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A Free Event for All Attendees to the Embedded Systems Show

Build Your Own Embedded System

1st October, 2008

09.45 - 16.45

Delegates of the ESS’08 Embedded Systems Developer Conference will be eligible to receive a complete development kit that's theirs to keep after the show.

This program ties directly in the conference's "Learn Today, Design Tomorrow" mantra. In fact, it goes one step further, into learn today, design today. Now, designers will leave the conference with a kit that's already configured (both hardware and software) and mostly debugged. It takes all the guesswork out of the design.

The kit attendees will be offered is the Beagleboard, which can be seen online at www.beagleboard.org

A BeagleBoard Hands-On Class runs only on Wednesday, 1^st October and is open to all attendees, including those who have not received the kits.

This highly integrated platform is based on an ARM-based microprocessor, the OMAP 3530 from Texas Instruments. It's bundled with a version of Linux from MontaVista.

This course will give you all of the hardware, boot, and kernel basics that you need to get started with development on your Beagle Board. A bit of Linux experience is strongly desired before attending this class, but is not strictly required. The student will be walked through the motivations behind the architecture of the Beagle Board, how to engage with the Beagle Board developer community, and how to obtain and utilized the source code projects most fundamental to the board functionality.                         

The key takeaways from this class are:

   1. How to boot a Beagle
   2. How to verify the Beagle Board's functionality
   3. How to interact via a command line interface

At the end of the course, students will be able to get all their questions answered, as the class will turn into an open interactive forum, whereby the instructors will help students on an individual basis.

Applications to be discussed in the final sessions may cover but are not limited to:

   1. Implementing a Web-based user interface
   2. Creating a USB Gadget (with Suspend/Resume)
   3. Using the OMAP DSP as a Linux co-processor
   4. Controlling a DC brushless motor
   5. Software Defined Radio
   6. Teaching Software with Sugar and Block Diagrams
   7. Running Android

NB:

Maximum of 50 Kits Available. Allocation is First Come, First Served

Delegates must sign up for the technical conference to be eligible for a BeagleBoard, and should register using the using the Promo Code - TSWW.

Training workshop runs only on Wednesday, 1^st October.

To go straight to the Conference Registration form, click here.