Numerous Chip manufacturers such as STMicroelectronics, Texas instruments,Qualcomm Incorporated provides evaluation boards to their products. they can be used to characterize study and evaluate numerous parameters in order to decide if it worthy of spending more time and budget on that particular unit. Those boards can be called demo cards or Development kits (DK) not to be conflicted with Software development kit lol. in general those board allows you to sense and evaluate the effort it takes to boot, program and run applications. The DK is usually more complete and may be part of a package that includes more software and examples demonstrating the capabilities of the solution. Figure1 : STM32MP1 Discovery Board A Board Support Package(BSP) is a collection of software used to boot and run the embedded system. it is the essential software needed to work with a board. with a proper BSP all you need to do is boot the system and start developpin
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