Projects

U-Boot

A boot loader for Embedded boards based on PowerPC, ARM, MIPS and other processors, which can be installed in a boot ROM and used to initialize and test the hardware or to download and run application code. The development of U-Boot is closely related to Linux: some parts of the source code ... [More] originate in the Linux source tree, we have some header files in common, and special provision has been made to support booting of Linux images. Some attention has been paid to make this software easily configurable and extendable. For instance, all monitor commands are implemented with the same call interface, so that it's very easy to add new commands. Also, instead of permanently adding rarely used code (for instance hardware test utilities) to the monitor, you can load and run it dynamically. [Less]

uClinux-dist (ADI Blackfin distribution)

µClinux is a Linux distribution like any other Linux distribution, focused on embedded projects, built from the Linux kernel from kernel.org and assorted other packages, and software from the GNU project. Since µClinux is optimized for size, it uses more compact alternatives (busybox, µclibc ... [More] , etc) than a non-embedded distribution. Pronounced "you-see-linux", the name µClinux comes from combining the greek letter "mu" and the english capital "C". "µ" stands for "micro", and the "C" is for "controller". µClinux supports embedded processors which support MMU (protection and virtual memory support), noMMU (no protection, no virtual memory) and MPU (memory protection, but no virtual memory support). The µClinux-dist includes userspace apps & libs, toolchain, c library, kernel and Bootloader. [Less]

The Barebox Bootloader

Barebox (formerly known as u-boot-v2) is a bootloader that inherits the best of U-Boot and the Linux kernel: The size and look-and-feel of u-boot, with driver model and lots of design concepts from the Linux kernel.

skyeye

SkyEye is an Open Source Simulator, which simulates series ARM architecture based microprocessors,coldfire,mips,powerpc and Blackfin DSP Processor. Users can run Operating Systems such as Linux, uCLinux, RTEMS etc. and can analyze or debug in source level. Our discussion group at: ... [More] http://groups.google.com/group/skyeye-simulator ISS group development activities at: http://code.google.com/p/skyeye/wiki/IssDevLog [Less]

acb08

Trying to prototype a channel bank using a blackfin based board.

surveyor-srv1-firmware

This site hosts source code to build the latest version of "srv1.ldr" firmware for Surveyor SRV-1 Blackfin camera and robot as well as the SVS stereo vision system. Also hosted here in the blackfin/console/ subdirectory is latest SRV1Console.java, SRV1Test.java, and stereo.c (SVS) ... [More] console source code Forum discussions on Surveyor firmware source code are found here - http://www.surveyor.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?board=srv1sw Links to GNU bfin-elf-gcc compiler toolchain used to build firmware images can be found here - http://www.surveyor.com/blackfin/#blackfin4 Product information - SRV-1 Blackfin Camera - http://www.surveyor.com/index_blackfin.html SVS (stereo vision system) - http://www.surveyor.com/stereo/ SRV-1 Blackfin Robot - http://www.surveyor.com/SRV.html YARB Robotic Blimp - http://www.surveyor.com/YARB.html Surveyor Robotics Journal - http://www.surveyor.com/cgi-bin/robot_journal.cgi Online product orders - http://surveyor-corporation.stores.yahoo.net/ [Less]

srv1console

This is the Android G1 phone console for Surveyor SRV-1 and Macpod Forknife2 robots Information on the SRV-1 robot controller is found here - SRV-1 Blackfin Camera board SRV-1 Blackfin Robot YARB Robotic Blimp Forknife2 Robot Information on the SRV-1 control protocol supported by the ... [More] Android robot console is found here - SRV_protocol Forum discussion of the Android-based robot console is found here - Surveyor Robot Forum Some videos ... Forknife2 robot prototype SRV-1 robot robotic blimp [Less]

jpeg2000

ABSTRACT CECÍLIO, Pablo Lira. A solution for image capture, compression and transmission by using jpeg2000 in an embedded system. 2009. 61f. Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso (Graduação) – Faculdade de Engenharia de Computação, Centro de Ciências Exatas, Ambientais e de Tecnologias ... [More] , Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas, Campinas, 2009. The size of the image handled by a program affects its performance directly: the larger the image, the lower the performance in the same hardware. The system approached by the present monograph is run in an embedded Analog Devices system, which captures, compresses, and sends images to a PC through a connection under the Zigbee protocol. As the wireless transmission of Xbee devices is very slow, the objective of this system is to decrease the time of image transmission through image compression before their transmission takes place. The system was developed in two main modules: the former is run in the embedded system and written in C/C++ and Assembly; the latter is run in a PC and written in C# and SQL. The system that is run in the embedded system captures images through a CDD camera. Next, it compresses them in the JPEG2000 format (whose features are compression speed and small use of computer resources) and sends them through the Zigbee connection (used in the market by several low-cost devices, in addition to being a high scalability protocol). Prototyping was the methodology in use for the development of such system. The system evaluation showed that in spite of images being frequently corrupted during the transmission, a significant decrease of ten seconds in transfer speed was attained because of the compression. Indexing terms: Image compression. Wireless information transfer. Embedded system. Image storage in database. see more details at http://code.google.com/p/jpeg2000/source/browse/trunk/TCC/entregas/TCC2/Monografia_final.pdf The source code is available at: http://code.google.com/p/jpeg2000/source/browse/trunk/TCC/ This project will use - jpeg2000 for image encoding - NSC/PAL analogic camera for image capture - Ez-kitLite evaluation board with bf533 processor as main board for image processing and image transmission - Xbee for image transmission working in 115200bps [Less]

c-boot

This is a project used for study and research.

polycam

The PolyCam project aims to provide an open, powerful alternative to the CMUcam or AVRcam. It is based on a Blackfin/uClinux architecture. All software and hardware design source files are open source and built using free development tools (caveat: the board is currently done in PCAD, but may be ... [More] converted to Eagle or gEDA in a later revision of the board. The PolyCam should complement the PolyBot Board and other robot control boards. [Less]