Articles

Articles and guides regarding the ChibiOS products.

Getting started

A collection of articles about getting started with ChibiOS.

• How to start (PLAY Embedded)
• From 0 to STM32 (PLAY Embedded)
• Developing on STM32: introducing ChibiStudio (PLAY Embedded)
• A close look to ChibiOS demos for STM32 (PLAY Embedded)
• Using STM32’s GPIO with ChibiOS’ PAL Driver (PLAY Embedded)
• Dealing with LEDs using an STM32 (PLAY Embedded)
• Dealing with push-buttons using an STM32 (PLAY Embedded)
• Using STM32’s USART with ChibiOS Serial Driver (PLAY Embedded)
• Printing strings on a Virtual COM port with an STM32 and ChibiOS (PLAY Embedded)
• Using STM32’s ADC with ChibiOS ADC Driver (PLAY Embedded)
• PWM in hardware with STM32 Timer and ChibiOS (PLAY Embedded)
• Using STM32 SPI with ChibiOS (PLAY Embedded)
• Using STM32 I2C with ChibiOS (PLAY Embedded)

Articles

Technical articles.

• ChibiOS notes for Cortex-M architecture
• Migrating to ChibiOS or update to a newer version
• RT vs NIL
• RT State Checker
• RT Performance
• Tick-Less Mode
• High Resolution Time in RT
• Code Portability using HAL
• Porting code from ChibiOS 2.x to 3.x
• Cortex-M7 cache coherency using ChibiOS/HAL
• ChibiOS/HAL design: an object-oriented approach (PLAY Embedded)

Guides

Various guides related to ChibiOS.

• ChibiOS Code Style Guide
• ChibiOS Debugging Guide
• ChibiOS/RT Integration Guide (includes NIL)
• ChibiOS/HAL Integration Guide

How To's

How to perform common RTOS-related tasks in ChibiOS/RT and ChibiOS/NIL.

• How to create a thread
• How to write interrupt handlers
• How to wake up a thread from an interrupt handler
• How to manage memory

Knowledge Base

A collection of ChibiOS-related topics.

• Priority Levels
• Power Management
• Stacks and Stack Sizes
• Round Robin scheduling explained
• Threads life-cycle
• Multiple primitives as a single atomic operation
• Reliable timings using Threads
• A detailed explanation of multithreading in ChibiOS/RT (PLAY Embedded)

Other

Guides and articles not necessarily related to ChibiOS.

• Setting up an Eclipse-based IDE (updated)
• Using an Eclipse-based IDE (updated)
• STM32F407 cheap boards battle, Olimex STM32-E407 vs STM32F4-Discovery
• Getting started with the STM32F4-Discovery board and ChibiOS
• RTOS Concepts
• Semaphores and Mutexes explained
• Response Time and Jitter

More Articles and Guides

More articles and guides are available on the technical wiki.