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BeagleBoard Basics
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About Beagle Board:
BeagleBoard is an entry level cost open embedded hardware manufactured by Texas Instruments. It boasts a Cortex-A8 OMAP processor with a graphics and DSP accelerated. It has a large community open embedded Linux community for which it has been really a success.www.beagleboard.org
TimeLine:Feb 2008 Rev A concept June 2008 Rev B launched broad availability with Digi-KeyMay 2009 Rev C doubles RAM to 256MBJan 2010 Rev C4 bumps performance to 720MHz and resolves USB
power supply stability issueJune 2010 xM Rev A board speed to 1Ghz doubly ram and DSP speed
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Fig: Beagle Board XM :- A powerful board from TI
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Activity 1: Setting up BeagleBoard
Equipments Required: 1) Beagle Board 2) LCD Monitor with DVI-D Input (BeagleBoard gives digital as output, so VGA being analog won’t work)3) Serial to usb Cable, HDMI – DVI-D cable, 5V / 2A DC Adapter , Self Powered Usb Hub, USB Keyboard & Mouse, SD MMC Card (atleast 1GB), Speaker (optional)
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Now power on the board, monitor, hub and you will see the beagleboard boot upSetting the serial Communication: Plug the usb to serial with usb connected to PC and serial to beagleboard with the cable provided. Go to device manager and determine the com port
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Serial Cable to USB Convertor to PC
Usb host cable to power hub keyboard, mouse
Power Supply
HDMI –DVI-D cable to monitor
SD MMC Card
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Open Hyperterminal and give connection a name
Put the COM port no found on the previous step
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Put the serial setting as shown in the fig
Now dial and power on the beagleboard or press reset on see the board boot up
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You can stop the autoboot and tweak with boot loader args by pressing any key within 3 secs
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Android Booted up
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