User's Manual

ClarIDy UHF USB Reader Demo Program for Linux
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2. Installation
Before Installing the USB Driver and ClarIDy UHF Demo program, please see prerequisites
first.
2.0 Prerequisites to Installation
In order to run ClarIDy UHF Demo program as smoothly as possible, we recommend
some conditions as following.
2.0.1 Hardware Platform Requirements
The following hardware Platforms are supported by ClarIDy UHF RFID Reader
 CPU: Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD® Athlon™ processor, 1.4 GHz or above
 RAM: 512MB or above
2.0.2 Operating System Requirements
The following host operating systems are supported by ClarIDy UHF RFID SDK:
 Red Hat* Enterprise Linux*4 or other binary-compatible Linux kernel 2.6 distribution for
the IA-32 platform.
2.0.3 Other Software Requirements
The following other systems are supported by ClarIDy UHF RFID Reader:
 GCC 3.4.6 and above.
2.1 Setup the USB Driver
The ClarIDy UHF Reader is support on Linux using user-level libraries that communicate
with the standard Linux USB drivers. No driver installation is necessary.
2.3 Install ClarIDy UHF Demo
We only provide a command line application “ClarIDy_UHF_Demo” for demonstration.
1. Copy “ClarIDy_UHF_Demo_Linux.tar.gz” to Linux PC, as figure 1.
2. Extract the “ClarIDy_UHF_Demo_Linux.tar.gz” from tarball, as figure 2.
3. Run the “source setup.sh”, as Figure 3.
Figure 1 Copy “ClarIDy_UHF_SDK_Linux.tar.gz” to Linux PC