Getting Started with the FRDM-AUD10 Development Board

2.1 Recommended PC Configuration For GUI Installation

AUD10 GUI is designed to run on general-purpose, moderately powerful desktop PCs or laptops. The following is the recommended PC configuration:

Table 2. Recommended PC configuration.

Note: Known rendering limitation on Intel GPUs.

Users may experience intermittent disappearance of certain GUI elements (for example: combo boxes, checkboxes, radio buttons) when changing screen resolution or display scaling, particularly on systems using Intel integrated graphics. This behavior is associated with known rendering issues in some Intel GPU drivers when used with Qt-based applications.

Recommended Actions:

1. Avoid changing screen resolution, switching displays or adjusting display scaling while the application is running
2. If the issue occurs, restart the application to restore normal GUI behavior

2.2 Installation Prerequisites On PC

Before using the GUI, the following software must be downloaded to the user’s PC.

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2.3 GUI Installation

Start installing AUD10 GUI by double-clicking SAF9X00_GUI_R<x.y.z_yyyymmdd>_Setup.exe.

Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation process.

1. Welcome window
2. Click the "Browse..." button to select another installation folder path if needed
3. Installation Progress
4. Click the "Finish" button to complete the installation

Click the Windows "Start" menu button, look for the application SAF9X00_GUI_R[version], click the AUD10 GUI Application as shown in the Figure

The following screen appears on a successful launch.

Users can verify the installed GUI version from the title bar of the GUI.

If any earlier version of the AUD10 GUI is installed on the system, a pop-up will appear, requesting the user to press OK to uninstall the earlier version or press Cancel to install without uninstalling the earlier version.

Configure The PC’s Ethernet Adapter IP Address

To control the AUD10 via Ethernet, the PC's Ethernet adapter must be configured with an IP address on the same subnet as the AUD10.

The AUD10 uses the static IP address 192.168.1.80. assigns the PC an unused IP address in the 192.168.1.x subnet (for example, 192.168.1.100) and ensures that there are no IP address conflicts on the network.

2.4 TCP Server

Run quantum-tcp-server.exe print in a Command Prompt window on the PC.

The TCP Server IP address will be displayed in the Command Prompt window.

For example:

3.1 Boot The AUD10 via MCU-Link

The following steps describe how to use the GUI to boot the AUD10 via MCU-Link.

1. Refer to Section 1.3.2 to select Host Assisted Boot Mode for the AUD10
2. Refer to Section 2.2 to run the TCP Server and obtain its IP address
3. Open the GUI, enter the TCP Server IP address and Port number (12345), then click the "Connect" button. Check if the GUI is connected to TCP Server successfully
4. In the Settings tab, set Board to FRDM Board, Port to SPI_1, and Boot mode to Host assisted boot. Set File Selection to Binary files, then select the following firmware binaries in order:
   • SBL
   • CKC
   • SoftConfig
   • CAP
   • Binary (NEEE)
   • AWE or AOC Binary

   Next, click the "Boot" button to boot the AUD10.

   
5. Check if boot is completed successfully
6. Refer to Section 5 to control the AUD10 via Ethernet

4.1 Flash Programming

The following steps describe how to use the GUI to program the flash of the AUD10 via MCU-Link.

1. Refer to Section 1.3.2 to select Host Assisted Boot Mode for the AUD10
2. Refer to Section 2.2 to run the TCP Server and obtain its IP address
3. Open the GUI, enter the TCP Server IP address and Port number (12345), then click the "Connect" button. Check if the GUI is connected to the TCP Server successfully
4. In the Settings tab, set Board to FRDM Board, Port to SPI_1, and Boot mode to Host assisted boot. Set File Selection to Binary files, then select the following firmware binaries in order:
   • SBL
   • CKC
   • SoftConfig
   • CAP
   • Binary (FEEE)

   Next, click the "Boot" button to boot the AUD10.

   
5. Check if the boot is completed successfully
6. Click the "Sync" button of the GUI, a green “LED” should show up at the bottom of the window indicating the CMD subsystem is up
7. In Setting > Flash Programming, select the appropriate flash binary, either AOC or AWE. Click the "Program Flash" button
8. Check if flash programming is completed successfully
9. Close the TCP Server and the GUI, power off the board. Refer to Section 1.3.1 and select Boot from Flash Mode for the AUD10. Then power the board back on. After the board boots up, verify connectivity by pinging the AUD10 at IP address 192.168.1.80.
10. Run the TCP Server and the GUI, enter the TCP Server IP address and Port number (12345) to connect the GUI to the TCP Server
11. Refer to Section 5 to control the AUD10 via Ethernet

5.1 Connect The GUI To The AUD10 via Ethernet

In the Settings tab, set Board to FRDM Board, Port to Ethernet. Enter the AUD10 IP address 192.168.1.80 and port number 12345, then click the "Connect" button. Check if the GUI is connected to the AUD10 successfully.

5.2 AOC Demonstration

Early Audio is output through the Line Out (J2) and Headphone Out (J3) immediately after the AUD10 starts.

In the Commander Sender tab of the GUI, send Ethernet commands to configure the AWE input and output.

For example, after sending the following two Ethernet commands, the audio signal received on Stereo3 In (J7) is processed by AWE and output through IIS0 out. The user can hear the processed audio through Line Out (J2) or Headphone Out (J3).

To tune the AWE project using Audio Weaver, send the following command in the GUI to enable AWE.

Open Audio Weaver (Version 8.D.2.6).

In AWE Server, click Target > Change Connection.

In the Change Connection window, select TCP/IP from the Connection drop-down list and enter 127.0.0.1 in the IP Address field. Then, click the "Change" button.

In AWE Designer, click File > Open.

Select the desired awd project and then click the Run button.

The user can double-click the desired module and adjust the parameters as needed. The sound effect will be applied immediately.

6.1 Audio SDK

The AUD10 Audio SDK enables users to develop applications that run on the HiFi 5 core.

Please refer to the AUD10 Audio SDK documentation for more details: ~\hifi5\aoc-frdm-sdk-1.9.0\docs\index.html

Board Information

• FRDM-AUD10 User Guide

Chip Information

• AUD10 Fact Sheet