BeagleBone Black Support from MATLAB
Acquire sensor and image data from your connected BeagleBone Black using MATLAB.
- BeagleBone Black Support from MATLAB
- BeagleBone Black Support from Embedded Coder
Check the System Requirements
To install a hardware support package, you must have a supported product release, along with the required operating system and base product.
View the hardware support package system requirements table and confirm you have:
- A supported release
- A supported operating system
- The required base products
If you do not have a supported release or the required base products, you can get started with a free trial, or you can purchase products.
Continue with the Installation
After confirming you have the system requirements, proceed with either installation option listed below.
Option 1: Using the Toolstrip
Launch the Support Package Installer from your version of MATLAB and navigate to the correct support package.
Option 2: "Get Support Package" Button (.mlpkginstall file*)
Clicking the Get Support Package button provides the support package install file:
([filename].mlpkginstall)
There are several ways to initiate the Support Package Installer from these files:
- Open the
.mlpkginstallfile directly from your Internet browser. - Download and save the file (the default option for some Internet browsers), and open it directly from your Windows, Mac, or Linux operating system.
- Open the
.mlpkginstallfile directly from within MATLAB by navigating the Current Folder to the location of the downloaded file and double clicking it. That will initiate the installation for the MATLAB release that you have open.
The primary difference between using the .mlpkginstall file (option 2) rather than the toolstrip (option 1) to initiate support package installation is that the file allows the user to avoid the support package selection screen on the installer.
*These file types were introduced in MATLAB R2013a.
Users without an Internet connection can install hardware support packages by following the download instructions.
Capabilities and Features
With MATLAB Support Package for BeagleBone® Black Hardware, you can access peripheral devices through BeagleBone Black, a low-cost, single-board computer designed for digital signal processing.
The MATLAB support package allows you to acquire data from sensors and imaging devices connected to BeagleBone Black. Specifically, libraries of MATLAB functions are provided for the following BeagleBone Black interfaces:
- USB Webcam
- I2C interface
- SPI interface
- Serial interface
- GPIO
- ADC
- PWM
The capabilities of BeagleBone Black can be extended to signal processing and video algorithms through add-on products such as DSP System Toolbox, Image Processing Toolbox, and Computer Vision Toolbox. Researchers, students, and hobbyists can use MATLAB to acquire data from connected devices, and then they can analyze and visualize their data in MATLAB.
Note that you cannot run MATLAB code as a standalone application on BeagleBone Black. To develop applications for the BeagleBone Black to be used in standalone operation, please see BeagleBone Black Support from Embedded Coder.
About BeagleBone Black
BeagleBone Black is a low-cost, single-board computer designed for digital signal processing. BeagleBone Black features TI’s 1 GHz ARM® Cortex®-A8 processor, provides stereo audio and digital video connectivity, and supports USB, HDMI, and Ethernet.
Platform Support
See the hardware support package system requirements table for current and prior version, release, and platform availability.
View enhancements and bug fixes in release notes.
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