As for hardware emulation, as in circuits. There are many tools out there to achieve that. And one as mentioned on hackaday as going free, and possibly open source. Others . . . usually are fairly expensive. Such as Labcenter's Proteus.
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 9:33 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yeah, I'll expand, or rather comment on the subject. I think it is a waste > of time. With that said, do not get me wrong in thinking I am attacking > your ideas. I have thought about this too. However the time investment > would be all your, and as a solo developer you *may* be able to get > something working within a couple years . . . So maybe not a complete waste > of time, but definitely a huge time investment. > > > There is an alternative however that can be fairly similar, but does > require investment of at least one beagelbone. There would be no virtual > machine. > > > 1. You setup a Debian dev machine, cross compiler, and related tools > for the BBB > 2. One the above mentioned system, you run an NFS share. > 3. (optional) you also have a tftp server on your host dev machine. > 4. You "boot" Your Beagelbone over the network using a NFS rootfs, and > (optionally) kernel over tftp. > 5. You create a minimal base image, for all future "dev" images. > > Then, it is just a matter of making a new directory / share, for each new > image. Then extract your tar'd image to that directory, update your server, > etc. You can even have several types of base images laying around for > various things. One very small for production, one build system image. For > building binaries / packages, etc for your small production image . . . > You're only really limited by your imagination - And your ability to learn > / think "outside of the box". > > On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 10:53 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> There are times when I setup virtual instances of Debian to create >> development environments for certain web/programming projects....things >> that are a little more involved, or I don't want to incorporate on my >> existing local machine. This has worked very well for me this far. I can >> always go back to a project, with all it's software and dependencies and >> "out-dated" software versions just as they were, and it works every time. I >> don't have to worry that a new version of PHP came out - which I use on a >> new project - and as a result, an old project doesn't work anymore, etc. >> >> This brings me to my purpose for writing today: >> >> I've been doing BeagleBone development for about 3 months now. And a >> thought came to me today, as I have different boards for different >> projects. I would like to do something similar for my BeagleBone projects >> that I do for my other programming projects. >> >> I know that I could install the BeagleBone OS on a Virtual machine, but >> there is nothing to represent the hardware and what it is doing - if you >> write something to talk I2C, you will get errors since there is no hardware >> support for that and the rest of the OS will reflect the same. >> >> But I think it would be pretty awesome if there was a virtual environment >> with some sort of graphical representation of the activity on the pins and >> peripherals of the BeagleBone device. >> >> >> >> Not only would this allow me to develop entire projects on the PC before >> I invest into any hardware, but it basically allows me to try the same code >> on different versions of the BeagleBone. If the GUI side of this virtual >> environment had drag and drop "sensors" and motors and things of that >> nature, I could actually read in "data" and actually "turn motors" as if it >> were real life. >> >> Development would be much faster, conceptual projects could be put >> together faster, and I think all around it could improve my quality of work. >> >> I can foresee some issues with visualizing certain things on the hardware >> side that may be CPU intensive....but perhaps there could be emulated parts >> to ease those issues out. >> >> >> Anyone else like this idea, want to expand on this idea? >> There isn't really anything out there like this to my knowledge. Is it >> possible to get this? >> >> Leave a comment, Thanks! >> >> -- >> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "BeagleBoard" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
