Stellaris LM4F120 LaunchPad Evaluation Board

[Sean McBeth]

Just got notification that my 2 have shipped!
https://estore.ti.com/Stellaris-LaunchPad.aspx

[PJ Santoro]

Woot! TI sent me an email a while back telling me my estimated ship date as November 16.

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On Nov 10, 2012 6:52 AM, "Sean McBeth" <sean....@gmail.com> wrote:

Just got notification that my 2 have shipped!
https://estore.ti.com/Stellaris-LaunchPad.aspx

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[pezman]

Same here.

[Dan Shookowsky]

....and me boss.  

I'm picturing an air drop in PA with hundreds of parachuted dev boards dropping from the sky.

On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 7:16 PM, pezman <mikeh...@gmail.com> wrote:

Same here.

[Louis Gerbarg]

Min arrived yesterday.

[Douglas Freed]

Mine have shipped, and I should have them on Monday.

[pezman]

Just fired mine up tonight.

Setting up the build environment is actually a little challenging -- not ridiculous, but it takes some work.

I used this page to get started:

http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Getting_Started_with_the_Stellaris_EK-LM4F120XL_LaunchPad_Workshop?DCMP=Stellaris&HQS=StellarisLaunchPadWorkshop

I think that there are a handful of mistakes in the document -- I finally got the whole toolchain to work by taking one of the examples that was installed by this program: StellairisLaunchpadWorkshopFiles-1.0-Setup.ex(specifically Lab4) and then

- copying the Lab4 project folder renaming it "Lab2"

-  replacing all occurences of "Lab4" in the .project and .cproject files with "Lab2"

- pasting in the Lab2 code in main.c

The secret sauce here seems to be the include paths, the lib paths and the .ccxml file that configures the debugger interface.  I'm pretty sure that I can build a project from scratch using my "Lab2" as a reference.

At any rate, the labs seem to walk you through most of the major features of the chip, so I will keep working my way through the labs.  

Now all I need to do is think of some actual use for the board.

[Sean McBeth]

Nice. I have one that I want to put in the MCU library. Maybe we can work on getting that laptop there setup properly?

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[PJ Santoro]

/me shudders at getting the TI stuff working in linux....

I can take a look at it tomorrow in between classes.

Also, I got my Stellaris boards today :D

[pezman]

Shouldn't be too terrible -- getting the Stellarisware headers and libraries libraries installed and getting all of the paths set up properly in CCS might take a little patience under Linux -- while the tool-chain is now cross-platform, the extras that make the MCU usable are much easier to install under Windows - the installation files just put them in certain default locations and all of the documentation is oriented around those conventions.  We'll need to decipher the actual details of the installation and translate those conventions to something equivalent under Linux.

[Sean McBeth]

And that's the great thing about having the MCU library have a dedicated computer, we set it up once and then nobody has to bother again.

[Far McKon]

I've done a decent amount of work with CCS (v4 especially) in a VirtualBox VM.  Except for USB problems related to VirtualMachine on crappy hardware, CCSV4/CCSV5 on a virtualbox has worked damm well for me.

I mean, as well as a piece of TI software ever works. How do they have such crappy software for such great chips?

hack on,
- Far McKon

On 11/15/12 8:42 PM, pezman wrote:

> Shouldn't be too terrible -- getting the Stellarisware headers and libraries libraries installed and getting all of the paths set up properly in CCS might take a little patience under Linux -- while the tool-chain is now cross-platform, the extras that make the MCU usable are much easier to install under Windows - the installation files just put them in certain default locations and all of the documentation is oriented around those conventions. We'll need to decipher the actual details of the installation and translate those conventions to something equivalent under Linux.
>
> On Thursday, November 15, 2012 8:33:48 PM UTC-5, PJ Santoro wrote:
>
> /me shudders at getting the TI stuff working in linux....
>
> I can take a look at it tomorrow in between classes.
>
> Also, I got my Stellaris boards today :D
>
>

> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Sean McBeth <sean....@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote:
>
> Nice. I have one that I want to put in the MCU library. Maybe we can work on getting that laptop there setup properly?
>
>

> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 8:18 PM, pezman <mikeh...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote:
>
> Just fired mine up tonight.
>
> Setting up the build environment is actually a little challenging -- not ridiculous, but it takes some work.
>
> I used this page to get started:

> http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Getting_Started_with_the_Stellaris_EK-LM4F120XL_LaunchPad_Workshop?DCMP=Stellaris&HQS=StellarisLaunchPadWorkshop <http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Getting_Started_with_the_Stellaris_EK-LM4F120XL_LaunchPad_Workshop?DCMP=Stellaris&HQS=StellarisLaunchPadWorkshop>

>
> I think that there are a handful of mistakes in the document -- I finally got the whole toolchain to work by taking one of the examples that was installed by this program: StellairisLaunchpadWorkshopFiles-1.0-Setup.ex(specifically Lab4) and then
> - copying the Lab4 project folder renaming it "Lab2"
> - replacing all occurences of "Lab4" in the .project and .cproject files with "Lab2"
> - pasting in the Lab2 code in main.c
>
> The secret sauce here seems to be the include paths, the lib paths and the .ccxml file that configures the debugger interface. I'm pretty sure that I can build a project from scratch using my "Lab2" as a reference.
>
> At any rate, the labs seem to walk you through most of the major features of the chip, so I will keep working my way through the labs.
>
> Now all I need to do is think of some actual use for the board.
>
>
> On Saturday, November 10, 2012 8:47:09 PM UTC-5, Doug Freed wrote:
>
> Mine have shipped, and I should have them on Monday.
>
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[Dan Shookowsky]

Thanks for the heads-up.  Looking to receive my stellaris launchpad soon.