One of the things I also like is the export option which enables you to use the code in alternative IDE. rtos behavior, hardware and core faults, framework bugs). Also, it is nearly impossible to debug some bugs/errors this way (eg.
serial port), but this involves additional coding effort. This means that you have to pass debug information using one of the classic communication channels (eg.
Type the STM32 MCU based boards in the search bard and select STM32 MCU based boards and click on install button: It will install all. when I keep pressing the user's button and I restart (by pressing the black button), I get good result, It seems like the program checks the state of the blue button only at the first run, I don't know why, Please help me if you have any ideas of what the problem comes from, or if you have a running program that switch the led on button press. After that, a board manager window will open where you can see a list of installed boards in your Arduino IDE. One function that I really miss is debugging (SWD, JTAG). Now go to tools > board > Boards Manager.
Mbed also lets you use the RTX real-time operating system which is a great thing for a bit more demanding projects.
The collaboration flow () seems to be simple even if you haven’t used git or other version control software before. Mbed seems to use git for version control and collaboration, which is pretty standard. I can’t really comment on the compiler speed and quality, but I guess it is the official GCC or Keil compiler in the background, so it shouldn’t be too bad ? Also, IDE does not do any live code checking, you will have to compile it to get the error messages. (I think there is also a plugin available that programs the board directly with no need to copy files.)Īutocomplete / autosuggestion of the online IDE seems to be a bit on the slow side and does not seem to know all the things (like the board level definitions for example). To program a Nucleo you simply need to save the downloaded file to the disk it creates on connecting it to your PC. it is Nucleo F401RE) and again click on Tools, click on Port and select. I used one of STM32 Nucleo boards to test the program. STM32 Nucleo boards allow anyone to try out new ideas and to quickly create.
Then start coding… Compile button will give you a downloadable binary file (well, if you didn’t make any errors in the code).Īfter just a few minutes I was able to program the code into a microcontroller and make it do some led / button magic. After that, you first need to add a hardware platform to it and create a project. To start using it you should simply signup on for a new account. It may become a bit more complicated if you want to do something more obscure (not supported by the base library) with the hardware ? One thing worth a mention should be that by heavily abstracting hardware you can easily port your software between different processors. Unfortunately, this is still not quite true, but using a framework such as mbed does greatly simplify the initial development efforts by abstracting the hardware layer. The simplicity of the framework gives you the feeling that anybody capable of producing a functional specification will be capable of generating production quality code. Mbed is a development framework for ARM microcontrollers (well it looks like Arduino for ARM to me), officially supported by ARM.