[clug] November CLUG Programmers' Special Interest Group meeting
Paul Wayper
paulway at mabula.net
Mon Nov 11 15:00:03 MST 2013
CLUG Programmers' Special Interest Group Meeting - 14th November 2013
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Date: 14th November 2013 (Second Thursday of the month)
Time: 19:00 - 21:00 (or when it finishes)
Speaker: Andrew Tridgell
Abstract: This talk is about taking an autopilot implementation
originally designed for an 8 bit AVR microcontroller
running at 16 MHz, and migrating it first to a 32 bit
ARM running at 168 MHz, and now to running on an
embedded ARM Linux board running at 1 GHz.
The APM:Plane code has now begun to support native
embedded Linux machines, which opens up some very
interesting possibilities for flight controllers, while
also presenting some challenges in trying to make time
sensitive code run on Linux. I'll be demonstrating the
APM code running on a BeagleBone black, and talking
about the hardware abstraction layer in the code that
makes the port possible, and the challenges of getting
consistent timing for controlling an aircraft on Linux.
Venue: Room N101
Computer Science and Information Technology Building
North Road
The Australian National University
See http://clug.org.au/ for more directions and a map
Food/drink: Pizza and soft drink/juice. Come hungry, and bring
about $6 to cover the cost of your share if you
want some.
If you would like to give a talk at a future meeting, please email me.
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