[beagleboard] Re: Could PRU read this signals?

2020-05-28 Thread Andrew P. Lentvorski
What are you actually trying to do? That's a 50Mbit sustained transfer rate if bit time is 20ns. 100Mbit if 10ns. And 4 channels. That's 200-400Mbps. You're moving a *TON* of data even at slower clock rates--there is no resource on the BBB that can keep that up very long. This seems quite q

[beagleboard] Re: Could PRU read this signals?

2020-05-28 Thread PAk Ys
Thank you TJF for that detailed answer and thank you too Andrew for your insights. We are trying to extract radar data from one radar board. The goal is not have it working at 50MHz (which is the system max rate), but have the possibility if needed. Probably we will work at 10 to 20MHz, and the

[beagleboard] PocketBeagle is sometimes running very hot with only minimal CPU activity

2020-05-28 Thread Brett Maurer
I'm using the PocketBeagle in one of my projects and have noticed 5 times out of maybe 100 that the CPU runs very hot, enough to burn my fingers. Running the TOP command, I see nothing using more that 1% CPU usage. When I cycle the power, the temperature returns to normal. I'm concerned that it

[beagleboard] Re: PocketBeagle is sometimes running very hot with only minimal CPU activity

2020-05-28 Thread Brett Maurer
One further note, during today's test, the temperature returned to normal after restarting the bonescript only. I did not cycle power. The script controls wvdial to connect the 3G Modem. One theory is that there is some state between the CPU and modem that makes the CPU run hot and this is r

[beagleboard] Re: PocketBeagle is sometimes running very hot with only minimal CPU activity

2020-05-28 Thread Oleg Golevych
Hi! Propably the trouble is in the wrong power circuit to USB modem. Use the USB power switch to power USB device connected to PocketBeagle board. четверг, 28 мая 2020 г., 14:10:31 UTC+3 пользователь Brett Maurer написал: > > I'm using the PocketBeagle in one of my projects and have noticed 5 tim

[beagleboard] Re: PocketBeagle is sometimes running very hot with only minimal CPU activity

2020-05-28 Thread Oleg Golevych
AP219 for example. четверг, 28 мая 2020 г., 14:10:31 UTC+3 пользователь Brett Maurer написал: > > I'm using the PocketBeagle in one of my projects and have noticed 5 times > out of maybe 100 that the CPU runs very hot, enough to burn my fingers. > Running the TOP command, I see nothing using mor

[beagleboard] Re: PocketBeagle is sometimes running very hot with only minimal CPU activity

2020-05-28 Thread Oleg Golevych
AP2192 for example. четверг, 28 мая 2020 г., 14:10:31 UTC+3 пользователь Brett Maurer написал: > > I'm using the PocketBeagle in one of my projects and have noticed 5 times > out of maybe 100 that the CPU runs very hot, enough to burn my fingers. > Running the TOP command, I see nothing using mo

Re: [beagleboard] Could PRU read this signals?

2020-05-28 Thread Steve Lentz
I too was skeptical of FPGAs until recently, I think you owe it to yourself to check out Zynq and Altera which combine FPGAs with ARM cores. The PL (FPGA part of these chips) can align the clock edges and write the data into the memory of the ARM processor. You might find it is possible to do

Re: [beagleboard] Could PRU read this signals?

2020-05-28 Thread PAk Ys
Thank you for your point of view Steve, the thing is I preffer to have community behind like in the beaglebone and a smaller form factor, besides my goal is to generate radar board that people could use in their projects. If PRU is enough, would be fantastic, a little of AI from the beaglebone

[beagleboard] Still reachable memory leak with OpenCL examples on BeagleBone AI

2020-05-28 Thread Manderson
Hi all, Like the title says, I have a BeagleBone AI running the latest (as of writing) Debian Buster 10.3 image (https://beagleboard.org/latest-images). It seems there is a memory handling issue when I try to run the openCL examples found under `/usr/share/ti/examples/opencl`. See the attached

[beagleboard] Re: Could PRU read this signals?

2020-05-28 Thread Andrew P. Lentvorski
You can certainly persist, but I'm going to point out the existence of chips like the AWR1843--"Single-chip 76-GHz to 81-GHz automotive radar sensor integrating DSP, MCU and radar accelerator": https://www.ti.com/product/AWR1843 This is about $30, and does all the RF-y things while sending your

[beagleboard] Re: PocketBeagle is sometimes running very hot with only minimal CPU activity

2020-05-28 Thread Andrew P. Lentvorski
Agreed. 3G modems can pull a remarkable amount of power (up to 2A!) under certain circumstances. That's going to tax the power systems of the PocketBeagle pretty heavily. You need to have something which you can use to turn on/off the power to the modem which bypasses the PocketBeagle power s

[beagleboard] Re: PocketBeagle is sometimes running very hot with only minimal CPU activity

2020-05-28 Thread Brett Maurer
Thank you for your comments. It seems I must revise the design for the power. It's a bit out of my area of knowledge so will need to do some research. The Beaglebone Black has always worked perfectly for my application but the PocketBeagle does not have the same USB socket available so I wired

RE: [beagleboard] Re: PocketBeagle is sometimes running very hot with only minimal CPU activity

2020-05-28 Thread rpaulbeam
You do want to look at the PocketBeagle FAQI which shows the proper way to wire up a USB -- https://github.com/beagleboard/pocketbeagle/wiki/FAQ#How_do_I_get_additional_USB_connections. I find the names to be somewhat confusing, and you do want to be careful if you are wiring up an additional

[beagleboard] Trying to flash TFTP uEnv.txt to eMMC

2020-05-28 Thread jennifer Dsilva
Here is my uEnv.txt file: console=ttyO0,115200n8 serverip=192.168.3.1 ipaddr=192.168.3.2 loadaddr=0x8200 fdtaddr=0x8800 initrdaddr=0x8808 loadtftp=echo Booting from network ...;tftpboot ${loadaddr} uImage; tftpboot ${fdtaddr} am335x-boneblack.dtb; tftpboot ${initrdaddr} initr