ChibiOS is a compact and fast real-time operating system supporting multiple architectures. It offers a multi-threading scheduler and related APIs to manage threads scheduling and priorities, events and inter-thread communication. It also provide an Hardware Abstraction Layer.
STM32 is a broad family of 32-bit microcontrollers based on ARM Cortex-M architecture. With hundreds of different chips, STM32 covers a broad range of applications. Thanks to cheap and valuable development kits it is quite easy to evaluate them or create an prototype.
No matter what they say, you will not be able to appreciate the performance of these MCUs without a good scheduler. Here we will provide resources to getting started with STM32 development board using ChibiOS/RT as kernel and ChibiOS/HAL as drivers. Pick one and read it! If you like it don’t forget to Share the knowledge.
The MAX7219 is a compact, serial input/parallel output common-cathode display driver. Included on-chip there are a BCD code-B decoder, the multiplex scan circuitry, segment and digit drivers, and an 8×8 static RAM that stores each digit. Only one external resistor is required to set the ...
We already talked about ChibiOS/HAL design and its multiple architectures support. This is very important for regular developers: imagine a scenario in which you design an application using a certain MCU and after a first stage you decide to upgrade your application. Imagine also that hardware ...
The nRF24L01 is one of the most popular RF transceiver as it is very cheap and it could be found already configured on small PCBs with needed passive components. This means that only a MCU is needed to design a radio system with the nRF24L01.
The nRF24L01 is a highly integrated, ultra low ...
The HD44780 is a controller for display developed by Hitachi commonly used to manage alphanumeric dot matrix LCD. This controller is a standard de-facto for this kind of display. It is often used in industrial test equipment, networking equipment, vending machine and in embedded ...
The DHT11 is a basic, low-cost digital temperature and humidity sensor. It uses a capacitive humidity sensor and a thermistor to measure the surrounding air, and spits out a digital signal on the data pin (no analog input pins needed).
The communication on data pin occurs according to a ...