BareMetal-C

Testing everything:

This guide ensures that you install everything correctly and is ready for class.

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0. Prerequisites

You must have installed the following:

• tools
• simulide
• vs code

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1. Build test code

• Run VS Code. Check that you are at the Explorer (1) and you see ✅ BareMetal-C 🤖.

  If you don’t, click File and select Open Workspace from File... and choose student.code-workspace.

  

  IMPORTANT: Things won’t work if you don’t see ✅ BareMetal-C 🤖 (2). Double-check!

• Go to folder _test_setup and right click. Choose BareMetal-C and Build BareMetal-C Project

  

• The project should be built, as seen below by

  YYYY-MM-DD HH_MM_SS +ZZZZ ----- built _test_setup.bin -----
  

  If not, check your tools and VS code setup.

  

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2. Load test code into circuit:

• Open simulide and click open circuit in screenshot below:

  

  Go to BareMetal-C/sim folder and choose 05_freq_200kHz.sim1 file.

• You should see the circuit below:

  

  If the stuff in red rectangle box is missing, go back to set User Data Folder. See instructions in setting up simulide.

• Right click on ROM (1) and select Load data as in screenshot below:

  

• In folder BareMetal-C/sim, choose file _test_setup.bin

• Click Start/Stop Simulation and watch the blinking, running lights:

  

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3. Troubleshooting

• When starting VS Code, you must see ✅ BareMetal-C 🤖 while in Explorer.

• If you don’t see ✅ BareMetal-C 🤖, click File and select Open Workspace from File... and choose student.code-workspace.

  • If you open another folder, even if it’s inside BareMetal-C, like BareMetal-C/code, the right click menu may not show up.

• You must right click on a folder to see Build BareMetal-C Project.

  • Right clicking on a file will not show BareMetal-C Build or Clean options.

• Click Start/Stop Simulation to toggle simulation on and off.

• There are other things you can do with right click on a folder as well. There are Build, Build All, Clean, and Clean All.

  Feel free to right click them. They won’t destroy your project.

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4. Wrap-up

If you got the running-blinking lights working, everything is working correctly.

• VS Code can communicate with the tools.
• The tools can compile and link code.
• The compiled code can be run on SimulIDE

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