RP2040: Library & Tools for Astrobe Available

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Today, I have made available a first set of Oberon modules to program the RP2040 using Astrobe for Cortex-M0, v9.0.3. There's also a tool to transmogrify Astrobe '.bin' file to the contents and UF2 format for the RP2040.

The library contains as of today:

1) Basics to get off the ground: clocks, reset releases, memory configuration and management, run-time error handling, GPIO, Exceptions, MCU-style definitions (register addresses and such), programming both cores: https://oberon-rtk.org/lib/

2) Formatted Text output to two serial terminals: https://oberon-rtk.org/description/text-io/

3) A first variant of a cooperative (non-preemptive) multi-threading kernel: https://oberon-rtk.org/lib/kernel-v1/kernel-v1-desc/

Info & docs: I have set up a website with information and some minimum first documentation: https://oberon-rtk.org

Repository: the library and tools can be found in this GitHub repository: https://github.com/ygrayne/oberon-rtk

Examples: there are two example programs to get you started: https://oberon-rtk.org/examples/

Dependency: you need a registered copy of Astrobe for Cortex-M0 (v9.0.3) to build the code

Astrobe settings: see https://oberon-rtk.org/tools/astrobe/

File converter/uploader: see the 'tools' folder; for usage and installation instructions see https://oberon-rtk.org/tools/abin2uf2/

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Made a few library changes, mostly to the text output machinery: https://oberon-rtk.org/changes/2024/cn-2024-01-17/

Added a new example program, showing how to avoid busy waiting for a peripheral: https://oberon-rtk.org/examples/v2/nobusywaiting/

Edited the kernel description for structure and hopefully clarity: https://oberon-rtk.org/lib/kernel-v1/kernel-v1-desc/

All code is in the GitHub repo: https://github.com/ygrayne/oberon-rtk

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Latest changes and extensions: https://oberon-rtk.org/description/changes-2024-01-29/

Main extension: reading from serial terminals: https://oberon-rtk.org/description/text ... and-input/

New example program: https://oberon-rtk.org/examples/readterminal/

Some thoughts about the implications of using two processor cores: https://oberon-rtk.org/description/two-processor-cores/

All code is in the GitHub repo: https://github.com/ygrayne/oberon-rtk

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Recent changes and additions:

1) https://oberon-rtk.org/changes/2024/cn-2024-01-30/: signals and semaphores for thread synchronisation.

Example programs: https://oberon-rtk.org/examples/v2/signalsync/ and https://oberon-rtk.org/examples/v2/semaphoresync/

2) https://oberon-rtk.org/changes/2024/cn-2024-02-02/: watchdog prototype, across both cores.

Example program: https://oberon-rtk.org/examples/v1/watchdogproto1/

GitHub repo: https://github.com/ygrayne/oberon-rtk

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Latest changes and additions: https://oberon-rtk.org/changes/2024/cn-2024-02-10/

Added inter-core messaging: https://oberon-rtk.org/description/inter-core-messages/

New example program: https://oberon-rtk.org/examples/v1/messaging/

GitHub repo: https://github.com/ygrayne/oberon-rtk

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Recent changes and additions:

1) https://oberon-rtk.org/changes/2024/cn-2024-02-13/: stack usage checking

Example program: https://oberon-rtk.org/examples/v2/stackusage/

2) https://oberon-rtk.org/changes/2024/cn-2024-02-16/: bootrom access

Example program: https://oberon-rtk.org/examples/v2/bootromaccess/

GitHub repo: https://github.com/ygrayne/oberon-rtk

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Latest updates and changes: https://oberon-rtk.org/changes/2024/cn-2024-03-01/

Main addition: hybrid kernel variant (kernel-v2): https://oberon-rtk.org/lib/kernel-v2/kernel-v2-desc/

GitHub repo: https://github.com/ygrayne/oberon-rtk

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Latest updates and changes: https://oberon-rtk.org/changes/2024/cn-2024-04-04/

Astrobe for Cortex-M0 v9.1 is now the required baseline.

New example program to measure code loading times from Flash, with and without caching, and from SRAM: https://oberon-rtk.org/examples/v2/codeloading/

GitHub repo: https://github.com/ygrayne/oberon-rtk

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Latest update and changes: https://oberon-rtk.org/changes/2024/cn-2024-04-16/

New example program to introduce the micro-seconds tasking system, with measurements and evaluations of minimum set-up time and minimum time between consecutive tasks, run from flash memory or SRAM: https://oberon-rtk.org/examples/v1/taskeval/

GitHub repo: https://github.com/ygrayne/oberon-rtk

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Latest update and changes: https://oberon-rtk.org/changes/2024/cn-2024-04-25/

New library module Alarms.

Example programs to evaluate a test module Alarms and the library module Alarms: https://oberon-rtk.org/examples/v1/alarmeval/ and https://oberon-rtk.org/examples/v1/alarmtest/.

Example program to test thread scheduling by an alarm interrupt handler (kernel v2): https://oberon-rtk.org/examples/v1/blinkplusalarm/

GitHub repo: https://github.com/ygrayne/oberon-rtk