After the proof of concept phase (see “Proof of Concept: Open Source ARM SWD Debug and General Purpose Board“), the first prototypes are ready:
Two tinyK20 Boards
tinyK20 Open Source ARM Debug/Universal Board – First Prototypes
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Smoking BBQ Baby Back Ribs – Swiss Style
Tired of my tech articles? Too much geeky Eclipse stuff? Well, then I have something completely different for you: Smoking Baby Back Ribs! No electronics, no microcontroller, no software: only heavy metal, fire wood, meat and beer :-).
❗ WARNING: this post shows raw meat and alcoholic beverages! You are only allowed to continue reading if you are 18 years or older 😉
BBQ Ribs
Eclipse Project Explorer Filters
Wondering why the Eclipse Project view might not show all files in the Project Explorer view? For example it shows this:
Eclipse Project Explorer View
But on disk I have more files? Where are they?
Debugging the FRDM-K64F with P&E Multilink
The FRDM-K64F board as other Freescale Freedom board have an onboard debugging device. For everyone who wants to debug the FRDM-K64F board with say a P&E Universal Multilink, here is my setup in case you do not get it working out of the box:
FRDM-K64F with P&E Multilink (click to enlarge)
CodeRed Debug Perspective in Kinetis Design Studio
I very much liked the CodeRed Eclipse based IDE (see “Red Suite 5: Eclipse Juno, Processor Expert and unlimited FRDM-KL25Z“). But back in May 2013 CodeRed was acquired by NXP. I have not used much NXP devices for my projects, and as CodeRed was focusing on the NXP parts, CodeRed was not running daily on my desk any more :-(. Well, things might make a full back circle, as NXP announced back March 1st 2015 to acquire Freescale :-). And maybe as a taste how things might come out, the GNU ARM Eclipse plugin release from March 22nd 2015 includes a CodeRed debug view 🙂 🙂
CodeRed Debug Perspective in KDS
That debug perspective mimics a CodeRed debug perspective. The advantage of this Eclipse perspective is that it works very well with small screens. This post is about adding this perspective to the recently release Kinetis Design Studio v3.0.0.
Breadcrumbing Mother’s Day: Minimized Debugging View with Eclipse
What I love with Eclipse: it has lots of small and useful features, either built-in or available as plug-in. Recently I started to use a feature which is present in Eclipse for some time: the ability to save screen real estate during debugging with the ‘breadcrumb’ view option:
Expanded Breadcrumb View
Reduce Eclipse ‘Install New Software’ Installation Time
In Eclipse, the usual way to add new plugins or extend the IDE is using the menu Help > Install New Software. Same thing for the newly released Freescale Kinetis Design Studio V3.0.0: I add the support for new devices in the Freescale Kinetis SDK from the SDK Eclipse update:
Installing Kinetis SDK v1.2 update in Eclipse
One thing I noticed with this (and all others updates I do) is that they take much time to install. That’s expected if the update needs to be downloaded from the web. But I was wondering why it takes so long even if the files are local?
Thanks to a tip (thank you, Marek!), there is a setting to cut the installation time :-). Continue reading
Editing Compiler Include (or other) Settings in Eclipse
So now I have carefully set up my compiler include paths in Eclipse to tell the GNU compiler where to find my header files:
Include Paths
The question is: how can I apply these settings to another project?
Campus Horw, Yesterday
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Well, I took that picture yesterday morning of the University campus in Horw, not thinking much about it. Except that I liked the composition of white, blue, red and green with yellow:
Campus Horw
Except that today is a cold, windy and rainy day, making the view from yesterday even more beautiful.
Happy Sunshining 🙂
CRC Checksum Generation with ‘SRecord’ Tools for GNU and Eclipse
One of the things missing for Embedded in the GNU linker is that it cannot generate a CRC checksum. Luckily, there is the solution of using SRecord:
MCU on Eclipse 