Requirements

System requirements

Below the requirements before installing Impulse

Minimum

2 GHz dual-core processor

4Go Memory

2Go HDD

Recommended

3Ghz quad-core processor

8Go memory

2Go SSD

Operating system

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

- CentOS 7

- CentOS 8

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

Software

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

Download

Below the main steps to download and unpack each NanoXplore tools

1. Download NanoXplore tools from NanoXplore Support

2. Place Impulse tools into ~/Downloads or another folder.

3. Create new folder named NanoXplore in /opt folder. 4. Unpack each NanoXplore tool directly into /opt/NanoXplore.

Nx License Daemon

For NXLMD download and installation, please refer to the document License Daemon

Impulse

To directly unpack NxBase2 tool once downloaded into /opt/NanoXplore, create first folder named NxBase2- 2.5.3 with the following command:

After above step, to unpack NxBase2 from ~/Downloads folder, use below command:

Installation

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

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

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

3. Restart the machine

Impulse

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

If Pyhton3 is installed you will get the following line:

If Python3 is not installed, run the following command:

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

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

Check that Impulse is installed with below commands:

The result of this command must be the following

Check that Impulse works correctly with the following command:

The result of this command must be the following

NxBase2

To install NxBase2 tool, update ~/.bashrc file with below instruction:

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

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

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

Reload the udev rules with the following command:

Restart machine after above command. Check that the board is detected with below command:

The result of this command must be the following

Note: NxBase2 should be installed only once Impulse has been installed and works correctly.