• Are there any ST 32F417 / Cube IDE / STLINK / C developers on here?

    From Mike Perkins@21:1/5 to John-Smith on Wed Apr 28 15:52:03 2021
    On 22/04/2021 07:22, John-Smith wrote:
    I am working on a project and need a bit of help here and there.

    I am working on it with someone who knows a lot more than I do but he
    is available only 1 day a week, so instead of posting questions on
    various forums (mostly never answered) I am considering looking for
    someone who can work on a retainer of X per year or something like
    that and would be able to provide support.

    It ranges from CPU specific stuff like how to set up one of the DACs
    to generate a sinewave from precomputed values in RAM (yes lots of
    examples on the web; mostly not usable except for hints) to C
    questions. I have written a fair bit of C but use it as a "basic"
    language, avoiding pointers and using arrays instead :) etc. And right
    now I am trying to sort out STLINK V3 and why the GDB log level (shown
    in Console) has mysteriously changed from 31 to 1...

    This is near second nature though the ST Cube hal libraries try to be
    all things for all men and so have a number of flaws.

    Nothing wrong with arrays!

    If you still want help please feel free to use the contact form on the
    website below.

    --
    Mike Perkins
    Video Solutions Ltd
    www.videosolutions.ltd.uk

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  • From Ed Lee@21:1/5 to Mike Perkins on Wed Apr 28 08:08:22 2021
    On Wednesday, April 28, 2021 at 7:52:07 AM UTC-7, Mike Perkins wrote:
    On 22/04/2021 07:22, John-Smith wrote:
    I am working on a project and need a bit of help here and there.

    I am working on it with someone who knows a lot more than I do but he
    is available only 1 day a week, so instead of posting questions on
    various forums (mostly never answered) I am considering looking for
    someone who can work on a retainer of X per year or something like
    that and would be able to provide support.

    It ranges from CPU specific stuff like how to set up one of the DACs
    to generate a sinewave from precomputed values in RAM (yes lots of
    examples on the web; mostly not usable except for hints) to C
    questions. I have written a fair bit of C but use it as a "basic"
    language, avoiding pointers and using arrays instead :) etc. And right
    now I am trying to sort out STLINK V3 and why the GDB log level (shown
    in Console) has mysteriously changed from 31 to 1...
    This is near second nature though the ST Cube hal libraries try to be
    all things for all men and so have a number of flaws.

    Nothing wrong with arrays!

    Nothing wrong with pointers either.

    ADC1->XXX, USART1->XXX and GPIOA->XXX are all pointers. How can you avoid pointers?

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  • From Richard Damon@21:1/5 to Ed Lee on Wed Apr 28 19:38:43 2021
    On 4/28/21 11:08 AM, Ed Lee wrote:
    On Wednesday, April 28, 2021 at 7:52:07 AM UTC-7, Mike Perkins wrote:
    On 22/04/2021 07:22, John-Smith wrote:
    I am working on a project and need a bit of help here and there.

    I am working on it with someone who knows a lot more than I do but he
    is available only 1 day a week, so instead of posting questions on
    various forums (mostly never answered) I am considering looking for
    someone who can work on a retainer of X per year or something like
    that and would be able to provide support.

    It ranges from CPU specific stuff like how to set up one of the DACs
    to generate a sinewave from precomputed values in RAM (yes lots of
    examples on the web; mostly not usable except for hints) to C
    questions. I have written a fair bit of C but use it as a "basic"
    language, avoiding pointers and using arrays instead :) etc. And right
    now I am trying to sort out STLINK V3 and why the GDB log level (shown
    in Console) has mysteriously changed from 31 to 1...
    This is near second nature though the ST Cube hal libraries try to be
    all things for all men and so have a number of flaws.

    Nothing wrong with arrays!

    Nothing wrong with pointers either.

    ADC1->XXX, USART1->XXX and GPIOA->XXX are all pointers. How can you avoid pointers?


    Not only are they pointers, but they are compile time constant value
    pointers so the compiler can convert the accesses to direct memory
    references.

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  • From Mike Perkins@21:1/5 to Ed Lee on Thu Apr 29 01:31:40 2021
    On 28/04/2021 16:08, Ed Lee wrote:
    On Wednesday, April 28, 2021 at 7:52:07 AM UTC-7, Mike Perkins wrote:
    On 22/04/2021 07:22, John-Smith wrote:
    I am working on a project and need a bit of help here and there.

    I am working on it with someone who knows a lot more than I do but he
    is available only 1 day a week, so instead of posting questions on
    various forums (mostly never answered) I am considering looking for
    someone who can work on a retainer of X per year or something like
    that and would be able to provide support.

    It ranges from CPU specific stuff like how to set up one of the DACs
    to generate a sinewave from precomputed values in RAM (yes lots of
    examples on the web; mostly not usable except for hints) to C
    questions. I have written a fair bit of C but use it as a "basic"
    language, avoiding pointers and using arrays instead :) etc. And right
    now I am trying to sort out STLINK V3 and why the GDB log level (shown
    in Console) has mysteriously changed from 31 to 1...
    This is near second nature though the ST Cube hal libraries try to be
    all things for all men and so have a number of flaws.

    Nothing wrong with arrays!

    Nothing wrong with pointers either.

    ADC1->XXX, USART1->XXX and GPIOA->XXX are all pointers. How can you avoid pointers?

    I'm not saying you can't. The STM32Cube suite removes some of the need
    to understand pointers as everything is done through libraries. A good
    example is GPIO access:
    HAL_GPIO_WritePin(Port, Pin, value);

    The HAL libraries are weak in some areas. By example it won't natively implement a fast SPI slave.

    --
    Mike Perkins
    Video Solutions Ltd
    www.videosolutions.ltd.uk

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  • From boB@21:1/5 to All on Wed Apr 28 23:28:10 2021
    On Thu, 29 Apr 2021 01:31:40 +0100, Mike Perkins <spam@spam.com>
    wrote:

    On 28/04/2021 16:08, Ed Lee wrote:
    On Wednesday, April 28, 2021 at 7:52:07 AM UTC-7, Mike Perkins wrote:
    On 22/04/2021 07:22, John-Smith wrote:
    I am working on a project and need a bit of help here and there.

    I am working on it with someone who knows a lot more than I do but he
    is available only 1 day a week, so instead of posting questions on
    various forums (mostly never answered) I am considering looking for
    someone who can work on a retainer of X per year or something like
    that and would be able to provide support.

    It ranges from CPU specific stuff like how to set up one of the DACs
    to generate a sinewave from precomputed values in RAM (yes lots of
    examples on the web; mostly not usable except for hints) to C
    questions. I have written a fair bit of C but use it as a "basic"
    language, avoiding pointers and using arrays instead :) etc. And right >>>> now I am trying to sort out STLINK V3 and why the GDB log level (shown >>>> in Console) has mysteriously changed from 31 to 1...
    This is near second nature though the ST Cube hal libraries try to be
    all things for all men and so have a number of flaws.

    Nothing wrong with arrays!

    Nothing wrong with pointers either.

    ADC1->XXX, USART1->XXX and GPIOA->XXX are all pointers. How can you avoid pointers?

    I'm not saying you can't. The STM32Cube suite removes some of the need
    to understand pointers as everything is done through libraries. A good >example is GPIO access:
    HAL_GPIO_WritePin(Port, Pin, value);

    The HAL libraries are weak in some areas. By example it won't natively >implement a fast SPI slave.

    Also, the ADC with DMA does a pretty good job of sequencing the
    outputs.

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  • From boB@21:1/5 to All on Wed Apr 28 23:26:41 2021
    On Thu, 29 Apr 2021 01:31:40 +0100, Mike Perkins <spam@spam.com>
    wrote:

    On 28/04/2021 16:08, Ed Lee wrote:
    On Wednesday, April 28, 2021 at 7:52:07 AM UTC-7, Mike Perkins wrote:
    On 22/04/2021 07:22, John-Smith wrote:
    I am working on a project and need a bit of help here and there.

    I am working on it with someone who knows a lot more than I do but he
    is available only 1 day a week, so instead of posting questions on
    various forums (mostly never answered) I am considering looking for
    someone who can work on a retainer of X per year or something like
    that and would be able to provide support.

    It ranges from CPU specific stuff like how to set up one of the DACs
    to generate a sinewave from precomputed values in RAM (yes lots of
    examples on the web; mostly not usable except for hints) to C
    questions. I have written a fair bit of C but use it as a "basic"
    language, avoiding pointers and using arrays instead :) etc. And right >>>> now I am trying to sort out STLINK V3 and why the GDB log level (shown >>>> in Console) has mysteriously changed from 31 to 1...
    This is near second nature though the ST Cube hal libraries try to be
    all things for all men and so have a number of flaws.

    Nothing wrong with arrays!

    Nothing wrong with pointers either.

    ADC1->XXX, USART1->XXX and GPIOA->XXX are all pointers. How can you avoid pointers?

    I'm not saying you can't. The STM32Cube suite removes some of the need
    to understand pointers as everything is done through libraries. A good >example is GPIO access:
    HAL_GPIO_WritePin(Port, Pin, value);

    The HAL libraries are weak in some areas. By example it won't natively >implement a fast SPI slave.


    I let Cube do the original initialization from the graphical interface
    but after that, it's all plain old C. I prefer to understand the
    processor and maybe make the firmware run as fast as possible.

    I'm not that great of a C programmer.

    boB

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