Possibly the future in motion controllers?

[tronicgr]

Almost here... Now I hope it gets loaded in the mail truck...

Tracking info: "Arrival at Unit. Your item arrived at 7:47 am on September 27, 2012 in BONITA, CA"

[motiondave]

Almost here... Now I hope it gets loaded in the mail truck...

Tracking info: "Arrival at Unit. Your item arrived at 7:47 am on September 27, 2012 in BONITA, CA"

Sorry, I forgot, what board are you getting again?

[tronicgr]

I just got it in the mail.



Its this board:
http://dx.com/p/open107v-arm-cortex-m3-usb-stm32f107vct6-mcu-development-board-kit-150519

Now I'll have to arrange the software tools and the debugger equipment. Will keep you posted on progress. When I have enough progress will make a new thread about it in the controllers section of the forum.

Thanos

[motiondave]

Groovy and hopefully the code will be posted so knuckleheads like me can work it out.

[floriske]

Great to see it finally arrived.

Looking forward to seeing the progress.

Maybe an interesting subject for the news page as well? E.g. occasional status updates?

[tronicgr]

All I can tell so far is that the code won't be just a single file... more likely a series of files that including the peripheral libraries can add-up quickly. Deploying and setting up the tool-chain isn't simple either. Will make source available if anyone can understand it. Its a little far from arduino style, more close to PC software architecture I would say.

A ready compiled version in single file that can be downloaded in DFU mode (USB-OTG) is way easier to load it without external debugger/loader.

Thanos

[vicpopo]

Hi Thanos,
Looks great !
I hope that you will pull out something from this board!
Does it make coffee too ?
Good luck my friend and have a lot of fun with it.
Best Regards

[Turn]

Hey Thanos,

Did you determine if that JLINK V8 emulator works well with this board yet? Also, what toolchain are you going to use?

I just got it in the mail.

Now I'll have to arrange the software tools and the debugger equipment. Will keep you posted on progress. When I have enough progress will make a new thread about it in the controllers section of the forum.

Thanos

[tronicgr]

Hey Thanos,

Did you determine if that JLINK V8 emulator works well with this board yet? Also, what toolchain are you going to use?

Yes, it works perfectly. The J-Flash ARM interface is amazing!! As I mentioned before the toolchain I'll use is the Atollic TrueSTUDIO (they have a "lite" version).

Doing little steps for now because as you said its a toolchain and I'll have to get used to it. Totally different from the programming interface I was using for AVR chips!!


Thanos

[Turn]

Can you believe how expensive this pro toolchains are? $2500 for the pro version of the one you're using. Sheesh.

Did you know TrueSTUDIO lite doesn't support C++? You plan to stick to C code only, I guess? I'm nervous investing the significant learning time in TrueSTUDIO lite because there's sample code and libs out there in C++, and being limited to C only makes me feel a bit handcuffed.

I'm going to take a crack at setting up one of the full-featured OpenSource toolchains sometime in the next few days. Will let you know how it goes. Is there a reason you wanted to stay away from them?

BTW, I've read some folks really like the Rowley CrossWorks IDE. $150 for their personnel edition is far from free, but the cheapest non-OpenSource offering I could find. Have you heard of it?