Training STM32 + FreeRTOS + LwIP: This course covers the STM32 ARM-based MCU family, the FreeRTOS Real Time OS, the LWIP TCP/IP Stack and/or the EmWin GUI Stack

STGSTM32 + FreeRTOS + LwIP
This course covers the STM32 ARM-based MCU family, the FreeRTOS Real Time OS, the LWIP TCP/IP Stack and/or the EmWin GUI Stack
Objectives
  • Get an overview on the Cortex-M architecture
  • Understand the Cortex-M software implementation and debug
  • Learn how to deal with interrupts
  • Get an overview on STM32F4 architecture
  • Describing the units which are interconnected to other modules, such as clocking, interrupt controller and DMA controller
  • Describing some independent I/O modules like the ADC and GPIOs
  • Getting started with the ST Drivers to program STM32 peripherals (The STM32Cube Library or ST Standard Peripheral Library)
  • Understand the FreeRTOS architecture
  • Discover the various FreeRTOS services and APIs
  • Learn how to develop and debug FreeRTOS applications
  • Getting started with the LwIP TCP/IP stack (Describing the STM32 Ethernet Controller, having a look on porting, describing the parameterizing, and developing application based on UDP and TCP protocols) (not available for STM32F0 family)
  • The peripherals overview presented in this course can be detailed upon request (STR9 - STM32 Peripherals course)
This course can be based on STM32F4xx, STM32F2xx, STM32F1xx, or STM32F0xx families
On request TouchGFX and EmWin can be added in a specific training
  • Theoretical course
    • PDF course material (in English) supplemented by a printed version.
    • The trainer answers trainees' questions during the training and provide technical and pedagogical assistance.
  • Practical activities
    • Practical activities represent from 40% to 50% of course duration.
    • Code examples, exercises and solutions
    • One PC (Linux ou Windows) for the practical activities with, if appropriate, a target board.
      • One PC for two trainees when there are more than 6 trainees.
    • For onsite trainings:
      • An installation and test manual is provided to allow preinstallation of the needed software.
      • The trainer come with target boards if needed during the practical activities (and bring them back at the end of the course).
  • Downloadable preconfigured virtual machine for post-course practical activities
  • At the start of each session the trainer will interact with the trainees to ensure the course fits their expectations and correct if needed
  • Any embedded systems engineer or technician with the above prerequisites.
  • The prerequisites indicated above are assessed before the training by the technical supervision of the traineein his company, or by the trainee himself in the exceptional case of an individual trainee.
  • Trainee progress is assessed in two different ways, depending on the course:
    • For courses lending themselves to practical exercises, the results of the exercises are checked by the trainer while, if necessary, helping trainees to carry them out by providing additional details.
    • Quizzes are offered at the end of sections that do not include practical exercises to verifythat the trainees have assimilated the points presented
  • At the end of the training, each trainee receives a certificate attesting that they have successfully completed the course.
    • In the event of a problem, discovered during the course, due to a lack of prerequisites by the trainee a different or additional training is offered to them, generally to reinforce their prerequisites,in agreement with their company manager if applicable.

Course Outline

  • V7-M Architecture Overview
  • Core Architecture
    • Harvard Architecture, I-Code, D-Code and System Bus
    • Write Buffer
    • Bit-Banding
    • Registers (Two stacks pointers)
    • States
    • Different Running-modes and Privileged Levels
    • System Control Block
    • Systick Timer
    • MPU Overview
  • Programming
    • Alignment and Endianness
    • CMSIS Library
  • Exception / Interrupt Mechanism Overview
    • Vector Table
    • Interrut entry and return Overview
    • Tail-Chaining
    • Pre-emption (Nesting)
    • NVIC Integrated Interrupt Controller
    • Exception Priority Management
    • Fault escalation
  • Debug Interface
Exercise:  Becoming familiar with the IDE and clarifying the boot sequence
Exercise:  Cortex-M4 Mode Privilege (with CMSIS library)
Exercise:  Cortex-M4 Exception Management (put in evidence tail-chaining/nesting)
Exercise:  Cortex-M4 MPU
  • ARM core based architecture
  • Description of STM32Fx SoC architecture
  • Clarifying the internal data and instruction paths: Bus Matrix, AHB-lite interconnect, peripheral buses, AHB-to-APB bridges, DMAs
  • Memory Organization
    • Flash memory read interface
    • Adaptive Real-Time memory accelerator, instruction prefetch queue and branch cache
    • Sector and mass erase
    • Concurrent access to RAM blocks
  • SoC mapping
  • Flash Programming methods
  • Boot Configuration
  • Reset
    • Reset sources
    • Boot configuration, physical remap
    • Embedded boot loader
  • Clocking
    • Clock sources, HSI, HSE, LSI, LSE
    • Integrated PLLs
    • Clock outputs
    • Clock security system
  • Power control
    • Power supplies, integrated regulator
    • Battery backup domain, backup SRAM
    • Independent A/D converter supply and reference voltage
    • Power supply supervisor
    • Brownout reset
    • Programmable voltage detector
  • Low power modes
    • Entering a low power mode, WFI vs WFE
    • Sleep mode
    • Stop mode
    • Standby mode
Exercise:  Configure the system to measure the current consumption in different low-power modes
Exercise:  How to configure the programmable BOR thresholds using the FLASH option bytes
Exercise:  How to enter the Standby mode and wake up from this mode by using an external reset/WKUP pin
Exercise:  How to enter the Stop mode and wake up from this mode by using the RTC wakeup timer event or an interrupt
  • Dual AHB master bus architecture, one dedicated to memory accesses and one dedicated to peripheral accesses
  • 8 streams for each DMA controller, up to 8 channels (requests) per stream
  • Priorities between DMA stream requests
  • FIFO structure
  • Independent source and destination transfer width
  • Circular buffer management
  • Double buffer mode
  • DMA1 and DMA2 request mapping
Exercise:  DMA FIFO mode
Exercise:  Flash To RAM using DMA
  • Power pins
  • Pinout
    • Pin Muxing, alternate functions
  • GPIO module
    • Configuring a GPIO
    • Speed selection
    • Locking mechanism
    • Analog function
    • Integrated pull-up / pull-down
    • I/O pin multiplexer and mapping
  • System configuration controller
    • I/O compensation cell
    • External Interrupts / Wakeup lines selection
    • Ethernet PHY interface selection
  • External Interrupts
Exercise:  Configure an external Interrupt
  • 12-bit, 10-bit, 8-bit or 6-bit configurable resolution
  • Regular channel group vs Injected channel group
  • Single and continuous conversion modes
  • Scan mode
  • External trigger option with configurable polarity for both regular and injected conversions
  • Discontinuous mode
  • Analog watchdog
  • Dual/Triple mode (on devices with 2 ADCs or more)
  • Configurable delay between conversions in Dual/Triple interleaved mode
  • DMA request generation during regular channel conversion
Exercise:  Get voltage from the potentiometer using, DMA transfer generation, display the result on LCD screen
  • Advanced-control timers TIM1 and TIM8
    • 16-bit up, down, up/down auto-reload counter; 16-bit programmable prescaler
    • Input Capture, Output Compare, PWM generation, One-pulse mode
    • Synchronization circuit/ Controlling Timers external signals / Interconnecting several timers
    • Interrupt/DMA generation
  • Real Time Clock
    • Independent BCD timer/counter; 16-bit programmable prescaler
    • Daylight saving compensation programmable by software
    • Two programmable alarms with interrupt function
    • Automatic wakeup unit
    • Reference clock detection / Digital calibration circuit
    • Tamper detection
Exercise:  How to use DMA with TIM1 Update request to transfer Data from memory to TIM1
Exercise:  Configuring the RTC
  • Introduction to FreeRTOS
    • The FreeRTOS architecture and features
  • Getting FreeRTOS source code
    • Files and directories structure
  • Data types and coding style
    • Naming conventions
  • FreeRTOS on the Cortex/M processors
  • Prioritized Pre-emptive Scheduling / Co-operative scheduling
  • The Task life-cycle
    • Task Functions
    • Creating tasks
    • Using the task parameter
    • The Task State Machine
    • Deleting tasks
  • Task Priorities
    • Assigning task priorities
    • Changing task priorities
  • The idle task
    • Idle task hook
  • Blocking a task for a specific delay
  • Editing the FreeRTOSConfig.h header file
  • Suspending a task
  • The Kernel Structures Overview
  • FreeRTOS Debug Capabilities (Hook, Trace)
  • Visual trace diagnostics using Tracealyzer
Exercise:  Understand the notion of task context and the context switch mechanism
Exercise:  Create a debug configuration to debug your program using a FreeRTOS-aware debugging mode
Exercise:  Periodic Tasks
Exercise:  Task Statistics
  • FreeRTOS-provided memory allocation schemes
    • Choosing the heap_x.c file depending on the application
  • Adding an application-specific memory allocator
  • Checking remaining free memory
  • Stack monitoring
  • Dimensioning Stack and Heap
Exercise:  Direct Context Switch measurement and Stack Overflow Detection
Exercise:  Debugging memory
  • Blocking on queue Reads
  • Blocking on queue Writes
  • Queue Creation
  • Sending on a queue
  • Receiving from a queue
  • Sending compound types
  • Transfering large data
  • Queue Set Overview/ Blocking on multiple objects
  • Semaphores and Events Introduction
Exercise:  Synchronizing and communicating between tasks through queues to send datas to a bus communication
  • Conflict examples
  • Mutual exclusion
  • Critical sections
    • Disabling the interrupts
    • Suspending (locking) the scheduler
  • Mutexes
    • Mutual exclusion scenario
    • API functions for Mutexes
    • Recursive Mutexes
    • Priority inversion
    • Priority inheritance
    • Deadlock
  • Gatekeeper tasks
Exercise:  Readers / Writers Problem
Exercise:  Producer / Consumer Problem
Exercise:  Understand deadlock and starvation
  • Binary semaphore used for interrupt synchronization
    • API function for binary semaphore
  • Counting semaphores
  • Using queues within an ISR
  • Interrupt Nesting
    • Interrupts on Cortex-M
  • Low Power Support
Exercise:  Synchronize Interrupts with tasks
Exercise:  Low-Power FreeRTOS Support (Tickless Mode)
  • The Timer Daemon Task
  • Timer Configuration
  • One-shot / Auto-reload Timer
  • Software Timer API
Exercise:  Understand the use of software timers
  • User Mode and Privilege Mode
    • Access Permission Attributes
  • Defining an MPU region
  • Creating a non-privileged task
  • Linker configuration
  • Practical Usage Tips
  • Architecture of the MAC
  • Connection to PHY, RMII / MII
  • Transmit and receive FIFO threshold setting
  • Multicast and unicast address filtering
  • Management interface
  • Buffer and Buffer Descriptor organization
  • Low level Drivers for STM32
  • Overview
  • Buffer and memory management
  • LwIP configuration options
  • Network interfaces
  • MAC and IP address settings
  • IP processing
  • UDP processing
  • TCP processing
  • Interfacing the stack
  • Application Program Interface (API)
    • Standalone
    • Netconn and BSD socket library
  • STM32/FreeRTOS Port Overview
Exercise:  Run an http server application based on Netconn API of LwIP TCP/IP stack
Exercise:  http server application based on Socket API of LwIP TCP/IP stack
Exercise:  TCP Echo Client/Server
Exercise:  In-Application Programming (IAP) over Ethernet using TFTP or HTTP
  • Library and package description
  • How to use the library
    • Configuration
    • Initialization
    • Core functions
    • Developing a multi-task application with EmWin
    • Working with some widgets (as the Windows, Buttons, Multipage, Image, ListBox, CheckBox)
    • Using the EmWinGuiBuilder software
Exercise:  Getting started with the emWin stack, create a GUI to control input/output from the touch screen
  • Basic Application Development
  • Advanced Application Development
  • Application Configuration
  • Widgets
  • Integration
  • Getting Started with CubeMX and TouchGFX
  • Deploying your application using ST-Link
Exercise:  How to configure and use TouchGFX under FreeRTOS (Demo)
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