{"id":1870,"date":"2016-05-02T19:40:53","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T02:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/?p=1870"},"modified":"2016-05-02T19:40:53","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T02:40:53","slug":"developing-projects-for-the-infineon-ethercat-module-with-visual-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/tutorials\/arm\/infineon\/ethercat\/","title":{"rendered":"Developing Projects for the Infineon EtherCAT module with Visual Studio:"},"content":{"rendered":"

This tutorial shows how to create projects for the Infineon EtherCAT module featuring the XMC4800 microcontroller using Visual Studio and VisualGDB.<\/p>\n

Before you begin, install VisualGDB<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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  1. Start Visual Studio. Select File->New->Project and pick the VisualGDB Embedded Project Wizard from the list:\"c01-prjname\"<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. As we are creating a very basic project, the default setting of “Embedded Binary” will work, so simply click “Next” on the first page:\"c02-bin\"<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Select the ARM toolchain and the Infineon device you are targeting. The EtherCAT module has the XMC4800-2048 device installed, so we simply select it:\"c03-xmc4800\"<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Proceed with the default LEDBlink sample. The module has several on-board LEDs with the port numbers printed next to them. We will use the first one that is connected to P1.14, so select P1-14 as the LED port:\"c04-led\"<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. The module comes with an on-board Segger J-Link, so simply select it in the Debug Method field and VisualGDB will configure everything automatically:\"c05-dbg\"<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. Press “Finish” to create your project. Build it by pressing Ctrl-Shift-B:\"c06-build\"<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. Press F5 to start debugging. Note how the LED that we selected in the wizard starts blinking:\"ledon\"<\/a><\/li>\n
  8. Set a breakpoint at the SysTick_Handler() function and wait for it to trigger. See how the interrupt handler is incrementing the s_Ticks variable each time an interrupt happens:\"c07-isr\"<\/a><\/li>\n
  9. You can configure VisualGDB to display the s_Ticks variable value while your program is running. Simply add it to the Live Variables window as if you were adding a watch, enable plotting and press F5 to continue debugging:\"c08-tickgraph\"<\/a><\/li>\n
  10. You can also use the Code Map feature provided by the VisualGDB’s Clang-based IntelliSense engine to quickly explore the relations between code and data. E.g. you can see how main() is calling the Delay() function that in turns reads the s_Ticks variable also accessed by SysTick_Handler():\"c09-codemap\"<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    This tutorial shows how to create projects for the Infineon EtherCAT module featuring the XMC4800 microcontroller using Visual Studio and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1876,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[53,127,59],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1870"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1926,"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870\/revisions\/1926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}