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Revision as of 09:20, 5 January 2012


Here's what you'll need to do for the class. Unless stated otherwise these are individual exercises, not team.

I'm updating this from last year, so be sure to check the year to be sure it's been refreshed.

The Date the Exercise appears is the date it is due.

Week 1

Day Date Reading Topic (happens on date given) Exercise (due on date given) Links
1-1 28-Nov-2011 Introduction, Demos
  1. Create a user name on eLinux.org
  2. Add your name to the ECE497 Editing a Wiki page.
  3. Edit your User page on eLinux and add [[Category:ECE497]] to it. This will make it appear on the Category page. Check out User:Mayhewsw for ideas of what else to put on your User page.
  4. Add your user name to ECE497 Contributions.
ECE497 Editing a Wiki, ECE497 Contributions
1-2 29 General Purpose IO, LEDs and push buttons. Set up a Beagle, demo in class. EBC Exercise 00 Installing Angstrom on SD
" Download the BeagleBoard-xM System Reference Manual. Be sure it's for the xM. BeagleBoard-xM System Reference Manual
" Download the DM3730 Technical Reference Manual. Be sure you have the right one, it's some 3,600+ pages long. DM3730 Technical Reference Manual
1-3 1-Dec-2011 Interrupts and gpio Set up host computer. Install Linux in a virtual machine on your laptop, do a native install or request access to the "Cloud". I suggest Ubuntu 10.4 LTS. Some of the TI software may require it. EBC Exercise 00 Setting Up Hardware and Software
1-4 2 Debugging via gdb Read a push button and flash an LED. Write a short memo that answers the 11 questions in this section. Only do those under the green heading. EBC Exercise 02 Flashing an LED
" Add your project ideas ECE497 Project Ideas

Week 2

Day Date Reading Topic Exercise Links
2-1 5-Dec Pulse Width Modulation gpio via polling and interrupts. Write a short memo that answers the questions in this section. Only do those under the green headings. EBC Exercise 03 gpio Polling and Interrupts
2-2 6 gdb I2C EBC Exercise 06 gdb Debugging
2-3 8 make
2-4 9 git EBC Exercise 01 Using bitbake for Kernel and U-boot

Week 3

Day Date Reading Topic Exercise Links
3-1 12 i2c lab I2C: Do the green section here

make

EBC Exercise 07a make,

EBC Exercise 07b make with variables

3-2 13 Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) git EBC Exercise 05 I2C, EBC Exercise 07c git
3-3 15 Using the DSP (c6run)
3-4 16 Lab Time

Week 4

Day Date Reading Topic Exercise Links
4-1 19 Lab Time
4-2 20 Lab Time ALSA EBC Exercise 08 Using ALSA for Audio Processing
4-3 5-Jan-2012 Video Processing,

bitbaking 2.6.32 kernel

4-4 6 Threads c6run. Do the green things here EBC Exercise 09 Using the DSP for Audio Processing

Week 5

Day Date Reading Topic Exercise Links
5-1 9-Jan-2012 2.1-2.3.5 Booting, Memory Map, Cross-Development Video through EBC_Exercise_01_Using_bitbake_for_Kernel_and_U-boot#Finding_the_Correct_Kernel,

EBC Exercise 10 The Display SubSystem (DSS) Writing to the Framebuffer

5-2 10 3.2.13, 4.1-4.3.2 Processor Basics, TI ARM, The Kernel Reproduce every listing each day's reading assignment. See my Listing page as an example. Note any interesting differences between your listing and the book and my listings. Keep a printed copy in a notebook. Bring to class and I'll check them during lab time. ECE497 Listings for Embedded Linux Primer,

EBC Exercise 11 Running Audio and Video

5-3 12 4.3.3-4.5, 5.1-5.2 Adding to the Kernel makefile, Kernel Initialization Compile and run Listing 2-4 (Hello World, embedded style) on your host computer, Beagle ARM and Beagle DSP. Compare the results. EBC Exercise 12 Cross-Compiling and Finding the Right Kernel
" " Find the Beagle version of Figure 2-5 on page 25. Be sure to find a numeric value for the starting address of the POP SDRAM. Note where you found this information. DM3730 Technical Reference Manual

BeagleBoard-xM System Reference Manual

5-4 13 5.3-5.6 Command Line Processing, __setup Macro Configuring the Kernel Lab EBC Exercise 13 Configuring the Kernel
" 6.1-6.3 System Initialization

Old Week 5

Day Date Reading Topic Exercise Links
5-1 4-Apr 8.1-8.4 More Device Drivers Follow the example in 8.3-8.4 to write a kernel module that does more. Use dynamic major number allocation. ECE497 Lab08 Device Drivers
5-2 5 No Class
5-3 7 Guest Speaker. . Alan Hastings (TI Fellow, Analog and Power Systems IC Designer with Layout and Processing expertise)

Digital in Analog Designs When incorporating digital into analog and mixed-signal designs, the standard methods of design, validation, and testing simply don’t work well. The circuits are often partially or fully asynchronous and test coverage is often much less than we would like. These problems will be presented with some insight into how digital designers could solve these problems in their designs.

5-4 7 Open Lab. Work out lingering problems.

Week 6

Day Date Reading Topic Exercise Links
6-1 16-Jan 6.4-6.7 Initial RAM Disk, Using initramfs, Shutdown Here's a challenge for today's lab. Modify the correct Kconfig file so you have the option shown in the link. What changes would you have to make the the makefile for your new code to compile? EBC Exercise 13 Configuring the Kernel
6-2 17 7.1-7.3 Bootloaders, Das U-Boot
6-3 19 8.1-8.4 Device Driver Basics, Driver Methods Modify the prompt in U-boot to include you initials.

Follow the example in 8.1-8.2 to write a kernel module.

EBC Exercise 15 Configuring U-boot,

ECE497 Lab08 Device Drivers

6-4 20 11 BusyBox Reconfigure BusyBox ECE497 Lab07 Configuring BusyBox

Week 7

Day Date Reading Topic Exercise Links
7-1 25 OMAP_Workshop, p200-218 The Display SubSystem (DSS) Inspect code to read video from a web cam, write video to the display. Write code to read from the web cam and write to the display. ECE497 Lab12 The Display SubSystem (DSS)
7-2 26 Lab12 ECE497 Lab12 The Display SubSystem (DSS)
7-3 28 Using the DSP Install c6run and compile and run the examples. ECE497 Lab13 Using the DSP via c6run
7-4 29 No Class

Week 8

Day Date Reading Topic Exercise Links
8-1 2-May-2011 GStreamer GStreamer
8-2 3 OMAP_Workshop, p219-248 (optional) Multithread Status Report ECE497 Status Report
8-3 5 Work Day, come to class
8-4 6 No Class

Week 9

Day Date Reading Topic Exercise Links
9-1 9 Project Time
9-2 10 No Class
9-3 12 ALSA
8-4 13 Project Time

Week 10

Day Date Reading Topic Exercise Links
10-1 16 No Class
10-2 17 Project Presentations Demos all period
10-3 19 No Class
10-4 20 No Class