Expand your ChibiOS knowledge with our carefully curated Further Readings section. This category provides a selection of in-depth articles, case studies, and advanced resources that delve into the intricacies of ChibiOS and its various applications.
Whether you’re looking to master specific aspects of the platform or explore the broader context of embedded systems, our Further Readings offer valuable insights and expertise to help you stay informed and inspired in your ChibiOS journey.
ChibiOS is a powerful solution specifically designed for developing production firmware for various microcontrollers. It stands out in the open source community due to its ready-to-use formula and its composition of interconnectable, yet independent products. As subsystems are often used in ...
In this article, we will explain what race conditions are and provide examples to help you understand their impact on multi-threading applications.
We will also introduce a powerful tool to prevent race conditions: the mutex. We will explain what a mutex is, how it works, and provide ...
The board files are a critical component of a ChibiOS-based project. They define how peripherals are connected to the microcontroller and provide information related to key elements that depend on the board in use. This article will discuss what board files are in ChibiOS, their role in a ...
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 ...
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 ...
First time I started to deal with a software a little bit more complicated than the one used to print “Hello World”, I have encountered some words like “versioning”, “revision”, “diff”, “branch”, “trunk”, “checkout” and I heard about certain software like “svn”, “git”, “mercurial”.
Do you keep ...
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.
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BUZZ Click is a click board with a mikroBus form factor. It is substantially composed of a piezoelectric speaker having a resonant frequency at 3.8 kHz: this means we should expect best performances at this frequency. Let’s take a look to the principle of operation of DC and AC buzzer.
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In this tutorial we are going to see how to connect a STLink v2 debugger to a Clicker 2 for STM32 enabling users to do debugging which could be very useful in development phases. A debugger is a computer program which is used to test and debug another program usually named Target.
In embedded ...
The Clicker 2 for STM32 is a compact development kit by mikroe (also known as MikroElektronika). This board is equipped with 2 mikroBUS socket that allow to connect the Click Boards. These boards, designed by mikroe, are small add-ons that allow to easily connect most common devices to your ...
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 ...