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oSTG STM32 + FreeRTOS + LwIP

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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)
Prerequisites
  • Familiarity with C concepts and programming targeting the embedded world
  • Basic knowledge of embedded processors
  • Basic knowledge of multi-task scheduling
Course environment
  • Theoretical course
    • PDF course material (in English)
    • Course dispensed using the Teams video-conferencing system
    • The trainer to answer trainees’ questions during the training and provide technical and pedagogical assistance through the Teams video-conferencing system
  • Practical activities
    • Practical activities represent from 40% to 50% of course duration
    • One Online Linux PC per trainee for the practical activities
    • One STM32 board connected to the online PC
    • The trainer has access to trainees’ Online PCs for technical and pedagogical assistance.
  • Downloadable preconfigured virtual machine for post-course practical activities.
Course duration
  • 5 sessions (30 hours)

First Session
Cortex-M Overview
  • ARMv7-M Architecture
  • Cortex-M4 Architecture
  • Registers and Execution States
  • Privileges, Mode and Stacks
  • Reset Behavior
  • Exception and Interrupts
  • The System Timer
  • Memory Model
  • Power Management
Exercise:  Create a new project
Exercise:  Interrupt Management
STM32F4 MCUs Architecture Overview
  • 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 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
Second Session
Reset, Power and Clocking
  • 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
DMA
  • 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
Hardware Implementation
  • 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
Third Session
12-bit Analog-to-Digital Converter
  • 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 for automatic conversion of channel 0 to channel ‘n’
  • External trigger option with configurable polarity for both regular and injected conversions
  • Discontinuous mode
  • Analog watchdog’s guarded area
  • 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
Introduction to FreeRTOS
  • The FreeRTOS Family
  • FreeRTOS+Ecosystem
  • Why use FreeRTOS
  • FreeRTOS Code Structure
Scheduling
  • Scheduler
  • Schedulability
Task Management
  • Creating Tasks
  • Task Priorities
  • Task States
  • The idle task
  • Delays
  • Changing Task Priority
  • Deleting Tasks
  • Suspending Tasks
  • Kernel Structures
  • Thread Local Storage
  • Kernel Interrupts on Cortex-M4
  • Scheduling Traces
  • Visual trace diagnostics using Tracealyzer
Exercise:  Task Management
Exercise:  Periodic Tasks
Fourth Session
Memory Management in FreeRTOS
  • FreeRTOS Memory Managers
  • Out of Memory management
  • Stack overflow detection
Exercise:  Context Switch Measurement
Resource Management
  • Mutual Exclusion
  • Critical Sections
  • Mutexes
  • Gatekeeper Tasks
  • Lock-Free Data Structures
Exercise:  Resource Management
Synchronization Primitives
  • Queues
  • Queues Sets
  • Synchronization
  • Events and Event Groups
  • The Readers/writer problem
  • Using Other Primitives within an ISR
Exercise:  Queue Management
Fifth Session
Interrupt Management
  • Tasks and Interrupts
  • FreeRTOS Binary and Counting Semaphores
  • Task Notifications
  • Stream Buffers
  • Message Buffers
  • Interrupt Nesting
  • Low Power Support
Exercise:  Interrupt Management
Software Timer
  • Software Timers
  • Deferred Interrupt Handling
STM32 Fast Ethernet Controller Overview
  • 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
LwIP introduction
  • 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
Appendix
Timers Overview
  • 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
FreeRTOS-MPU
  • The Cortex-M MPU
  • The FreeRTOS-MPU Port
  • Defining MPU Regions
  • Creating User and System Tasks
  • Practical Usage Tips
CMSIS – RTOS
  • Overview
  • Kernel Information and Control
  • Threads Management
  • Generic Wait Functions
  • Communication and Resource Sharing
    • Semaphores
    • Mutex
    • Message Queue
    • Signal Events
    • Event Flags
    • Memory Pool
    • Mail Queue
  • Timer Management
  • Interrupt Service Routines