This article is part of a ‘mini series’ about hidden gems, tips and tricks around Eclipse.
The topic of this one is how to accelerate the start of the debugger.
Nothing to be done
Eclipse Gems, Tips & Tricks: Faster Debugger Start
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Eclipse Gems, Tips & Tricks: Black Theme
This article is part of a ‘mini series’ about hidden gems, tips and tricks around Eclipse.
The topic of this one is how to use a ‘black theme’.
Eclipse Black Theme
Eclipse Gems, Tips & Tricks: Project Filter
This article is part of a ‘mini series’ about hidden gems, tips and tricks around Eclipse.
The topic of this one is how to use filters in the Project Explorer view.
Filter Icon
Using eInk display with LPC55S69 and OKdo E1 board
I have continued to explore my two hobbies (embedded systems, and Talking About The Weather) during these weeks of lock-down. I have finally got to the point that my Weather Station project can sit on the window shelf of my office, and show me the temperature, humidity and atmospheric pressure on the attached eInk display.
In this blog I’m going to focus on driving that display.
Continue readingEclipse Gems, Tips & Tricks: Text Block Selection
This article is part of a ‘mini series’ about hidden gems, tips and tricks around Eclipse.
The topic of this one is how to do a ‘block’ selection in the text editor.
Eclipse Text Block Selection
Eclipse Gems, Tips & Tricks: Close and Open Projects
This article is part of a ‘mini series’ about hidden gems, tips and tricks around Eclipse.
The topic of this one is how to efficiently open and close projects.
Projects in the Project Explorer
Eclipse Gems, Tips & Tricks: Importing Projects
This article is part of a ‘mini series’ about hidden gems, tips and tricks around Eclipse.
The topic of this one is how to import existing projects into a workspace.
Drag&Drop Import
From C to C++: Converting Eclipse C Projects
Creating a new project with Eclipse for a microcontroller these days is fairly easy, and I have the choice if I want to start the project with C or C++:
Choice of C and C++ for a new project
Still the embedded microcontroller world is dominated by C and not C++. So while it is easy to start with a C++ project, most vendor provided example or tutorial project are C projects. So how can I transform such project to C++?
MCUXpresso SDK Tutorial – using I2C Driver on OKdo E1 board
In an earlier tutorial I introduced using I2C with the NXP LPC55S69 on OKdo E1 board to read a Bosch BME280 environmental sensor on a Mikroe Weather Click board. The MCUXpresso Clocks, Pins and Peripheral Config tools were used to get it running. It’s all for my Weather Station project that I’ve been working on during these months of lockdown. It is starting to take shape – as you can see from the photograph:
Now I really need to start reading and writing to the BME280 sensor, and that means using the I2C driver in the lpcxpresso55s69 SDK. And so this week I’ll provide a forensic examination of the most commonly-used I2C function call.
Continue readingHow to use Eclipse CDT Environment Variables in C/C++ Code
When using a logging framework it is useful to use the current file name or line number. The ANSI C/C++ standard defines the __LINE__ and __FILE_ preprocessor macros for this.
But what about the project name, if it is a release or debug build, the microcontroller used or other things like the operating system which was used to build the binary?
Target Chip Name
This (and even more) can be easily provided by Eclipse to the C/C++ application being built with CDT.
MCU on Eclipse 