Do You Like Coffee with Your dessert? Java and the Raspberry Pi - Simon Ritter (Oracle)

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Coffee And Dessert:
Java and the Raspberry Pi
Simon Ritter
Head of Java Evangelism
Oracle Corporation

Twitter: @speakjava
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Program Agenda
 The Raspberry Pi
 ARM Processors

 Java on ARM and the Raspberry Pi
 Using Java on the Raspberry Pi

 Demos

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The Raspberry Pi

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Raspberry Pi
History and Goals
 Project started in 2006
– Goal was to devise a computer to inspire children
– Inspiration from the BBC Micro project from 1981

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Raspberry Pi
History and Goals
 Officially launched on Febuary 29th 2012
– First production run was 10,000 boards
– Both RS and Farnell’s servers were stalled on the day of launch
– RS reported over 100,000 pre-orders in one day
– Current production is about 4,000 boards per day
 Originally in China, now by Sony in the UK
– Current estimate is that over 1 million boards sold so far

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Raspberry Pi
Specification
 CPU: ARM 11 core running at 700MHz
– Broadcom SoC package
– Can now be overclocked to 1GHz (without breaking the warranty!)

 Memory: 512Mb
 Storage: SD-Card slot
 I/O:
– HDMI and composite video
– Audio out (3.5mm plug)
– 2 x USB ports

– Ethernet
– Header pins for GPIO, UART, SPI and I2C
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ARM Architecture

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A Brief (But Interesting) History Lesson
 Acorn BBC Micro (6502 based)
– Not powerful enough for Acorn’s plans for a business computer

 Berkeley RISC Project
– UNIX kernel only used 30% of instruction set of Motorola 68000
– More registers, less instructions (Register windows)
– One chip architecture to come from this was… SPARC

 Acorn RISC Machine (ARM)
– 32-bit data, 26-bit address space, 27 registers
– First machine was Acorn Archimedes

 Spin off from Acorn, Advanced RISC Machines
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ARM Features
 32-bit RISC Architecture
– ARM accounts for 75% of embedded 32-bit CPUs today

– 8 billion chips sold last year, more than 30 billion in total
 zero manufactured by ARM

 Abstract architecture and microprocessor core designs
– Raspberry Pi uses an ARM11 with the ARMv6 instruction set

 Low power consumption
– Good for mobile devices

– Raspberry Pi can be powered from 700mA 5V only PSU
– Raspberry Pi does not require heatsink or fan
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Current ARM Technology

 ARMv6
– ARM 11, ARM Cortex-M

 ARMv7
– ARM Cortex-A, ARM Cortex-M, ARM Cortex-R

 ARMv8 (Announced)
– Will support 64-bit data and addressing
– 32-bit instructions, 30 registers

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Java On The ARM and
Raspberry Pi

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Java Specifics For ARM
Floating Point Operations
 Despite being an ARMv6 processor it does include an FPU
– FPU only became standard as of ARMv7

 FPU (Hard Float, or HF) is much faster than a software library
 Linux distros and Oracle JVM for ARM assume no HF on ARMv6
– Need special build of both
– Raspbian distro is hard float
– Oracle JVM

 Java SE 7 now included in Raspbian distro
 Java SE 8 (including JavaFX) available as Early Access
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Beyond RISC
Performance Improvements
 DSP Enhancements
 Jazelle
 Thumb / Thumb2 / ThumbEE (Reduced instruction set RISC)
– Better code density

 Floating Point (VFP)
 NEON
 Security Enhancements (TrustZone)
– 2 Virtual processors (mode switch)
– Hardware based access control

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Java ME Embedded 3.3
Raspberry Pi Version
 Intended for small footprint devices
– Less than 1 Mb of RAM
– Low power processor

 Raspberry Pi is cheap platform to start development
 Includes Device Access API
– GPIO, SPI, I2C, UART support

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Using Java on the
Raspberry Pi

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Making A Noise With Java
 Sound drivers now included in distros
 Java Sound API
– Remember to add audio to user’s groups
– modprobe snd_pcm_oss
 creates /dev/dsp, needed by MIDI interface

– Some bits work, others not so much
 Playing (the right format) WAV file works
 MIDI seems unbelievably slow

 FreeTTS text-to-speech
– Some bits working (limited domain voice)
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JavaFX on the Raspberry Pi

 Work involves optimal implementation of Prism graphics engine
– Take advantage of Videocore 4 GPU

 Framebuffer only support (no X11)
 Some things not supported
– Media
– WebEngine, WebView
– Some IO still needs work (gamepad)

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Using The Serial Port

 UART provides TTL level signals (3.3V)
 RS-232 uses 12V signals
 Use MAX3232 chip to convert
 Use this for access to serial console
 Serial port connectivity
– /dev/ttyAMA0

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The Talking Raspberry Pi
TX

RX GND
+5V

 SP03 text to speech board
– Connected to UART via RS-232

 Disable console output
– Edit /etc/inittab
 Comment out getty /dev/ttyAMA0
– Edit /boot/cmdline.txt
 remove console and kgdboc references

 38,400 baud, 8 Bit, 2 stop bits, no parity
 Simple byte sequence to send text to the board
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USB Peripherals
Universal Serial Bus (But not as simple as serial)
 Easy devices are ones that appear as simple serial devices
– /dev/ttyUSB0

 More complex devices need native code and libusb
– apt-get install libusb-1.0-0-dev

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Java and Serial Port/USB Serial Device
JavaComm API
 Install RXTX package
– apt-get install librxtx-java

 How to solve the /dev/ttyS* only problem
– System.setProperty(“gnu.io.rxtx.SerialPorts”,

“/dev/ttyUSB0”);
– System.setProperty(“gnu.io.rxtx.SerialPorts”,

“/dev/ttyAMA0”);

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The OWI Robot Arm
Cheap and cheerful
 Comes with USB interface
– Windows only driver
– Recognized as USB device by Linux

 Use native code for control and JNI
 Simple control protocol
– 3 bytes (1 = arm, 2 = base, 3 = light)
– Combining movements requires some bit twiddling
– Can only stop all motors, not individually

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Robot Arm Control
JNI Code
 Native C functions
– Initialisation of arm using libusb and appropriate device
– Separate function for each control element
– Compile to shared library

 Use JNI to generate header file appropriate to Java code usage
– e.g. native int arm_usb_init()
– Implement appropriate stub to call library
– Compile to shared library
– JNI can be fiddly
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Robot Arm Control
Java Code
 Java code is simple
– Calibration required to determine time for specific movement

arm_gripper_move(OPEN);
uSleep(500);
arm_gripper_move(STOP);
uSleep(500);
arm_gripper_move(CLOSE);
uSleep(500);
arm_gripper_move(STOP);

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Gamepad Controller
Manual dexterity
 Linux supports most of these out of the box
 Drivers create entries in /dev/input
 Java API through Jinput
– Mature technology (not been touched since 2003)
– Recompile code on RasPi
– Needed to tweak build script for incomplete classpath

 EVIOCGUSAGE disappeared
 Rename libjinput-linux.so to libjinput-linux64.so
– Devices do not have general read/write access

 Possible (but frustratingly difficult) to use udev.rules to fix this
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Gamepad Controller
Code
 Wrote library on top of JInput
– JInput too generic, needed code to be more specific to gamepad

GamePadController gpc = new GamePadController();
gpc.addButtonListener(GamePadController.BUTTON_1, this);
gpc.addJoystickListener(GamePadController.JOYSTICK_LEFT, this);
new Thread(gpc).start();

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Gamepad Controller
Code
public void buttonAction(ButtonEvent be) {
if (be.getId() == GamePadController.BUTTON_1)
robotArm.setGripperLight(true);
...
}
public void joystickAction(JoystickEvent jse) {
if (jse.getId() == GamePadController.JOYSTICK_LEFT) {
if ((position & JoystickEvent.POSITION_LEFT) != 0)
robotArm.moveElbow(ArmController.UP);
}
...
}
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Mind Controlled Raspberry Pi

 Neurosky headset
 Bluetooth USB dongle
– Serial communications

 Custom Java library to gather data

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Using The GPIO Lines

18 DNC

23

24

DNC

25

8

7

11 (SCLK)

DNC GND

15 (RXD)

5
V

14 (TXD)

P1 Connector Layout (REV 1)

DNC

4

DNC 17

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22 DNC

P2 Connector: Pin 1 = 3.3V Pin 7,8 = GND
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10
(MOSI)
9 (MISO)

1 (SCL)

0 (SDA)

3.3V

P1-01

Using the GPIO Lines

18

GND 23

24

GND 25

8

7

11 (SCLK)

15 (RXD)

GND

14 (TXD)

5V

1 (SCL)

5
V

0 (SDA)

P1 Connector Layout (Rev 2)

GND

32

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GND 17

27

22 GND

10
(MOSI)
9 (MISO)

3.3V

P1-01

Magic Incantations
#define
#define
#define
#define

BCM2708_PERI_BASE 0x20000000
GPIO_BASE (BCM2708_PERI_BASE + 0x200000)
BLOCK_SIZE (1024 * 4)
PAGE_SIZE (1024 * 4)

/* MMAP */
mem_fd = open(“/dev/mem”, O_RDWR | O_SYNC);
gpio_mem = malloc(BLOCK_SIZE + (PAGE_SIZE – 1));
gpio_map = (unsigned char *)mmap(
(caddr_t)gpio_mem, BLOCK_SIZE, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
MAP_SHARED | MAP_FIXED, mem_fd, GPIO_BASE);
gpio = (volatile unsigned *)gpio_map;
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More Magic Incantations
/* Pin input */
*(gpio + (pin / 10)) &= ~(7 << ((pin % 10) * 3));
/* Pin output */
*(gpio + (pin / 10)) &= ~(7 << ((pin % 10) * 3));
*(gpio + (pin / 10)) |= (1 << ((pin % 10) * 3));

/* Pin high */
*(gpio + 7) = 1 << pin;
/* Pin low */
*(gpio + 10) = 1 << pin;

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Hide The Magic Incantations With JNI
Simple Java Interface
 Access to /dev/mem needs root access
– Could solve this by writing our own device driver

gpio_init();
gpio_pin_output(MOTOR_PIN_CLKWISE);
gpio_pin_output(MOTOR_PIN_ACLKWISE);
/* Turn clockwise */
gpio_pin_low(MOTOR_PIN_ACLKWISE);
gpio_pin_high(MOTOR_PIN_CLKWISE);

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Pi4J
Simpler IO
 Bridge between native code and Java
– GPIO
– I2C
– SPI

 GPIO code is simple and easy to use
 Still needs root access
 Still in development
– Current version 0.0.4

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GPIO Example: LEGO Motors
Using L293D Dual H-Bridge

GPIO line

GPIO line

GPIO line

GPIO line

+9V Supply

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Current Project
In Car Raspberry Pi with JavaFX

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JavaFX Touch Screen Support
Working With Early Access
 Raspian Linux recognises device: eGalax Inc
 Creates two devices in /dev/input/event0, event1

 JavaFX sees devices and uses event0
– No events generated
– Need to use event1 (No idea why)

 Special build of JavaFX?
 Neccesity is the mother of invention
– Delete event0 and mknod event0 c 13 65 (same as event1)

– Need script to repeat at boot time

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Conclusions

 Raspberry Pi is a very cool (and cheap) computer
– Great for teaching
– Great introduction to ARM

 Java works well and will get better
 Opportunities are limitless!

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Further Information

 java.oracle.com
 www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/embedded
 Raspberry Pi User Guide – Eben Upton, Gareth Halfacree
 www.raspberrypi.org
 blogs.oracle.com/speakjava

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Demos

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