Welcome to the exciting world of Processor Expert Embedded Components!
This site contains components using the Processor Expert Embedded Components technology, as used in CodeWarrior for Microcontrollers 10.x (in short: CW MCU10.x). I'm using MCU10.3, but in general the components are backwards compatible.
The initial set of components have been created in a research project at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts where I'm teaching Embedded Systems Programming. The Embedded Components are used in our research projects, in many student projects and of course as well in my own projects :-).
Starting January 1st 2013, the latest and greatest versions of components and examples are hosted on GitHub and SourceForge.
I'm maintaining my own blog at http://mcuoneclipse.com. There is as well a book coming out soon, see this link. And everything is hosted on GitHub too.
Keep in mind that everyting is provided 'as is', without any warranty. If you have any suggestions/questions, then contact me under erich _dot_ styger _at_ hslu _dot_ ch .
All latest and greatest components, all-in-one archive file to download are here.
Currently available components, in alphabetical order:
Component | Description |
24AA_EEPROM | Microchip 24AA EEPROM driver. |
BootLoaderDisk | File System for Bootloader. |
BootLoaderUSB | Bootloader over USB. |
FAT_FileSystem | FAT FatFS File System. |
FatFsMemSDHC | Memory Manager for FatFS using SDHC_LDD. |
FontDisplay | Draw text on a graphical display. |
FreeRTOS | FreeRTOS Operating System. |
FreeRTOSTrace | Trace hook implementation for FreeRTOS. |
FSShell | File System Shell and generic shell. |
FSL_USB_Stack | Wrapper for Freescale USB Stack. |
GDisplay | Graphical Display drawing routines. |
GenericBitIO | Generic Bit I/O. |
GenericTimeDate | Generic Date/Time handling. |
GenericI2C | Generic Software I2C driver, on top of a low level one (e.g. HW I2C or GenericSWI2C). |
GenericSWI2C | Generic Software I2C with 'bit banging'. |
GenericSWSPI | Generic Software SPI with 'bit banging'. |
GFont | Graphical Fonts. |
HardFault | Hard Fault handler for Kinetis to simplify debugging of HardFault exceptions. |
I2CSpy | Utility to inspect I2C devices. |
LCDHTA | HD44780 2x16 Character Display Driver. |
LED | Universal LED driver. |
MC13192 | Wireless Transceiver Driver for MC1321x and MC13192/MC1320x. |
MaxonF2140 | DC Motor driver (PWM for speed, BitIO for direction). |
PCA9554 | NXP PCA9554(A) I2C I/O Expander. |
PID_Int | PID Control Loop with Integer values. |
PercepioTrace | Percepio FreeRTOS+Trace wrapper. |
QuadCounter | Quadratur Decoder with sampling or Input Capture. |
RTC_Maxim | Maxim I2C RTC device driver for DS3232 and DS1307. |
RingBufferUInt8 | Ring Buffer for unsigned 8bit values. |
S19 | S19 File Parser. |
SD_Card | Low Level SD-Card driver for FatFS. |
PDC8544 | Display Driver for black/white Philips display found in Nokia phones. |
SimpleEvents | Simple Event Flags. |
SMAC | SMAC 2.4 GHz stack for MC13213 and MC13201. |
SSD1289 | Solomon Systech SSD1289 LCD. |
SSEC | Security driver for SPHY. |
SPHY | PHY driver for SMAC. |
Tacho | Tachometer. |
Timeout | Timeout handler. |
Trigger | Trigger module implementing mini-threads. |
Utility | Utility functions. |
Wait | Busy Waiting Routines. |
Download the Embedded Components to your harddisk (Save as...). Use the menu 'Processor Expert > Import Package':
Then browse to your downloaded component (you can import multiple components in a single step).
After you have imported a component(s), use the 'Refresh' context menu in the 'Components Library' view or restart MCU10.
If you have changed/updated a component, it is enough to close the project and re-open it again (select project, menu 'Project > Close Project' and then 'Project > Open Project'. This ensures that the latest and greatest Embedded Component driver is loaded.
Note: MCU10.2 has the 'Component Wizard' menu removed, as MCU10.2 contains the CDE (Component Development Environment) inside eclipse. If you still need to use the 'classic' Component Wizard, it is still availble in <Installation>MCU\ProcessorExpert\BeanWizard.exe.
Example Projects and Instructions how to use the example projects can be found here.
My Blog on MCU10 and eclipse: MCU on eclipse
MCU10 download: Freescale CodeWarrior for MCU10
Freescale forum about CodeWarrior: Freescale CodeWarrior Forum
My guest posts on the Freescale Blog: Software Meets Silicon
- The Art of Fixing Things
- The Power of Embedded Components
- Buried treasure? Unmanned helicopters, Tower cards, and CodeWarrior for Microcontrollers 10
- CodeWarrior Tool Tip #1: Improve performance by cleaning house in the Eclipse workspace
- CodeWarrior Tool Tip #2: Programming flash memory is easy
- CodeWarrior Tool Tip #3: History repeats itself
- CodeWarrior Tool Tip #4: The outline view
- CodeWarrior Tool Tip #5: The return of the subproject
- CodeWarrior Tool Tip #7: What's your preference?
- CodeWarrior Tool Tip #9: Stop on Startup
- Scripting: Welcome to the debugger shell
- 10 best Eclipse shortcuts
- The Freedom Board
- Software and Hardware Breakpoints
Date | Description |
31-Jan-2013 | Updated Utility, LED and for IAR, see this post. |
29-Dec-2012 | Added PWM and shell interface to LED. |
26-Dec-2012 | Initial release of HardFault. |
25-Dec-2012 | Simplified version of LED. |
22-Dec-2012 | Initial release of LCDHTA. |
16-Dec-2012 | Updated Wait for more accurate timing for Kinetis. Updated PDC8544 for Kinetis. LCDHTA |
08-Dec-2012 | Updated Utility with new methods. Wait |
05-Dec-2012 | First release of new RTC_Maxim component, with updated FSShell and FAT_FileSystem for it. |
04-Dec-2012 | Fixed a bug in the GenericSWI2C component. First release of new GenericI2C component. |
25-Nov-2012 | Updated FreeRTOS with and fixed bug for gcc and Cortex-M0+ at higher optimization levels. |
18-Nov-2012 | Updated FAT_FileSystem and SD_Card. |
13-Nov-2012 | Updated FSShell and FSL_USB_Stack, as well the examples for it. |
02-Oct-2012 | Released the PDC8544 for Nokia black/white displays. First version of GenericSWSPI. |
18-Aug-2012 | Updated FreeRTOS to support version 7.2.0. Because of changed different heap handling, updated FSShell as well. |
15-Aug-2012 | Added SMAC, SSEC, SPHY, and MC13192. |
09-Aug-2012 | New version of RingBufferUInt8 which has been missed to be published with the new version of FSShell. |
08-Aug-2012 | Updated FreeRTOS with a fix for Freescale Kinetis compiler. Updated FSShell to automatically switch on/off LDD version of terminal, and fixed an internal error for non-LDD targets. |
05-Aug-2012 | Updated PercepioTrace to work with gcc. Improved support in FSShell for Tera Term. |
30-Jul-2012 | New component FatFsMemSDHC. Additionally updated FAT_FileSystem and FSShell and SD_Card. |
29-Jul-2012 | Fixed bug in LED component.FatFsMemSDHC |
25-Jul-2012 | New GenericTimeDate component. |
18-Jul-2012 | Updated FreeRTOS with support for ARM/Kinetis gcc and Cortex-M0+. |
07-Jul-2012 | Updated PercepioTrace, FreeRTOSTrace and FreeRTOS. See this post. |
02-Jul-2012 | Published new components PID_Int, Tacho, MaxonF2140 and QuadCounter. |
13-Jun-2012 | Fixed an issue in SD_Card, Wait supports now gcc assembly syntax. |
03-Jun-2012 | Updated PercepioTrace for V2.2.2. |
27-May-2012 | Updated FreeRTOS for V7.1.1. |
21-May-2012 | Updated FSShell for flexible text positions. New GenericSWI2C component. |
04-May-2012 | Updated FSL_USB_Stack with support for S08MM128. |
25-Mar-2012 | Added new component FreeRTOSTrace and PercepioTrace. Updated FreeRTOS to use free running counter (needed for Percepio Trace). |
15-Mar-2012 | Added new component 24AA_EEPROM and updated FSL_USB_Stack. |
08-Mar-2012 | Added new component RingBufferUInt8 and FSL_USB_Stack. 24AA_EEPROM |
11-Feb-2012 | FreeRTOS support for S12 and S12X and classic (non-eclipse) CodeWarrior, updated FSShell for classic CodeWarrior. |
08-Feb-2012 | Extended version of Utility with additional wrappers to the string library. Extended FAT_FileSystem with macro wrapper to f_eof(), f_error(), f_tell() and f_size(). |
01-Feb-2012 | Fixed issue in FAT_FileSystem with read-only file system setting. |
31-Jan-2012 | Wait supports now as well the Freescale DSC family of microprocessors. |
25-Jan-2012 | SD_Card has now a setting for high/low active card detection pin. |
06-Jan-2012 | Additional components and example for bootloader over USB. |
03-Jan-2012 | Additional components, updates for FreeRTOS 7.1.0 and added Kinetis K70 example. |
19-Nov-2011 | Added GFont, FontDisplay, GDisplay, SSD1289 |
13-Nov-2011 | Updated FSShell and FreeRTOS to 7.0.2. Additionally providing an 'all-in-one' download. |
13-Nov-2011 | Updated FreeRTOS to support Kinetis, including example for it. |
02-Nov-2011 | Updated FreeRTOS and FSShell and example applications. Added Trigger. |
25-Oct-2011 | Added PCA9554 and SimpleEvents |
05-Sept-2011 | More components, added example and instructions. |
04-Sept-2011 | Site creation, added first components. |
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