Getting Started with the AzureWave AW-CM358SM Wi-Fi® Module Using an i.MX 8M Nano EVK and an i.MX 8M Mini EVK Evaluation Kits with Linux®

Last Modified: 2020-11-23 12:15:28Supports AW-CM358MA

Contents of this document

  • 1

    Out of the Box
  • 2

    Get Software
  • 3

    Run

1. Out of the Box

Let's take your Wi-Fi module for a test drive using an i.MX applications processor evaluation board. This guide contains different NXP i.MX evaluation boards that include an NXP Wi-Fi device on the compute module.

1.1 Get Familiar with the Hardware

The links below will take you to the Getting Started pages for your evaluation board; it will guide you with detailed instructions on how to download and install the required software.

Select your i.MX MPU platform.

1.2 Connect your Wi-Fi Module

Below is information on the supported Wi-Fi chipsets, the modules that enable connectivity with this device, and how to connect the device to your evaluation board.

2. Get Software

2.1 Download the Pre-Built Binaries

Pre-built binary images for each i.MX MPU evaluation board available for all major Android and Linux BSP releases. Beginning with Android BSP 10.0.0-2.5.0, and Linux BSP 5.4.47-2.2.0, NXP’s Wi-Fi drivers are integrated into the pre-built binary images. Pre-built binary images from earlier BSP releases will not include support for NXP's Wi-Fi drivers.

The pre-built binary images are available from the links below:

2.2 Download the Universal Update Utility (UUU)

The Universal Update Utility (UUU) is an open-source tool developed by NXP, and is used to program binary images into an i.MX MPU. In order to use the NXP Wi-Fi driver and to run the evaluation software, UUU must be used to program the pre-built binary images into the i.MX MPU evaluation board.

UUU is available to download from Github at the link below:

Download UUU for Windows and Linux

2.3 Program Evaluation Board with Pre-Built Binary Images

The user’s guide UM11512 includes the steps necessary to program the pre-built binary images into the i.MX 8M Nano evaluation board.

3. Run

3.1 Running the Wi-Fi Example Applications

The user’s guide UM11513 includes the steps necessary to login to the console interface on the i.MX 8M Nano evaluation board, and run the available Wi-Fi test programs.

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