# project_generator_definitions **Repository Path**: embeddedosprey/project_generator_definitions ## Basic Information - **Project Name**: project_generator_definitions - **Description**: No description available - **Primary Language**: Unknown - **License**: Apache-2.0 - **Default Branch**: master - **Homepage**: None - **GVP Project**: No ## Statistics - **Stars**: 0 - **Forks**: 0 - **Created**: 2025-07-12 - **Last Updated**: 2025-07-12 ## Categories & Tags **Categories**: Uncategorized **Tags**: None ## README # Project generator definitions This repository defines definitions for targets and mcus. They are used to set proper data in the tools. ## How to add a new target This module provides a script (``progendef``) to extract the information needed to create a new YAML mcu definiton file. Target consists of: - target YAML file - see Targets section below, and define your own and place it inside ``project_generator_definitions/target`` - mcu YAML file - see MCU section below. Use ``progendef`` script to create a new mcu YAML file An example for creating mcu.yaml for lpc1768, from a project file lpc1768_blinky.ewp (IAR) ``` progendef create -m lpc1768 -t iar -f lpc1768_blinky.ewp ``` This creates ``lpc1768.yaml`` file in the current directory. This YAML file should be placed in ``project_generator_definitions/mcu``. There should be a vendor folder, and MCU file inside. ## YAML records ### Targets To generalize MCU's, there're targets definition available. The target name does not change based on the tool used. We provide a dictionary where we can define a target with mcu, for instance: ``` PROGENDEF_TARGETS = { 'arch-ble': 'mcu/nordic/nrf51', } ``` If a project can either use arch-ble as a target or nrf51 (mcu). ### MCU MCU record defines the basic information about the mcu and specific settings for each tool. As an example is shown the uvision settings for the lpc1768 mcu. These specific data can be manually extracted from a project file or use progendef commad to create the yaml file for you. If you are adding a new mcu, please follow the uvision naming for MCUs, for consistency. ``` mcu: vendor: - nxp name: - lpc1768 core: - cortex-m3 tool_specific: uvision: TargetOption: Device: - LPC1768 Vendor: - NXP Cpu: - IRAM(0x10000000-0x10007FFF) IRAM2(0x2007C000-0x20083FFF) IROM(0-0x7FFFF) CLOCK(12000000) CPUTYPE("Cortex-M3") FlashDriverDll: - UL2CM3(-O463 -S0 -C0 -FO7 -FD10000000 -FC800 -FN1 -FF0LPC_IAP_512 -FS00 -FL080000) DeviceId: - 4868 SFDFile: - SFD\NXP\LPC176x5x\LPC176x5x.SFR ``` The data give in the mcu and target use lower cases, also files within this directory to keep consistency. The tool specific data follow the tools definitions. ## Tools specific definitions ### uVision There are two supported uvision. uvision (defaults to uvision4 at the moment) and uvision5. uVision 5 uses software packs, and it is compatible with the older version via legacy devices. Define legacy device as uvision/uvision4. ``` tool_specific: uvision: TargetOption: Device: - LPC1768 Vendor: - NXP Cpu: - IRAM(0x10000000-0x10007FFF) IRAM2(0x2007C000-0x20083FFF) IROM(0-0x7FFFF) CLOCK(12000000) CPUTYPE("Cortex-M3") FlashDriverDll: - UL2CM3(-O463 -S0 -C0 -FO7 -FD10000000 -FC800 -FN1 -FF0LPC_IAP_512 -FS00 -FL080000) DeviceId: - 4868 SFDFile: - SFD\NXP\LPC176x5x\LPC176x5x.SFR ``` All information in the code above are from uVision project. All attributes needs to be filled in , in order to get proper working target in the project file and the correct flash algorithms for the target. How to get all this information for a new mcu? Create a new project in uVision, select your target, save the project. Then open the project in any text editor, and look for attributes inside TargetOption, as 'Device', 'Vendor', etc. Once you specified all needed information, test to build your project and check if the correct target is set in the uVision project. ### IAR ``` iar: OGChipSelectEditMenu: state: - LPC1768 NXP LPC1768 OGCoreOrChip: state: - 1 ``` In the code above, LPC1768 is defined. To add a new target, create a new project in IAR, select your desired target, save the project. Use progendef to extract information or manually - open the project in any text editor, and find the attribute OGChipSelectEditMenu. OGCoreOrChip should be set to 1, as Chip will be used. Be carefull with OGChipSelectEditMenu, it should be exact as in origin project. Once you specified all needed information, test to build your project and check if the correct target is set in the IAR project. ### CoIDE ``` coide: coide: Device: manufacturerId: - 7 manufacturerName: - NXP chipId: - 165 chipName: - LPC1768 DebugOption: defaultAlgorithm: - lpc17xx_512.elf MemoryAreas: IROM1: name: - IROM1 size: - 0x00080000 startValue: - 0x00000000 type: - ReadOnly IRAM1: name: - IRAM1 size: - 0x00008000 startValue: - 0x10000000 type: - ReadWrite IROM2: name: - IROM2 size: - 0x0 startValue: - 0x0 type: - ReadOnly IRAM2: name: - IROM2 size: - 0x00008000 startValue: - 0x2007C000 type: - ReadWrite ``` LPC1768 MCU is defined above for CoIDE. To add a new target, create a new project in CoIDE, select your target, save the project. Use progendef to extract information or manually - open the project file (.coproj) in the text editor, and search for all the information which is above. It's required to set the target properly. There is an information about ROM/RAM sizes, Flash algo used and Id numbers for the target.