One day earlier than expected, our tinyK20 boards arrived, and they are looking great :-):
Four tinyK20 Boards
Production tinyK20 Boards arrived!
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Category Archives: ARM
Segger SystemView: Realtime Analysis and Visualization for FreeRTOS
One of the most important aspects for developing complex realtime applications is get insights into what is going on the target. Segger just has released a free tool which gives an incredible useful insight view and visualization:
Segger System View for FreeRTOS
Atollic TrueSTUDIO Lite for ARM with Unlimited Code Size
Good news for all the Eclipse and ARM lovers: Atollic have announced this week at ARM TechCon 2015 in Santa Clara that their TrueSTUDIO ‘Lite’ is now free of charge with unlimited code size. 🙂
atollic TrueSTUDIO
Kinetis Drone: First Test Flights
Over the weekend, I finally have repaired the broken ESC (see “Kinetis Drone: Graupner ESC S3055 Failure“). Time to run some first test flights :-).
Kinetis Drone Flying Tests
McuOnEclipse Components: 08-Nov-2015 Release
Time is flying fast, time for another McuOnEclipse components release on SourceForge with the following main changes and features:
- New component for Segger RTT makes adding a console communication interface super easy (and fast!)
- RTT support for the command line Shell component
- RTT component used for Percepio FreeRTOS Tracing
- Updated USB component, support for USB CDC blocking/waiting and endpoint configuration
- Updated FreeRTOS to V8.2.3, memory heap selection improved and setting for time slicing
- RingBuffer implements a Delete() method
- Extended Kinetis SDK support in components, added by default
Segger RTT Console
Kinetis Drone: Remote Controller with SUMD
The bad news: my ESC (see “Kinetis Drone: Graupner ESC S3055 Failure“) for my Kinetis drone is still not repaired :-(. Anyway, I have plenty of other things to make for my drone project. One is to work on the remote controller:
Test Setup
Tutorial: lwip with FreeRTOS and the Freescale FRDM-K64F Board
This tutorial is about how to create a lwIP project with FreeRTOS using the Kinetis SDK V1.3.0 with Kinetis Design Studio on the Freescale FRDM-K64F board.
FRDM-K64F Board with lwIP running
tinyK20 Production Boards Ready for Parts
New pictures from the manufacturing process of the tinyK20 boards. Now all parts to be populated have been arrived at the manufacturing, so populating the boards can start soon:
tinyK20 PCB Bottom
tinyK20 Board in Manufacturing
The manufacturing of 200 tinyK20 board is progress, and I’m sharing pictures of it :-).
Rendering from CAD Tool, top side:
Top side with gold plating and mask
Overview: Processor Expert
In “Overview: From Snippets to Code Generation” I discussed several tools used in my development process. On tool which helps me a lot to get things done is Processor Expert. In this post I’ll give an overview about this tool and reasoning for the pros and cons of using it.
Processor Expert
