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Non-government code and/or software libraries referenced by this software package:
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GNU (General Public Software) License for various packages that must be installed to make the software compile and function. These include the Beaglebone Black Debian operating system, gcc, libconfig, ntp, usbmount, iolib, minicom, libtool, perl, bison and flex.
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TI (Texas Instruments, Inc) public software and documentation are used for compiling the binary PRU code (PASM and Code Composer Studio).
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MAXUM software examples and documentation were used for programming the MAX5802 analog out chip.
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Measurement Specialties, Inc software examples and documentation were used for programming the MS5606 barometric pressure and temperature chip.
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Code examples were used as a starting point for several parts of the application from Derek Molloy (2015) Exploring BeagleBone, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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