sys/class/gpio/export
• sudo echo in > /sys/class/gpio/gpio248/direction
• sudo cat /sys/class/gpio/gpio248/value
Digital OUT0 Test
Find sysfs equivalent of the connected output pin from the table below. For this setup it is gpio-252. After proper hardware connection, we can continue on the software side.
Then set gpio252 (DIGITAL_OUT0) as output and control light state. To do this, you could use the commands below.
• sudo echo 252 > /sys/class/gpio/export
• sudo echo out > /sys/class/gpio/gpio252/direction
To short Output
• sudo echo 1 > /sys/class/gpio/gpio252/value
To open Output
• sudo echo 0 > /sys/class/gpio/gpio252/value
Serial Communication Interfaces
To test all serial communication interfaces, open new terminal and install GtkTerm program for ease of use (make sure Ethernet cable is connected). Then run GtkTerm program with arguments. On host side, you can use TeraTerm or Putty for Windows; GtkTerm for Ubuntu OS. You can install GtkTerm with this terminal command:
• sudo apt install gtkterm
RS232 Test
To test RS232 functionality, we used USB-Serial adapter. Connect that adapter to the USB port of the host PC and install its driver software if necessary. To the other side of the adapter connect your device’s RS232 pins with cross connection (Rx to Tx, Tx to Rx). You can find the hardware pins below. For ground connection, use GND_DIGITAL pin.
After proper connection, you should do pin muxing on your device to use Serial Port as RS232. To do this open new terminal then type these commands below.
• sudo echo 264 > /sys/class/gpio/export
• sudo echo 396 > /sys/class/gpio/export
• sudo echo out > /sys/class/gpio/gpio264/direction
• sudo echo out > /sys/class/gpio/gpio396/direction
• sudo echo 0 > /sys/class/gpio/gpio264/value
• sudo echo 0 > /sys/class/gpio/gpio396/value
If you are using GtkTerm on Ubuntu, run these commands below. If you have done everything correctly you could see your keyboard presses on the other machine's serial terminal.
• sudo gtkterm -p /dev/ttyTHS2 -s 115200
RS422 Test
To test RS422 functionality, we used USB-Serial adapter. Connect that adapter to the USB port of the host PC and install its driver software if necessary. To the other side of the adapter connect your device’s RS422 pins with cross connection (Rx to Tx, Tx to Rx but positive to positive, negative to negative). You can find the hardware pins below. For ground connection, use GND_DIGITAL pin.
After proper connection, you should do pin muxing on your device to use Serial Port as RS422. To do this open new terminal then type these commands below.
• sudo echo 264 > /sys/class/gpio/export
• sudo echo 396 > /sys/class/gpio/export
• sudo echo out > /sys/class/gpio/gpio264/direction
• sudo echo out > /sys/class/gpio/gpio396/direction
• sudo echo 0 > /sys/class/gpio/gpio264/value
• sudo echo 1 > /sys/class/gpio/gpio396/value
If you are using GtkTerm on Ubuntu, run these commands below. If you have done everything correctly you could see your keyboard presses on the other machine's serial terminal.
• sudo gtkterm -p /dev/ttyTHS2 -s 115200
RS485 Test
To test RS485 functionality, we used USB-Serial adapter. Connect that adapter to the USB port of the host PC and install its driver software if necessary. To the other side of the adapter connect your device’s RS485 pins. You can find the hardware pins below. For ground connection, use GND_DIGITAL pin.
After proper connection, you should do pin muxing on your device to use Serial Port as RS485. To do this open new terminal then type these commands below.
• sudo echo 340 > /sys/class/gpio/export
• sudo echo 264 > /sys/class/gpio/export
• sudo echo 396 > /sys/class/gpio/export
• sudo echo out > /sys/class/gpio/gpio340/direction
• sudo echo out > /sys/class/gpio/gpio264/direction
• sudo echo out > /sys/class/gpio/gpio396/direction
• sudo echo 1 > /sys/class/gpio/gpio264/value
• sudo echo 1 > /sys/class/gpio/gpio396/value
To Write Data
• sudo echo 1 > /sys/class/gpio/gpio340/value
To Read Data
• sudo echo 0 > /sys/class/gpio/gpio340/value
If you are using GtkTerm on Ubuntu, run these commands below. If you have done everything correctly you could see your keyboard presses on the other machine's serial terminal.
• sudo gtkterm -p /dev/ttyTHS2 -s 115200 -w RS485
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