Build Your Own Embedded Systems Sessions
The following Build Your Own Embedded Systems sessions are available ONLY to All Access Pass holders.
These sessions require the use of the BeagleBoard-xM, Beacon Board and eZ430 Chronos Watch, which All Access Pass holders will receive upon check-in at ESC Boston.
| BeagleBoard 101 (BYOES-300) |
Date: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 Time: 8:00am - 9:15am Speaker: Jason Kridner, Open Platforms Technologist/Evangelist, Texas Instruments Location: Room 210 |
| Learn or refresh yourself on the basics of running Linux on the BeagleBoard, how to engage the BeagleBoard community, detail the boot process and survey the available community and commercial software that might be of greatest interest. A short update on the Linaro and Yocto Project community oriented organizations will be given and everyone will make sure they can boot and navigate the software installed on the provided boards. |
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| Basic I/O with the TinCanTools Beacon Board (BYOES-301) |
Date: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 Time: 9:15am - 10:30am Speaker: Jason Kridner, Open Platforms Technologist/Evangelist, Texas Instruments Location: Room 210 |
| Learn about the basics of utilizing drivers in Linux to perform simple I/O tasks including GPIO communications. The TinCanTools Beacon Board will be used as an example to let you test your ability to control and time signals on your BeagleBoard-xM's expansion port. |
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| Linux LCD integration with the BeagleBoardToys ULCD-Lite (BYOES-302) |
Date: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 Time: 2:00pm - 3:15pm Speaker: Jason Kridner, Open Platforms Technologist/Evangelist, Texas Instruments Location: Room 210 |
| Learn how to interface a system-on-a-chip running Linux to an LCD panel by deriving new panel drivers from existing panel drivers. The basics will be explained with the existing ULCD-Lite integration and some topics regarding system integration will be covered. Students will be able to extend their Linux kernel driver to support additional display timings and modes. |
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| Wireless Development with the RF-enabled eZ430-Chronos Watch from MSP430 (BYOES-303) |
Date: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 @ 3:30pm - 4:45pm / Thursday, September 29, 2011 @ 1:00pm - 2:15pm Speaker: Adrian Fernandez, Product Marketing Engineer, Texas Instruments; Dung Dang, MSP430 Applications Engineer, Texas Instruments; Dietmar Schneider, MSP430 Applications Engineer, Texas Instruments Location: Room 210 |
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NOTE: Attendees are required to bring their own laptop with software pre-loaded. View the Computer & Software Requirements for this session.
This lab will walk developers through realizing a sub-GHz network using the eZ430-Chronos watch empowered with TI’s SimpliciTI wireless protocol. Attendees will receive a Chronos watch and will be tasked to configure their watch’s CC430 radio to a specific RF configuration, in order to pair up with another random attendee. Once set, each attendee is tasked to find the other watch and attendee that they have paired themselves with – prizes will be given to those who can configure their watch and find their partner the fastest! Attendees will learn how to use TI’s free SmartRF Studio software for visually configuring their RF settings. Next, with simple modifications, the watch can be quickly repurposed as a Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) meter or a simple range tester. In addition, the eZ430-Chronos over the air update feature will be demonstrated using the watch’s built-in rfBSL. Finally, attendees will leave with a live tutorial on how to interface the Chronos watch with a BeagleBoard for reading the accelerometer, temperature and voltage readings from the Chronos watch! |
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BeagleBoard-xM
Go beyond the initial hands-on experience with the latest in the rapidly evolving ARM software development field using the most popularly supported low-power, high-performance embedded platform today, the ARM Cortex-A8-based BeagleBoard-xM. Building upon previous Build-Your-Own-Embedded-System courses held at ESC Boston, the BeagleBoard-xM is back with more of what you love most in hands-on sessions: more external device integration and more proven open source software you can build upon. Teach your BeagleBoard-xM to speak without wires, obey your gestures and fetch your environmental data.
Features:
- 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 CPU
- 512MB of low-power DDR memory
- Small 3.25" by 3.25" form-factor
- 3D graphics accelerator
- DSP with high-definition video capable hardware acceleration
- Display output to a standard DVI-D monitor, s-video or composite television or expansion LCD panel
- 4-port USB hub with 10/100Mbit Ethernet
- Boot from local microSD slot, USB OTG port or serial
- External connections for GPIO, SPI, I2C, serial, JTAG, parallel camera and more
Beacon Board
TinCanTools and BoardZoo.com are sponsoring a give-away to All Access Pass holders of the new Beacon Board, a training accessory for the BeagleBoard-xM for learning about the basics of GPIO communications over the BeagleBoard-xM's expansion port. The Beacon Board provides a pwm controlled tri-color LED, a shifter register controlled seven segment LED, and an I2C EEPROM to identify itself to the BeagleBoard-xM. See your GPIO experiments come to light with this fun new accessory to the BeagleBoard, BeagleBoard-xM or PandaBoard.
eZ430-Chronos
Take your development environment to the next level with TI’s eZ430-Chronos, a complete customizable kit within a sports watch designed to provide all of the hardware and software needed to immediately begin development of wireless networking applications, regardless of programming expertise. The Chronos is integrated with the CC430, which is a complete system-on-chip featuring an MSP430 core and sub-1GHz RF transceiver.
Features:
- Integrated with CC430F6137 - MSP430 with integrated sub-1GHz RF wireless transceiver
- Watch reprogrammable for custom wireless applications
- Highly integrated with on-board 3-axis accelerometer, pressure sensor, temperature sensor & battery voltage sensor
- 96-segment LCD display driven directly by CC430
- Includes an eZ430 USB emulator for programming/debugging
- Includes sub-1GHz RF transceiver for wireless communication with a PC
- RF BSL is also available for wireless programming
Available ONLY to All Access Pass holders! Must attend to receive.Register now!
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