#Contiki sources for the Evaluation kit for ERF1000 module
The ERF1000 module and its Evaluation Kit feature the lastest ARM Cortex-M0+ CPU with integrated 2.4 GHz transceiver.
The module and kit are especially designed with IoT projects in mind.
For more information or to buy a kit or module, see the EasyRF website:
http://shop.top-electronics.eu/evaluation-kit-for-erf1000-module-p-17199.html
For more information about Contiki, see the Contiki website:
##Getting started
Contiki has a special directory for cpu related files and for platform related files.
For the ERF1000 evalution kit the cpu files can be found in
contiki/cpu/atsamr21 and the platform files in contiki/platform/easyRF and the demo's are in contiki/examples/easyRF.
To get your board up and running as quickly as possible follow the steps below.
You can find the instructions for running the easyRF http demo server here:
https://github.com/EasyRF/http-server-demo
To run Contiki on the Evaluation Kit for ERF1000 you will need to install a few things.
You need this to cross compile software for ARM CPU's. There are pre-build binaries for all major OS'es.
https://launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded
Make sure the bin directory (containing the executables) is in your PATH.
Most developers will already have make installed. But if not you need to install this.
Install the Command Line Tools you can find them here:
https://developer.apple.com/opensource/
sudo apt-get install build-essential
Install the make package from GNUWin32 you can find it here:
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/make.htm
The CPU and platform drivers for the ERF1000 module are all written on top of the drivers in ASF. Download the latest version from:
http://www.atmel.com/tools/AVRSOFTWAREFRAMEWORK.aspx
OpenOCD can be used for pogramming binaries into your target. Its open source and available for all major OS'es. As of version 0.8.0 the target at91samr21g18 is supported. The latest source code can be downloaded from:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/openocd/files/latest/download?source=files
Build instuctions are included in the download.
The contiki/cpu/atsamr21/Makefile.atsamr21 contains a special build target for uploading the application to the target using openocd.
To use this target openocd must be in your PATH or you can specify the path to openocd in OPENOCD_PROG in contiki/cpu/atsamr21/Makefile.atsamr21.
The easiest way to get sources is to install Git on your machine and clone the repository.
git clone https://github.com/EasyRF/contiki.git
Alternatively you can download the sources from GitHub as a ZIP-file.
Because the CPU and platfrom drivers depend on ASF (see step 3), you will need to unzip the ASF archive in contiki/thirdparty/atmel. For example: contiki/thirdparty/atmel/xdk-asf-3.20.1
And make sure the ASF_ROOT variable in contiki/cpu/atsamr21/Makefile.atsamr21 contains the correct path for the ASF library. The current code is developed/tested with version 3.20.1.
Now it's time to build the first example program.
Change to the directory containing the easyRF demo.
cd contiki/examples/easyRF
For a demo of all sensors and HTTP posting over a mesh network run:
make TARGET=easyRF sensors-test
To upload the demo run:
make TARGET=easyRF sensors-test.ocd-upload
- Support for Low Power Modes (LPM)
- Update of Firmware Over The Air (FOTA) using a Bootload