prf_test_apps

Test applications for Paneda DAB RF front-end board.

For information about each application, please read the source code.

Hardware

Mount the PRF board onto a Raspberry PI. Any Raspberry PI board with the 40-pin GPIO header can used. Connect a DAB antenna to the coax connector on the PRF board.

Installation

Install Raspberry PI OS (or Arch Linux Arm) and boot the Raspberry PI.

On the Raspberry PI, SPI needs to be enabled. This can be done using the following step.

Add the following line to /boot/config.txt

dtparams=spi=on

If there is any issues with reading SPI data add following line to /boot/cmdline.txt

spidev.bufsiz=65536

Optional: Allow access to spidev without sudo:

sudo groupadd --system spi
sudo gpasswd -a <username> spi
echo "SUBSYSTEM==\"spidev\", GROUP=\"spi\"" | sudo tee /etc/udev/rules.d/90-spi.rules

Reboot the Raspberry PI.

Building

On Raspberry Pi OS install necessary packages:

sudo apt install git cmake build-essential

..or on Arch Linux ARM:

sudo pacman -S git cmake base-devel

In a terminal run the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/paneda/prf_test_apps.git
cd prf_test_apps
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make

Demo apps should now be ready to run.