STM32F407 Development

This repository is to Capture Framework Design and Templating with approach of flexible building blocks.

Setup Pre-requisite Changed

Programming:

• Eclipse >= Luna (For templating and debugging to work properly)
• arm-none-eabi-gcc

Flashing and Debugging:

• Linux -> stlink flash command line utility
• Win -> STM32 ST-LINK Utility
• OpenOCD for stlink-v1 and v2

Configuration:

• STM32CubeMX -> Standalone and Eclipse Plugin
• STemWin -> Professional graphical stack library enabling the building up of GUIs
• X-CUBE-AI (STM32Cube.AI) (Not Started)
• X-CUBE-BLE1 (Not Started)
• X-CUBE-MEMS1 (Not Started)
• X-CUBE-NFC4 (Not Started)
• TouchGFXDesigner -> TouchGFX graphic design and code generation tool (Not Started)

Miscellaneous

• Doxygen
• Graphviz

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Requirements for Software Framework (Template)

This framework design is inspired from following Sources:

1. IEEE SWEBOKv3
2. Embedded Systems Building Blocks - Jean Lebrosse
3. Software Engineering for Embedded Systems - Jean Lebrosse
4. Jack Ganssle Books

Software Requirement

• Documentation
  • Doxygen and Graphviz (.doxyfile config required)
  • Template header file with comments for Documentation Main Page
  • It will convert comments to html or pdf document
  • It will also provide DAG
  • Dependency Graphs
  • Call Graphs
• Truestudio Linker file for easy memory management
• STM32CubeMX Support for easy configuration
  • Clock Config
  • Peripheral Config
  • 3rd Party Stack Config
  • DMA Config and more
• Semi-hosting support
  • printf over debug
  • RTO's debug and trace support
  • gprof and gconv support
• OTG USB support for Serial Communication
  • Removing UART Port Dependency
  • There is always one OTG on-board USB
• OTG USB support for Storage devices
  • Implement FatFs for filesystem
• MCU Power Control
  • Switchable power control for peripherals
• MCU Clock Control
  • Systick interrupt for interval timer (Interrupt Delay support in ms,us)
  • Watchdog support
  • Sleep Mode support
  • Flexible Overclocking support
• MCU Core Features
  • Cortex-M Core Support (Stack, Memory, Registers, etc)
  • Bit-banding
  • MPU, SVC and etc
• Interrupt Services
  • Delay
  • Software Interrupt
  • Hardware Interrupt
  • Interval Interrupt
  • DMA Interrupt
• CMSIS RTO for FreeRTOS
  • Support for COM Port Debug over VCP
    • Task List
    • Runtime Stats
  • Template for Hooks (Failure Detection and Interval Status Check)
  • Filesystem and CLI support
• RTC Timer for Date and Time stamps
  • Printf implementable
• BSP Driver Files for Custom Modular Driver Development (Refer book)
  • It avoids modification to vendor default drivers (HAL or Legacy)
  • This will be using HAL drivers for everything
  • Modular drivers lets us manage hardware conflict and service conflict
  • Prefix for board related files will be stm32f4_discovery_xyz.c/h
  • Prefix for Custom Hardware files will be stm32f4_hardwareX_peripheralX.c/h

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Useful References:

1. Jacob Beningo Articles
2. Eclipse Interfacing for Embedded Development