Asus AAEON BOXER-8240AI, User Manual

Page 1: ...Last Updated December 8 2020 BOXER 8240AI Compact Fanless Embedded AI Edge Box PC with NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier User s Manual 1st Ed ...

Page 2: ...ion provided in this manual is intended to be accurate and reliable However the original manufacturer assumes no responsibility for its use or for any infringements upon the rights of third parties that may result from its use The material in this document is for product information only and is subject to change without notice While reasonable efforts have been made in the preparation of this docu...

Page 3: ...Xavier are trademarks of the NVIDIA Corporation ITE is a trademark of Integrated Technology Express Inc IBM and VGA are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation Ubuntu is a registered trademark of Canonical All other product names or trademarks are properties of their respective owners No ownership is implied or assumed for products names or trademarks not herein listed by the pub...

Page 4: ...BOXER 8240AI Packing List Before setting up your product please make sure the following items have been shipped Item Quantity BOXER 8240AI 1 If any of these items are missing or damaged please contact your distributor or sales representative immediately ...

Page 5: ... as detailed descriptions and explanations on the product s hardware and software features if any its specifications dimensions jumper connector settings definitions and driver installation instructions if any to facilitate users in setting up their product Users may refer to the product page at AAEON com for the latest version of this document ...

Page 6: ...rking on the system s hardware 6 No connections should be made when the system is powered as a sudden rush of power may damage sensitive electronic components 7 If the device is not to be used for a long time disconnect it from the power supply to avoid damage by transient over voltage 8 Always disconnect this device from any AC supply before cleaning 9 While cleaning use a damp cloth instead of l...

Page 7: ...ded containers 18 If any of the following situations arises please the contact our service personnel i Damaged power cord or plug ii Liquid intrusion to the device iii Exposure to moisture iv Device is not working as expected or in a manner as described in this manual v The device is dropped or damaged vi Any obvious signs of damage displayed on the device 19 DO NOT LEAVE THIS DEVICE IN AN UNCONTR...

Page 8: ...anger of explosion if the battery is incorrectly replaced Replace only with the same or equivalent type recommended by the manufacturer Dispose of used batteries according to the manufacturer s instructions and your local government s recycling or disposal directives Attention Il y a un risque d explosion si la batterie est remplacée de façon incorrecte Ne la remplacer qu avec le même modèle ou éq...

Page 9: ...件名称 有毒有害物质或元素 铅 Pb 汞 Hg 镉 Cd 六价铬 Cr VI 多溴联苯 PBB 多溴二苯 醚 PBDE 印刷电路板 及其电子组件 外部信号 连接器及线材 外壳 中央处理器 与内存 硬盘 液晶模块 光驱 触控模块 电源 电池 本表格依据 SJ T 11364 的规定编制 表示该有毒有害物质在该部件所有均质材料中的含量均在 GB T 26572标准规定的限量要求以下 表示该有害物质的某一均质材料超出了GB T 26572的限量要求 然而该 部件 仍符合欧盟指令2011 65 EU 的规范 备注 一 此产品所标示之环保使用期限 系指在一般正常使用状况下 二 上述部件物质中央处理器 内存 硬盘 光驱 电源为选购品 三 上述部件物质液晶模块 触控模块仅一体机产品适用 ...

Page 10: ... X O O O O O PSU X O O O O O Battery X O O O O O This form is prepared in compliance with the provisions of SJ T 11364 O The level of toxic or hazardous materials present in this component and its parts is below the limit specified by GB T 26572 X The level of toxic of hazardous materials present in the component exceed the limits specified by GB T 26572 but is still in compliance with EU Directiv...

Page 11: ...nector CN1 12 2 4 2 UART Debug Connector CN3 13 2 4 3 PoE Gigabit LAN Connector CN4 CN5 CN6 CN7 14 2 4 4 JTAG Debug Connector CN11 14 2 4 5 M 2 E Key Slot 2230 CN12 15 2 4 6 40 Pin Expansion DIO Header CN13 16 2 4 7 RTC Battery Connector CN14 16 2 4 8 Front Panel Connector CN16 17 2 4 9 Audio Connector CN19 18 2 4 10 DP Connector CN22 18 2 4 11 HDMI Connector CN23 19 2 4 12 USB 3 2 USB 2 0 Combo C...

Page 12: ...oSD Connector J1 27 2 4 21 RS 232 422 485 Select SW4 SW5 28 2 5 Hardware Assembly 29 Chapter 3 OS Flash Guide 32 3 1 Before Installation 33 3 2 Connecting to PC Force Recovery Mode 34 3 3 Flash Image to Board 35 Chapter 4 ACLinux User Guide 36 4 1 Introduction 37 4 2 ACLinux Updates 38 4 3 ACLinux Ubuntu Compatibility 38 4 4 Known Issues 39 4 5 Power Mode Control for BOXER 8420AI 40 ...

Page 13: ...Compact Fanless Embedded AI Edge Box PC BOXER 8240AI Chapter 1 Chapter 1 Product Specifications ...

Page 14: ... microSD slot x 1 Display Interface HDMI 2 0 Ethernet 10 100 1000 Base TX x 1 IEEE 802 11 af PoE LAN x 4 I O RJ 45 x 4 for PoE 802 11af total 60W USB type C x 2 for USB 3 2 Gen 1 USB type A x 1 for USB 3 2 Gen 1 USB Type A x 1 for USB 2 0 Audio Mic in x 1 Audio Line out x 1 HDMI type A for HDMI v2 0 x 1 DisplayPort v1 4 x 1 DB 9 x 1 for RS 232 422 485 set by switch CANBUS x 1 uSD microSD card slot...

Page 15: ...N ACLinux 4 9 Compliant with Ubuntu 18 04 Power Supply Power Requirement 12 24V DC with 2 pin terminal block Mechanical Mounting Wall mount kit default Dimensions W x D x H 8 26 x 6 45 x 2 32 210mm x 164mm x 59mm Gross Weight 6 lbs 2 72 kg Net Weight 4 23 lbs 1 92 kg Environmental Operating Temperature 14 F 131 F 10 C 55 C according to IEC60068 2 with 0 5 m s air flow Storage Temperature 4 F 158 F...

Page 16: ...ox PC BOXER 8240AI 1 2 Product Notice Micro USB Micro USB port is for flashing image only USB ports USB ports do not support USB DVD ROM because of file system USB 3 2 Gen 1 USB 3 2 Gen 1 is the current name for 5Gbps specification formerly USB 3 0 LAN Indicator Behavior ...

Page 17: ...Compact Fanless Embedded AI Edge Box PC BOXER 8240AI Chapter 2 Chapter 2 Hardware Information ...

Page 18: ...Chapter 2 Hardware Information 6 Compact Fanless Embedded AI Edge Box PC BOXER 8240AI 2 1 Dimensions ...

Page 19: ...Chapter 2 Hardware Information 7 Compact Fanless Embedded AI Edge Box PC BOXER 8240AI System I O Layout ...

Page 20: ...Chapter 2 Hardware Information 8 Compact Fanless Embedded AI Edge Box PC BOXER 8240AI 2 2 Jumpers and connectors ...

Page 21: ...ch It consists of two metal pins and a small metal clip often protected by a plastic cover that slides over the pins to connect them To close a jumper you connect the pins with the clip To open a jumper you remove the clip Sometimes a jumper will have three pins labeled 1 2 and 3 In this case you would connect either pins 1 and 2 or 2 and 3 1 2 3 Open Closed Closed 2 3 A pair of needle nose pliers...

Page 22: ...CN16 Pins 5 6 The AT ATX Mode Select functions by connecting pins 5 and 6 of CN16 To prevent damage to the system do not connect pins 5 and 6 to any other pin Open ATX Mode Closed AT Mode Default CN16 pins 5 6 Function 5 6 Open ATX Power Mode Default Auto Power Disabled 5 6 Closed AT Power Mode Auto Power Enabled ...

Page 23: ... Connector PHY CN5 PoE Gigabit LAN Connector i210 CN6 PoE Gigabit LAN Connector i210 CN7 PoE Gigabit LAN Connector i210 CN11 JTAG Debug Connector CN12 M 2 E key Slot 2230 CN13 40 Pin Expansion DIO Header CN14 RTC Battery Connector CN16 Front Panel Connector CN19 Audio Connector CN20 Internal USB 2 0 Connector CN22 DP Connector CN23 HDMI Connector CN24 USB 3 2 USB 2 0 Combo Connector CN26 DC IN Pow...

Page 24: ...dev ttyTHS5 CN33 CAN BUS Connector J1 uSD microSD Connector SW1 Recovery Switch SW2 Reset Switch SW3 Power Switch SW4 RS 232 422 485 Select dev ttyTHS1 SW5 RS 232 422 485 Select dev ttyTHS5 U32 Jetson AGX Xavier CPU Connector 2 4 1 COM1 Connector CN1 Pin RS 232 RS 422 RS 485 1 TX RA 2 RXD TX RA 3 TXD RX 4 RX 5 GND 6 7 8 9 ...

Page 25: ...formation 13 Compact Fanless Embedded AI Edge Box PC BOXER 8240AI 2 4 2 UART Debug Connector CN3 Pin Pin Name Signal Type 1 UART3 TXD TTL 2 UART3 RXD TTL 3 4 5 RXD_3 RS 232 6 TXD_3 RS 232 7 I2C SCL 3 3V 8 I2C SDA 3 3V 9 GND ...

Page 26: ...E Gigabit LAN Connector CN4 CN5 CN6 CN7 Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 MDI0 2 MDI0 3 MDI1 4 MDI1 5 MDI2 6 MDI2 7 MDI3 8 MDI3 2 4 4 JTAG Debug Connector CN11 Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 1 8V 2 JTAG_TMS 3 GND 4 JTAG_TCK 5 GND 6 JTAG_TDO 7 GND 8 JTAG_TDI 9 10K PULL UP 1 8V 10 SYS_RST 1 ACT LINK LED SPEED LED 8 ...

Page 27: ...Chapter 2 Hardware Information 15 Compact Fanless Embedded AI Edge Box PC BOXER 8240AI 2 4 5 M 2 E Key Slot 2230 CN12 ...

Page 28: ...formation 16 Compact Fanless Embedded AI Edge Box PC BOXER 8240AI 2 4 6 40 Pin Expansion DIO Header CN13 Note Pins 29 31 33 37 used by CAN BUS Connector CN33 2 4 7 RTC Battery Connector CN14 Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 3V 2 GND ...

Page 29: ...tor CN16 Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 GND 2 Recovery 3 Reset 4 Power Button 5 GND see note 6 GND see note 7 CVB_STBY 8 System_OC 9 3 3V_AO 10 5V_AO Note Pin 5 and 6 are used for setting AT ATX Power Mode See Chapter 2 3 2 for information To prevent damage to your system do not connect Pins 5 and 6 with any other pin ...

Page 30: ...gnal 1 MIC1 2 GND 3 MIC2 4 GPIO4 5 HPO_R 6 MIC_IN_DET 7 GND 8 9 HPO_L 10 GPIO3 GPIO3 Headphone or Jack detection GPIO4 Pre sense detects if audio dongle is connected to header 2 4 10 DP Connector CN22 Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 ML_Lane0_P 2 GND 3 ML_Lane0_N 4 ML_Lane1_P 5 GND 6 ML_Lane1_N 7 ML_Lane2_P 8 GND 9 ML_Lane2_N 10 ML_Lane3_P ...

Page 31: ... NC 14 NC 15 AUX_CH_P 16 GND 17 AUX_CH_N 18 DP_HDP 19 GND 20 DP_POWER 3 3V 2 4 11 HDMI Connector CN23 Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 HDMI_DATA2_P 2 GND 3 HDMI_DATA2_N 4 HDMI_DATA1_P 5 GND 6 HDMI_DATA1_N 7 HDMI_DATA0_P 8 GND 9 HDMI_DATA0_N 10 HDMI_CLK_P 11 GND 12 HDMI_CLK_N 13 NC 14 NC 15 HDMI_SCL 16 HDMI_SDA 17 GND 18 HDMI_PWR 19 HDMI_HDP ...

Page 32: ...240AI 2 4 12 USB 3 2 USB 2 0 Combo Connector CN24 Pin Signal Pin Signal USB 3 2 Bottom USB 2 0 Top U1 VBUS_1 U10 VBUS_2 U2 A D U11 B D U3 A D U12 B D U4 GND U13 GND U5 A SSRX U6 A SSRX U7 GND U8 A SSTX U9 A SSTX 2 4 13 DC In Power Connector CN26 Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 PWR_IN 2 GND ...

Page 33: ...8240AI 2 4 14 USB 3 0 Type C Connector CN27 CN28 Pin Signal Pin Signal A1 GND B12 GND A2 A SSTX B11 B SSRX A3 A SSTX B10 B SSRX A4 VBUS_1 B9 VBUS_2 A5 CC1 B8 SBU2 A6 A D B7 B D A7 A D B6 B D A8 SBU1 B5 CC2 A9 VBUS_1 B4 VBUS_2 A10 A SSRX B3 B SSTX A11 A SSRX B2 B SSTX A12 GND B1 GND ...

Page 34: ...Chapter 2 Hardware Information 22 Compact Fanless Embedded AI Edge Box PC BOXER 8240AI 2 4 15 Micro USB Flash OTG CN29 Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 5V 2 USB1 3 USB1 4 ID 5 GND ...

Page 35: ...Chapter 2 Hardware Information 23 Compact Fanless Embedded AI Edge Box PC BOXER 8240AI 2 4 16 M 2 M Key Slot 2280 CN30 ...

Page 36: ...bedded AI Edge Box PC BOXER 8240AI 2 4 17 SATA Connector with Power CN31 Pin Signal Pin Signal SATA Signal SATA Power and Control 1 GND 1 NC 2 TX 2 NC 3 TX 3 NC 4 GND 4 GND 5 RX 5 GND 6 RX 6 GND 7 GND 7 5V 8 5V 9 5V 10 GND 11 NC 12 GND 13 NC 14 NC 15 NC ...

Page 37: ...Chapter 2 Hardware Information 25 Compact Fanless Embedded AI Edge Box PC BOXER 8240AI 2 4 18 COM5 Connector CN32 Pin RS 232 RS 422 RS 485 1 TX RA 2 3 RXD TX RA 4 5 TXD RX 6 7 RX 8 9 GND GND GND ...

Page 38: ...Chapter 2 Hardware Information 26 Compact Fanless Embedded AI Edge Box PC BOXER 8240AI 2 4 19 CAN BUS Connector CN33 Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 6 2 CAN0_H 7 CAN0_L 3 GND 8 CAN1_H 4 CAN1_L 9 5V 5 GND ...

Page 39: ... Information 27 Compact Fanless Embedded AI Edge Box PC BOXER 8240AI 2 4 20 uSD microSD Connector J1 uSD microSD Card Pin Card Pin Connector Function 1 1 DAT2 2 2 CD DAT3 3 3 CMD 4 4 VDD 5 5 CLK 6 6 VSS 7 7 DAT0 8 8 DAT1 ...

Page 40: ...t SW4 SW5 Mode S 1 S 2 S 3 S 4 1T 1R RS 232 On On 1T 1R RS 422 On Off 1T 1R RS 485 Off On Low power shutdown Off Off Enable RS 422 RS 485 bias and termination resistors On Disable RS 422 RS 485 bias and termination resistors Off 250kbps for RS 232 and RS 485 RS 422 On RS 232 to 3Mbps and RS 485 RS 422 to 20Mbps Off ...

Page 41: ...rdware Information 29 Compact Fanless Embedded AI Edge Box PC BOXER 8240AI 2 5 Hardware Assembly M 2 E Key 2230 Installation The M 2 E Key 2230 slot can be accessed by removing the top cover heatsink as shown above ...

Page 42: ...AI The M 2 M Key 2280 slot and 2 5 HDD SSD bay can be accessed via removable covers on the bottom panel of the BOXER 8240AI system as shown in the following steps 2 5 HDD or SSD Installation Note To ensure proper operation make sure to secure 2 5 drive to drive chassis with four screws ...

Page 43: ...Chapter 2 Hardware Information 31 Compact Fanless Embedded AI Edge Box PC BOXER 8240AI M 2 M Key 2280 Installation ...

Page 44: ...Compact Fanless Embedded AI Edge Box PC BOXER 8240AI Chapter 3 Chapter 3 OS Flash Guide ...

Page 45: ...X Xavier module is installed onto the BOXER 8240AI carrier board system Download the compressed OS image file The file name will follow the format of ACLinux_4 9_ OS_IF PLF_IF PJ_IF BN tar gz For example ACLinux_4 9_ACLNX49D NV04 BOXER 8240AI 2 tar gz Note Filename may differ from this example I OS_IF is OS Information For example ACLNX49D means ACLinux 4 9 Desktop version II PLF_IF is Platform In...

Page 46: ...to the Recovery Port on the BOXER 8240AI and the other end to an available USB port on the host PC 2 Connect the BOXER 8240AI power supply 3 Power on the system then press and hold the recovery button While continuing to hold the recovery button press and hold the reset button for two seconds before releasing the reset button then releasing the recovery button 4 When device is in recovery mode lsu...

Page 47: ...e following steps to flash the OS to the BOXER 8240AI 1 Open terminal on Ubuntu host PC then access the bootloader folder you extracted in the previous section 2 Enter the following command in terminal to flash the image sudo flashall sh 3 Wait as the image is installed Once finished you should see the following ...

Page 48: ...Chapter 3 OS Flash guide 36 Compact Fanless Embedded AI Edge Box PC BOXER 8240AI Chapter 4 Chapter 4 ACLinux User Guide ...

Page 49: ...tible with Ubuntu and comes with the NVIDIA Jetson SDK pre installed For BOXER 8240AI it also features NVIDIA Jetpack 4 4 preinstalled with the following SDK tools Jetpack 4 4 All built in Jetson SDK Components a CUDA Toolkit for L4T v10 2 b cuDNN v8 0 c TensorRT v7 1 d OpenCV v4 1 1 e VisionWorks v1 6 f VPI v0 3 7 g NVIDIA Container Runtime v0 9 0 h Multimedia API v32 4 i DeepStream v5 0 Initial ...

Page 50: ...or your system https www aaeon com en p ai embedded box pc nvidia jetson agx xavier boxer 82 40ai 4 3 ACLinux Ubuntu Compatibility ACLinux is designed to offer compatibility with Ubuntu This means any script or command which can run on the NVIDIA Ubuntu image can also run on ACLinux The major difference between ACLinux and the NVIDIA Ubuntu image is the Graphical User Interface GUI Most settings c...

Page 51: ... KB of free space If there is less than 10 KB on the storage device the OS will not be able to complete the login process and the system will be stuck in a reboot loop Running sudo apt upgrade command in terminal for NVIDIA OTA will overwrite the kernel device tree in the OS which can lead to unexpected results including losing I O ports For regular updates visit the product page at AAEON com to g...

Page 52: ... the Mode ID of the corresponding power mode according to the chart below Default Mode ID is 7 15W with max CPU freq 2188 MHz Image Source NVIDIA Xavier Online Power Management Guide Open terminal and enter the following command sudo nvpmodel m ID ID refers to the Mode ID number For power mode 0 max power mode you would enter sudo nvpmodel m 0 The system will require a reboot for the changes to ta...

Page 53: ... third party JTOP tool usually requires between 200 MB and 300 MB storage space To install the JTOP tool enter the following commands in terminal sudo apt get install y python3 pip sudo python3 m pip install jetson stats Once the tool is installed it can be accessed in terminal with the command sudo jtop Users can control the power mode with the interface ...