PLAY Embedded is a blog about embedded systems. We created this blog in the 2015 to share our discoveries with enthusiasts all around the world. This blog is largely focused on the usage of free and open source software.
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First interaction with ChibiStudio may feel overwhelming for a new user, given the multitude of buttons and windows, thus the following article tries to give a macro overview of ChibiStudio as a tool and it’s overall structure. The aim is to make the user more comfortable navigating the tool ...
In this article we are going to see how to take the first steps with ChibiOS using the Analog Devices EVAL-SDP-CK1Z or simply SDP-K1 controller board. ChibiOS is a large open source project that revolves around ChibiOS/RT, a Real Time Operating System (RTOS) that offers plenty of utilities to ...
In digital electronics, a signal can only have two states ON or OFF. While the signal can be encoded, stored and processed as this article will show, fundamentally there are those two logic level states. Logic level refers to a specific voltage or state where a digital signal exists. ...
In this article we are going to introduce microcontrollers and explain what they are and why those are so popular nowadays. We are going to look into the minimum set of tools that you would need to approach this topic.
A Microcontroller unit or MCU is a single chip that integrates one or ...
The easiest way to start a new development in ChibiOS is to duplicate a previous project. So make sure to have an imported project in your Project Explorer before proceeding. This guide will demonstrate how to duplicate a project.
A project in Eclipse is a collection of source files and metadata associated with a filesystem directory. Projects can be found in the Project Explorer. In this article, you will learn how to build a new project.
To build a project is necessary to Open it. To do so:
This article is a step-by-step guide on how to export a working project from ChibiStudio.
The main goal is to zip and share a project with someone knowing that they will be able to use it on their own machine. This guide assumes you have a working project in your Project ...
This guide will show you how to import an existing project into ChibiStudio. For this you will need an existing project that is already ready to use. It is strongly recommended to keep projects together in a workspace folder inside C:\ChibiStudio.
To import a project, proceed to File on ...
This article is a step-by-step guide showing how to reliably flash and run a project in ChibiStudio.
This guide assumes the project has already been built and the build folder already exists in the project’s main folder. You can check this by looking into the Project Explorer menu, under the ...
In this article we are going to see how to setup ChibiStudio, an Eclipse-based toolchain that conveniently helps to develop embedded firmware for different microcontroller families.
ChibiStudio comes as a portable 7zip file that you can find on the Official page of ChibiStudio. This ...
Recently I had to assemble ChibiStudio for Windows from scratch and I decided to write down a simple to-do list to be consistent over time. Locking back to the list, it was so detailed I start to think about an article to share this experience and enable everyone to assembly its own environment ...
A debugger is a powerful tool that gives us the chance to interact with the microcontroller at run-time. It allows to dynamically change the content of CPU registers, to read\write the RAM memory and to flash\erase the NVM memory of the microcontroller. The main purpose of a debugger is to ...