The ARM Cortex-M series. Small, very energy efficient and powerful enough for many applications, they are at the heart of many of today’s electronic devices.
This book, System-on-Chip Design with Arm Cortex-M®, is here for free to download; to explain how SoCs (system-on-chip) based on the Arm Cortex-M processor portfolio cores are designed, detail the different elements that compose such a system, explain the different design issues, describe the integration into systems, and discuss how these SoCs are programmed.
STM32CubeMX is part of STMicroelectronics STMCube™ original initiative to ease developers life by reducing development efforts, time and cost. STM32Cube covers STM32 portfolio.
STM32Cube includes the STM32CubeMX which is a graphical software configuration tool that allows generating C initialization code using graphical wizards.
Key Features
- Intuitive STM32 microcontroller selection
- Microcontroller graphical configuration:
Pinout with automatic conflict resolution
Clock tree with dynamic validation of configuration
Peripherals and middleware functional modes and initialization with dynamic validation of parameter constraints
Power sequence with estimate of consumption results
- C code project generation covering STM32 microcontroller initialization compliant with IAR™, Keil™ and GCC compilers.
- Available as a standalone software running on Windows, Linux and OS X operating systems, or through Eclipse plug-in
This video show how to download, install and run STM32CubeMX, to generate C initialization code for NUCLEO-F401RE development board with STM32F401RET6 (ARM 32-bit Cortex-M4 CPU with FPU).
CooCox CoIDE is a free integrated development environment focusing on ARM Cortex-M0/M0+/M3/M4 based microcontrollers. It uses GCC (GCC-ARM-Embedded) tool chain, and is based on Eclipse, but has been customized and simplified to give users a minimalism experience. With Git - a powerful code component sharing and collaborative cloud platform - integrated, over 800 code components are within easy reach, allowing users to implement programs simply by stacking up building blocks.
Free
Based on Eclipse and GCC tool chain, a number of mainstream Cortex-M based MCUs are supported
Customized and simplified, extremely easy to get started
Component-oriented development method for you to get most out of the reusable code
Allows rapid prototyping like stacking up building blocks
Code component sharing and collaborative cloud platform based on Git for friction-less collaboration
