MATLAB Support Package for BeagleBone Black Hardware

Interact with BeagleBone Black from MATLAB

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.

Examples

• Tracking a Green Ball Using Web Camera
• Controlling a 4-Digit 7-Segment Display Using Serial Port
• Controlling a 4-Digit 7-Segment Display Using I2C
• Analog Input Using SPI

Documentation

• Support Package Documentation

Solutions

• Test and Measurement
• Data Acquisition

This support package is functional for R2015a and beyond.