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ITEAD-SDK is an open-source interface of hardware access based on Linux platform and compatible with Arduino API. ITEAD-SDK is dedicated to provide a fast, efficient and unified software development environment for the person like you with a strong electronic design idea.
Through ITEAD-SDK, users can directly access to the Linux platform hardware resources such as GPIO, UART, SPI, I2C etc. ITEAD-SDK supports various hardware platforms. For now, it supports Iteaduino Plus A10/A20 Core, ibox and Raspberry Pi. Meanwhile, It also provides a great amount of libraries for all kinds of child board like NFC(PN532) module, GPS shield, GSM(SIM900/SIM908) shield, nRF24L01 module, OLED and LCD module etc. Without any codes modified, the libraries and users codes for Arduino can be run on ITEAD-SDK. ITEAD-SDK will support much more hardware platforms and functional modules in the future. In the Linux thriving time, ITEAD-SDK will make any impossible fanatic idea possible, are you ready?
Simplifying the hardware operation makes it possible for software engineers who are not familiar with the underlying hardware and junior developers to understand more about "Code World" and "Physical World". It can also work as a rapid prototyping development tool.
The SDK's API, which is similar to Arduino, make it easier for those who have some understanding of Arduino. Moreover, with the SDK, Python users can operate the underlying hardware more easily.
Additionally, ITEAD-SDK provides most of Arduino API. Your sketches run perfectly with or without few changes.
- Support for external interrupts operation
- Support for GPIO operation
- Support for GPIO 8-bit / 16-bit bus operations
- Support for UART operations
- Support for upper-layer time operation functions
- Support for I2C bus operations
- Support for SPI bus operations
- Support for SSD1306-based I2C OLED screen operations
- Support for 1602 LiquidCrystal module
- Support for GPS module
- Support for GSM(SIM900/SIM908) module including GPRS/GPS operations
- Support for NFC(PN532) module
- Support for nRF24L01 module
- Support for Temperature and Humidity module
- More libraries are being developed
At present, platforms supported by SDK are following:
- Iteaduino Plus A10/A20
- ITEAD CORE EVB(IBOX)
- Raspberry Pi Rv2
- Raspberry Pi Model B+
If you don't know yet Iteaduino Plus or ibox, see http://imall.iteadstudio.com/iteaduino-plus-a20.html/ and http://imall.iteadstudio.com/ibox.html/
More platforms will be supported as soon as possible.
Before all, we assume that you have installed the required packages:
make build-essential git-core in your Debian system. If not, you can install
them by command:
$ sudo apt-get install make build-essential git-core
Only a few steps, DO IT !
You can download SDK by command:
$ git clone https://github.com/iteadsw/SDK.git
$ cd SDK
Or you can get SDK via other ways you prefer at https://github.com/iteadsw/SDK
All the commands of the following steps should be run under SDK's source code directory.
For now, platforms supported by SDK and the configuration commands are below. You MUST choose the one fitting your board.
-
Iteaduino Plus A10/A20
$ make Iteaduino_Plus -
ITEAD CORE EVB
$ make ITEAD_CORE_EVB -
Raspberry Pi Rv2
$ make Raspberry_Pi_Rv2 -
Raspberry Pi Model B+
$ make Raspberry_Pi_Model_BPlus
If you want to install all the libraries, just skip this step.
It's allowed for user to select functional libraries to install. Open file
config.mk and edit it by adding or removing letter "#" at the head of each
line for deselecting or selecting the corresponding library. More
description for selecting libraries can be found in config.mk. For example:
$ vi config.mk
Editing... and Save
Installing SDK requires root(super user)'s privilege. Run command:
$ make
$ sudo make install
To check the version of SDK installed, run command:
$ iteadcompile -v
For some brief help information:
$ iteadcompile --help
To uninstall the SDK, just run command:
$ cd SDK
$ sudo make uninstall
SDK works well with C(.c) and C++(.cpp) programs. Especially, it is compatiable with Arduino Sketch(.ino).
Create a new file named "led.c" which reads as follow:
#include <itead.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#define STATUS_LED1 PH21
void setup(void)
{
printf("setup begin\n");
pinMode(STATUS_LED1,OUTPUT);
}
void loop(void)
{
digitalWrite(STATUS_LED1,HIGH);
delay(1000);
digitalWrite(STATUS_LED1,LOW);
delay(1000);
}
void main(int argc, char **argv)
{
setup();
while(1)
{
loop();
}
}
Then run iteadcompile in the terminal
$ iteadcompile LED led.c
You can run the LED program after compilation:
$ sudo ./LED
Create a new file named "led.cpp" which reads as follow:
#include <itead.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#define STATUS_LED1 PH21
void setup(void)
{
printf("setup begin\n");
pinMode(STATUS_LED1,OUTPUT);
}
void loop(void)
{
digitalWrite(STATUS_LED1,HIGH);
delay(1000);
digitalWrite(STATUS_LED1,LOW);
delay(1000);
}
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
setup();
while(1)
{
loop();
}
return 0;
}
Then run iteadcompile in the terminal
$ iteadcompile LED led.cpp
You can run the LED program after compilation:
$ sudo ./LED
Create a new file named "led.ino" which contains the fellowing lines:
#include <stdio.h>
#define STATUS_LED1 PH21
void setup(void)
{
printf("setup begin\n");
pinMode(STATUS_LED1,OUTPUT);
}
void loop(void)
{
digitalWrite(STATUS_LED1,HIGH);
delay(1000);
digitalWrite(STATUS_LED1,LOW);
delay(1000);
}
Then run command as below to compile led.ino:
$ iteadcompile LED led.ino
You can run the LED program after compilation:
$ sudo ./LED
You DO NOT include the itead.h explicitly in your source file with suffix .ino. iteadcompile will take care of everything. That means you need to know the method you should use for locating your .ino sketch bugs. Actually,if you have a sketch named "Hello.ino" with a bug at level ERROR in line 25, you will get some ERROR informations telling the ERROR bug in "Hello.cpp" with line 26(25+1) when command "iteadcompile Hello Hello.ino" is executed. Why? iteadcompile insert one line like include "itead.h" in the head of your Hello.ino, change the suffix .ino to .cpp and compile(using g++) Hello.cpp to generate Hello which is executable binary file. When you encounter other bugs in your sketch,debug skills on C++ program will also helpful for solving your problems.
Please find in project wiki at http://wiki.iteadstudio.com/ITEAD_SDK. With more and more hardware that it supports, wiki will also be updated accordingly.
Python users need to know the specific installation locations of the following dynamic libraries when they use the SDK:
- libiteadc.so(core c language dynamic library):/usr/lib, /usr/local/lib
- libiteadcpp.so(core c++ dynamic library):/usr/lib, /usr/local/lib
- libiteadmodule.so(all the c++ modules library):/usr/lib, /usr/local/lib
- Provide more API for user's application
- Support more hardware platform
If you are interested and want to contribute to this project, yet you are suffering from lack of the related hardware. It does not matter. Just write an E-mail to [email protected], attach your github username in it and say something about your experience on the related projects, ITEAD Studio will send you a hardware for free after approval.
After receiving Iteaduino Plus A10/A20, you only need to:
- Fork this project
- Coding
- Push
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