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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

Configuring BeagleBoard


In this section, we will set up the serial and Ethernet connections by continuing the targetupdater process provided by MATLAB and Simulink. Follow these steps to do it:

  1. Go back to the targetupdater dialog and select the COM port of the RS232-USB connection to the BeagleBoard. As we discussed earlier, the COM port for the BeagleBoard can be found from Windows Device Manager.

  2. Power on the BeagleBoard by the 5V wall adapter and press the RESET button of the BeagleBoard to reboot. Then click on Next in the targetupdater dialog. When a reset of BeagleBoard is detected, it displays the progress of the booting of the BeagleBoard.

  3. Configure the IP address of the BeagleBoard. After the BeagleBoard is booted up, you will have a configure board dialog (see the following screenshot). Type in a unique name for the BeagleBoard (for example, myBBxM-01). Supposing you connect the BeagleBoard and host PC via the Ethernet hub with DHCP services, it is recommended to use dynamic IP address...