Whats next after prototyping

17 Sep 2011

This works great for prototype. I built a prototype for one of the boards very quickly. Now Question is how much code can I reuse when I move on to the target board?

Are the drivers going to be the same as mbed? or I have to write my own driver for the target board (based on LPC1768).

Regards, Shankar

18 Sep 2011

The .bin file should work on any LPC1768 no matter where it is, maybe it'll misbehave if you change the clock speed though.

There are some hoops you need to jump through to get a MAC address if you need Ethernet.

Realize that the mbed core library is only online and cannot be found offline yet. Anything that's not within the mbed library is probably available for download somewhere.

19 Sep 2011

Thanks for the info... how does embed work I mean I know magic chip does lot of stuff but 1768 boots up just like it would on any board?

20 Sep 2011

use JTAG (this is how the magic chip does it, I think...), or LPCXpresso as the JTAG debugger, or something that works with OpenOCD, or use the built-in serial port bootloader thingy inside LPC chips (see http://sourceforge.net/projects/lpc21isp/ )

20 Sep 2011

This page in the Cookbook has good advice on how to move your mbed project to a custom PCB: http://mbed.org/cookbook/Prototype-To-Hardware

20 Sep 2011

So If I make a binary using some other compiler can I run it on mbed board?

21 Sep 2011

Yes, obviously the MBED has the 'magic' chip, which deals with Local File System. So far I have not found how make this using my own EPROM - FLASH Chip. And the Ethernet almost guaranteed to be different. But MBED projects will work on your own LPC1768 designs, as I have already shown in another post.

Enjoy

Ceri

21 Sep 2011

Thanks guys!! it was great help