Showing posts with label COIDE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label COIDE. Show all posts

Sunday, December 7, 2014

BRTOS with Nucleo F401RE

I creaded a small demo for testing the BRTOS (Brazilian Real-Time Operating System) in my Nucleo board with Coocox COIDE and ARM GCC.

BRTOS is a  lightweight preemptive real time operating system designed for low end microcontrollers.

More info about BRTOS:

https://code.google.com/p/brtos/

https://brtosblog.wordpress.com/

In this demo, clock is configured as:

External 8MHz from STLINK V2.

  • Main clock: 84MHz
  • AHB clock: 84MHz
  • APB1 clock: 42MHz
  • APB2 clcok: 84MHz
  • Timers clock: 84MHz
  • SDIO clock: 48MHz


Check more info about clock config for NucleoF401 in this post.
Flash Prefetch enabled and 2 wait states (minimum for 84MHz and 3.3V).

This demo uses two tasks. One of them flashes the LED and prints a string with a counter in serial every second.
The second task is used to handle the user button switch press event. When the user press the button a string is printed in serial.
Using a mutex to avoid conflicts with two tasks sharing the serial.
Serial used is USART2 that is connected in STLINK V2-1 and becomes a Virtual Serial Com port when STLINK is connected.

The demo code is hosted at my GitHub account:

https://github.com/miguelmoreto/NucleoF401-COIDE-BRTOS

Saturday, November 22, 2014

Configuring COIDE for NUCLEO-F401RE

I managed to configure the free IDE from Coocox, COIDE, for programing my  ST NUCLEO-F401RE board with ARM-GCC.


The current version of COIDE (1.7.7) does not support the microcontroller of this board (STM32F401RE). However it support the STM32F401RC. The only difference between them is the amount of RAM and FLASH. Therefore, I created a project in COIDE for STM32F401RC and changed it for the STM32F401RE. I present here a description of what you have to do in order to configure the project correctly.