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McuOnEclipse Components: 09-July-2017 Release

Posted on July 9, 2017 by Erich Styger

I’m pleased to announce that a new release of the McuOnEclipse components is available in SourceForge, with the following major changes and updates:

Complete refactoring for 1-Wire stack and DS18B20 temperature sensor components
Added HID Joystick device class to the FSL_USB_Stack
New SDK_Timer component to work with Kinetis SDK
New ST756P LCD driver component
New TSL2561 digitial temperature sensor driver
Added ReadByte() and WriteByte() GenericI2C functions
Added 64bit mapping functions to Utility
added configUSE_NEWLIB_REENTRANT and newlib reentrancy support to FreeRTOS
Pull resistor support for SDK_BitIO
Many smaller bug fixes and enhancements

SourceForge

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Making-Of Sea Shell Sand Clock

Posted on November 23, 2016 by Erich Styger

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…

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McuOnEclipse Components: 30-Oct-2016 Release

Posted on October 30, 2016 by Erich Styger

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:

Segger SystemView library with kernel time reporting
GenericTimeDate supports different hardware RTC devices
Utility with little endian packet handling functions
Shell Standard I/O handlers for USB CDC, Segger RTT and Bluetooth
FreeRTOS and stack size reporting
printf() support in Shell component
Various small bug fixes and improvements

SourceForge

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McuOnEclipse Components: 31-July-2016 Release

Posted on July 31, 2016 by Erich Styger

Time for a new major update of the McuOnEclipse components, with the fillowing main features and changes:

FatFS component updated to R0.12 with patch 3 and exFAT support
Extended support for Cortex-M7
Extended support for Kinetis SDK V2.0
USB component support for Kinetis SDK V1.3
Improved FreeRTOS for NXP FreeRTOS TAD plugin
Added C++ wrappers to multiple components
Many smaller fixes and improvements
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FatFS with Adafruit MicroSD Breakout Board and NXP FRDM-KL25Z

Posted on July 9, 2016 by Erich Styger

Breakout boards are great: they allow me to explore functions quickly, without to build my custom board: all what I need is some wires and ideally a bread board.

Adadfruit MicroSD Card Breakout Board

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McuOnEclipse Components: 25-June-2016 Release

Posted on June 25, 2016 by Erich Styger

SourceForge

A new release is available on SourceForge, with the following main changes:

Support for FreeRTOS and Cortex-M7
Segger SystemView updated to V2.38
Components for NXP Kinetis SDK V1.3
Fixed bug in Wait component (register handling for GCC and ARM)
FatFS supports FreeRTOS V9.0.0 with static memory allocation
FreeRTOS shell and task list with static memory allocation
Floating point conversion routines in Utility
FreeRTOS component shows NVIC mask bits

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Swiss Army Knife of Terminal Program for Serial Bootloaders

Posted on June 20, 2016 by Erich Styger

A bootloader shall be small and concise. I very much like bootloaders which do not need a ‘special’ program on the host, so I prefer a simple terminal for this. While porting my serial bootloader to the NXP FRDM-K64F board, I have found RealTerm which offers a lot of cool features:

RealTerm

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McuOnEclipse Components: 29-May-2016 Release

Posted on May 29, 2016 by Erich Styger

Major changes in this new release:

FreeRTOS V9.0.0 with static memory allocation.
Shell with single character I/O function.
FatFS File System with extra shell commands for memory dump and file creation.
Segger SystemViewer library updated to V2.36a

Segger SystemViewer V2.36a

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McuOnEclipse Components: 8-May-2016 Release

Posted on May 8, 2016 by Erich Styger

Time is passing fast, and many components have been updated to make the compatible with the NXP Kinetis SDK V2.0. As a highlight, besides of FreeRTOS the following components are now usable with the NXP Kinetis SDK:

Components compatible with Kinetis SDK

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nRF24L01+ 2.4 GHz Wireless Connectivity with the tinyK20 Board

Posted on March 13, 2016 by Erich Styger

I’m using the tiny and inexpensive Nordic Semiconductor nRF24L01+ transceiver (see “Tutorial: Nordic Semiconductor nRF24L01+ with the Freescale FRDM-K64F Board“) in many projects: it costs less than $3 and allows me to communicate with a proprietary 2.4GHz protocol in a low power way (see “IoT: FreeRTOS Down to the Micro Amps“). I have that transceiver now running with the tinyK20 board too:

nRF24L01+ Transceiver with tinyK20

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