garthoff / firmware

Firmware for Particle Devices: Spark Core (master branch) and Photon (latest branch)

Particle Firmware for the Core and Photon

This is the main source code repository of the Particle firmware libraries.

Getting Started

To get started building firmware locally, see Getting Started.

Resources

• Latest Release
• Changelog

Build System

• Requirements/Dependencies

Application Firmware Development

• Debugging support
• make command syntax
• Firmware API

System Firmware Development

• System Flags
• Continuous Integration
• Module Descriptor linking and retrieval
• Photon SoftAP Protocol
• WiFi Tester Firmware
• Testing
• API Changes Checklist
• Firmware Release Checklist
• System describe message
• build test suite
• System Threading
• system versions and releases

Modules

• Bootloader overview and internals
• Cloud Communications

Platforms

• Virtual Device
• Starting a New Platform Hardware Abstraction Layer
• Installing the USB Driver on Windows

CREDITS AND ATTRIBUTIONS

The firmware uses the GNU GCC toolchain for ARM Cortex-M processors, ARM's CMSIS libraries, STM32 standard peripheral libraries and Arduino's implementation of Wiring.

On the Core: TI's CC3000 host driver libraries, On the photon: Broadcom's WICED WiFi SDK.

LICENSE

Unless stated elsewhere, file headers or otherwise, all files herein are licensed under an LGPLv3 license. For more information, please read the LICENSE file.

CONTRIBUTE

Want to contribute to the Particle firmware project? Follow this link to find out how.

CONNECT

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