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1. http www element14 com BeagleBone 2 Uncompress both of the archives 3 Within the TI SDK zip ti sdk image zip uncompress the image file for either the BeagleBone or BaegleBone Black depending on your board 4 Program the uncompressed image into a Micro SD card by using Win32DiskImager exe from the utility tools pack elementiu 5 Insert the card into the BeagleBone Black press and hold the Boot button on the BB VIEW while powering on the board Keep the button held down until the bank of 4 LEDs light up for a few seconds 6 When all 4 user LEDs stay constantly on the image has been programmed into BeagleBone Black Please power off the board and remove the Micro SD card and then connect BeagleBone Black BB VIEW and a LCD display and power it on again 7 Follow the instructions shown on the LCD to complete screen calibration 6 1 2 Image Programming on BeagleBone 1 Download the TI SDK image ti sdk image zip and the utility tools pack tools zip from http www element14 com BeagleBone 2 Uncompress both of the archives 3 Within the TI SDK zip ti sdk image zip uncompress the image file for either the BeagleBone or BaegleBone Black depending on your board 4 Program the uncompressed image into a Micro SD card by using Win32DiskImager exe from the utility tools pack 5 Insert the card into the BeagleBone and connect the BeagleBone Black2. If you need a more complicated hard disk setup you can also skip this step and attach hard disks later using the VM Settings dialog The recommended size of the boot hard disk is 8 00 GB Boot Hard Disk O Use existing hard disk Ubuntu vdi formal 8 00 GB 10 Click Next in the following window Y Create New Virtual Disk Welcome to the Create New Virtual Disk Wizard This vizard vill help you to create a nev virtual hard disk for your virtual machine Use the Next button to go to the next page of the wizard and the Back button to return to the previous page You can also press Cancel if you want to cancel the execution of this wizard 11 Select Fixed size storage in the following window and click Next elementiu p Create New Virtual Disk Hard Disk Storage Type Select the type of virtual hard disk you want to create dynamically expanding storage initially occupies a very small amount of space on your physical hard disk It will grow dynamically up to the size specified as the Guest OS claims disk space A fixed size storage does not grow It is stored in a file of approximately the same size as the size of the virtual hard disk The creation of a fixed size storage may take a long time depending on the storage size and the write performance of your harddisk Storage Type o Dynamically expanding storage 12 Define where the hard disk data is stored and the default space of the virtua
3. elementiu 2 Execute the following instruction within the directory board support to apply the patch cd ti sdk am335x evm 06 00 00 00 board support u boot 2013 01 01 psp06 00 00 00 patch p1 lt u boot 2013 01 01 psp06 00 00 00 bb vievv patch 3 Execute the following instruction to compile cd ti sdk am335x evm 06 00 00 00 board support u boot 2013 01 01 psp06 00 00 00 make CROSS COMPILE arm linux gnueabihf ARCH arm distclean rm rf am335x make O am335x CROSS COMPILE arm linux gnueabihf ARCH ar m am335x evm After the compilation is done the files MLO and u boot img can be found within am335x of the current directory Compiling uboot from element14 1 Execute the following command to uncompress the uboot source code e odw tar xvf u boot 2013 01 01 psp06 00 00 00 bb vievv tar bz2 2 Execute the follovving instructions to compile cd HOME u boot 2013 01 01 psp06 00 00 00 make CROSS COMPILE arm linux gnueabihf ARCH arm distclean rm rf am335x elementiL make O am335x CROSS COMPILE arm linux gnueabihf ARCH arm am335x evm After the compilation is done the files MLO and u boot img can be found within am335x of the current directory 6 2 3 Compiling Kernel The SDK provided officially by TI needs to be patched in order to support BB VIEW A Linux kernel has been patched and is available in the BB VIEW TI SDK source code ti sdk source zip fro
4. gt Create New Virtual Disk Summary You are going to create a new virtual hard disk with the following parameters Type Fixed size storage Location G Wbuntu systemlUbuntu vdi Sire 8 00 GB 6589934592 B If the above settings are correct press the Finish button Once you press it a ner hard disk will be created 1 2 Installing an Ubuntu Linux System After VirtualBox is installed we can install the Ubuntu Linux system Visit http www Ubuntu com download Ubuntu download to download the ISO image file of Ubuntu and then follow the steps below 1 Start VirtualBox from the Start menu and click Settings on the VirtualBox window A Settings window will be shown as below gt Oracle VE VirtualBox Manager System Display Storage Audio Network Serial Ports USB e P 2 8 Shared Folde rs General Basic Advanced Description Operating System Linux Version Ubuntu Name Ubuntu Select a settings category from the list on the left hand side and move the mouse over a settings stem to get more information elementiu 2 Select Storage on the left in the Settings window and click the CD icon next to the option Empty under IDC controller in the right part of the window and then find the ISO file you downloaded gt Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager File Machine Help 33 gt gt 4 Ubuntu Settings Y a General System
5. Butan Hi Your computer s name ubuntudaptap the cama if wana when ik talki other compucert Pici a suan J Chocsa a password SAID Fale password Confirm yor password na aaa Log in automatically Require my pasword La leg in Enoypt my kame folder 11 After all the required information is properly entered in to the fields select Log in automatically and click forward 12 The installation of Ubuntu may take between 15 minutes to an hour depending on your PC s specification A prompt window will be shown as below after installation is done Please select Restart Now to restart Ubuntu system Installation Complete installation has finished You can continue testing Ubuntu now but until you restart the computer any changes you make or documents you save will not be preserved canin T il l 13 The Ubuntu system is ready for use after restarting Normally the ISO file shown below will be efected automatically by VirtualBox after restarting Ubuntu If it is not you can efect the ISO file manually in the Settings window of VirtualBox The following window shows the settings window after the ISO file is ejected Ubuntu Settings elementiL
6. 33 GND GND 34 X X Position Input 35 X X Position Input 36 Y Y Position Input 37 Y Y Position Input 38 SPI_CLK SPI clock 39 SPI_MOSI Slave data in master data out 40 SPI MISO Slave data out master data in 41 SPI CS SPI enable 42 IIC CLK IIC master serial clock 43 DAT IIC serial bidirectional data 44 GND GND 45 VDD1 3 3V 46 VDD2 3 3V 47 VDD3 5V elementiu Pins Definitions Descriptions 48 VDD4 5V 49 RESET No connection 50 PVVREN GPIO 3 2 Extended I O Interface J1 Pins Definitions Descriptions 1 GND GND 2 GND GND 3 NC NC 4 NC NC 5 NC NC 6 NC NC 7 NC NC 8 NC NC 9 NC NC 10 NC NC 11 LCD_DATA18 LCD Pixel data bit 18 12 LCD_DATA19 LCD Pixel data bit 19 13 LCD_DATA22 LCD Pixel data bit 22 14 LCD DATA21 LCD Pixel data bit 21 elementiu Pins Definitions Descriptions 15 LCD_DATA16 LCD Pixel data bit 16 16 LCD_DATA17 LCD Pixel data bit 17 17 LCD_DATA20 LCD Pixel data bit 20 18 NC NC 19 LCD DATA23 LCD Pixel data bit 23 20 NC NC 21 NC NC 22 NC NC 23 NC NC 24 NC NC 25 NC NC 26 NC NC 27 LCD VSYNC LCD Vertical Synchronization 28 LCD PCLK LCD Pixel Clock 29 LCD HSYNC LCD Horizontal Synchronization AC bias control STN or pixel data a LCD DE enable TFT 31 LCD DATA14 LCD Pixel data bit 14 32 LCD DATA15 LCD Pixel d
7. BB VIEW and an LCD display and then power on the board to start the system 6 1 3 Setting Up Display Modes 4 3 The procedure to set up display modes is the same on both the BeagleBone and BeagleBone Black 1 Connect to the BeagleBone board as shown in section 4 elementiu 2 The following instructions are executed in the terminal window to configure the BB View to use 4 3 LCD displays root am335x evm echo optargs dispmode 4 3inch LCD gt media mmcbik0p1 uEnv txt root am335x evm sync Note The system supports 4 3 LCD displays by default and therefore there is no need to execute these instructions if the default settings haven t been changed 3 Restart the board to apply the settings the BB View is now set up for 4 3 LCD displays 6 1 4 Setting Up Display Modes 7 1 Connect to the BeagleBone board as shown in section 4 2 The following instructions are executed for use of 7 LCD displays root am335x evm echo optargs dispmode 7inch LCD gt medi a mmcbik0p1 uEnv txt root am335x evm sync 3 Now restart the board to apply the settings for 7 LCD displays Note EY Ifyou have calibrated the touch screen after you change the display mode you must execute the following instructions to recalibrate in putty root am335x evm rm media mmcblkOp1 pointercal root am335x evm sync And then reboot the board BE The 4 3 and 7 LCD screens provi
8. Display G Storage Pe Audio 4 Network Serial Ports USB Shared Folders Storage Storage Tree B 2 My Computer My Network Places Choose a virtual CD DVD disk file Look in sawe T EH ubuntu 11 04 desktop i386 File name Files of type All CD DVD ROM disk images dmg iso 01 v 3 Select the ISO file you downloaded and click OK as shown below 1 Ubuntu Settings El General Storage E System E Display G Storage Audio ubuntu 11 04 desktop i386 iso nformation Storage Tree Attributes EP Network S Serial Ports Hera 8 USB D system Ubuntu vdi Type Format Normal VDI Shared Folders Attached to Ubuntu amp IDE Controller CD DVD Drive a SATA Controller Type Size D software ubuntu 11 04 desktol elementiu IDE Primary Master v o Image 685 29 MB Contains all storage controllers for this machine and the virtual images and host drives attached to them A Non optimal settings detected OK Cancel Help 4 Click Start on the VirtualBox window the Ubuntu installation program will start as shown below Pa Ubuntu Oracle VE VirtualBox F VirtualBox Information You have the Auto capture keyboard option turned on This will 1 cause the Virtual Machine to automatically capture the keyboard every time the VM window is activated and make it unavailable to other applications running on your host mac
9. USB interface of your PC using an OTG cable and power on the board after the Angstrom Debian system startup is complete there you can find will be a drive named BEAGLEBONE shown in the My Computer window 2 Windows will shortly detect the board and begin the driver installation procedure When a pop up window is displayed as below select Install from a list or specific location Advanced and click Next Found Nevv Hardvvare V izard Welcome to the Found New Hardware Wizard This wizard helps you install software for Gadget Serial 9 If your hardware came with an installation ED or floppy disk insert it now What do you want the wizard to do Click Next to continue Figure 5 Gadget Serial Driver Installation elementiu 3 Click Browse in the following window and specify the location of the CDCAM folder in the drive BEAGLEBONE and then click Next to install the driver NOTE The drive letter shown below may change depending on configuration your system Found New Hardware Wizard Please choose your search and installation options G Search for the best driver in these locations Use the check boxes below to limit or expand the default search which includes local paths and removable media The best driver found will be installed Include this location in the search TADriverstWindowsstcifilestCOCACM w O Dont search will choose the driver to install Choose
10. VDD ADC ADC power 33 NC NC 34 NC NC 35 NC NC 36 NC NC 37 Y Y Position Input 38 Y Y Position Input 39 X X Position Input 40 X X Position Input 41 NC NC 42 NC NC 43 GND GND 44 GND GND 45 GND GND elementiu Pins Definitions Descriptions 46 GND GND 3 4 Buttons Buttons Definitions Descriptions 1 USERO Custom Button 2 USER1 Custom Button 3 USER2 Custom Button 4 USER3 Custom Button 5 BOOT Select Boot Mode 3 5 LED Indicators LEDs Definitions Descriptions 1 USERO Custom LED indicator 2 USER1 Custom LED indicator elementiu 4 Preparations The pre compiled image provided with the BB VIEW can be used for demonstration of the board However some demonstrations need to be controlled via a PC There are two methods for controlling a BeagleBone board from a PC 1 A USB to serial module such as UART8000 U 2 The built in Ethernet over USB functionality For the Ethernet over USB option there are some preparations such as installing USB over Ethernet drivers and software configuration which need to be done prior to the demonstration NOTE Q When using a BeagleBone you can skip this step and use the USB debug interface 4 1 Installing Drivers for the USB Interface 1 An Angstrom Debian system is already preprogrammed into the on board eMMC with of the BeagleBone Black Connect the BeagleBone Black to the
11. alan dia na tamat 29 6 2 Compilations of the TI SDK cuisine 29 6 2 1 Building Development Environment 29 6 2 2 Compiling UbO0t a a da 30 6 2 3 COMPILING Kernel didekati aa nan aa aa 32 6 3 System Update an an ema aa sa 33 7 Demonstration and Compilation of Angstrom 35 7 1 Demonstration of Display Function 35 7 1 1 IMAGE programming asas o ana aan 35 7 1 2 Setting up Display Modes 37 7 1 3 Button Hee edan y y aa mas baba baka 38 7 1 4 LED Tetuan atinada bata anakan katana panahan 38 7 2 Compilation of the Kernel 38 Appendix 1 Installing an Ubuntu Linux System 39 1 1 Installing VIECUAlEB O 39 1 2 Installing an Ubuntu Linux System 43 elementiu 1 Product Overview 1 1 Brief Introduction The BB Vievv is a portable LCD expansion cape vvith touchscreen capability for BeagleBone boards a credit card sized expandable Linux computer to evaluate the TI s Sitara AM335x ARM Cortex A8 processors The BB Vievv is 24 bit LCD expansion cape supplied vvith an 18 bit TFT LCD module available in two size options 4 3 amp 7 which can display up to a resolution of 480x272 4 3 LCD and 800x480 7 LCD Both have
12. under arch arm boot 6 3 System Update Format a flash drive of a TF card to FAT32 and mount it under Ubuntu Linux system and then execute the following instructions to copy the image to the flash drive of TF card let s assume the flash drive or TF card is mounted under mnt cd cp u boot 2013 01 01 psp06 00 00 00 am335x MLO mnt cp u boot 2013 01 01 psp06 00 00 00 am335x u boot img mnt cp linux 3 2 0 psp04 06 00 11 arch arm uImage mnt mkdir mnt rootfs elementiL cd linux 3 2 0 psp04 06 00 11 make ARCH arm CROSS COMPILE arm linux gnueabihf modules install INSTALL MOD PATH mnt rootfs cd mnt rootfs tar czvf kernel_modules tar gz cd mnt rm rf rootfs Is Connect the BB VIEVV to a BeagleBone or BeagleBone Black and then connect the power supply To update the image insert the flash drive into the board and execute the follovving instructions after entering the TI SDK system If a TF card is used instead of a flash drive please change the path in the instructions accordingly cp media sda1 MLO media mmcbik0pi cp media sda1 u boot img media mmcbik p1 cp media sda1 ulmage media mmcbikOp1 tar xvf media sda1 kernel modules tar gz C sync reboot elementiu 7 Demonstration and Compilation of Angstrom BB VIEW support has been added to the Angstrom operating system ready to be run on the BeagleBone Black Th
13. BB Vievv Cape Portable LCD Solution for the BeagleBone Family BY elementiu User Manual Version 3 0 Dated 26 June 2014 elementi DISCLAIMER This product is intended to be used for ENGINEERING DEVELOPMENT DEMONSTRATION OR EVALUATION PURPOSES ONLY and is not considered by element14 to be a finished end product fit for general consumer use Persons handling the product s must have electronics training and observe good engineering practice standards The goods being provided are not intended to be complete in terms of required design and or manufacturing related protective considerations including product safety and environmental measures typically found in end products that incorporate such semiconductor components or circuit boards Revision History Version Date Description 1 0 26 11 2013 Original Version 2 0 22 05 2014 Minor Updates 3 0 26 06 2014 Added support for Debian elementi Table of Contents 1 Product Overview isa 1 1 1 Brief iniroducUOf e aaz DSN EUR es 1 1 2 Conatan a malah kanak ia 2 1 2 Board IMCS CES oa ka ena 2 1 4 System Block Diagram AAA maa o ai 2 1 5 Product Dimensions MM ea 3 2 BB View Features sea 4 2 1 Hardware and Software Features 4 2 2 Operational Parameter RER RR RER RR Rn 4 3 Introduction to Interfaces 5 3 1 LCD I
14. Default Settings Load Close window on exit O Always O Never Only on clean exit Figure 9 PuTTY Configuration Click Open once configuration is complete elementiu 4 Enter the login credentials in the following window and press Enter on your keyboard Note The default password for root on the TI SDK image is temppwd On the preinstalled Debian Image root has no password 52 192 168 7 2 PuTTY 1 Figure 10 Login After logging in successfully a bash shell environment is activated All the shell instructions hereafter are typed and executed under this environment elementiu 5 Demonstration and Compilation of Debian BB VIEW support has been added to the Debian operating system ready to be run on the BeagleBone Black This chapter will introduce how to carry out demonstrations of the display function of the BeagleBone Black and BB VIEW under Debian as well as how to create a Linux development environment and compile the system elementiu FL J Figure 11 Debian on 4 3 LCD with BB Vievv Note To avoid any confusion attributed to multi line instructions each instruction has been preceded with a bullet point Please note that there are SPACES in the following instructions Missing any SPACE will lead to failure when running an application 5 1 Demonstration of Display Function 5 1 1 Image programming The preinstalled Debian image on the Beag
15. a 4 wire resistive touchscreen interface BB View has been designed with convenience in mind and extends the I O interfaces of the BeagleBone amp BeagleBone Black allowing users to utilise a touchscreen LCD module without sacrificing I O interface access BB View fits on top of the BeagleBone OR BeagleBone Black and still has full access to all the GPIOs via two 46 pin connectors It s equipped with five switches four for GPIOs amp one for Boot and two user defined LEDs The BB View draws power directly from the board BeagleBone or BeagleBone Black eliminating the need for any kind of external power supply The BB View is also supplied with a pre compiled image with Linux QT demos to help set up your BeagleBone amp BeagleBone Black board quickly and easily Figure 1 LCD Connected to BeagleBone Black via BB View elementiu 1 2 Kit Contents BB VIEW Expansion Board 4 3 LCD optional e 7 LCD optional 1 3 Board Interfaces FPC Cable e 1 ONS A Touchscreen LCD P AS Display EA wy gt LCD Connector User Switches Power Figure 2 BB View Interfaces 1 4 System Block Diagram BB View Cape 4 3 OR 7 Touchscreen LCD Module BeagleBone Figure 3 BB View System Block Diagram elementiL 1 5 Product Dimensions mm 69 04mm r
16. ae 66 62mm J G 2 a 3 3 3 E z BB VIEW Hek USER LED Expansion Cape for BeagkeQone Fanny E k m CEJA UsER2 2 4 5 VS HFH elementu DS Em USER sea Sent 14 00m 5 E CES mr Fe y CE i MO un REM I Len 5 i 3 2 OQOQOQOQ QOQ Figure 4 BB View Dimensions elementiu 2 BB View Features 2 1 Hardware and Software Features A 24 bit compatible LCD expansion cape for the BeagleBone family 4 wire 18 bit resistive touchscreen LCD modules o 4 3 LCD 480x272 resolution o 7 LCD 800x480 resolution Five switches four for GPIOs amp one for BOOT Tvvo user defined LEDs Full access to all the GPIOs via two 46 pin connectors besides those already used by the BB Vievv Powered directly from BeagleBone boards no external power supply required Provided with pre compiled BSP image with QT Demo to help setup the BeagleBone board quickly and easily Works with BeagleBone amp BeagleBone Black Supporting TISDK and Angstrom image Drivers and driver source code are provided along with BB View 2 2 Operational Parameters Dimensions 69 04mm x 54 61mm Operating Humidity 20 90 Power Supply 5V provided by BeagleBone board PCB Layers 4 elementiu 3 Introduction to Interfaces The BB VIEW expansion cape has an LCD connector LCD and two 46 position dual row connectors 21 and 12 that are used as the extended I O in
17. ata bit 15 33 LCD DATA13 LCD Pixel data bit13 34 LCD DATA11 LCD Pixel data bit 11 elementiu Pins Definitions Descriptions 35 LCD_DATA12 LCD Pixel data bit 12 36 LCD DATA10 LCD Pixel data bit 10 37 LCD DATA8 LCD Pixel data bit 8 38 LCD DATA9 LCD Pixel data bit 9 39 LCD DATA6 LCD Pixel data bit 6 40 LCD DATA7 LCD Pixel data bit 7 41 LCD DATA4 LCD Pixel data bit 4 42 LCD DATA5 LCD Pixel data bit 5 43 LCD DATA2 LCD Pixel data bit 2 44 LCD DATA3 LCD Pixel data bit 3 45 LCD DATAO LCD Pixel data bit 0 46 LCD DATA1 LCD Pixel data bit 1 3 3 Extended I O Interface J2 Pins Definitions Descriptions 1 GND GND 2 GND GND 3 VDD 3V3B 3 3V 4 VDD 3V3B 3 3V 5 VDD5V 5V elementiL Pins Definitions Descriptions 6 SYS5V 5V 7 SYS5V 5V 8 SYS5V 5V 9 NC NC 10 SYS RESETn Reset 11 USER3 GPIO 12 LEDO GPIO 13 NC NC 14 PWM Power on enable 15 NC NC 16 USERO GPIO 17 I2C1 SCL IIC master serial clock 18 I2C1 SDA IIC serial bidirectional data 19 NC NC 20 LED1 GPIO 21 NC NC 22 NC NC 23 USER2 GPIO 24 USER1 GPIO 25 NC NC elementiL Pins Definitions Descriptions 26 NC NC 27 NC NC 28 SPI1 CSO SPI enable 0 29 SPI1 DO SPI data 0 30 SPI1 D1 SPI data 1 31 SPI1 SCLK SPI Clock 32
18. ded with the BB View have different styles of FPC These are not cross compatible and using the wrong FPC will result in apparent failure of the module elementiu 6 1 5 Demonstration of Temperature Control Temperature control is one of the typical applications included in the TI SDK system The following instructions show how to run this application 1 Click Qt4 icon on the desktop of TI SDK system as shown below Matrix App Launcher v2 pl Profiling Browser 570 Bluetooth Power Figure 13 Run QT4 2 Click Thermostat Demo in the following interface Qt4 Submenu p1 Playground Animated Tiles Thermostat Deform Demo Figure 14 Select Thermostat Demo 3 Click the RUN button in the following interface elementiL Thermostat Demo hermostat Demo his example demonstrates a simple GUI to implement thermostat feature In order to receive current weather conditions and forecast data the EVM must be connected to the internet Proxy settings can be configured under the Network tab of the Settings page within the application If no connection is present sample data will be generated o use the remote configuration feature of this application use a web browser and type in the address of the EVM followed by port 8081 i e lxxx xxx xxx xxx 8081 to access the temperature control and weather Figure 15 Run Thermostat Demo 4 The interface of the temperature control application is shovvn belovv S
19. hanghai China Mon 23 25 Tue 23 26 Wed 24 24 Update Failed 48kW Tue Jun 25 Figure 16 Temperature Control Application 6 1 6 Button Test Execute the following instruction in the terminal and then press the custom buttons USERO USER3 You can see changes correspondingly in the output of the program root am335x evm hexdump C v dev input eventi elementiu 6 1 7 LED Test Enter the following into the terminal 1 Turn off LEDO root am335x evm echo 0 gt sys class leds LEDO brightness 2 Turn on LEDO root am335x evm echo 1 gt sys class leds LEDO brightness 3 Turn off LED1 root am335x evm echo 0 gt sys class leds LED1 brightness 4 Turn on LED root am335x evm echo 1 gt sys class leds LED1 brightness 6 2 Compilations of the TI SDK BeagleBone and BeagleBone Black share the same source code package for the TI SDK system and therefore the compilation and image updating processes are the same for both boards 6 2 1 Building Development Environment Before getting started with system compilation you must first build a Linux development environment For installation of a Linux system please refer to 7Appendix 1 1 Download BB VIEW TI SDK source code ti sdk source zip from http www element14 com BeagleBone To the HOME directory 2 Execute the following instructions to install the development environmen
20. he driver to install Choose this option to select the device driver from a list Windows does not guarantee that the driver pou choose will be the best match for pour hardware Figure 8 Driver Location elementiu 4 2 Setting Up a Terminal Application There are several terminal applications available however we recommend using PuTTY PuTTY is a virtual terminal which can receive and display the working information of the BB VIEW after entering the system It needs to be configured on your PC before it can communicate with the BB VIEW The following steps detail the configuration procedure 1 Download the utility tools pack from www element14 com BeagleBone 2 Unzip the archive you downloaded tools zip and subsequently unzip the putty zip archive contained within 3 Run putty exe found within the uncompressed folder to open the PuTTY Configuration window and configure it as shown below iX PuTTY Configuration Category Session Basic options for your PuTTY session Logging Specify the destination you want to connect to Terminal Host Name for IP address Keyboard Bell 1192 168 7 2 Features Connection type Window O Telnet O Rlogin G 55 Serial Appearance Behaviour Translation Saved Sessions Load save or delete a stored session Selection Colours Connection Data Proxy Telnet Rlogin SSH Serial Save Delete
21. hine when the keyboard is captured all keystrokes including system ones like Alt Tab will be directed to the YM You can press the host key at any time to uncapture the keyboard and mouse if it is captured and return them to normal operation The currently assigned host key iz shovn on the status bar at the bottom of the Virtual Machine window next to the icon This icon together with the mouse icon placed nearby indicate the current keyboard and mouse capture state The host key is currently defined as Right Ctrl gt E Right Ctrl 5 Some prompt windows will pop up during the initiation process You just need only click OK all the way to the end of the process 6 Click Install Ubuntu to start installation when the following window appears elementiu Asturianu Bahasa Indonesia e Bosanski Catala e tina Dansk a Esperanto Euskara Try Ubuntu Install Ubuntu Fran ais Gaellge You can try Ubuntu withaut making any changes ta your computer directly Galego from this CD Hrvatski Or if you re ready you c n install Ubuntu alongside or instead of your Islenska current operating system This shouldn t take too long italiano Kurdi You may wish to read the release notes 7 Click Forward to continue the process Install Preparing to install Ubu For best results please ensure that this computer a has at least 4 4 GB available drive space y is plugged in t
22. ions to recalibrate in putty root beaglebone rm etc pointercal root beaglebone sync and then reboot the board BE The 4 3 and 7 LCD screens provided with the BB View have different styles of FPC These are not cross compatible and using the wrong FPC will result in apparent failure of the module elementiL 7 1 3 Button Test Execute the following instruction and then press the custom buttons USERO USER3 You can see corresponding changes in the output of the program root beaglebone hexdump C v dev input event2 7 1 4 LED Test 1 Turn off LEDO root beaglebone echo gt sys class leds bb vievvX led0 brightn ess 2 Turn on LEDO root beaglebone echo 1 gt sys class leds bb vievvX led0 brightn ess 3 Turn off LED1 root beaglebone echo gt sys class leds bb vievvX led1 brightn ess 4 Turn on LED1 root beaglebone echo 1 gt sys class leds bb vievvX led1 brightn ess 7 2 Compilation of the Kernel The BB View Angstrom Source Code angstrom source zip has been modified to support the BB VIEW It can be downloaded from http www element14 com BeagleBone Please refer to the BeagleBone Black User Manual for the details regarding kernel compilation and updating elementiu Appendix 1 Installing an Ubuntu Linux System An appropriate development environment is required for software development The CD included
23. is chapter will introduce how to carry out demonstrations of the display function of the BeagleBone Black and BB VIEW under Angstrom as well as how to create a Linux development environment and compile the system Note BE To avoid any confusion attributed to multi line instructions each instruction has been preceded with a bullet point LA Please note that there are SPACES in the following instructions Missing any SPACE will lead to failure when running an application 7 1 Demonstration of Display Function 7 1 1 Image programming The preinstalled Angstrom image on some BeagleBone boards does not have support for the BB VIEW This can be easily remedied by simply patching the old Angstrom system in the eMMC The following steps show the update process using a USB flash drive 1 Download the BB View Angstrom Patch files and the utility tools pack from http www element14 com BeagleBone 2 Uncompress both of the archives 3 Use the HP USB formatting tool HPUSBFW exe from the utility tools pack to format a USB flash drive 4 Copy all the patch files to the USB flash drive elementiu 5 Make sure that an Angstrom system currently exists in the BeagleBone Black eMMC 6 Connect the USB flash drive to the BeagleBone Black and power it on 7 Execute the follovving instructions in a terminal program such as PuTTY to mount the USB flash drive mkdir media udisk m
24. l disk 8GB at least and then click Next p Create New Virtual Disk Virtual Disk Location and Size Press the Select button to select the location of a file to store the hard disk data or type a file name in the entry field Location F Mbuntu Ubuntu vdi 1 a Select the size of the virtual hard disk in megabytes This size will be reported to the Guest OS as the maximum size of this hard disk Size Y swe 2 00 TB 13 Click Finish in the following window p Create New Virtual Disk Summary You are going to create a new virtual hard disk with the following parameters Type Fixed size storage Location G 1Ubuntu system Ubuntu vdi Size 8 00 GB 6589934592 B If the above settings are correct press the Finish button Once you press it a new hard disk will be created 14 Your PC will then create a new virtual disk 7 Oracle VE VirtualBox Manager elementiu E Details E Snapshots Summary You are going to create a new virtual hard disk with the following parameters Creating fixed medium storage unit G 1Ubuntu systemiUbuntu Creating fixed medium storage unit G Vbuntu system Wbuntu vdi 1 minute 56 seconds remaining Audio Host Driver Windows DirectSound Controller ICH AC T 15 A window with summary of the newly created virtual machine will be shown as below when the creation process is done Please click Finish to complete the whole process
25. leBone Black does not have support for the BB VIEW This can be easily remedied by simply patching the elementiu old Debian system in the eMMC The following steps show the update process using a USB flash drive 1 Download the Debian patch files and the utility tools pack from http www element14 com BeagleBone 2 Uncompress both of the archives 3 Use the HP USB formatting tool HPUSBFVV exe from the utility tools pack to format a USB flash drive 4 Copy all the patch files to the USB flash drive 5 Ensure that a Debian system currently exists in the BeagleBone Black eMMC 6 Connect the USB flash drive to the BeagleBone Black and povver it on 7 Execute the follovving instructions in a terminal program such as PuTTY to mount the flash drive mkdir media udisk mount dev sdal media udisk 8 Execute the following instructions to patch the image cp f media udisk zImage boot uboot cp f media udisk dtb boot uboot dtbs tar xvf media udisk kernel_modules tar gzvcd C cp f media udisk xorg conf etc X11 sync 9 Power off the board and connect BeagleBone Black BB VIEW and an LCD display and then povver it on again elementiu 5 1 2 Setting up Display Modes 1 The following instructions are executed in PuTTY for the use of 4 3 LCD displays root beaglebone cd boot uboot dtbs root beaglebone cp am335x boneblack icd4 dtb am335x b
26. m http www element14 com BeagleBone It can be used as an alternative and compiled directly without need to apply the patch This section will introduce two kernel compilation processes Compiling kernel from TI 1 Copy linux 3 2 0 psp04 06 00 11 bb view patch from HOME to HOME ti sdk am335x evm 06 00 00 00 board support 2 Execute the following instructions to install patch and then compile the TI SDK kernel cd ti sdk am335x evm 06 00 00 00 board support linux 3 2 0 psp04 06 00 11 patch p0 lt linux 3 2 0 psp04 06 00 11 bb vievv patch make ARCH arm CROSS COMPILE arm linux gnueabihf distclean make ARCH arm CROSS COMPILE arm linux gnueabihf am335x evm defconfig make ARCH arm CROSS COMPILE arm linux gnueabihf ulmage modules elementiu A kernel file with LCD support named ulmage is generated under arch arm boot Compiling Kernel from element14 Execute the follovving instructions to unzip the source code and compile the kernel image cd ti sdk am335x evm 06 00 00 00 board support linux 3 2 0 psp04 06 00 11 patch p0 lt linux 3 2 0 psp04 06 00 11 bb vievv patch make ARCH arm CROSS COMPILE arm linux gnueabihf distclean make ARCH arm CROSS COMPILE arm linux gnueabihf am335x evm defconfig make ARCH arm CROSS COMPILE arm linux gnueabihf ulmage modules A kernel file vvith LCD support named ulmage is generated
27. nterface LCD Lamar 5 3 2 Extended I O Interface Wisin asa 8 3 3 Extended I O Interface 10 3 4 BUtTONS pe a ss E ooh 13 3 5 LED INICIE i k s sia sis k nas kissa siais a i 13 a ERA ARAR Yana 14 4 1 Installing Drivers for the USB Tnterface 14 4 2 Setting Up a Terminal Application 17 5 Demonstration and Compilation of Debian 19 5 1 Demonstration of Display Function 19 5 1 1 Image programming 19 5 1 2 Setting up Display 21 5 13 Button Testi D al bala a teens 22 elementi SL LED a EEE kita daaa yaaa aaa duya SSS bana ban 22 5 2 Compilation of the Kernel 23 6 Demonstration and Compilation of the TI SDK 24 6 1 Demonstration of the Display Function 24 6 1 1 Image Programming on BeagleBone Black 24 6 1 2 Image Programming on BeagleBone 25 6 1 3 Setting Up Display Modes 4 3 25 6 1 4 Setting Up Display Modes TZ cocoo akan 26 6 1 5 Demonstration of Temperature Control 27 6 1 6 Button Testi a 28 6 1 7 LED Testi ninia
28. o a power source 32 is connected to the internet Download updates while installing Ubuntu uses third party software to display Flash MP3 and other media and to work with some wireless hardware Some of this software is dosed source The software is subject to the license terms included with the software s documentation Install this third party software Fluendo MP3 plugin includes MPEG Layer 3 audio decoding technology licensed from Fraunhofer 15 and Thomson 8 Select Erase disk and install Ubuntu and click Forward elementiu Install Allocate drive space This computer currently has no detected operating systems What would you like to do Erase disk and install Ubuntu Warning amp Something else Quit Back Forward Note 23 Selecting this option will only affect the virtual hard drive you created earlier and will not lead to any content loss on your hard drive 9 Click Install Now in the following window to start installation Install Erase disk and install Ubuntu Select drive SCS13 0 0 0 sda 8 6 GB ATA VBOX HARDDISK Ubuntu dev sda ext4 8 6 GB The entire disk will be used Quit Back Install Now 10 Some simple questions need to be answered during the installation process Please enter appropriate information and click Forward The following window is the last question that will appear during the process elementi Wout ramo
29. oneblac k dtb root beaglebone sync Novv restart the board to complete the configuration for the 4 3 LCD display 2 The follovving instructions are executed in putty for use of 7 LCD displays root beaglebone cd boot uboot dtbs root beaglebone cp am335x boneblack Icd7 dtb am335x boneblack dtb root beaglebone sync Now restart the board to finish the demonstration with a 7 LCD display Note Q If you have calibrated the touch screen after you change the display mode you must execute the following instructions to recalibrate in putty root beaglebone rm etc pointercal root beaglebone sync and then reboot the board LA The 4 3 and 7 LCD screens provided with the BB View have different styles of FPC These are not cross compatible and using the wrong FPC will result in apparent failure of the module elementiu Figure 12 Calibration Screen 5 1 3 Button Test Execute the following instruction and then press the custom buttons USERO USER3 You can see corresponding changes in the output of the program root beaglebone hexdump C v dev input event2 5 1 4 LED Test 1 Turn off LEDO root beaglebone echo sys class leds bb vievvX led0 brightn ess 2 Turn on LEDO root beaglebone echo 1 gt sys class leds bb vievvX led0 brightn ess 3 Turn off LED1 33 sys class leds bb vievvX led1 brightness 4 Turn on LED1 elementiu ro
30. ot beaglebone echo 15 sys class leds bb vievvX led1 brightness 5 2 Compilation of the Kernel The kernel source code is named bb black kernel 3 8 13 bb vievv tar bz2 and has been modified to support the BB VIEW It can be downloaded from O http www element14 com BeagleBone Please refer to the BeagleBone Black User Manual for the details regarding kernel compilation and updating elementiu 6 Demonstration and Compilation of the TI SDK BB VIEW support has been built in to the TI SDK systems running on both the BeagleBone and the BeagleBone Black This chapter will introduce how to carry out demonstrations of the display function of the BeagleBone Black and BB VIEW using the TI SDK as well as how to create a Linux development environment and compile the system Note BE To avoid any confusion attributed to multi line instructions each instruction has been preceded with a bullet point Kd Please note that there are SPACES in the following instructions Missing any SPACE will lead to failure when running an application 6 1 Demonstration of the Display Function For the demonstration we will use a TI SDK system image provided on the element14 website This requires programming the image into the BeagleBone or BeagleBone Black first 6 1 1 Image Programming on BeagleBone Black 1 Download the BB View TI SDK Image File ti sdk image zip and the utility tools pack tools zip from
31. ount 4 54 1 media udisk 8 Execute the follovving instructions to patch the image and then restart the system cp f media udisk ulmage boot cp f media udisk dtb boot tar xvf media udisk kernel modules tar gz C opkg install media udisk xf86 input tslib 0 0 6 r17 1 armv7a vf p neon ipk cp media udisk 50 tslib conf usr share X11 xorg conf d sync 9 Modify the display width by entering the Angstrom system and then modifying the DefaultDepth value of etc X11 xorg conf DefaultDepth 16 To DefaultDepth 24 10 Povver off the board and connect the BeagleBone Black BB VTEVV and an LCD display and then power it on again elementiu 7 1 2 Setting up Display Modes The following instructions are executed in PuTTY for the use of 4 3 LCD displays root beaglebone cd boot root beaglebone cp am335x boneblack icd4 dtb am335x boneblac k dtb root beaglebone sync Novv restart the board to complete the configuration for the 4 3 LCD display The follovving instructions are executed in PuTTY for use of 7 LCD displays root beaglebone cd boot root beaglebone cp am335x boneblack icd7 dtb am335x boneblac k dtb root beaglebone sync Novv restart the board to complete the configuration for the 7 LCD display Note BE Ifyou have calibrated the touch screen after you change the display mode you must execute the follovving instruct
32. t s cd HOME elementiu ti sdk am335x evm 06 00 00 00 Linux x86 Install mode console 3 Follow the on screen prompts to finish the installation the file ti sdk am335x evm 06 00 00 00 vvill novv be in the HOME directory 4 Execute the following command to install mkimage sudo apt get install uboot mkimage 5 Execute the following instruction to define a temporary environment variable for the compiler in the Ubuntu system export PATH HOME ti sdk am335x evm 06 00 00 00 linux devki t sysroots i686 arago linux usr bin PATH Note The instruction used to define environment variables can be added into bashrc in the HOME directory so that the system can create the variable automatically when booting up To view the path of the compiler type echo PATH into the terminal Now the development environment has been created successfully 6 2 2 Compiling Uboot The SDK provided officially by TI needs to be patched in order to support BB VIEW A Linux kernel has been patched and is available in the BB VIEW TI SDK source code ti sdk source zip from http www element14 com BeagleBone It can be used as an alternative and compiled directly without need to apply the patch This section will introduce two uboot compilation processes Compiling uboot from TI 1 Copy u boot 2013 01 01 psp06 00 00 00 bb view patch to HOME ti sdk am335x evm 06 00 00 00 board support
33. terfaces of the connected BeagleBone Black or BeagleBone This chapter contains pin definitions for these connectors BB VIEW LOD Expansion Cape tor Beagiefione Ferry Hn elementu S eye Ohare Boe a Figure 1 1 Components on BB VIEW 3 1 LCD Interface LCD Pins Definitions Descriptions 1 BO LCD Pixel data bit 23 2 B1 LCD Pixel data bit 20 3 B2 LCD Pixel data bit 17 4 B3 LCD Pixel data bit 11 5 B4 LCD Pixel data bit 12 6 B5 LCD Pixel data bit 13 7 B6 LCD Pixel data bit 14 elementiu Pins Definitions Descriptions 8 B7 LCD Pixel data bit 15 9 GND GND 10 GO LCD Pixel data bit 22 11 G1 LCD Pixel data bit 19 12 G2 LCD Pixel data bit 5 13 G3 LCD Pixel data bit 6 14 G4 LCD Pixel data bit 7 15 G5 LCD Pixel data bit 8 16 G6 LCD Pixel data bit 9 17 G7 LCD Pixel data bit 10 18 GND GND 19 RO LCD Pixel data bit 21 20 R1 LCD Pixel data bit 18 21 R2 LCD Pixel data bit 16 22 R3 LCD Pixel data bit 0 23 R4 LCD Pixel data bit 1 24 R5 LCD Pixel data bit 2 25 R6 LCD Pixel data bit 3 26 R7 LCD Pixel data bit 4 27 GND GND elementiu Pins Definitions Descriptions AC bias control STN or pixel data enable 28 DEN TFT 29 HSYNC LCD Horizontal Synchronization 30 VSYNC LCD Vertical Synchronization 31 GND GND 32 CLK LCD Pixel Clock
34. this option to select the device driver from a list Windows does not guarantee that the driver you choose will be the best match for your hardware Figure 6 Driver Location elementiu 4 Windows will shortly detect and begin the installation of the Ethernet over USB functionality Select Install from a list or specific location Advanced and click Next again when on the following window shows up to install the Ethernet over USB driver Found New Hardware Wizard Welcome to the Found New Hardware Wizard This wizard helps you install software for Linux USB Ethernet RNDIS Gadget If your hardware came with an installation CD or floppy disk insert it now What do you want the wizard to do 2 Click Next to continue Bacl Cancel Figure 7 Ethernet over USB Driver Installation 5 Click Browse in the following window to specify the location of RNDIS folder in the drive BEAGLEBONE and then click Next NOTE The drive letter shown below may vary depending on your system configuration Found New Hardware Wizard Please choose your search and installation options Search for the best driver in these locations Use the check boxes below to limit or expand the default search which includes local paths and removable media The best driver found will be installed E V Include this location in the search L Drivers Windows src files RNDIS Dont search will choose t
35. with product contains a development environment which needs to be installed under a Linux environment If you are working on a PC running Windows you have to create a Linux system first and then you can install the environment An easy method for achieving this is to use virtual machine software such as VirtualBox to install Ubuntu Linux on an emulated virtual PC The following sections will introduce the installation processes of VirtualBox and an Ubuntu system 1 1 Installing VirtualBox You can access http www virtualbox org wiki Downloads to download the latest version of VirtualBox At the time of writing VirtualBox requires a minimum of 512MB of RAM to run however 1GB is recommended The installation process is simple Start VirtualBox from the Start menu of Windows and then click New in the VirtualBox window A pop up window titled Create New Virtual Machine will be shown as below Oracle VE VirtualBox Manager Welcome to the New Virtual Machine Wizard V This wizard will guide you through the steps that are necessary to create a virtual machine for VirtualBox e You can also press Cancel if you s wizard 5 Click Next to create a new virtual machine elementiu 6 Enter a name for the new virtual machine and select the operating system type as shown below p Create New Virtual Machine VH Name and OS Type OW Enter a name for the new virtual machine and select the type of the guest operating s
36. ystem you plan to install onto the virtual machine The name of the virtual machine usually indicates its software and hardware configuration It will be used by all VirtualBox components to identify your virtual machine Name Ubuntu S Type Operating System Linux vi DA Version Ubuntu vi 7 Entera name in the Name field e g Ubuntu and select Linux in the Operating System drop down menu and then click next 8 Allocate memory to the virtual machine and then click Next Y Create New Virtual Machine Memory Wr Select the amount of base memory RAM in megabytes to be allocated to the virtual machine The recommended base memory size is 512 MB Base Memory Size lt Back Next gt Cancel Note 2 If your PC has 1GB of RAM or lower keep the default setting BE If your PC more than 1GB of RAM you can allocate up to 1 4 to the virtual machine for example 512MB out of 2GB memory could be allocated to virtual machine elementiu 9 If this is the first time you have installed VirtualBox you need to select Create new hard disk in the following window and then click Next Y Create New Virtual Machine Virtual Hard Disk Select a virtual hard disk to be used as the boot hard disk of the virtual machine You can either create a new hard disk or select an existing one from the drop down list or by pressing corresponding button to invoke file open window
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