CMSIS Version 5

CMSIS Version 5.0.0 is scheduled for release in June 2016. Once completed it will be released in this GitHub project.

Use Issues to provide feedback and report problems for CMSIS Version 5. Note that this repository gives our users and partners contiguous access to the CMSIS development. It allows you to review the work and provide feedback or create pull requests for contributions.

Planned Enhancements

• Add support for ARMv8-M Architecture (Mainline and Baseline)

• Improvements for Cortex-A / M hybrid devices (focus on Cortex-M interaction)

• CMSIS-RTOS API and RTX reference implementation with several enhancements:

  • Dynamic object creation, Flag events, C and C++ API, additional thread and timer functions
  • Secure and Non-Secure support, multi-processor support

• CMSIS-Pack

  • Additions for generic example, project templates, multiple download portals
  • Adoption of IAR Flash Loader technology

For further details see also the Slides of the Embedded World CMSIS Partner Meeting.

Directory Structure

All CMSIS components will be available by end of March 2016

Directory	Content
CMSIS/Core	CMSIS-Core related files (for release)
CMSIS/DAP	CMSIS-DAP related files and examples
CMSIS/Driver	CMSIS-Driver API headers and template files
CMSIS/DSP	CMSIS-DSP related files
CMSIS/RTOS	RTOS v1 related files (for Cortex-M)
CMSIS/RTOS2	RTOS v2 related files (for Cortex-M & ARMv8-M)
CMSIS/DoxyGen	Source of the documentation
CMSIS/Utilities	Utility programs

Generate CMSIS Pack for Release

This GitHub development repository contains already pre-build libraries of various libraries (DSP, RTOS, RTOS2). These libraries are validated for release.

To build a complete CMSIS pack for installation the following additional tools are required:

• doxygen.exe Version: 1.8.2 (Documentation Generator)
• mscgen.exe Version: 0.20 (Message Sequence Chart Converter)
• 7z.exe (7-Zip) Version: 16.02 (File Archiver)

Using these tools, you can generate on a Windows PC:

• CMSIS Software Pack using the batch file gen_pack.bat (located in ./CMSIS/Utilities). This batch file also generates the documentation.

• CMSIS Documentation using the batch file genDoc.bat (located in ./CMSIS/Doxygen).

The file ./CMSIS/DoxyGen/How2Doc.txt describes the rules for creating API documentation.

License

ARM CMSIS is licensed under Apache-2.0.

Contributions and Pull Requests

Contributions are accepted under Apache-2.0. Only submit contributions where you have authored all of the code.