I’m pleased to announce a new release of the McuOnEclipse Processor Expert components, available on SourceForge.
McuOnEclipse Components: 29-Dec-2022 Release
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McuOnEclipse Components: 26-Dec-2021 Release
I’m pleased to announce a new release of the McuOnEclipse components, available on SourceForge. This release includes several bug fixes, support for more devices, and updated components like FreeRTOS, MinINI, Percepio Tracealyzer and SEGGER SystemView.
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Tutorial: HD44780 Display Driver with NXP MCUXpresso SDK
In the age of high-resolution graphical LCDs using a character display might look like a bit anachronistic. But these displays provide a lot of value for me as they are robust, available in different shapes and number of lines. And such a character display can be a better solution for an industrial application.
hd44780 display with NXP FRDM-KW41Z Board
FreeRTOS: how to End and Restart the Scheduler
Most host or desktop systems (say Linux, Mac or Windows) have a normal use case where you start the operating system say in the morning and shut it down in the evening, and then you leave the machine. Embedded Systems are different: they are not attended, and they are supposed to run ‘forever’. Not every embedded system needs to run an OS (or in that world: Real-Time Operating System or RTOS), but the same applies here: after the RTOS is started, it is not intended that it will shutdown and restart. To the extend that you won’t they support the ‘shutdown’ and ‘restart’ functionality at all. In case of gathering coverage information this would be really useful:
coverage information from FreeRTOS application
In the case of FreeRTOS: what if I really need to shutdown the RTOS and restart it again, as by default this is not supported. This is what this article is about …
McuOnEclipse Components: 30-Sept-2018 Release
I’m pleased to announce a new release of the McuOnEclipse components, available on SourceForge. This release includes several bug fixes, extra support for the NXP S32 Design Studio and SDK and includes FreeRTOS V10.1.1.
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McuOnEclipse Components: 1-July-2018 Release
I’m pleased to announce that a new release of the McuOnEclipse components is available on SourceForge. This release includes several smaller bug fixes and initial component support for the NXP S32 Design Studio and SDK.
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McuOnEclipse Components: 1-Apr-2018 Release
It’s April Fool’s Day, but be assured this is not a joke ;-): I’m pleased to announce that a new release of the McuOnEclipse components is available in SourceForge. This release includes several smaller bug fixes and components have been upgraded for FreeRTOS V10.0.1.
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McuOnEclipse Components: 26-Dec-2017 Release
I’m pleased to announce that a new release of the McuOnEclipse components is available in SourceForge., which is supposed to be the last release for 2017 :-). This release features several smaller bug fixes, the new FreeRTOS V10.0.0 and extended device support.
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McuOnEclipse Components: 25-Sept-2017 Release
I’m pleased to announce that a new release of the McuOnEclipse components is available in SourceForge. In this release more ARM Cortex devices/vendors are supported with different SDKs, plus it comes with several FreeRTOS enhancements for debugging highly optimized code.
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McuOnEclipse Components: 06-May-2017 Release
I’m pleased to announce that a new release of the McuOnEclipse components is available in SourceForge, with the following changes and updates:
- SEGGER SystemView updated to V2.42
- More components to work with MCUXpresso SDK: GenericSWSPI, FXO8500 and SimpleEvents
- SSD1351 display driver supports 128×128 pixel resolution and Adafruit 1.5″ breakout module
- Extended FreeRTOS debug helper settings
- GenericI2C: added ReadWordAddress8() and ReadWordAddress8() functions
- RingBuffer with new Getn() and Update() functions
- Utility with map(), constrain(), random() and randomSetSeed()
- XFormat: new xsnprintf(), contributed by Engin Lee
- OneWire protocol component with Maxim DS18B20 temperature sensor
- Many smaller bug fixes and enhancements
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MCU on Eclipse 