Hello,
Can you help lead me in the right direction. I need to do a UART communication project on my Beaglebone black for school. It has to be written all in ARM assembly language (no C, no bonescript, and no linux command lines). I mention this because most projects seem to include anything, but assembly language.
I was looking at http://www.adafruit.com/products/364 (PN532 NFC/RFID controller breakout board) and http://www.adafruit.com/products/1946 (Adafruit FONA - Mini Cellular GSM Breakout uFL Version) as options. I did see that the mini-cellular is currently out of stock. Any idea when the cellular might be back in stock? Would either of these be decent items for a project to interface and communicate with, without too much scope? I only ask because I am new to BBB and I really have no clue how difficult it would be to communicate with either of these products.
I'm not sure exactly what I want the project to do yet, but maybe when I push a button (connected to a GPIO pin) the board will then program a RFID item with certain content, but if I press another button the board will then program a RFID item with other content. Or something similar with sending messages on the mini cellular kit.
Any insight would be helpful. BTW, I have some exposure modifying the .gel file and performing interrupt functions on GPIO pins with ARM assembly code.
Thanks,
Jeff
P.S. I am running a Beaglebone black, rev B with Angstrom. Using CCS 5.X and a JTAG emulator from TI XDS100V2
Black - UART project
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- adafruit_support_mike
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Re: Black - UART project
If your project has to be written in assembler, you probably don't want to use NFC.. it takes a whole library (libnfc) to handle the signals and formatting.
It would be easier to manage communication with a GPS module. Those also communicate through a UART, and the signals are plain text.
It would be easier to manage communication with a GPS module. Those also communicate through a UART, and the signals are plain text.
- jstampfl
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Re: Black - UART project
I would recommend the Adafruit "Ultimate GPS". It comes up sending well formated ASCII data with no configuration needed. Makes a UART project much easier. Can also accept ASCII command sequences.
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Re: Black - UART project
Another good suggestion. Thank you.
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