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HummingBoard & Hailo 15 SOM Quick Start Guide

HummingBoard & Hailo 15 SOM Quick Start Guide

Introduction

The following quick start guide provides background information about the SolidRun Hailo 15 SOM.

The guide will give a technical overview of the product. By the end of it, you should be able to boot an operating system and run a demo application.

Revision and Notes

Date

Owner

Revision

Notes

12 May 2024

Mikhail Anikin

1.0

Initial release

12 Aug 2024

Mikhail Anikin

1.1

Update flashing process

06 Nov 2024

Mikhail Anikin

1.2

Add IIoT support

16 Dec 2024

Mikhail Anikin

1.3

Update flashing process

22 Dec 2024

Mikhail Anikin

1.4

Introducing SW update

11 Dec 2025

Yazan Shhady

1.5

Correct DC input voltage range to 7V–18V

Hardware Setup

Product specifications

Hailo 15 SOM with HummingBoard

I/Os

1 x MIPI-CSI on SOM

Networking

1 x Ethernet RJ45 10/100/1000

Processor

Hailo 15 Quad-core Arm Cortex A53 1.3GHz 2 x Cortex M4, 200MHz

Memory & Storage

up to 8GB DDR4 RAM Starting from 16GB eMMC

Development and Debug interfaces

Micro USB

Power

7V – 18V

Expansion card I/Os

mikroBUS header

Temperature

Commercial: 0°C to 70°C Industrial: -40°C to 85°C

Dimensions

PCBA: 100 x 70mm Enclosure 120 x 80 x 30mm

Enclosure

Extruded aluminium

For more detailed information about Hailo 15 SOM, please visit the hardware user manual: HAILO 15 SOM Hardware User Manual

Visual Features Overview

Please see below the features overview of the connector side of the HummingBoard Pro & Hailo 15

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Software Setup

Cable setup and prerequisites

Here is what you will need to power up and use the board:

  • Linux or Windows PC

  • HummingBoard with Hailo 15 SOM

  • 12V Power adapter (HummingBoard has wide range input of 7V-36V, it is recommended to use 12V power adapter).

  • The micro USB to USB for the console (the HummingBoard has an onboard FTDI chip).

  • IP router or IP switch

Boot select and boot options

You should select the boot source before powering up the board for the first time.

Hailo 15 with HummingBoard has two boot options: serial boot (for recovery) and eMMC boot (the main option). To select a boot option, the DIP switch needs to be modified.

For more information, see HummingBoard Hailo 15 Boot Select

Generating Yocto image

The prebuilt artifacts are available here.

Navigate to the meta layer repo for the build instructions: meta-solidrun-arm-hailo.

Understanding boot artifacts

The following artifacts are generated by yocto build:

Artifact

Purpose

Target location

hailo15_scu_bl.bin

SCU Bootloader

QSPI Flash

hailo15_scu_fw.bin

SCU Firmware

QSPI Flash

scu_bl_cfg_a.bin, scu_bl_cfg_b.bin

SCU Configuration

QSPI Flash

customer_certificate.bin

Customer key certificate

QSPI Flash

u-boot.dtb.signed

U-Boot device tree

QSPI Flash

u-boot-initial-env

U-Boot environment

QSPI Flash

u-boot-spl.bin

U-Boot SPL

QSPI Flash

u-boot-tfa.itb

TF-A and U-Boot

eMMC Boot partition

fitImage

Linux kernel and device tree

eMMC Boot partition

core-image-minimal-hailo15-solidrun.ext4

RootFS

eMMC Root partition

core-image-minimal-hailo15-solidrun.wic

Full eMMC image that contains both partitions. It can be flashed with bmap-tools using the .bmap file

eMMC

hailo15_uart_recovery_fw.bin

Recovery firmware for reflashing QSPI

Booting the board:

The board is pre-flashed with a basic yocto image and AI demos.

  1. Serial connection Please insert the micro USB into your device. Then, you can refer to Serial Connection to install the necessary serial connection software in Linux/Windows.

  2. Network connection The prebuilt image has a preset network configuration with a static IP 10.0.0.1. Connect your PC to the board with a 1GbE RJ45 patch cord and set the static IP of your PC interface to 10.0.0.2.

  3. Optional: Camera connection To evaluate the demo application, connect the MIPI-CSI camera to the Hailo 15 SOM MIPI-CSI interface before starting the boot.

  4. Power the board Plug in a power supply, and the board will start booting. You will see the boot log in the serial terminal:

Poky (Yocto Project Reference Distro) 4.0.2 hailo15 ttyS1

hailo15 login:

Use the following default credentials:

  • Login: root

  • Password: root

Running the demo applications

Using GStreamer

Gstreamer is a CLI application that allows you to send, receive, and convert video streams.

  1. Install gstreamer

For Ubuntu/Debian distros:

For Fedora/RHEL distros:

For Windows:

  • Download the Installer: Go to the GStreamer official website and download the appropriate installer for your Windows version.

  • Run the Installer: Execute the downloaded file. During installation, select "Complete Installation" to install all basic plugins.

  • Set Environment Variables: To use GStreamer from the command line, add GStreamer to your system's PATH as described here.

For Windows, you might need to configure the Firewall to allow the stream. Make sure that 10.0.0.2 is a private network.

  1. Run the gstreamer pipeline to start receiving a stream.

On your pc In a bash terminal or Windows cmd run:

  1. Run the demo application on the Hailo15 EVK:

Using VLC

Another option is to receive a stream using VLC media player.\

  1. Install VLCFor Ubuntu/Debian distros:

For Fedora/RHEL distros:

For Windows:

  • Download the Installer: Go to the VLC official website and download the appropriate installer for your Windows version.

  • Run the Installer: Execute the downloaded file. During installation, select "Complete Installation" to install all basic plugins.

For Windows, you might need to configure the Firewall to allow the stream. Make sure that 10.0.0.2 is a private network.

  1. Create a stream configuration file stream.sdp with the following content:

stream.sdp

v=0 o=- 0 0 IN IP4 127.0.0.1 s=No Name c=IN IP4 10.0.0.2 t=0 0 a=tool:libavformat 58.20.100 m=video 5000 RTP/AVP 96 a=rtpmap:96 H264/90000

  1. Open the stream.sdp in the vlc using the Media -> Open File tab.

  2. Run the demo application on the target:

Note: VLC inserts its own 1s latency into the stream during the network cashing. You can decrease this latency in the settings.

  • Go to Tools > Preferences.

  • Show settings: select All at the bottom left to switch to the advanced preferences.

  • Under Input / Codecs, find Network.

  • Locate Network caching (ms) and reduce its value. The default is typically around 1000 ms (1 second). You might try lowering it to 100-300 ms, but be aware that too low a value can lead to stream instability or increased packet loss.

Firmware update process

Updating firmware with SWUpdate (recommended)

A part of the yocto build is a software update package (.swu). This image contains a full rootfs image, bootloaders, and qSPI content and will automatically flash all the artifacts in places.

  1. Run an HTTP server on port 80 in the directory with the update image (.swu)

  1. Reset the board. In the u-boot menu, select SWUpdate

If there is no SWUpdate item in the menu or an update was unsuccessful for any reason, please proceed to the next chapter “Manual firmware reflashing“.

A/B updates will be added in future firmware releases.

  1. The board will boot, load the update image from IP 10.0.0.2, port 80 and update all the firmware components.

Manual firmware reflashing

Flashing QSPI flash

Reflashing QSPI is only possible under Linux.

Please make sure that u-boot-tools are installed in your system:

  • For Ubuntu/Debian: sudo apt-get install u-boot-tools

  • For Fedora/RHEL: sudo dnf install uboot-tools

  1. Download the flashing tool and install it into your system.

  1. Set the DIP switch to the Serial download mode.

  2. Close the serial terminal on your PC.

  3. Reset the board.

  4. Upload the uart flashing firmware into the SOM:

  1. Reflash QSPI content:

Note: hailo15_spi_flash_program also allows to reflash selected parts of the QSPI Flash:

  • hailo15_spi_flash_program --serial-device-name /dev/ttyUSB0 --uart-load --bootloader ./u-boot-spl.bin --bootloader-env ./u-boot-initial-env--scu-bootloader ./hailo15_scu_bl.bin

  • hailo15_spi_flash_program --serial-device-name /dev/ttyUSB0 --uart-load --uboot-device-tree ./u-boot.dtb.signed

  • etc.

This guide assumes that your serial terminal is /dev/ttyUSB0. Replace it with the proper device for your system.

Sending u-boot over uart

Hailo FW expects a firmware version match between proprietary firmware, SPL, u-boot, and kernel. After qSPI firmware was reflashed with uart boot mode, u-boot with the same fw version should be loaded. SPL uses the UART Y-Modem mode to load the u-boot-tfa.itb file over the serial connection.

  1. Set the DIP switch to the qSPI boot with Y-modem u-boot load.

  2. Reset the board. You will see the board booted to SPL and expects u-boot to be sent with Y-modem:

U-Boot SPL 2022.01 (Feb 04 2024 - 18:42:25 +0000) Loading Environment from SPIFlash... OK U-Boot SPL boot source uart CCCCCCCCCC

The SPL waits for the Y-modem transfer to upload the u-boot into the RAM. The latest minicom already has a built-in Y-modem transfer function. With minicom, press Ctrl+A, then S, select ymodem, and then choose file u-boot-tfa.itb. Note: the transfer can take a few minutes. As soon as the u-boot is completely transferred, you will see the same u-boot entries as usual Proceed to the restoring eMMC with ramdisk.

Restoring eMMC content.

The u-boot menu has a special entry that allows you to load a ramdisk from an HTTP server and boot to it.

  1. Run an HTTP server on port 80 in the directory with the image

  1. In the u-boot menu, select Boot to flashing ramdisk

  2. The Board will grub a ramdisk from the HTTP server on IP 10.0.0.2, port 80, and boot to it.

  3. Once the board is booted to the ramdisk, flash eMMC:

  1. Reboot the board and restore the DIP switch to the qSPI boot.

List Of Supported OS

OS

Hailo 15 Yocto

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