Beetle BLE Demo Application

This repository contains a demo BLE Application meant to demonstrate the BLE capabilities of the ARM Beetle SoC in mbed environment. The application is compliant with mbed-os and mbed classic.

Buid procedure

• Setup the mbed environment. For all the information refer to mbed.
• Install mbed-cli (requires python >= 2.7.11):

> pip install mbed-cli

⚠️ This procedure may require sudo rights to complete correctly on Unix Systems.

• Verify that mbed-cli version is at least 0.8.9:

> mbed --version

• Clone this repository:

> git clone https://github.com/ARMmbed/beetle-ble-app.git

• Enter into beetle-ble-app:

> cd beetle-ble-app

• Update and Sync mbed-os:

> mbed update
> mbed sync

• Install mbed-os core dependencies:

> pip install -r mbed-os/requirements.txt

⚠️ This procedure may require sudo rights to complete correctly on Unix Systems.

• From the beetle-ble-app directory compile the application:

* GCC_ARM:
> mbed compile -m ARM_BEETLE_SOC -t GCC_ARM
* ARMCC:
> mbed compile -m ARM_BEETLE_SOC -t ARM

• The generated application will be in .build/ARM_BEETLE_SOC/compiler-name/beetle-ble-app.bin

Flash Procedure and Testing

• For the flashing procedure and the Serial port configuration please refer to Beetle mbed Instructions.
• After completing the procedure you should be able to visualize on the serial port a message like:

ARM SSG BEETLE.SYSTEM.CORE.2.0.1.0 Jul 19 2016 17:35:15
Device Name: Beetle-IoT-TS
MAC Address: 01:23:45:67:89:01
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Welcome to MBED-OS

• At this point you should be able to connect to the beetle device using a Bluetooth enabled device. In our test we used an Android tablet and the application: nRF Master Control Panel.

Export the Beetle BLE project to Keil MDK

• From the command line, run the following command:

> mbed export -m ARM_BEETLE_SOC -i uvision5

• You should see the following output:

Successful:
  * ARM_BEETLE_SOC::uvision5    .\projectfiles\uvision5_ARM_BEETLE_SOC\Unnamed_Project

• The project files are contained into the directory: .\projectfiles\uvision5_ARM_BEETLE_SOC