04 Debug Tools

1 USB to Serial Driver Installation

This chapter describes how to install the USB to serial driver for the development board serial port. The driver is suitable for USB to serial chips such as CH340 and CH341.

Applicable installation environment: Windows 7 64bit, Windows 10 64bit.

  1. Unzip the product material "Software Materials\Tools\Windows\CH341SER.zip", enter the corresponding directory according to your computer system, and click SETUP.EXE.
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  1. Click Install.
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  1. After the prompt "Installation Successful", you can view the USB to serial driver in the PC Device Manager, as shown in the figure below.
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If the installation still fails normally, you can use third-party software such as Driver Genius or Master Lu to install the USB to serial driver online. If the driver is normal but the connection still fails, please check if the USB connection cable is normal.

2 System Debug Tool SecureCRT Installation

SecureCRT is a terminal emulation software that supports the SSH protocol. It allows you to view development board system information and debug the development board system through the serial port or network port.

2.1 Installation Process

Applicable installation environment: Windows 7 64bit, Windows 10 64bit.

  1. Unzip the "Software Materials\Tools\Windows\VanDyke SecureCRT and SecureFX 9.4.0.3072 x64+x32.rar" compressed package in the product materials.

For 64-bit computers, please double-click to install scrt-sfx-x64-bsafe.9.4.0.3072.exe in the unzipped directory.

For 32-bit computers, please double-click to install scrt-sfx-x86-bsafe.9.4.0.3072.exe in the unzipped directory.

  1. After installation according to the process, you need to enter the License serial number to use it. Please purchase the License yourself.

2.2 Serial Connection Settings

  1. Open SecureCRT, click "File -> Quick Connect...", enter the connection configuration interface. Or directly click the "Quick Connect" shortcut button, as shown in the figure below.
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  1. In the pop-up dialog box, configure the serial connection method. Select Serial for Protocol, select the corresponding COM port for Port, manually enter the baud rate as 1500000, keep other parameters as default, and finally click Connect, as shown in the figure below.
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2.3 Character Encoding Settings

In order to ensure that the system debugging tool supports Chinese display and avoid Chinese garbled characters, please perform the following character encoding settings. Click "Options -> Session Options... -> Appearance" in turn, select UTF-8 for Character encoding, and click OK to save.

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2.4 System Startup Information (Log) Saving

During the debugging process, it is often necessary to save the system startup information (Log).

  1. After the system debugging tool connection settings are completed, click "File -> Log Session", enter the Log saving configuration interface, select the Log saving path and click "Save", as shown in the figure below.
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  1. When the system startup is completed, the Log will be automatically saved in the corresponding log file, and the content is similar to the figure below.
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3 CAN Debug Tool Installation

The CAN debugging tool is a software program based on the Chuangxin Technology CAN Analyzer hardware. It can run on a computer with the CAN Analyzer hardware installed, and can process CAN messages in 11-bit identifier mode (CAN2.0A protocol) and 29-bit identifier mode (CAN2.0B protocol).

Enter the "Software Materials\Tools\Windows\CAN_TOOL" directory and read "2.USB-CAN Tool Debugging Software Installation and User Manual.pdf" for installation.

The software interface is as follows:

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4 Network SSH Login

Tips

Default account: linaro , Password: linaro

First, ensure that your computer and device are in a network interoperable state (i.e., in the same LAN); connect the network cable to the network port 1 or network port 2 of the device, use the ifconfig command to view the device IP address - enter commands using the command line if connected to a display screen, or enter commands after serial connection to view.

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Take MobaXterm as an example:

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Enter password to login:

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Note

Root permission is required. You can use sudo+command or sudo -i to switch to root user to execute instructions.

Or use the linaro account to set the root password, enter sudo passwd root in the terminal, and customize the password;

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