Packt Publishing, 2013. — 152 p. — ISBN: 978-1-84969-604-3.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/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/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:
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.Who this book is for:
Rapid Beagleboard Prototyping with MATLAB/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.
