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µCore Software Development Process

The diagram illustrates the software development process for the µCore-3664. While it may at first glance seem complex, most of the complexity is handled by a number of batch/script files supplied as part of the µCore toolkit. The software development process is as follows:

Create application C & assembly source files using your favorite text editor.

Using your text editor,insert the name of each source file in the project file (uCore.prj).

Use the build (or buildall) command to generate a hex image (uCore.hex).

Download the image to the uFlash using the flash command.

The process in detail

Copy the µCore/project directory to your desktop or documents directory.

Rename the copy to the name of your new project.

Enter the directory and open the file main.c with your favorite text editor.

Make a change to the source.

Save the change & exit

Open the Command Prompt window & run the build script.

When complete (assuming there have been no compile errors) run the flash script to download the program to the µCore.

The µCore will run the program once download is complete.

Adding another source file to the project

Unless a project is very small it is better to break up its functionality into multiple modules, each module with its own source file. To add a new module to the project.

Using your text editor create a new C source file.
Save the source file (lets call it test.c) in the same directory as main.c.
Open the file ucore.prj with your text editor.
Enter the text "test.c" on a new line at the bottom of the file
Save uCore.prj and exit the editor.
You can now compile the project (including test.c) using the build script as before.