Micro-controllers

• C/C++, mostly plain vanilla C. gcc is dominant and always good + some others are also fine, plain standard C needed.
• Arduino library derivatives like stm32duino and teensyduino simplify and make apps more portable.
• FreeRTOS and RT-Thread (later not tested by me) - useful for some apps - a necessity for multi-core micro-controllers.
• LWIP or uIP Ethernet stack can run on micro-controllers, smart Ethernet chips like WizNET have inbuilt stack and small API lib for micro-controller.
• Use standard TLS - comes as dev library for many micro-controller environments or development tools, OpenSSL to implement for Linux/Windows.
• ARM32 architecture dominant – one assembler to know - one set of build tools compilers - very scalable, from $1 to $20.
• Using “Raspberry PI style” Linux devices is an option. Read only SD file system is required for reliable operation and adds to complexity.

Contents:

• ESP32
  • Espressif ESP32 recommendations
  • ESP32 OTA - software updates
• EBAZ4205 - Zynq 7020
  • EBAZ4205 board
  • Prepare Linux SD
  • Connect UART, connect with putty, power up and boot linux
  • Installing Vivado
  • Programming FPGA directly