New in this release:
Segger SystemViewer V2.30
With the start of the new year 2016 I have published a new McuOnEclipse component release with the following major updates:
256 NeoPixel Matrix with FRDM-KL25Z
Time is flying fast, time for another McuOnEclipse components release on SourceForge with the following main changes and features:
Segger RTT Console
On SourceForge I have published an update of the McuOnEclipse software components, with following major changes:
McuOnEclipse SourceForge Release 2015-10-17
In “How to Add Register Details View in Eclipse” I showed how to add the Register detail support in Eclipse using the EmbSysRegView plugin. This was for Luna/Mars, and for the version v0.2.4 of the plugins.
Since then, there is a new version of Eclipse (MARS, see “Going to Mars: Building a DIY Eclipse IDE for ARM Embedded Microcontrollers“) and the EmbSysRegView plugin has been updated to v2.0.5. Makes everything much simple, so here is an updated post with the details how to add register detail view to Eclipse Mars.
Eclipse Mars
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
I’ve been running into an issue with an Eclipse plugin update: I updated a plugin, and then broke a critical functionality. What I usually do is to uninstall the plugin (see “Uninstalling Eclipse Plugins“), and then install it again. However, in this case the uninstall ended with an error too :-(.
Uninstall failed
What now? How can I revert that plugin installation/update?
I know: A new McuOnEclipse Processor Expert components release was long overdue. But I have been extremely busy in the last months, but now the university semester is over, and I have finally some spare time to catch up on a lot of things. So here we go: there is a new component release available on SourceForge (https://sourceforge.net/projects/mcuoneclipse/files/PEx%20Components/): Components 2015-07-05.zip
McuOneEclipse Components on SourceForge
I have a challenge for you: Can you spot the problem in the following source?
TMOUT1_CounterHandle TMOUT1_GetCounter(TMOUT1_CounterType nofTicks){ TMOUT1_CounterHandle handle; CS1_CriticalVariable(); handle = 0; if (nofTicks==0) { nofTicks = 1; /* wait at least for one tick, otherwise will timeout immediately */ } CS1_EnterCritical(); while (!TMOUT1_FreeCounters[handle] && handle<TMOUT1_NOF_COUNTERS) { handle++; } if (handle<TMOUT1_NOF_COUNTERS) { TMOUT1_FreeCounters[handle]=FALSE; TMOUT1_Counters[handle] = nofTicks; } CS1_ExitCritical(); if (handle==TMOUT1_NOF_COUNTERS) { return TMOUT1_OUT_OF_HANDLE; } return handle;}No? Well, I have not spotted the problem the first time neither. However, a reader of this blog did: he used a cool tool named ‘cppcheck’: that tool reported the following:
There are cases when I need to do a reset of the device by software. For example I have loaded the application image with the bootloader, and then I need to perform a reset of the microcontroller to do a restart. As a human user I can press the reset button on the board. But how to do this from the software and application running on the board, without user manual intervention? Or if I simply want to reset the system for whatever reason?
MCU on Eclipse 