Before You Begin

Before you begin working with this BSP, you should become familiar with the resources available to you to work with QNX embedded systems.

Essential information

Before you begin to install or build your BSP, review the following documentation:

• Information about your board's hardware and firmware provided by the board vendor. This user's guide is intended for the AMD Ryzen V2000 series (SoM) that's used with the AMD Ryzen V2000 Sapphire IPC-FP6 Board. Documentation (https://www.sapphiretech.com/en/commercial/ipc-fp6#) for the AMD Ryzen V2000 Sapphire IPC-FP6 Board can be found on the Sapphire website.
• Building Embedded Systems. This guide contains general information about working with BSPs from QNX that's common to all BSPs and is included in QNX Software Development Platform 8.0 documentation.

Required software

To work with the BSP for the AMD Ryzen V2000 Sapphire IPC-FP6 board, you require the following:

• BSP ZIP file for the board. To work with this BSP, you'll unzip this BSP ZIP file into BSP_ROOT_DIR, where BSP_ROOT_DIR is an environment that represents the work directory where you extracted your BSP ZIP file. Throughout this guide, we refer to the directory that you extracted your ZIP file to as BSP_ROOT_DIR or bsp_working_dir. For more information, see Download and set up the BSP in the Installation Notes chapter of this guide.
• QNX Software Development Platform 8.0 installed on a Linux or Windows host system
• Virtual COM Port (VCP) Driver. This driver is required on your host system if your board has a COM or USB-Serial port for debugging. To get the driver and read more information about it, see the Future Technology Devices International Ltd. (FTDI) website at http://www.ftdichip.com/FTDrivers.htm
• a terminal emulation program (e.g., Qtalk, Hyperterminal, Tera Term, PuTTy) to connect to the board for debugging. Alternatively, you can use a serial or ssh session from the QNX Momentics IDE.