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Delivers Reference Design Functional Overview, and outlines First Steps, External Dependencies, Processing System Configuration, Programmable Logic Fabric Customization, Implementation Flow, etc.

Describes how to prepare a microSD card to use as a boot medium for running embedded Linux on a TySOM board, the two main options to set the root file system for an embedded Linux operating system, U-Boot as a second stage boot loader for an embedded Linux OS, etc.

Hardware and software parts of embedded design can be successfully debugged separately using modern EDA tools. But when it takes to run both sides together, new system-level issues may appear. This tutorial shows how to use Xilinx SDK to create Linux userspace application and efficiently co-debug it with Vivado Logic Analyzer

The growing complexity of modern SoC designs along with the complexity of separate reusable IP cores requires SoC engineers to be familiar with the functional verification tools and approaches. This tutorial presents a step-by-step guide to involve Aldec Riviera-PROTM and ALINT-PROTM tools for the TySOM embedded development flow needs.

TySOM™ Educational Kit is designed for the university courses related to the embedded system design, digital system design and hardware design. The kit includes Riviera-PRO™ Advanced Verification Platform and a TySOM embedded development board It also comes with a selection of rich tutorials and reference designs from basic to advanced level to help professors and students start their projects using this kit.

This document describes how to prepare a microSD card to use as a boot medium for running embedded Linux on a TySOM board. The preferable model of microSD card is 16 GB class 10 card. It provides enough disk space and read/write access performance needed to run Desktop Linux based on Ubuntu 12.11 Linaro image. It is assumed that the user is running a Linux based OS host workstation and is familiar with basic command line commands and tools.

Internet of Things applications require fast, encrypted, and safe internet communication channels to send data and communicate with other devices. The best solution for this purpose is the cloud. This document describes all necessary steps to use Amazon Cloud in IoT applications with TySOM as an IoT gateway.

When developing on the TySOM platform, there is much to consider. Hardware design, software development, and embedded Linux development are all crucial parts of the TySOM design flow.

Basic Vivado design is intended to provide common board functionality by enabling UART and SDIO peripherals to run embedded Linux in it's minimal possible configuration. In this case, SDIO core is used to support microSD cards as Linux boot source and UART as main system console. Standard Vivado flow includes several stages to create hardware platform for the Zynq-7000 based board. All the reviewed projects in the current document use current basic platform for the further system expansion so the main stages will be covered only once. These stages will be reviewed in the order they appear. Actual used Xilinx Vivado tool version is 2014.2

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Internet of Things (IoT) gateways utilize various sensors and actuators as well as communication interfaces to collect and transmit data. Some applications require a method to present data to users and store them in memory. One of the simplest ways to accomplish this goal is to use LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP) servers. This document will describe the process of installing and configuring LAMP web servers using the Aldec TySOM-1-7Z030.

The TySOM IoT Gateways have a wide range of use, some gateways can provide web server capability, and some can be connected to sensors and actuators. Wireless interfaces are often used when connecting sensors and actuators to a gateway. The main goal of this document is to describe how one can use wireless interfaces such as Bluetooth and Z-wave to communicate with sensors.