Strawberry Basic
Contents
Overview
| Items | Basic |
|---|---|
| CPU | AllWinner A10 SoC, 1GHz ARM Cortex A8 |
| GPU | OpenGL ES2.0, OpenVG 1.1 Mali 400 core |
| DRAM | 256MB |
| Onboard Storage | 2GB NAND |
| External Storage | T Card Slot (support up to 32GB) |
| Video Output | HDMI |
| OS | Linux3.0 + Ubuntu12.10 |
| Extension Interface | Arduino Headers |
| Network interface | USB WiFi extension (not included) |
| Power In | 5V 2A |
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How to Upgrade
The board support to boot from mini-SD card or NAND flash.
Steps to burn the firmware to NAND flash
A PC tool called “Livesuit” is provided to burn the firmware from PC to the flash on board.
Livesuite requires a min-USB cable connect the PC to the USB OTG port on board.
Note: For the first time run livesuite, you need to install usb driver under livesuite dir. If the nand flash already have firmware, you need to connect your PC to the board via UART cable.
And set the baund rate to 115200, press keyboard “2” before power on to enter the force-update process.
See Livesuite manual(under livesuite software dir) for more details about livesuite.
STEPS
- 1 open the LiveSuit software.
- 2 select the firmware. (*.img)
- 3 insert the device to be upgraded (only one device is permitted)
- 4 click “ Update”, to start.
- 5 During upgrade, you will be asked to install the USB Driver twice. The driver file is “usbdrv.inf” in the folder “usbDriver”,which is located at the installation path of “LiveSuit”（for more detail information please refer the to “Appendix：USB Device Install”）
- 6 If you upgrade successfully, please pull out the device, then reset it.
- 7 if failed, please pull out the device, reset it. And do the upgrade again.
- 8 if upgrade failed so many times, please contact with the franchiser.
Note
Although the tools are useful and easy to use, but sometimes it takes very long time to burn a big image ,For example, livesuite takes more than one hour to burn a 1.5GBytes image.
So we provide another choice, we burn a small image (about 20MB) with livesuite, and after system bootup, it will continue to burn the firmware via usb disk. For this method, it takes only about 10 minutes to do the same job.
Steps to burn the firmware to mini-SD card
Another tool called “PhoenixCard” is provided to do this job. This tool makes the process to burn the firmware to SD card very easy.
Please see the document under the software dir for more details.
