Reference Hardware

This section lists reference hardware.

Contents

• ARM 32-bit Reference Hardware
• ARM 64-bit Reference Hardware
• Intel 64-bit Reference Hardware
• Optional Extra Reference Hardware

This section lists setup guides for reference hardware.

Contents

• i.MX6Q SABRE Lite Setup
• i.MX8MN BSH SMM S2 PRO board
• i.MX8MN Variscite Symphony board
• Minnowboard Setup
• R-Car Hardware Setup
• Raspberry Pi 4 Setup
• Raspberry Pi CM4 CANOPi Setup
• TI SK-AM62 Setup
• UP Squared 6000 board Setup

This section lists setup in LAVA guides for reference hardware.

Contents

• i.MX6Q Sabrelite Setup in LAVA
• Raspberry Pi 4 Setup in LAVA
• UP Squared 6000 board Setup in LAVA

Support for the SK-AM62 using the process described below has been integrated into the development branch for v2025 and thus will be available from v2025 and onwards. Required Items You should have at least: 1 TI SK-AM62 device 1 USB-C Power adaptor 1 USB to Micro-USB cable 1 MicroSD card 1 Network cable (optional) SK-AM62 Board Setup The generic Apertis ARM 64-bit image files do not contain a bootloader in order to remain as board agnostic as possible. [Read More]

This is the setup recommended for developers using the Raspberry Pi CM4 (Compute Module 4) CANOPi device. The Eclipse KUKSA CANOPi is a baseboard for the Raspberry Compute Module 4. Required items You should have at least: 1 Raspberry Pi CM4 CANOPi device. 1 Power Supply 12V/5A DC. 1 USB to serial cable/converter (3.3v is mandatory) 1 USB type A to micro B cable RPi CM4 CANOPi board setup Attach serial Please ensure you are using the USB to serial which is 3. [Read More]

Setting up an UP Squared 6000 board for LAVA These are the instructions to prepare a device for use as a DUT in the Apertis LAVA automated test laboratory. See UP Squared 6000 board setup for the recommended setup for developers’ devices. Overview These instructions are to set up a PXE boot server with x86_64 stand-alone GRUB to boot an UP Squared 6000 series board (Intel Atom x6425RE) in LAVA. It will first boot with a kernel over TFTP and an NFS root file system, then deploy a full OS image on an SD card and boot it with GRUB. [Read More]

UP Squared 6000 series board based on the latest Intel Atom x6425RE processors. This is the setup recommended for developers using the UP Squared 6000 device directly. See UP Squared 6000 board Setup in LAVA for setting up devices for use in LAVA. Required items You should have at least: 1 UP Squared 6000 board. Available on up-shop. 1 Power Supply 12V/6A DC. This is designated for UP Squared 6000, check up-shop. [Read More]

BSH SMM S2 PRO (SystemMaster S2 Pro) Board is an add-on board which provide input and output interfaces to a dedicated carrier board. It is designed mainly to provide graphical/video and connectivity interfaces to the appliance. The MPU used for the BSH SMM S2 PRO is the i.MX 8M Nano from NXP, which is a feature and performance scalable processor based on ARM Cortex-A53 architecture with a Cortex M co-processor and optional graphic units. [Read More]

Variscite Symphony-Board Single Board Computer (SBC) in conjunction with VAR-SOM-MX8M-NANO System on Module (SoM) based on NXP’s i.MX 8M Nano. Variscite provides two evaluation kits variants: Starter Kit and Development Kit, which comes with Display and Touch Panel. This is the setup recommended for developers using the Variscite Symphony board. See LAVA boards setup for setting up devices for use in LAVA. Required items You should have at least: 1 iMX8MN Variscite Development Kit. [Read More]

This is the setup recommended for developers using the Raspberry Pi 4 (RPi4) device directly. See Raspberry Pi 4 Setup in LAVA for setting up devices for use in LAVA. Required items You should have at least: 1 Raspberry Pi 4 B device 1 Power adaptor 1 USB to serial cable/converter (3.3v is mandatory) 1 MicroSD card RPi4 board setup Attach serial Please ensure you are using the USB to serial which is 3. [Read More]