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Raspberry Pi Computer Architecture Essentials

By : Andrew K. Dennis, Teemu O Pohjanlehto
Book Image

Raspberry Pi Computer Architecture Essentials

By: Andrew K. Dennis, Teemu O Pohjanlehto

Overview of this book

With the release of the Raspberry Pi 2, a new series of the popular compact computer is available for you to build cheap, exciting projects and learn about programming. In this book, we explore Raspberry Pi 2’s hardware through a number of projects in a variety of programming languages. We will start by exploring the various hardware components in detail, which will provide a base for the programming projects and guide you through setting up the tools for Assembler, C/C++, and Python. We will then learn how to write multi-threaded applications and Raspberry Pi 2’s multi-core processor. Moving on, you’ll get hands on by expanding the storage options of the Raspberry Pi beyond the SD card and interacting with the graphics hardware. Furthermore, you will be introduced to the basics of sound programming while expanding upon your knowledge of Python to build a web server. Finally, you will learn to interact with the third-party microcontrollers. From writing your first Assembly Language application to programming graphics, this title guides you through the essentials.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Raspberry Pi Computer Architecture Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


This chapter introduced us to the concept of threads. First, we learned what they are and why they are useful. Following this we studied how they can be implemented in both C and C++. This allowed us to apply some of the theoretical concepts in practice. Our programs showed how we can create multiple threads, use mutexes to lock memory locations for concurrent updates, and finally how to terminate threads.

Through studying threads in C and C++ we built upon some of what we have learned in previous chapters.

Next we will look at how we implement a USB HDD as our main storage mechanism rather than use the microSD card. This will allow us to increase the storage capacity of the Raspberry Pi and also learn a little about the Raspberry Pi's boot process.