Harvey, I agree with wulf. Not only that, this is something that *someone* who ever needs the doing, pays me, or someone like me to look into.
On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 5:33 PM, Harvey White <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 7 Aug 2016 17:11:57 -0700, you wrote: > > >whats this got to do with a beaglebone ? > > Not a thing, of course, except that they are both ARM processors. > > Hence the OT. > Hence the hope that someone here might be doing similar ARM > development, and also the thought that what works well for the BBB > might cross over into another hardware platform. > > Harvey > > > > >On 8/7/2016 3:44 PM, Harvey White wrote: > >> I'm considering moving from an Atmel XMEGA environment to and ARM > >> environment. (various reasons, one being the purchase of Atmel by > >> Microchip and some corresponding price increases...) > >> > >> I'm looking at the following scenario: > >> > >> 1) buying an explorer/development board: Nucleo 64 bit with a F446RET6 > >> processor from STM. Seems to have the highest performance for > >> processor intensive solutions and would support daughterboards with > >> memory access (good for things like displays and extra memory). > >> > >> 2) I will probably (for these designs) go bare metal. The reasoning > >> is that I do not want Linux at the moment, and these are embedded > >> building blocks of larger systems. I already have an operating system > >> that needs to be rewritten (low level drivers only) for the ARM. It > >> already exists for the Xmega.... no, it's not FreeRtos. (there are > >> reasons). > >> > >> 2A) kinds of designs are display drivers mostly, which is where I need > >> the most processing power. May end up keeping the Xmega stuff for > >> smaller functions, that's not all that bad depending on what Microchip > >> does with the prices (already up some....) > >> > >> 3) Assuming that a 13 dollar development board will do well enough > >> (it's cheaper than I can make a board and populate it), and that there > >> are enough processor pins to run the daughter boards (which I don't > >> mind designing)... > >> > >> 4) What development tools are there that would work reasonably well? > >> I'd be using the (purchased with board) ST_link protocol. > >> > >> 5) cost IS an object, so I'd be looking for a free version that is NOT > >> code size limited. I've had Xmega projects at about 100K bytes of > >> code, which knocks out the "go see what it's like then pay us money" > >> approach of the major compiler vendors. > >> > >> 6) I'm hoping that people here with experience in ARM development have > >> some preferences and could help. The BBB is not a hardware candidate > >> for several reasons, one being cost (I tend to do distributed systems, > >> which means lots of processors), another of which is simply > >> complexity. A processor with add-ons (Arduino approach) seems to be a > >> minimalist hardware approach, which for now, is worth investigating. > >> > >> Currently I am using the AVR studio IDE, and developing in either C or > >> C++, PC projects tend to be Lazarus Pascal for historical reasons and > >> the fact that Microsoft's .net framework drives me up a wall. > >> > >> Comments welcome, and if this is sufficiently off topic for the group, > >> please reply directly. Also would like to hear about inexpensive > >> hardware development boards that might work. Considered the PSOC 5LP > >> boards, but they're such a loss leader that I wonder if they're going > >> to be permanent... Then again, everything changes. > >> > >> Thanks > >> > >> Harvey > >> > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/beagleboard/hokfqbp899ul84c3tgihtvq6ta598oipam%404ax.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/CALHSORrZ%3DJzTMeOKmuNDJxP0r4zeWp7S%3Dr6pLy6H9tghtgoSyg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
