RIOT
RIOT - The friendly OS for IoT (by RIOT-OS)
libopencm3
Open source ARM Cortex-M microcontroller library (by libopencm3)
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| RIOT | libopencm3 | |
|---|---|---|
| 39 | 11 | |
| 4,781 | 2,934 | |
| 1.0% | 1.5% | |
| 9.9 | 5.7 | |
| 7 days ago | 6 days ago | |
| C | C | |
| GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
RIOT
Posts with mentions or reviews of RIOT.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-25.
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Comp Sci Student Interested in Embedded
RIOT-OS is somewhat popular in academia, it tries to be very approachable but there are still plenty of low hanging fruits with all kinds of hardware and you can use it for software and thesis projects.
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Open source embedded projects
Just one example: https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT
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Is Mbed still relevant?
You could also take a look at RIOT-OS. http://riot-os.org
- Woke up today to my first ever pull request of one of my public repos! Wait... oh... oh god...
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Looking for a GitHub repo which contains unit tests
RIOT-OS has a lot of unit tests for all the boards they support. And it's written in C. https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT/tree/master/tests
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What's the best book and microcontroller to learn embedded design?
Another option is using RIOT-OS. But that unfortunately doesn't support PWM for the Weact. It does support PWM for the Bluepill and Blackpill STM32f103 and the Nucleo-f446 After quick search. \ https://riot-os.org
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What should I buy to begin learning embedded systems development?
If you want to use C, I would suggest trying out RIOT-OS. It's a modern embedded operating system, written in C and focussed on IOT. It works on a lot of different boards. https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT
- Best kit to get started using C.
- RIOT-OS 2022.10 ยท Release Notes
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Programming arduino in actual C
Alternatively, you can also write your code in an RTOS. They often have scripts that make flashing and debugging easy. One that I personally like, and also supports Arduino, is RIOT-OS.
libopencm3
Posts with mentions or reviews of libopencm3.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-12.
- Open source ARM Cortex-M microcontroller library
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Setting up a good dev environment without recreating the world
Some of the vendor IDEs have the option to generate makefiles for a project. Depending on the processor, you could also opt out to a different system. A lot of the popular cortex-m stuff is supported by libopencm3.
- Is there a command line process for ST embedded devices?
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Looking for someone interested in designing a HAL
You can also look at examples of HALs such as - libopencm3 (Though this is Cortex only) - RIOT OS (though this requires an RTOS)
- how come there aren't any open source drivers for MCUs?
- Is there a database of peripheral implementations for different STM32 MCU parts?
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Portable driver libraries or HAL that supports Atmel SAM targets?
Yeah by the looks of it I am going to have to expand my project do creating a portable driver interface as well. Abstracting hardware interfaces to create portable code is fairly common in embedded development. For example, libopencm3 does this and has great support for STM32 parts but very limited support for SAM parts.
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How can i implement USB interface for an embedded flight controller to enable serial prints, parameter changes AND reading data from an SD card?
TinyUSB or Libopencm3 are probably your best options (although check they support the SAME70).
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Which uC has the most flexible, feature-packed SPI peripherals?
that is fair. SPI isn't very portable across Arm cpu vendors because all peripherals are vendor specific, i.e. the registers will differ a lot and APIs reflect that. Finding common ground is hard unless using specifically designed portable libraries like https://github.com/libopencm3/libopencm3
- Code organization and modularity
What are some alternatives?
When comparing RIOT and libopencm3 you can also consider the following projects:
FreeRTOS-Kernel - FreeRTOS kernel files only, submoduled into https://github.com/FreeRTOS/FreeRTOS and various other repos.
grblHAL - This repo has moved to a new home https://github.com/grblHAL
zephyr - Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.
libusb_stm32 - Lightweight USB device Stack for STM32 microcontrollers
pico-sdk
stm32-cube-cmake-vscode - STM32, VSCode and CMake detailed tutorial
mbed-os - Arm Mbed OS is a platform operating system designed for the internet of things
stm32-rs - Embedded Rust device crates for STM32 microcontrollers
mongoose-os - Mongoose OS - an IoT Firmware Development Framework. Supported microcontrollers: ESP32, ESP8266, CC3220, CC3200, STM32F4, STM32L4, STM32F7. Amazon AWS IoT, Microsoft Azure, Google IoT Core integrated. Code in C or JavaScript.
rt-thread - RT-Thread is an open source IoT real-time operating system (RTOS).
lwcell - Lightweight cellular modem host AT library
stm32disc_midisynth1 - midi-controlled synth example for STM32F407VG Discovery board