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At The Core Design Challenge: Day -1, What to expect when you are expecting.

Digimorf

I am going on with my reading time.

I have written down the list of signals that my application needs, and I am having an overall idea of timers, DMA, and IRQ handlers. I must say that ModusToolboxTm
peripheral configurator should make the work much easier. So, for now, I am happy about everything.

ModusToolBox peripheral configurator

  • in reply to misaz

    Cool, this is a great starting point, thanks for sharing! ThumbsupRelaxed️Pray

  • in reply to Digimorf

    About two years ago I wrote tutorial including showcase of simple dual-core app and changing memory partitioning between two cores:  PSoC 6 Pioneer Kit Roadtest - Project 5 - Dual Core Appplication

  • I was looking for the linker script where memory sections are defined. I am used to keeping this file in mind when I develop code for STM32 microcontrollers.

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    For a dual-core application, you may want to know where is the shared memory. I might be wrong, but it seems that the user can define the region of shared memory. Is it correct? If so this is SO useful!

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    Of course the file linker.ld is used by the GCC compiler, so if you use another compiler, you have to edit "probably" the linker scripts in the other folders.

  • Tomorrow the board should arrive in the morning, so I will start my "meet the PSoC6" week. It means I will only play with the example projects, and l will also do some tests with the Logic Analyzer and the Oscilloscope to get an idea of what to expect.

    Next, I need to understand which core is best suited for the different functions of the application I want to build. I have never developed code on a multicore ARM Cortex device. I developed applications on a multicore Parallax Propeller in the past but it's another level of complexity and architecture of course. 

    I am having a friendly "talk" with ModusToolbox :) I said friendly because the IDE it's based on Eclipse which I mostly use. I like it mainly because it's widely expandable through the marketplace and there are many plugins for different programming languages also. You can keep open different projects in different languages at the same time, for example, when you have to port your code for other platforms. Let's say you want to develop an embedded application that can run on Windows and on a web browser also.

    Indeed a good choice by Infineon!