Piconomic Firmware Library Documentation

0.3.0 SVN134

This is a collection of firmware and documentation for 8/16/32-bit microcontrollers.

The aim is to:

• Share source code, knowledge and expertise between the community of engineers, scientists and enthusiasts.
• Provide quick start guides and tutorials to shorten the learning curve of new microcontrollers.
• Provide Board Support Packages (BSPs) for rapid code development.
• Create unified peripheral driver APIs so that code can be re-used on different microcontrollers.
• Recommend good firmware development practices.

Supported microcontrollers:

• Atmel AVR
• Atmel AT91SAM (ARM7TDMI and ARM926EJ-S)
• ST STR91x (ARM966E-S)
• Microchip PIC24F

Quick start guides (with tutorials and examples):

• Atmel AVR
• Atmel AT91SAM

Step by step guides:

• How to build OpenOCD with FTDI's CDM driver for Windows

Recommended best practices:

• C coding style:
  • The Piconomic C coding style
• Doxygen as source documention tool:
  • Using Doxygen source documentation system
• Subversion for revision control:
  • Using Subversion version control system
• Test function for each module

Open hardware development boards:

• /piconomic_ab111-4 : Piconomic AB111-4 Atmel ATmega128 board

Home page:

• http://www.piconomic.co.za/fwlib/index.html

Google Code hosting page:

• http://code.google.com/p/piconomic/

Download page for file releases of the library:

• http://code.google.com/p/piconomic/downloads/list

Changelog / History:

• http://code.google.com/p/piconomic/source/list

Subversion repository:

• http://piconomic.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/

Wish list:

• Unified initialisation code, BSPs and linker scripts for ARM7/9 and Cortex microcontrollers
• Support for more microcontrollers: MSP430, Cortex-M3, ...
• Embedded graphic LCD GUI Library with font converter, bitmap/image support, graphics (lines, circles,...), LCD controller drivers, widgets, WYSIWYG Editor

Author(s):

• Pieter Conradie