This section contains a series of articles which are meant to be tutorials. The best way to getting started is to read them in this order:
From 0 to STM32, for an introduction to the STM32 microcontrollers and STM32 driver installation;
Developing on STM32: introducing ChibiStudio, to see how to setup a working environment for firmware development in Windows;
A close look to ChibiOS demos for STM32, to understand how to deal with default demos of ChibiOS;
Using STM32’s GPIO with ChibiOS’ PAL Driver, to deal with General Purpose IO of the STM32;
Using STM32’s USART with ChibiOS Serial Driver, to deal with Universal Synchronous\Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter of the STM32;
Using STM32’s ADC with ChibiOS ADC Driver, to deal with Analog to Digital Converter of the STM32.
PWM in hardware with STM32 Timer and ChibiOS, to understand how to generate PWM signal using STM32 TIM.
Using STM32 SPI with ChibiOS, to understand how to deal with Serial Peripheral Interface of the STM32.
Using STM32 I2C with ChibiOS, to understand how to deal with Inter-Integrated Circuit bus of the STM32.
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 ...
The Inter-Integrated Circuit (often shored as I2C or I2C bus pronounced I-squared-C or alternatively I-two-C) is a widely used synchronous serial communication peripheral which communicates in half duplex mode using a multi-master-multi-slave architecture.
Like the SPI, the I2C is a Synchronous ...
The Serial Peripheral Interface (often shored as SPI bus) is a widely used synchronous serial communication peripheral which communicates in full duplex mode using a master-slave architecture with a single master.
As the SPI is a Synchronous Serial bus, a clock signal is generated by one of the ...
The Pulse Width Modulation (also known as PWM) is a digital modulation technique which uses duty-cycle of square waves to encode information. In communication field PWM surrendered to more advanced communication technique which uses more complex waveforms showing better noise rejection ratio ...
A microcontroller is a system which works on bits and bitstreams more than analog signals, anyway, those signals are still widely used in many fields especially in audio and power applications. An Analog to Digital Converter (or ADC) is a system that converts such kind of signals in a sequence ...
The serial communication in asynchronous mode is one of the simplest and most used methods to exchange data between a microcontroller and other devices. Such kind of communication can be achieved through a Universal Synchronous/Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter (or USART) as well ...
The STM32 is equipped with an extremely flexible General Purpose Input Output (or GPIO) peripheral allowing to configure each Input/Output independently. The IO is the simplest interface between the STM32 and the outside world.
As we said in the article “From 0 to STM32“, there are many ...
In this article, we are going to take a deep look to ChibiOS default demos explaining how they work. We will also see how to create a new project and how to modify it in in order to create our own applications.
A ChibiOS’ default demo is usually composed of some different folders and files. ...
In this article, we are going to set-up a ready-to-use Eclipse-based toolchain named ChibiStudio for the development on STM32. We will also explore this development toolchain explaining some basic operations necessary for daily development. So we will introduce the ChibiOS project, we will ...
Nowadays, we are surrounded by smart objects capable to do incredible things. These objects, known as Smart Things, are now able to communicate over different wired and wireless communication channels. The obvious consequence is that these objects are able to get and to push data through the ...