“Grass does not grow faster, if you pull on it.”
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Monthly Archives: September 2015
Going to Mars: Building a DIY Eclipse IDE for ARM Embedded Microcontrollers
It has been a while since I published my ‘build my own DIY IDE’ (see “DIY Free Toolchain for Kinetis: Part 1 – GNU ARM Build Tools“). I have used that approaches in my classes successfully. Now a new semester is coming up, so time to update the instructions using the latest Eclipse IDE (Mars) and tools (GCC ARM Embedded (launchpad) with GNU ARM Eclipse).
Eclipse Mars Splash Screen
Better Debugging with Eclipse: Step Into Selection
Some might say that Eclipse is too powerful and has too many features. But to me, the many small and somehow hidden gems can make a big difference in my daily life. One of these features is ‘Step Into Selection’ while debugging.
Very often I have a source line with nested function calls like this:
Nested Function Calls
10 Types of People
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“There are 10 types of people in the world;
Those who understand binary and those who don’t.”
– Unknown
MCU on Eclipse 