ECE497 Calendar and Exercises
Embedded Linux Class by Mark A. Yoder
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. If the background is white, it hasn't been updated.
All assignments are due the start of the following week. Initially that is a Thursday!
Contents
Week 1
Day | Date | Reading | Topic | Exercise | Assignment Links |
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1-1 | 30-Aug-2012 | Introductions, Demos | Fire up your Beagle and see it work. Do everything in Exercise 09. Due Friday.
EBC Exercise 01 Start Here gives an overview of what we'll be doing over the next few days. Start setting up your Linux development computer now. You can do either a native install, or a virtual machine. Here and here are some notes in virtual machine installs. They are out of date. Feel free to update them. I suggest Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Some of the TI software may require it. I may not be able to help with other versions of distributions. |
ECE497 - 32-bit Embedded Linux, Rose-Hulman | |
1-2 | 31 | General Purpose IO, LEDs and push buttons. | Set up a Beagle, demo in class. Get reference manuals and clone git repository. | EBC Exercise 03 Installing a Beagle OS | |
1-3 | 3-Sept-2012 | Interrupts and gpio | EBC Exercise 08 Installing Development Tools | ||
1-4 | 4 | i2c, git | EBC Exercise 16 git | ||
" | Add your project ideas | ECE497 Project Ideas |
Week 2
Day | Date | Reading | Topic | Exercise | Links |
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2-1 | 6-Sept | Pulse Width Modulation | EBC Exercise 12 I2C | ||
2-2 | 7 | Lab Time, Mini Project 01 | Measure gpio and pwm with oscilloscope. | EBC Mini Project 01 | |
2-3 | 10 | gdb, Lab Time | EBC Exercise 14 gdb Debugging | ||
2-4 | 11 | Lab Time |
Week 3
Day | Date | Reading | Topic | Exercise | Links |
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3-1 | 13 | make, Mini Project 02 | Flash ETC 2012 image on SD card for xM | EBC Exercise 15 make | |
3-2 | 14 | Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) | EBC Exercise 17 Using ALSA for Audio Processing | ||
3-3 | 17 | Using the DSP (c6run) | EBC Exercise 18 Using the DSP for Audio Processing | ||
3-4 | 18 | Lab Time, Mini Project 1 demo time |
Week 4
Day | Date | Reading | Topic | Exercise | Links |
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4-1 | 20 | Video Processing | EBC Exercise 19 DSS2 and sysfs | ||
4-2 | 21 | Lab Time | |||
4-3 | 24 | Threads | EBC Exercise 21 Running Audio and Video | ||
4-4 | 25 | Lab Time |
Week 5
Day | Date | Reading | Topic | Exercise | Links |
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5-1 | 27-Sept-2012 | Graphical Interfaces and node.js | |||
5-2 | 28 | Lab Time | |||
5-3 | 1-Oct-2012 | 2.1-2.3.5, 3.2.13 | Booting, Memory Map, Cross-Development, Processor Basics, TI ARM | ||
5-4 | 2 | 4.1-4.3.3 | The Kernel | EBC Exercise 22 Cross-Compiling and Finding the Right Kernel |
Week 6
Day | Date | Reading | Topic | Exercise | Links |
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6-1 | 4 | 4.4-4.5, 5.1-5.2 | Adding to the Kernel makefile, Kernel Initialization | 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. | EBC Exercise 23 Configuring the Kernel |
" | " | 5.3-5.6 | Command Line Processing, __setup Macro | Configuring the Kernel Lab | EBC Exercise 24 Kconfig Edits |
6-2 | 5 | Lab Time | |||
6-3 | 8 | 6.1-6.3 | System Initialization | Project Status Report, update your project status page. | EBC Exercise 21a Boot Sequence |
6-4 | 9 | 6.4-6.7 | Initial RAM Disk, Using initramfs |
Week 7
Day | Date | Reading | Topic | Exercise | Links |
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7-1 | 15 | 7.1-7.3 | Bootloaders, Das U-Boot | EBC Exercise 25 Configuring U-boot | |
7-2 | 16 | Demo and Work Day | |||
7-3 | 18 | 8.1-8.4 | Device Driver Basics, Driver Methods | EBC Exercise 26 Device Drivers | |
" | " | 8.1-8.4 | More Device Drivers | EBC Exercise 26 Device Drivers Details | |
7-4 | 19 | 11.1-11.4 | BusyBox | In B105 | EBC Exercise 27 BusyBox |
Week 8
Day | Date | Reading | Topic | Exercise | Links |
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8-1 | 22 | GStreamer | GStreamer (Cheat Sheet, | EBC Exercise 29 GStreamer | |
8-2 | 23 | Project Status Report, update your project status page. | ECE497 Contributions and Project Status | ||
8-3 | 25 | Remote debugging with gdb, cbrowser/cscope and strace | EBC Exercise 28 Remote gdb and more | ||
8-4 | 26 | Project Time | Project Status Report, update your project status page. | ECE497 Contributions and Project Status |
Week 9
Day | Date | Reading | Topic | Exercise | Links |
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9-1 | 29 | ||||
9-2 | 30 | ||||
9-3 | 1-Nov-2012 | ||||
9-4 | 2 |
Week 10
Day | Date | Reading | Topic | Exercise | Links |
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10-1 | 5 | ||||
10-2 | 6 | ||||
10-3 | 8 | ||||
10-4 | 9 | Cathy Wicks? |
Embedded Linux Class by Mark A. Yoder