killApplication

Kill an application on the NVIDIA target by name

Add-On Required: This feature requires the MATLAB Coder Support Package for NVIDIA Jetson and NVIDIA DRIVE Platforms add-on.

Syntax

killApplication(hwObj,exeName)

Description

killApplication(hwObj,exeName) sends the signal to operating system on the NVIDIA^® target board to kill the application specified by exeName.

Examples

Launch and Terminate Webcam Application on Jetson TX2

This example shows how to launch and terminate an application on the NVIDIA Jetson™ TX2 target. This example requires a USB camera connected to the NVIDIA target.

Create a live hardware connection from the MATLAB^® software to the NVIDIA hardware by using the jetson function. To create a live hardware connection object, provide the host name or IP address, user name, and password of the target board. For example:

hwobj = jetson('jetson-board-name','ubuntu','ubuntu');

Create a MATLAB function liveCapture.m that connects to the webcam on a Jetson TX2 board and displays the image on the board. This function acts as the entry-point for code generation.

function liveCapture() %#codegen

% To enable code generation for hardware interfaces
hwobj = jetson;
w = webcam(hwobj,1,'1280x800');
d = imageDisplay(hwobj);

for k = 1:2000
    % Capture the image from the webcam on hardware.
    img = snapshot(w);
    % Display image.
    image(d,img);
end

Create a GPU code configuration object for generating an executable. Use the coder.hardware function to create a configuration object for the Jetson platform and assign it to the Hardware property of the code configuration object cfg.

cfg = coder.gpuConfig('exe');
cfg.GenerateReport = true;
cfg.Hardware = coder.hardware('NVIDIA Jetson');
cfg.CustomInclude = fullfile('codegen','exe','liveCapture','examples');
cfg.CustomSource  = fullfile('codegen','exe','liveCapture','examples','main.cu');

The main.cu file is generated as part of code generation process. For this example, you can use this file without modification.

To generate CUDA^® code, use the codegen command and pass the GPU code configuration object along with the liveCapture entry-point function. After the code generation takes place on the host, the generated files are copied over and built on the target.

codegen -config cfg liveCapture

Use the runApplication function to launch the executable on the TX2 board.

procID = runApplication(hwobj,'liveCapture');

### Launching the executable on the target...
Executable launched successfully with process ID 12821.
Displaying the simple runtime log for the executable...

To kill the executable launched:

killApplication(hwobj,'liveCapture')

Input Arguments

hwObj — Connection to a specific NVIDIA hardware board

jetson object | drive object

Connection to a specific NVIDIA hardware board, specified as a jetson or drive object.

exeName — Application name

character vector

Name of the application to send the kill signal for, specified as a character vector.

Example: 'liveCapture.elf'

Version History

Introduced in R2019a