Drivers

List of Drivers

• Communication Drivers
  • comms
  • comms_uart
  • comms_usart
  • comms_spi
• Board Drivers
  • cc1120

Drivers' Location

The Drivers are located in src > Drivers.

Each driver will have it's own folder located src > Drivers > DRIVER_NAME, with the driver *_drv.c and *_drv.h files within. The driver files should be appended with _drv.

The Atmel drivers are found in src > Drivers > asf.

Drivers' Note

Drivers will be split into two categories:

1. Low level drivers written by Atmel/Other Chip manufacturers.

• The low level drivers should keep the same folder/code structure as provided by Atmel

2. High(er) level drivers written by us for BLUEsat boards

• The BLUEsat drivers will be things written by us used to control the boards and low-level things not currently handled easily by the Atmel drivers. Examples include:
  • DebugWrite (through UART)
  • TransmitStringToEarth (*char outputBuff)
  • ReadCommandFromEarth (*char inputBuff)
  • SetAttitude(int angle1, int angle2, int angle3)

Adding a new driver

Instructions if you need to add a new driver:

• Open Atmel Studio. Go to Solution Explorer.
• Drivers go in src > Drivers > DRIVER_NAME
• Right click on parent folder in context menu Add > New Folder
• Close Atmel Studio.
• Open the *.cproj file a text editor.
• Add the path directory under the following folders 4 places:

    <Project ... >
        <armgcc.compiler.directories.IncludePaths>
            <ListValues>
                <Value>../src/Drivers/DRIVER_NAME</Value>
        <armgcc.preprocessingassembler.general.IncludePaths>
            <ListValues>
                <Value>../src/Drivers/DRIVER_NAME</Value>
    </ArmGcc>
        <armgcc.compiler.directories.IncludePaths>
            <ListValues>
                <Value>../src/Drivers/DRIVER_NAME</Value>
        <armgcc.preprocessingassembler.general.IncludePaths>
            <ListValues>
                <Value>../src/Drivers/DRIVER_NAME</Value>

• Save the file.
• Open Atmel Studio.
• Add *.c and *.h files; they can now be linked

Note: You should be able to do this within Atmel without closing it but we couldn't save our changes.