Xuewu Dai - Rapid BeagleBoard Prototyping with MATLAB and Simulink

Dr Xuewu Dai graduated (BEng) in Electronic Engineering and received his MSc in Computer Science, both from the Southwest University, Chongqing, China, in 1999 and 2003, respectively, and completed his PhD study at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Manchester, in 2008. He joined the School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Southwest University, as a Lecturer Assistant in 2002 and did research projects at University College London and University of Oxford.

As a researcher and R&D engineer in signal processing and dynamic system modeling, he has over 10 years' experience in MATLAB/Simulink simulation and embedded software development. More recently, he has been actively involved in wireless sensor actuator networks for various research and industrial projects (such as condition monitoring of aircraft engines, buildings, DFIG wind generators, CAN field-bus for SCADA, and optic sensors for water quality monitoring).

I would like to thank my wife Liping and my parents for their love, and allowing me to realize my own potential. I would like to thank Joel Goveya and Mohammed Fahad at Packt Publishing for their guidance throughout this process, and Amit Karpe and Ezequiel Aceto for their reviews. Finally, I would also like to acknowledge the partial financial support from the NSFC under grant 61101135.

Dr Fei Qin is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronic and Communications, University of Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China. He received his PhD degree from University College London, UK, in 2012. Prior to the start of his PhD, he was working for Crossbow Technology, Beijing Rep. Office as a Sr Application Engineer.

He has been working on the development of embedded systems for many different products and applications for almost ten years, including wireless network, sensor, and radar systems.

I would like to thank Dr Han, Zhengjun for his kindest advice on the motion detect algorithm, Joel Goveya and Mohammed Fahad at Packt Publishing for their support throughout this process, and Amit Karpe and Ezequiel Aceto for their reviews.

Ezequiel Aceto is a student at University of Buenos Aires (UBA), where he is attending Electronic Engineering and Computer Engineering. Also, he is a member of the Embedded Systems Labs at UBA.

He has more than eight years' experience of programming for mobile platforms like RIM's Blackberry, Google's Android, Apples iOS, and J2ME-enabled phones. Nowadays he works as CTO and Senior Developer at Everypost (http://everypost.me). Everypost is a mobile application that allows you to easily create multimedia content and post it simultaneously to your preferred social networks.

His first approach to embedded systems was at the age of 15 with the small BASIC Stamp I. And since then, he has worked with all kinds of microcontrollers (8-, 16-, and 32-bit) and programming languages, including BASIC, Assembly, C, C++, Java, Python, and Objective C.

He writes blog posts about embedded systems and mobile technologies at www.ezequielaceto.com.ar.

Amit Pandurang Karpe works for FireEye Inc., a global information security company, as a support engineer supporting their Asia-Pacific customers. He lives in Singapore with his wife, Swatee, and son, Sparsh. He has been active in the open source community from his college days, especially in Pune, where he was able to organize various activities with the help of vibrant and thriving communities such as PLUG, TechPune, ITMilan, Embedded Nirvana, and so on.

Currently he is working with the books "Getting Started with Cubieborad" and "Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing".

I would like to thank the open source community without whom I couldn't have succeeded. A special thanks to the visionaries behind "BeagleBoard Project", who believed in open source hardware and led by example. Many thanks also to the community members, who keep doing a great job, which makes BeagleBoard a success.

I would like to thank the Packt Publication team, editors, project coordinator who keep doing the right things, so I can do my job to the best of my abilities.

I would like thank Pune Linux Users Group (PLUG), Embedded Group, and VSS friends, because of whom I am able to work on this project. I would also like to thank all my gurus, who helped me, and guided me in this fieldDr Vijay Gokhale, Sunil Dhadve, Sudhanwa Jogalekar, Bharathi Subramanian, Mohammed Khasim, and Niyam Bhushan.

Finally I would like to thank my family, my mother, my father, my brother, my son, and my wife, Swatee, without whose continuous support I could not have given my best efforts to this project.