albertskog / stellaris-evalbot-fw

Reviving the Texas Instruments Stellaris Evalbot devkit

Stellaris Evalbot Firmware

Reviving the TI Stellaris Evalbot in 2021! 🤖

Dependencies

The following are required to build and run this project.

StellarisWare

Get StellarisWare: https://www.ti.com/tool/SW-DRL#downloads (yes, finally a link that is not dead!)

Extract to ../stellarisware (or update the makefile with your installation path)

Compiler gcc-arm-none-eabi

Get gcc-arm-none-eabi: https://developer.arm.com/tools-and-software/open-source-software/developer-tools/gnu-toolchain/gnu-rm/downloads

Installation instructions for Ubuntu 20.04: https://askubuntu.com/a/1243405/1076308

Available for OS X with brew:

brew install --cask gcc-arm-embedded

OpenOCD

Get OpenOCD: https://openocd.org/pages/getting-openocd.html

For supported Linux distributions, it can be installed with apt:

apt install openocd

or with brew:

brew install open-ocd

Build and debug with VSCodium or VSCode

This project includes a .vscode folder with tasks.json for building and uploading. There is also a launch.json for debugging. Debugging requires on the Coretex-Debug addon:

VSCodium: https://open-vsx.org/extension/marus25/cortex-debug

VSCode: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=marus25.cortex-debug

Build and debug with terminal

Building

1. Clone or download the code from this repository
2. Place this folder next to the stellarisware folder, or update makefile
3. Navigate to this folder and run make

Flashing

Navigate to this folder and run:

openocd -f evalbot_flash.cfg

Debugging

Navigate to this folder and run:

openocd -f evalbot.cfg

Then run GDB in a second terminal:

arm-none-eabi-gdb gcc/project.axf

Example of commands to run in GDB to load the program and set breakpoint in main():

target extended-remote localhost:3333
monitor reset
load
break main
continue
detach
quit