Prerequisites for Building the Reference Designs - ArrowElectronics/data-storm-daq GitHub Wiki

A Linux host running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is required to build the Bootloader, Linux Kernel & Linux Device Tree. A Virtual Machine (VM) is provided to the reader for this purpose. For convenience, the VM also includes the Quartus and SoC EDS development tools.

A Micro SD Card with at least 8GB of capacity is required.

A USB to Micro SD card adapter is required. One like this can be used.

A core i5 or i7 machine running Windows is required with at least 50 Gbytes of free disk space.

1. Download a VMware Workstation Player® and install it.
2. Download the Arrow Ubuntu-64bit VM and unzip it.
3. Open the VMware Workstation Player.
   1. Click on the "Open a Virtual Machine"
   2. Navigate to the unzipped "Ubuntu 64-bit.vmx" file and double-click it.
4. Click "Play virtual machine". You will be asked about copying or moving it, select "I Copied it" You should see the Ubuntu 64-bit VM in the image below:
5. The password for this Virtual Machine is soceds1

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