Requirements

System requirements

Below the requirements before Before installing Impulse, please ensure you system meets the following specifications:

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2 GHz dual-core processor

4Go Memory

2Go HDD

Recommended

3Ghz quad-core processor

8Go memory

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Operating system

Our software requires a RedHat Enterprise Linux 64-bits machine bit distribution such as one of the below operating systems:-

• CentOS 7

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• CentOS 8

If Linux a 64-bits bit machine is not available, you can install VirtualBox with CentOS 7 or CentOS 8 in order to use Impulse tools.

Software

Our tool Running Impulse requires to have Python 3.6 installed on a Linux 64-bits bit machine.

Download

Below Follow the main steps below to download and unpack each NanoXplore tools

1. Download NanoXplore tools from NanoXplore-download

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1. Visit NanoXplore-download and sign-in or register to download:

   • NXLMD => NXLMD-2.1-linux.tar.gz

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1. • Impulse =>

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1. • nxdesignsuite-version-.tar.gz

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1. • NxBase2 => NxBase2-2.3.1.tar.bz2

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1. Save Impulse tools

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1. to your ~/Downloads

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1. folder or a location of your choice

2. Create a New Folder named NanoXplore in the /opt

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1. directory

2. Unpack your downloaded NanoXplore tool directly

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1. to /opt/NanoXplore

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2. Repeat this process for each NanoXplore tool

Nx License Daemon

For NXLMD To download and installationinstall the NanoXplore License Manager Daemon (NXLMD), please refer to the document instructions in the License Daemon guide.

NXbase2 archive extraction

1. To

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1. unpack NxBase2 tool directly once downloaded into /opt/NanoXplore, you must first create

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1. a folder named NXbase2- 2.3.1

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1. via the following command:

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   $> sudo mkdir NxBase2-2.3.1

2. After

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1. competing this step,

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1. unpack NxBase2 from the ~/Downloads folder

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1. (or you download location) using the following command:

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   $> sudo tar xjf NxBase2-2.3.1.tar.bz2 -C ./NxBase2-2.3.1

Installation

Below the main steps to setup and install each NanoXplore tool: 1.

1. Update ~/.bashrc file for each NanoXplore tool

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1. Verify that the ~/.bashrc

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1. update has been taken into account

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1. using the below command:

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   $> source ~/.bashrc”

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1. Restart

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1. your machine

Impulse

Follow the steps below to install Impulse:

1. Before install Impulse, check that Python 3.6 is installed with below command:

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   $> which python3

   If Pyhton3 is installed you will

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1. see the following line:

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   $> /usr/bin/python3

2. If Python3 is not installed, run the following command:

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   $> sudo yum install python3

3. To install Impulse, update ~/.bashrc file with below instruction:

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   export PATH=/opt/NanoXplore/impulse-/bin:$PATH

   Check that ~/.bashrc updating has been taken into account with below command:

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   $> source ~/.bashrc”

4. Check that Impulse is installed with below commands:

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   $> which impulse

   The result of this command must be the following

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   $> /opt/NanoXplore/impulse-version/bin/impulse

5. Check that Impulse works correctly with the following command:

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   $> impulse -version

   The result of this command must be the following

   Image Modified

NxBase2

To install the NxBase2 tool, update :

1. Update the ~/.bashrc file

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1. using the following instruction:

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   export PATH=/opt/NanoXplore/NxBase2-2.3.1/install_cst/centos6/nxbase2_cli:$PATH

2. Check that NxBase2 has been installed and works correctly with below commands:

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   $> which nxbase2_cli $> nxbase2_cli --version

3. To use NxBase2 without using “sudo”, create file named “99-nanoxbase.rules”. Add the following lines in “99-nanoxbase.rules”:

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   ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="8613", ATTRS{idProduct}=="584e", MODE="660", GROUP="plugdev" ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="584e", ATTRS{idProduct}=="424e", MODE="660", GROUP="plugdev" ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="584e", ATTRS{idProduct}=="4242", MODE="660", GROUP="plugdev" ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="584e", ATTRS{idProduct}=="4342", MODE="660", GROUP="plugdev" ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="584e", ATTRS{idProduct}=="4a55", MODE="660", GROUP="plugdev" ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="58c0", ATTRS{idProduct}=="804e", MODE="660", GROUP="plugdev"

Copy this file into /etc/udev/rules.d directory with below command:

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