Acqua technical documentation

Getting started with Acqua A5 and Berta dev boards

What do you need to start ?

Acqua A5 is designed to be used on a carrier board. The following carriers are available from the Acme Systems eStore:

• BERTA-A5-BASIC
• BERTA-A5-EXT

If you are using a custom designed board you need at least the following parts:

• An USB to 3.3 volt serial adapter like or
• A bootable Linux microSD made from one of this images: MicroSD images for Acqua

Getting started with BERTA-A5-EXT

Insert the Acqua A5 on the BERTA-A5-EXT carrier board:

Insert the bootable microSD inside the Acqua A5 microSD holder:

Insert the DPI adapter:

or alternatively the USB-3V-SER adapter:

Set the serial terminal configuration at: 115200.N,8,1 with no acknowledge

This is the debug port pinout

| 1   | 2   | 3   | 4   | 5  | 6   |
|-----|-----|-----|-----|----------|
| -   | -   | TXD | RXD | -  | GND |

Plug the LAN cable. Acqua will search an active DCHP server on your LAN to get dynamically the IP address:

Plug the 5 volt power supply and check the bootstrap messages on the serial terminal:

In this phase is not so important to configure the dip switch near the mini USB connector so you can leave it in the default configuration:

This is the dip switch meaning:

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