With debugging FreeRTOS applications in Eclipse, it is a big to have views available showing all the threads, queues, timers and heap memory allocation. One of the best Eclipse plugins are the one NXP provides for FreeRTOS: they are free of charge and give me pretty much everything I need. However, if you are not that familiar with FreeRTOS itself, here are a few tips to get more out of the plugins.
Better FreeRTOS Debugging in Eclipse
I’m pleased to announce that a new release of the McuOnEclipse components is available in SourceForge, with the following main features and changes:
Some ARM Cortex-M have a DWT (Data Watchpoint and Trace) unit implemented, and it has a nice feature in that unit which counts the execution cycles. The DWT is usually implemented on most Cortex-M3, M4 and M7 devices, including e.g. the NXP Kinetis or LPC devices.
DWT Cycle Count Register (Source: http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.ddi0489d/BABJFFGJ.html)
I’m pleased to announce that a new release of the McuOnEclipse components is available in SourceForge, with the following main features and changes:
SourceForge
Many projects benefit from a small display as a user interface. For very low power applications this is usually a no-go as the display needs too much energy. I have used e-paper displays from Kent: while these e-paper displays do not need any power to keep the image, changing the display content is not for free, plus is very slow (around 1 second needed to update the display). So I was looking for something low power and fast for a long time, until Christian (thanks!) pointed me to a display from Sharp: both very low power and fast:
Font Test with Sharp Memory Display
Time is passing by so fast, and the year end is approache fast! I’m pleased to announce that a new release of the McuOnEclipse components is available in SourceForge:
SourceForge
The year is coming to an end, the Holiday season is approaching. In case you are looking for a nice present: I have completed my version of a sand clock: a clock writing the time into sand:
Sandclock
If you are interested to build your own version, I have documented the different steps with tips and tricks…
A new McuOnEclipse components release was long overdue, so I’m pleased to announce that a new drop is available with the following major changes:
SourceForge
Command line tools to build applications are great. But productivity goes up if I can use the standard Eclipse environment with GNU tools. This tutorial is about how to use standard and free GNU and Eclipse tools to build my FreeRTOS application for the ARM Cortex-M4 on i.MX7 🙂 :
Eclipse used to build FreeRTOS applications for M4 on i.MX7
MCU on Eclipse 