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Building Blackmagic Probe on Windows

By Sid Price Posted on March 24, 2020 Posted in BlogPost, Crowd Sourcing, Debugging, embedded, Makers, Mind Share, WDBP Project

A while ago I wrote a blog describing how to build the firmware for the Blackmagic Probe (BMP) on Windows. Since that time I have crowdfunded a wireless version of BMP, my ctxLink debug probe, since I do all my …

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Accessing the STM32 System Bootloader

By Sid Price Posted on August 13, 2018 Posted in BlogPost, embedded, Makers, Mind Share

The STM32 range of Microcontrollers have a built in bootloader that may be used to update the firmware running on the MCU. Depending upon the STM32 variant being used this update may be done using a USART, USB, or SPI …

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Why everyone should be using Git

By Sid Price Posted on May 6, 2018 Posted in BlogPost, embedded Tagged with Debugging, Tools

I am a long-time user of source code management tools, for many years I used Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS). I tried several times to understand and use Git but found the learning curve rather steep and went back to my …

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Project Update #2

By Sid Price Posted on April 29, 2018 Posted in BlogPost, embedded, WDBP Project

Just received the first two pre-production prototypes of the Wireless Debug Probe (WDBP) from MacroFab. After initial inspection and power-up I am so far very pleased with the quality of the work done. There are a few firmware issues to …

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Transitioning to using SMT components

By Sid Price Posted on April 22, 2018 Posted in BlogPost, embedded, WDBP Project

For several decades I have designed, built, and tested my own PCBs for several products/projects. During all of that time I made use of traditional “through-hole” mounting components. Beyond the schematic capture and PCB design software no special tools were …

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More on interrupts and atomic operations

By Sid Price Posted on March 18, 2018 Posted in BlogPost, embedded, WDBP Project

In my previous post I wrote about interrupts and atomic operations in embedded systems. After getting bitten myself with just such an issue I thought I would write about the details of what I just experienced on my current project. …

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Interrupts, atomic variables, and the “volatile” keyword

By Sid Price Posted on March 11, 2018 Posted in BlogPost, embedded, WDBP Project

I have been trying to track down a particularly tricky problem on my Wireless Debug Probe over the last few days. When embedded systems begin to perform in strange, apparently illogical, ways the culprit is usually related to interrupts disrupting …

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