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Rapid BeagleBoard Prototyping with MATLAB and Simulink

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Rapid BeagleBoard Prototyping with MATLAB and Simulink

Overview of this book

As an open source embedded single-board computer with many standard interfaces, Beagleboard is ideal for building embedded audio/video systems to realize your practical ideas. The challenge is how to design and implement a good digital processing algorithm on Beagleboard quickly and easily without intensive low-level coding. Rapid BeagleBoard Prototyping with MATLAB and Simulink is a practical, hands-on guide providing you with a number of clear, step-by-step exercises which will help you take advantage of the power of Beagleboard and give you a good grounding in rapid prototyping techniques for your audio/video applications. Rapid BeagleBoard Prototyping with MATLAB and Simulink looks at rapid prototyping and how to apply these techniques to your audio/video applications with Beagleboard quickly and painlessly without intensive manual low-level coding. It will take you through a number of clear, practical recipes that will help you to take advantage of both the Beagleboard hardware platform and Matlab/Simulink signal processing. We will also take a look at building S-function blocks that work as hardware drivers and interfaces for Matlab/Simulink. This gives you more freedom to explore the full range of advantages provided by Beagleboard. By the end of this book, you will have a clear idea about Beagleboard and Matlab/Simulink rapid prototyping as well as how to develop voice recognition systems, motion detection systems with I/O access, and serial communication for your own applications such as a smart home.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Rapid BeagleBoard Prototyping with MATLAB and Simulink
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

First interaction with the BeagleBoard


You have now successfully completed the BeagleBoard setup and will see the LEDs at the BeagleBoard flash. One optional final test you can perform is to connect to your BeagleBoard from your Windows host PC via Ethernet and/or the serial-USB connection.

Installing PuTTY on a Windows PC

We will use a terminal to connect to the BeagleBoard. For Windows systems, the most popular terminal program is PuTTY, which provides a terminal-style window to connect to Linux systems. The PuTTY installer (a single executable file) can be downloaded from tartarus.org/~simon/putty-snapshots/x86/putty-installer.exe and more information about PuTTY can be found at www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html.

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Terminal in the early days was a hardware device used for entering data into, and displaying data from, a Unix-like computer machine. Nowadays, terminal (or terminal emulator) is referred to as a software program with a command-line interface, which simulates...