NestorDP / tm4c123glx_freertos_tivaware_gcc

Template project for EK-TM4C123G with FreeRTOS + TivaWare Driverlib using arm-none-eabi toolchain

About

This is a tamplete project to the Texas Instruments TM4C123GLX Launchpad, based on ARM® Cortex®-M4F microcontrollers with FreeRTOS™ and the TivaWare™ Peripheral Driver Library build with gcc compiler from the Arm GNU Embedded Toolchain

Setup the environment

GCC Compiler

Download tha Arm GNU Toochain. The next step is to copy to the toochain to the PATH system variable, as you can see below.

foo@bar:~$ export PATH=$PATH:/home/gcc-arm-11.2-2022.02-x86_64-arm-none-eabi/bin

TivaWare Driverlib

Download the TivaWare Driverlib.

foo@bar:~$ mkdir tivaware
foo@bar:~$ cd tivawarePah
foo@bar:tivaware$ mv <directory_downloaded>/SW-TM4C-2.1.1.71.exe
foo@bar:tivaware$ unzip SW-TM4C-2.1.1.71.exe
foo@bar:tivaware$ rm SW-TM4C-2.1.1.71.exe
foo@bar:tivaware$ export TIVAWARE_DIR=/your/tivaware/path/tivaware

lm4flash

foo@bar:~$ git clone https://github.com/utzig/lm4tools.git
foo@bar:~$ cd lm4tools/lm4flash
foo@bar:lm4flash$ make
foo@bar:lm4flash$ sudo cp lm4flash /usr/local/bin

Clone the repository

foo@bar:~$ https://github.com/NestorDP/tm4c123glx_freertos_tivaware_gcc.git
foo@bar:~$ cd ttm4c123glx_freertos_tivaware_gcc
foo@bar:tm4c123glx_freertos_tivaware_gcc$ git submodule init
Submodule 'FreeRTOS/Source' (https://github.com/FreeRTOS/FreeRTOS-Kernel.git) registered for path 'FreeRTOS/Source'
foo@bar:tm4c123glx_freertos_tivaware_gcc$ git submodule update
Cloning into '/home/nestor/tm4c123glx_freertos_tivaware_gcc/FreeRTOS/Source'...
Submodule path 'FreeRTOS/Source': checked out '44e02bff3103d7522358905f0bad8023c17a784b'

Run code example

Debug with GDB+OpenOCD in VSCode

Install OpenOCD

foo@bar:~$ git clone https://git.code.sf.net/p/openocd/code openocd-code
foo@bar:~$ cd openocd-code
foo@bar:openocd-code$ ./bootstrap
foo@bar:openocd-code$ ./configure
foo@bar:openocd-code$ make
foo@bar:openocd-code$ sudo make install

Install the ARM Cortex-M Debugger suport for VSCode Cortex-Debug

Compile the project with debug flag:

foo@bar:tm4c123glx_freertos_tivaware_gcc$ make debug

JSON file to debug configuration in VScode.

{
  // Use IntelliSense to learn about possible attributes.
  // Hover to view descriptions of existing attributes.
  // For more information, visit: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=830387
"version": "0.2.0",
  "configurations": [
      {
        "cwd": "${workspaceRoot}",
        "executable": "${workspaceRoot}/image.elf",
        "name": "Debug Microcontroller",
        "request": "launch",
        "type": "cortex-debug",
        "servertype": "openocd",
        "serverpath": "openocd",
        "configFiles": ["/usr/local/share/openocd/scripts/board/ti_ek-tm4c123gxl.cfg"],
        "gdbTarget": "localhost:3333",
        "rtos": "FreeRTOS",
        // "device": "",
        // "interface": "",
        "showDevDebugOutput": "raw",
        "runToMain": true
      }
  ]
}