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BB4IO: Baseboard LEDs and Buttons

The BB4IO peripheral controls the buttons and LEDs on the Baseboard4 FPGA card. BB4IO is part of every DPCore.bin image.

 

Hardware:

Each BaseBoard4 has three buttons (S1, S2 and S3) and eight LEDs (LED0 to LED7). More information about the Baseboard4 is available here: /cards/baseboard4.html

 

Resources:

leds : The value of the LEDs as an eight bit hexadecimal number. The LSB controls LED0. This resource is both readable nd writable.

buttons : The value of the buttons as a number between 0 and 7. The LSB has the status of Button 1. This resource works with dpget and dpcat.

 

Examples:

Set the LEDs to 0x66.

   dpset bb4io leds 66 

Watch for button press and release events as a stream.

   dpcat bb4io buttons