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Mastering Embedded Linux Development - Fourth Edition
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Mastering Embedded Linux Development - Fourth Edition

by Frank Vasquez, Chris Simmonds
May 2025
Intermediate to advanced
710 pages
16h 33m
English
Packt Publishing
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Prototyping with Add-On Boards

Custom board bring-up is what embedded Linux engineers are called on to do time and time again. Say a consumer electronics manufacturer wants to build a new device and that device needs to run Linux. The process of assembling the Linux image starts before the hardware is ready and is done with prototypes pieced together from SBCs and add-on boards. Once a proof of concept has been validated then an initial run of prototype PCBs is fabricated with peripherals on board. There is no more satisfying experience than seeing a custom board boot into Linux for the very first time.

The BeaglePlay is unique among SBCs in that it has a mikroBUS socket for quick plug and play peripheral expansion. There is a MikroE Click ...

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