Understanding the buttons and the LEDs

The front of the board provides two buttons located at the bottom labeled REBOOT and RESET. The following image shows these two buttons:

Understanding the buttons and the LEDs

The button labeled REBOOT resets the Intel Quark SoC X1000 application processor. The button labeled RESET resets the sketch and any shield attached to the board. In this book, we won't be working with the Arduino sketches but we might need to reset a shield.

There are five rectangular LEDs located next to the USB 2.0 host connector: two LEDs on the left-hand side of the connector and three LEDs on the right-hand side. The following are the labels and the meaning of the LEDs: ...

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