Rapid BeagleBoard Prototyping with MATLAB and Simulink

Leverage the power of BeagleBoard to develop and deploy practical embedded projects

Overview

• Develop and validate your own embedded audio/video applications rapidly with Beagleboard
• Create embedded Linux applications on a pure Windows PC
• Full of illustrations, diagrams, and tips for rapid Beagleboard prototyping with clear, step-by-step instructions and hands-on examples

In Detail

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.

What you will learn from this book

• Understand rapid prototyping on a Windows host, including Matlab/Simulink code generation for Beagleboard
• Set up a cross-development environment on Windows for Beagleboard
• Access Beagleboard’s GPIO pins and RS232 communication in Matlab and Simulink
• Develop your own S-function block in Simulink to access Beagleboard’s hardware devices
• Create an audio player and equalizer in Simulink, including audio file reading
• Adjust the parameters of your target system on-the-fly for the purpose of performance optimization
• Penetrate into an infrared sensor in Matlab/Simulink for smart home applications
• Build a video motion detection system for security applications

Approach

This book is a fast-paced guide with practical, hands-on recipes which will show you how to prototype Beagleboard-based audio/video applications using Matlab/Simlink and Sourcery Codebench on a Windows host.

Who this book is written for

Rapid BeagleBoard Prototyping with MATLAB and Simulink is great for students and academic researchers who have practical ideas and who want to build a proof-of-concept system on an embedded hardware platform quickly and efficiently. It is also useful for product design engineers who want to ratify their applications and reduce the time-to-market. It is assumed that you are familiar with Matlab/Simulink and have some basic knowledge of computer hardware. Experience in Linux is favoured but not necessary, as our software development is purely on a Windows host.

充分利用BeagleBoard的功能，開發和部署實用的嵌入式項目

概述
- 使用Beagleboard快速開發和驗證自己的嵌入式音視頻應用
- 在純Windows PC上創建嵌入式Linux應用
- 充滿插圖、圖表和提示，提供清晰的逐步指南和實踐示例，以快速進行Beagleboard原型設計

詳細內容
- Beagleboard是一個開源的嵌入式單板計算機，具有許多標準接口，非常適合構建嵌入式音視頻系統來實現您的實用想法。挑戰在於如何在Beagleboard上快速、輕鬆地設計和實現良好的數字處理算法，而無需進行繁瑣的低層編碼。

《使用MATLAB和Simulink進行快速BeagleBoard原型設計》是一本實用的手冊，通過一系列清晰的逐步練習，幫助您充分利用Beagleboard的功能，並為音視頻應用的快速原型設計技術提供良好的基礎。

本書介紹了快速原型設計以及如何將這些技術應用於Beagleboard上的音視頻應用，無需進行繁瑣的手動低層編碼。我們將帶您進行一系列清晰的實用示例，幫助您充分利用Beagleboard硬件平台和Matlab/Simulink信號處理。我們還將介紹構建作為Matlab/Simulink硬件驅動程序和接口的S功能塊。這使您更自由地探索Beagleboard提供的全部優勢。

通過閱讀本書，您將對Beagleboard和Matlab/Simulink快速原型設計有清晰的了解，以及如何開發語音識別系統、具有I/O訪問和串行通信的運動檢測系統，以及用於智能家居等自己的應用。

本書的學習重點
- 了解在Windows主機上進行快速原型設計，包括Beagleboard的Matlab/Simulink代碼生成
- 在Windows上為Beagleboard設置交叉開發環境
- 在Matlab和Simulink中訪問Beagleboard的GPIO引腳和RS232通信
- 在Simulink中開發自己的S功能塊，以訪問Beagleboard的硬件設備
- 在Simulink中創建音頻播放器和均衡器，包括音頻文件讀取
- 在性能優化的目的下，即時調整目標系統的參數
- 在Matlab/Simulink中深入研究紅外傳感器，用於智能家居應用
- 構建用於安全應用的視頻運動檢測系統

方法
本書是一本快節奏的指南，提供實用的、實踐的食譜，將向您展示如何在Windows主機上使用Matlab/Simlink和Sourcery Codebench原型設計基於Beagleboard的音視頻應用。

本書適合對嵌入式硬件平台有實際想法並希望快速高效地在嵌入式硬件平台上構建概念驗證系統的學生和學術研究人員。對於希望驗證其應用並縮短上市時間的產品設計工程師也很有用。假設您熟悉Matlab/Simulink並具有一些基本的計算機硬件知識。對Linux的經驗是有利的，但不是必需的，因為我們的軟件開發完全在Windows主機上進行。