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Raspberry Pi Computer Architecture Essentials

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Product type Book
Published in Mar 2016
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ISBN-13 9781784397975
Pages 232 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Authors (2):
Andrew K. Dennis Andrew K. Dennis
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Teemu O Pohjanlehto Teemu O Pohjanlehto
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Raspberry Pi Computer Architecture Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
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Preface
1. Introduction to the Raspberry Pi's Architecture and Setup 2. Programming on Raspbian 3. Low-Level Development with Assembly Language 4. Multithreaded Applications with C/C++ 5. Expanding on Storage Options 6. Low-Level Graphics Programming 7. Exploring the Raspberry Pi's GPIO Pins 8. Exploring Sound with the Raspberry Pi 2 9. Building a Web Server 10. Integrating with Third-Party Microcontrollers 11. Final Project Index

C and ALSA


In addition to using Python, we can also use the C programming language for writing audio applications that leverage ALSA.

Before we begin to write code, we need to install and compile some C programming libraries.

These are libasound2 and its development counterpart libasound2-dev. Install them using the following command:

sudo apt-get install gcc libasound2 libasound2-dev

The libasound2 library contains the shared library for the ALSA application. The next library, libasound-dev, is the libasound library's development file counterpart. You will often see –dev versions of packages in Linux, as they contain the headers related to a library's interface.

We are now ready to write our C application. This will check which version of ALSA is installed. The idea behind this program is to introduce you to how to import the necessary library into your program. Once you understand this, you can then implement the example C programs from the ALSA website.

Navigate to the c_programs directory...

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