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ARM?? Cortex?? M4 Cookbook
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Manufacturers usually make a small number of example programs available that provide a tutorial introduction and demonstrate the potential of their evaluation boards. A simple program that flashes (that is, blinks) a Light-emitting diode (LED) on the board is usually provided. ANSI C is by far the most popular language amongst embedded system programmers, but other high level languages such as C++ and C# may also be supported. A brief introduction to the C programming language is provided in Chapter 2, C Language Programming.
The Examples tab in the pack installer for the STM32F4 series MCUs provides a link to a C program called CMSIS-RTOS Blinky (MCBSTM32F400) that flashes an LED connected to a GPIO port. The program is integrated within an MDK-ARM Project. Integrated development environments such as MDK-ARM usually manage software development tasks as projects, as in addition to the program source code itself, there are other target-specific details that are needed when the code is compiled. A project provides a good container for such things. We review the steps required to create a project from scratch in the next section.
CMSIS-RTOS_Blinky).CMSIS-RTOS_Blinky, and open the file named blinky.uvprojx.The program uses some advanced concepts such as CMSIS-RTOS (discussed in Chapter 8, Real-Time Embedded Systems.) to produce a visually interesting flashing LED pattern. We will not attempt to explain the code here, but the next section will develop a much simpler Blinky project called hello_blinky.uvprojx.