Advanced knowledge
This section contains a series of articles which are meant to be advanced: they will talk about a specific topic which often requires a broad knowledge about other subjects. Pick one and read, and if you like it don’t forget to Share the knowledge!
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 and maybe get feedback from experts out there and improve our process.
ChibiStudio was an idea by Giovanni (the creator of ChibiOS) to enable the community to easily ramp-up with ChibiOS. It’s basically an ensemble of free and open-source software and some custom continue reading...
The C programming language is clearly an imperative programming language not designed to be object-oriented. Anyway, the object-oriented approach remains something much more related to the design and mindset more than to syntax. The ChibiOS/HAL is an Hardware Abstraction Layer which design could be considered very object-oriented. We encountered it in almost every article related to ChibiOS but we often ignored its design as it comes with a series of demos which allow to use it easily without a deep knowledge of its internal mechanisms.
This article is dedicated to people continue reading...
In the article “A close look to ChibiOS demos for STM32” we have briefly explained how multithreading works but in this article we want to discuss more in detail the mechanisms behind ChibiOS/RT. This article is addressed to those developers already experienced with this RTOS.
A single thread application could be imagined like a straight line (Fig.1). Executing code we are travelling along that line and the beginning of our line is the application entry point. We can jump from a point of the line to an other, but we will always be on the same line.
In a multithreaded continue reading...
In past, building OpenOCD under Windows was really complicated since it has a lot of dependencies and not was easily available under windows. With MSYS2 this task has become very simple and, if you need to use the latest stable version of OpenOCD in MSYS2, it is available as binary and could be installed with a single command.
In some cases, you need to build the development version of OpenOCD or, maybe, to apply some patches from OpenOCD Gerrit repository. Using MSYS2 and some PKGBUILD from the upstream repository, this operation is easy to accomplish.
MSYS2, which continue reading...
