Running IPNC Application
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SPRUI82A – August 2016 – Revised September 2016
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TMXEVM388 Quick Start Guide
3.3
Connecting to Console Window
Figure 8. Connecting to Console Window
Use the following steps to open a console window on ‘IPNC Configuration PC’ that allows you to watch
and the interrupt hardware boot messages:
1. Connect a serial cable to the DM38x EVM and the serial port (for example, COM1) of a PC.
2. To boot with the SD card, make sure that the SD card with proper build image is inserted into the SD
card slot on DM38x EVM’s baseboard. (For flashing images to the SD card, follow software Installation
steps in
).
3. Run a terminal session (such as TeraTerm on Windows) on the workstation and configure it to connect
to that serial port with the following characteristics: (make sure that the version 4.80 of the Teraterm is
installed).
(a) Bits per Second: 115200
(b) Data Bits: 8
(c) Parity: None
(d) Stop Bits: 1
(e) Flow Control: None
Figure 9. Connect to the Serial Port
4. When you power on the EVM, you will see boot sequence messages. You can press a key to interrupt
the boot sequence and type commands in the U-Boot command shell. In this guide, commands to be
typed in the U-Boot shell are indicated by:
(a) DM388_IPNC # prompt