foxBMS is a free, open and flexible development environment to design battery management systems. It is the first modular open source BMS development platform.
The foxconda environment: This environment provides all the tools necessary
to generate the documentation, compile the code for the MCUs and flash the
generated binaries on the MCUs (e.g., Python, git, GCC). foxconda
can be downloaded here.
The starting point to get foxBMS is the foxBMS repository at https://github.com/foxBMS/foxbms, which contains all files for the foxBMS project.
- In
foxbms\documentationthe configuration of the doxygen documentation for the primary and secondary MCU can be found. - The software for the MCUs is found in
foxbms\embedded-software. This includes the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL), the real-time operating system FreeRTOS and the BMS application itself. - The layout and schematic files for the foxBMS hardware are found in the
foxbms\hardware. - The build toolchain and other tools related to foxBMS are found in
foxbms\tools.
A generated version of the Sphinx documentation can be found at docs.foxbms.org. It explains the structure of the foxBMS hardware, how to install the foxconda environment and how to use foxconda to compile and flash the sources.
For building the software, open a shell and type python tools\waf --help.
All available build options will be displayed. The top build directory is
foxbms\build.