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Mastering Embedded Linux Programming - Third Edition
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Mastering Embedded Linux Programming - Third Edition

by Frank Vasquez, Chris Simmonds
May 2021
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
758 pages
16h 17m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 12: Prototyping with Breakout Boards

Custom board bring-up is what embedded Linux engineers are called on to do time and time again. A consumer electronics manufacturer wants to build a new device and, more often than not, that device needs to run Linux. The process of assembling the Linux image typically starts before the hardware is ready, and is done using prototypes that are wired together from development and breakout boards. Peripheral I/O pins need to be muxed into device tree bindings for working communications. Only then can the task of coding middleware for an application begin.

Our goal in this chapter is to add a u-blox GPS module to the BeagleBone Black. This requires reading schematics and data sheets so that necessary ...

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