Nice work Eric. Do you have any photos? Good to see this sort of innovation happening with codec 2 and the open hardware SM1000 platform.
Also it would be great if you can publish your hardware/software work under the GPL/TAPR open hardware licenses for others to build upon. Cheers, David On 28/08/16 09:37, e...@vk5kbb.com wrote: > No confusion and thanks for the input. > > In the end looks like my windows DFuSe was not working correctly and I > found that DFU-UTILS could be installed with a simple apt-get function > and I didnt need to build it. > > From there DFU-UTILS happily installed the 210,080 byte .BIN (didnt > need to be converted) and I could immediately tell it worked because it > took roughly 30 seconds to down load to the hardware. > > So the modified code for the new hardware works (although as the new > hardware uses different ADC pins the changes are not trivial). > > Now I will go back to evaluating various IDE's because this is not an > environment that makes code development very easy or efficient. > > Basically right now I am editing in an IDE on a windows machine via a > network drive and then making on the Ubuntu machine. > > The hardware tested ok and I now have an SM1000 that fits into a match > box so I can put it inside a speaker microphone. > > I am however now redesigning the PCB to reduce it a further 20% in size > (mainly removal of more un-needed parts, 5V reg, EEPROM, and speaker > amplifier) with the plan to graft it into my FT817 so that it is > activated when the digital mode is selected. > > I am also putting the ADC pins back where they were so that people need > only change the sm1000_leds_switches.c code to reflect the pin changes. > > I will eventually rewrite the code so that the ADC's and GPIO's are > defined in a single .h hardware definition to make the code hardware > portable. > > I do this as a general rule of thumb so that for example in this case > every time the hardware changes the 56 (or more) instances of ADC1/2 all > dont need to be edited. > > Cheers > > Eric > > > > > > On 2016-08-24 15:04, Walter Holmes wrote: > >> Steve, >> >> I hope this doesn't just add more to the confusion, but the .bin file for >> the SM1000 is about 227k that is flashed from Linux, but if I extract that >> same code down to my Windows machine using the DFU program it's 1025k. >> >> I am not part of the code team, so I have no idea why there is such a >> difference, but that's just an observation I have witnessed. >> >> I say this only so that you don't let the code size between environments >> make you think it's not still correct. Try it out to see what happens. >> >> I suspect the Windows side probably has a lot of extra overhead as do most >> Windows apps, and clearly the Linux side is a great deal more efficient. >> >> All the best, >> >> Walter/K5WH >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Steve [mailto:coupaydevi...@gmail.com <mailto:coupaydevi...@gmail.com>] >> Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2016 3:33 AM >> To: freetel-codec2@lists.sourceforge.net >> <mailto:freetel-codec2@lists.sourceforge.net> >> Subject: Re: [Freetel-codec2] Fresh build of SM1000 firmware on a windows >> machine. >> >> Just a note, but on my Ubuntu 16 32-bit Virtual Box, it resulted in >> 1305108 for the sm1000.elf, and after the 'objcopy' conversion, the .bin >> result was 305884. I had to download the V 1.7.1 ZIP file manually, as the >> web site gave me a short version that was gimped and wouldn't unzip. I just >> downloaded it manually after registering and put it in the 'dl' directory. >> >> Also the name changed to en.stm32f4_dsp_stdperiph_lib.zip so I dropped the >> 'en.' before putting it in 'dl'. >> >> I hope all that makes sense. >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> -- >> _______________________________________________ >> Freetel-codec2 mailing list >> Freetel-codec2@lists.sourceforge.net >> <mailto:Freetel-codec2@lists.sourceforge.net> >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freetel-codec2 >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> _______________________________________________ >> Freetel-codec2 mailing list >> Freetel-codec2@lists.sourceforge.net >> <mailto:Freetel-codec2@lists.sourceforge.net> >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freetel-codec2 > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freetel-codec2 mailing list > Freetel-codec2@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freetel-codec2 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freetel-codec2 mailing list Freetel-codec2@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freetel-codec2
