NEC RPI3CM-2 Raspberry Pi Compute Module Setup Guide

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4 Preparation

Note: The following steps can be skipped if the Yodeck bootloader is installed on the system. The

Yodeck bootloader can be used to automatically overwrite the current OS image with an OS image

from a connected USB storage device. See “Using the Yodeck bootloader to overwrite the current OS”

on page 33 for more information.

1. Connect a USB keyboard and mouse to the USB CM1 and USB CM2 connections on the display.

These are the two connections above the LAN1 connection on the side of the display.

2. Connect the “B” type connector of a USB cable to the USB2 connection on the display. This is

located above the USB CM1 connection on the side of the display. Connect the other end of the

USB cable to a standard USB port on the host PC or host Raspberry Pi.

3. [Optional depending if updates and downloads will be performed] Connect the host PC or

Raspberry Pi to a hub or router with an Internet connection using a standard LAN cable or using

Wi-Fi.

4. On the host PC or the host Raspberry Pi, download the OS that is to be installed on the

Raspberry Pi Compute Module. Make sure there is enough storage space to hold the OS image

file and other tools.

Refer to the following section and the Raspberry Pi website for a list of supported OSs:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/

If using a Windows based host PC:

1. Download either the Etcher (recommended) or Win32DiskImager tool from the following

locations. This will be used to write the OS .img file to the Compute Module:

https://etcher.io/

https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/

2. Download and install the Compute Module boot installer from the following location:

https://github.com/raspberrypi/usbboot/raw/master/win32/rpiboot_setup.exe

3. A text editor that is compatible with UNIX type line endings, such as Notepad++, is highly

recommended for making boot configuration file changes from Windows. Notepad++ is

available from:

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/

4. A file extractor application capable of handling .gz file types, such as 7-Zip, WinZIP, or WinRAR.

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NEC RPI3CM-2 Edition Raspberry Pi Compute Module