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The goal of this page is to record information that is pertinent to getting started with the BeagleBone's AM335x Programmable Real-time Unit (PRU). | The goal of this page is to record information that is pertinent to getting started with the BeagleBone's AM335x Programmable Real-time Unit (PRU). | ||
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This is also called the PRU Subsystem (PRUSS) or PRU and Industrial Controller Subsystem (PRU-ICSS). It is optimized to perform embedded tasks that require real-time constraints. | This is also called the PRU Subsystem (PRUSS) or PRU and Industrial Controller Subsystem (PRU-ICSS). It is optimized to perform embedded tasks that require real-time constraints. | ||
Revision as of 05:03, 18 April 2013
The goal of this page is to record information that is pertinent to getting started with the BeagleBone's AM335x Programmable Real-time Unit (PRU).
BeagleBone PRU
This is also called the PRU Subsystem (PRUSS) or PRU and Industrial Controller Subsystem (PRU-ICSS). It is optimized to perform embedded tasks that require real-time constraints.
Most important is the purssdrv library to expose functions to the PRU. You can load this library by typing modprobe uio_pruss.
PRU capabilities
- The PRU has dual 32-bit RISC cores, shared data and instruction memories and an interrupt controller (INTC).
- 8KB data memory and 8KB instruction memory
- 12KB shared RAM
- A small, deterministic instruction set
There is no pipelining done on the processor and there are 29 (r1-r30) registers to use.
Software examples
BeagleBoard/TI has provided example C programs that utilize the PRU on github.
These include: PRU_memAccess_DDR_PRUsharedRAM, PRU_memAccessPRUDataRam, PRU_PRUtoPRUInterrupt, and a PRU assembler.