Hi Team,
Recently I have purchased Arduino® Portenta X8 board in digikey
. when we connected board with USB type C cable to laptop . Below issue was encountering.
I am encountering a significant issue with my Arduino Portenta X8 board. When I connect the board to my laptop using a USB Type-C cable, the NXP integrated circuit heats up to approximately 35 degrees Celsius.
Please kindly suggest and help me out resolve this issue.
We need resources to do work with our PORTENTA X8 board.
Typically, when running intensive tasks, such as high CPU load or constant processing, the main chip could reach temperatures above 50°C without active cooling... So the temperature you are seeing does not seem abnormal to me.
(The operating temperature range for many chips typically falls within -40°C to 85°C for commercial grade or up to -40°C to 125°C for industrial grade components ➜ at 40°C your chip is totally fine)
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could you please suggest me which C type cable use for arduino X8 portenta?
Hi @phani. Any good quality data cable will work fine.
Are you experiencing any problem while using your Portenta X8 board (apart from the concern about the temperature which has already been resolved)?
If you are not experiencing any problems then the cable you have now is surely fine and you should continue with your projects.
If you are experiencing a problem, then please provide a detailed description of the problem and we'll try to provide assistance.
do we need carrier board to work on it
i have som board only, can we work on it?
A carrier board is not mandatory. However, the I/O pins on the Portenta X8 are only broken out to the high density connectors on the bottom, so you won't have easy access to the pins if you are using the board by itself. Products such as the Portenta Breakout make it easy to make electrical connections to the I/O pins.
Thank you . ASX00049 will HAT carrier board support the ARDUINO X8 portenta board?
how to connect with internet?
You can see the list of compatible hardware for any product by going to the product's documentation page, which you can find here:
https://docs.arduino.cc/hardware/
Then selecting the "Compatibility" tab on the product documentation page. For the Portenta Hat Carrier, you can see it here:
https://docs.arduino.cc/hardware/portenta-hat-carrier/#compatibility
The Portenta X8 board is included in the list of hardware that is compatible with the Portenta Hat Carrier.
Network communication is done via the Portenta X8 Linux machine. There are many different ways you can implement Internet communication on a Linux machine. You would get more effective advice from the forum helpers if you provided more information about your goal.
You might be interested in using the Portenta X8 as an Arduino Cloud IoT Device. You can learn about that from this tutorial:
https://docs.arduino.cc/tutorials/portenta-x8/user-manual/#portenta-x8-with-arduino-cloud
If you are wanting to communicate over the Internet using some approach other than Arduino Cloud IoT, then the first thing to do will be to configure the credentials of your Wi-Fi access point in the Portenta X8's Linux machine. You can do this using the Arduino Linux Wizard:
https://docs.arduino.cc/tutorials/portenta-x8/user-manual/#setup-with-the-arduino-linux-wizard
Alternatively, you can connect to the shell on the board via the USB connection to your computer by running the command adb shell on your computer:
https://docs.arduino.cc/tutorials/portenta-x8/user-manual/#working-with-linux
Then using the nmcli tool from that shell to configure the credentials:
https://docs.arduino.cc/tutorials/portenta-x8/user-manual/#manage-your-network-via-cli
After that, the board will connect to your Wi-Fi access point and have access to the Internet through that. You can now communicate over the Internet any way you like. A good option would be to implement the network communication for your project using a Python script.
If you want to learn about how to communicate between the Python script running on the Linux machine and the Arduino sketch running on the Portenta X8's STM32H7 microcontroller, study this tutorial:
https://docs.arduino.cc/tutorials/portenta-x8/python-arduino-data-exchange/
