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OSD3358-SM-RED
– User Guide
Rev. 1.0 9/19/2017
Octavo Systems LLC
Copyright 2017
3.3
PC USB interface (X1)
The board has a micro-USB OTG port X1 (shown below) that can connect to the USB port of a
laptop/computer. In addition to powering the board, this port can also be used to access the
board as a storage device or through an RNDIS ethernet connection. SSH clients such as
PUTTY (
) can be used to connect and run programs through a secure shell
command prompt. In addition, the Beagleboard compatible Linux image allows a web browser
(Chrome or Firefox) to browse to the web server running on the board and access Cloud9 IDE,
an easy to use web-based programming platform can also be used for software development.
Figure 23: USB OTG port of the RED board
NOTE:
OSD3358-SM-RED Platform is compatible specifically with Linux images that can
be installed on the boards Beaglebone Black, Beaglebone Black Wireless, Beaglebone
Blue. Suitable modifications to the device tree need to be made for complete functionality.
Please see Section 5.2 for details.
