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1. Chapter 1 Introduction Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized PC fabricated and planned in the United Kingdom by the Raspberry Pi establishment with the aim of showing essential software engineering to class understudies and each other individual keen on PC equipment, programming and DIY-Do-it Yourself ventures. These organizations offer the Raspberry Pi on the web. Egoman produces a variant for dispersion exclusively in China and Taiwan, which can be recognized from different Pis by their red shading and absence of FCC/CE stamps. The equipment is the same over all producers. The Raspberry Pi has a Broadcom BCM2835 framework on a chip (SoC), which incorporates an ARM1176JZF-S 700 MHz processor, VideoCore IV GPU and was initially dispatched with 256 megabytes of RAM, later overhauled (Model B and Model B+) to 512 MB. It does exclude an implicit hard plate or strong state drive, however it utilizes a SD card for booting and constant stockpiling, with the Model B+ utilizing a MicroSD. The Foundation gives Debian and Arch Linux ARM appropriations for download. Devices are accessible for Python as the fundamental programming dialect, with backing for BBC BASIC (by means of the RISC OS picture or the Brandy Basic clone for Linux), C, Java and Perl. Chapter 2 History of Computers 2.1A brief history of ultra-cheap and small computers: 1

2. PCs were exceptionally costly amid the 1950's. PCs of that time were utilized as a part of climate anticipating, plotting estimations of logarithmic capacities and other complex counts. They were tremendous machines with practically zero working frameworks. They required devoted aerated and cooled rooms and extraordinary prepared administrators. Illustrations of these incorporate the ENIAC, the ZUSE Z3 and so on. At that point vacuum tubes were supplanted by bipolar transistors, which made those tremendous machines somewhat littler. The innovation of Integrated Circuit(IC) gave PCs a tremendous jump as far as figuring force and a premise for PCs. In those days compact PCs were accessible which were basically finance machines or had other committed applications. The greater part of them was utilized for single reason, for example, printing bills, as mini-computers, advanced journals and so forth. Mac discharged Lisa in 1983 and denoted another point ever. Interestingly a Graphical User Interface (GUI) was presented in a PC that was modest and most little organizations could bear. Microsoft attempted the same thing and discharged DOS which was a gigantic accomplishment for the IBM PC. Presently individuals could bear the cost of their own PC for their home. IBM PC started a huge blast of PCs. Individuals began purchasing PCs for their homes and workplaces more than ever. Presently children could play amusements on them; grown-ups could do their spreadsheets and so forth. Raspberry pi 2 is the latest version of raspberry pi Amid the decade of 80's, the coming of portable workstations or scratch pad PCs began. Numerous organizations and merchants discharged the then compact PCs which were the premise for the cutting edge portable PCs. The main mass-created chip based compact PC was the Osborne 1 in 1981, which utilized the CP/M working framework. At that point inside of a couple of years, in 1986, Toshiba discharged the T1100, which they depicted as the "world's first mass-market Tablet". 2

3. Figure 1: Osborne 1 Computer Figure 2: Toshiba T1100 As innovation enhanced amid the 1990s, the handiness and ubiquity of portable PCs expanded. Correspondingly costs went down. A few advancements particular to portable workstations such as enhanced battery innovation, power sparing processors, enhanced Liquid Crystal Displays, enhanced capacity and so forth were immediately actualized, enhancing ease of use and execution. 2.2 History of Embedded Devices In the soonest years of PCs in the 1930–40s, PCs were now and then devoted to a solitary undertaking, yet were very substantial and costly for most sorts of errands performed by installed PCs of today. After some time in any case, the idea of programmable controllers advanced from conventional electromechanical sequencers, through strong state gadgets, to the utilization of PC innovation. One of the primary conspicuously cutting edge installed frameworks was the Apollo Guidance Computer, created by Charles Stark Draper at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory. At the undertaking's origin, the Apollo direction PC was viewed as the most dangerous thing in the Apollo venture as it utilized the then recently created solid coordinated circuits to lessen the size and weight. An early mass-delivered implanted framework was the Autonetics D-17 direction PC for the Minuteman rocket, discharged in 1961. It was worked from transistor rationale and had a hard plate for primary memory. At the point when the Minuteman II went into generation in 1966, the D-17 was supplanted with another PC that was the primary high-volume utilization of coordinated 3

4. circuits. This system alone lessened costs on quad NAND door ICs from $1000/each to $3/each, allowing their utilization in business items. Subsequent to these early applications in the 1960s, installed frameworks have descended in cost and there has been an emotional ascent in handling force and usefulness. The primary microchip for instance, the Intel 4004, was intended for number crunchers and other little frameworks yet required numerous outer memory and bolster chips. In 1978 National Engineering Manufacturers Association discharged a "standard" for programmable microcontrollers, including any PC based controllers, for example, single board PCs, numerical, and occasion based controllers. As the expense of microchips and microcontrollers fell it got to be plausible to supplant costly handle based simple parts, for example, potentiometers and variable capacitors with up/down catches or handles read out by a chip even in some customer items. By the mid-1980s, a large portion of the regular already outside framework segments had been incorporated into the same chip as the processor and this cutting edge type of the microcontroller permitted a considerably more far reaching use, which before the decade's over were the standard as opposed to the special case for all hardware gadgets. The mix of microcontrollers has further expanded the applications for which inserted frameworks are utilized into territories where customarily a PC would not have been considered. A broadly useful and relatively minimal effort microcontroller might frequently be modified to satisfy the same part as an extensive number of discrete segments. In spite of the fact that in this connection an installed framework is typically more perplexing than a conventional arrangement, a large portion of the unpredictability is contained inside of the microcontroller itself. Not very many extra parts might be required and the vast majority of the configuration exertion is in the product. The impalpable way of programming makes it much less demanding to model and test new updates contrasted and the configuration and development of another circuit not utilizing an installed processor. 4

5. Chapter 3 Inception of Raspberry Pi 3.1 The Idea to create the Raspberry Pi The thought behind a small and reasonable PC for children came in 2006, when Eben Upton, Rob Mullins, Jack Lang and Alan Mycroft, based at the University of Cambridge's Computer Laboratory, got to be worried about the year-on-year decrease in the numbers and abilities levels of the A Level understudies applying to peruse Computer Science. From a circumstance in the 1990s where the vast majority of the children applying were coming to meet as experienced specialist software engineers, the scene in the 2000s was altogether different; an ordinary candidate may just have done a little web plan. Something had changed the way children were associating with PCs. Various issues were recognized: greater part of educational programs with lessons on utilizing Word and Excel, or composing site pages; the end of the website blast; and the ascent of the home PC and diversions console to supplant the Amigas, BBC Micros, Spectrum ZX and Commodore 64 machines that individuals of a prior era figured out how to program on. Figure 3: A complete Commodore 64 System 5

6. There isn't much any little gathering of individuals can do to address issues like a lacking school educational programs or the end of a money related air pocket. However, those understudies felt that they could attempt to take care of the circumstance where PCs had turned out to be so costly and arcane that programming experimentation on them must be taboo by folks; and to discover a stage that, similar to those old home PCs, could boot into a programming situation. In this manner came the thought of making the gadget which children could purchase and learn programming or equipment on – The Raspberry Pi. 3.2 Initial Design Considerations From 2006 to 2008 they made numerous plans and models of what we now know as the Raspberry Pi. One of the most punctual models is demonstrated as follows: Figure 4: One of the earliest prototype of the Pi 6

7. These loads up utilize an Atmel ATmega644 microcontroller timed at 22.1MHz, and a 512K SRAM for information and casing cushion stockpiling. By 2008, processors intended for cell phones were turning out to be more reasonable, and sufficiently effective to give fabulous sight and sound, an element which would make the board alluring to children who wouldn't at first be occupied with a simply programming- focused gadget. The undertaking began to look extremely feasible and attainable. Eben (now a chip draftsman at Broadcom), Rob, Jack and Alan, collaborated with Pete Lomas, MD of equipment outline and fabricate organization Norcott Technologies, and David Braben, co-creator of the BBC Micro amusement Elite, to frame the Raspberry Pi Foundation to make it a reality. After three years, the Raspberry Pi Model B entered large scale manufacturing through authorized production manages Element 14/Premier Farnell and RS Electronics, and inside of two years it had sold more than two million units 7

8. Chapter 4 Hardware 4.1 Hardware Layout 8

9. Figure 5: Block Diagram of Raspberry Pi 4.2 A brief description of the components on the Pi. 1)Processor / SoC (System on Chip) The Raspberry Pi has a Broadcom BCM2835 System on Chip module. It has an ARM1176JZF-S processor The Broadcom SoC utilized as a part of the Raspberry Pi is equal to a chip utilized as a part of an old cell phone (Android or iPhone). While working at 700 MHz naturally, the Raspberry Pi gives a certifiable execution generally equal to the 0.041 GFLOPS. On the CPU level the execution is like a 300 MHz Pentium II of 1997-1999, yet the GPU, in any case, gives 1 Gpixel/s, 1.5 Gtexel/s or 24 GFLOPS of universally useful process and the design abilities of the Raspberry Pi are generally identical to the level of execution of the Xbox of 2001. The Raspberry Pi chip working at 700 MHz as a matter of course, won't get to be sufficiently hot to require a heat sink or uncommon cooling. 2)Power source The Pi is a device which consumes 700mA or 3W or power. It is powered by a MicroUSB charger or the GPIO header. Any good smartphone charger will do the work of powering the Pi. 3)SD Card The Raspberry Pi does not have any onboard storage available. The operating system is loaded on a SD card which is inserted on the SD card slot on the Raspberry Pi. The operating system can be loaded on the card using a card reader on any computer. 4)GPIO GPIO – General Purpose Input Output General-purpose input/output (GPIO) is a generic pin on an integrated circuit whose behaviour, including whether it is an input or output pin, can be controlled by the user at run time. 9

10. GPIO pins have no special purpose defined, and go unused by default. The idea is that sometimes the system designer building a full system that uses the chip might find it useful to have a handful of additional digital control lines, and having these 1raspberry-pi-2-india 5)RCA Video RCA Video outputs (PAL and NTSC) are available on all models of Raspberry Pi. Any television or screen with a RCA jack can be connected with the RPi. 10

11. Memory 256 MB (shared with 512 MB (shared with GPU) as of 15 October 2012 (SDRAM): GPU) USB 2.0 ports: 1 (direct from 2 (via the on-board 3- 4 (via the on-board 5- BCM2835 chip) port USB hub) port USB hub) Video input: 15-pin MIPIcamera interface (CSI) connector, used with the Raspberry Pi Camera Addon. Video outputs: Composite RCA (PAL and NTSC) –in model B+ via 4-pole 3.5 mm jack, HDMI (rev 1.3 & 1.4), raw LCD Panels via DS Table 1 Specifications 11