Hardware requirements

  • Micro USB cable

  • EVK-MIMX8M Plus board

  • J-Link Debug Probe

  • 12V power supply

  • Personal Computer

Board settings

No special settings are required.

Please note this application can’t support booting by uboot! and accordingly it does not support Flash target! This example aims to show the basic usage of the IP’s function, some of the used Resources are assigned to Cortex-A core by uboot.

Prepare the Demo

  1. Connect 12V power supply and J-Link Debug Probe to the board, switch SW3 to power on the board

  2. Connect a USB cable between the host PC and the J23 USB port on the target board.

  3. Open a serial terminal with the following settings:

    • 115200 baud rate

    • 8 data bits

    • No parity

    • One stop bit

    • No flow control

  4. Download the program to the target board.

  5. Launch the debugger in your IDE to begin running the demo.

Running the demo

When the demo runs successfully, the log would be seen on the debug terminal like:

Uart interrupt example Board receives 8 characters then sends them out Now please input:

When you input 8 characters, system will echo it by UART and them would be seen on the terminal.