Now I have invested a lot of time into my application, ready to be flashed on the devices and shipped. But wait: I don’t want that someone can read out the code from my device and have it reverse engineered. For this, I can ‘secure’ the device.
Flash Security Settings
In “Tutorial: DIY Kinetis SDK Project with Eclipse – Startup” I showed how to create a Kinetis SDK project from scratch. In this post it is about adding the board initialization files. With the board initialization the peripheral clocks and pin muxing is configured.
MK64FN1M0VLL12 on FRDM-K64F
Here is another featured student project of this semester: Formula Student Electric (FSE). After the outstanding racing season with “Julier” in 2013, the students have designed and built a new and improved Formula Student Electric car “grimsel”, named after the Grimsel Mountain Pass.
Team Video:
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Our garden has a large area planted with lavender, and this pays off every summer: the color! the scent and flavour! And best of all: many, many bees and butterflies!
“Note to myself: post articles about what students have done this semester…”
Students have turned in their semester project work. I have set for myself a goal to briefly describe to the ‘outside’ world what they did, as an inspirational source :-). So here is a first article about the project completed by Christoph Bühlmann who developed a shield for the FRDM-KL25Z board: a programmable ultrasonic shield:
Ultrasonic Shield with Freescale FRDM-KL25Z (Source: Christoph Bühlmann)
Newer releases of Processor Expert (e.g. in Kinetis Design Studio (KDS)) come with a ‘graphical’ (or ‘tabbed’) view of the Component Inspector. The UI elements are different and ‘tabs’ are using:
Component Inspector in Tabbed View
I like much more the earlier ‘no-tabs’ view. Luckily, there is a setting to switch the view back.
Question: How to build a low-cost logic open source logic analyzer for less than $15?
Answer: combine the Freedom KL25Z board with OLS!
500 Hz signal with 50% duty cycle in LogicSniffer
This is the start of a multi-post tutorial about the Freescale Kinetis SDK, released back in April as beta version. The SDK a set of peripheral drivers, and will become the standard software foundation and drivers provided by Freescale for their ARM Cortex based devices. Similar what other vendors already do. While this is a good step, it is the same time very disruptive for my university projects with new Freescale Cortex-M devices. And with everything new (and beta), it needs time to learn. So this post is about creating a Do-It-Yourself Kinetis SDK project from scratch for Eclipse. This part is about the startup code: about everything to get the application started.
FRDM-K64F with SD, nRF24L01+ and HC-06 Bluetooth
The ARM Cortex-M4F on the Freescale FRDM-K64F board can run up to 120 MHz. Here is how to get it running with maximum speed:
FRDM-K64F Board
Pictures (click to enlarge) from another motor bike tour last week-end. Starting above Schwyz:
Rigi Range
MCU on Eclipse 