Flowcode Support Board

Hello. I would like to give my thanks to FlowCode 10 with open source and several free microcontrollers.
I was thinking about creating flowchart codes in flowcode to be able to generate a C code. So, I was questioning whether it would be too much work to use this generated C Code to adapt it in ST Visual Develop and make an STM8S work, because the flowcode does not has support for it. So, in your opinion, would it be a lot of work to do this?

Hello,

Yes it should be possible, You would be essentially writing parts of the CAL (chip abstraction layer) for the STM8 microcontroller. If you are familiar with C then you can look at the existing CAL codes here for reference. You would only need to create the functions that you require, for example I/O and maybe ADC, I2C, SPI etc.

C:\ProgramData\MatrixTSL\FlowcodeV10\CAL

Once you've done that it should be fairly easy to create a FCD (Flowcode chip definition) that would provide the pin and peripheral layout you require. You can look at the current FCD files using a text editor to see the syntax and allow you to copy and create your own.

C:\ProgramData\MatrixTSL\FlowcodeV10\FCD

Let u sknow how you're getting on.

Thank you very much for your clarifications, Ben. They are of great help to me !

Hi guys.

An old post I know, though with the advent of cherished FC11, and being professionally forced down an ever-narrowing corridor to integrate Flowcode projects with micro-ROS on (supported) STM32F407, an example tutorial would be fantastic.

Setting up the CubeMX IDE appears to be pretty-well covered by AI search responses on the subject.

Thereafter, as fundamentally not a C coder, I'm now fighting my demons in the dark with a blunted pencil.

As a starting block to build upon, it would be fantastic if there were an example video or PDF tutorial, such as something simple to turn on/off ports controlling LEDs with commands from a ROS host/network, or challenge/response messaging (etc).

All the best,
Brendan

Looking at the micro-ROS docs at https://micro.ros.org/docs/tutorials/co ... tion_rtos/ it looks like it might use FreeRTOS as an underlying OS. There are quite a few examples on the forums using this on esp32 - which may give you a bit of a start point.

Martin