FTDI Chip

../../../_images/ftdi.jpg

FTDI Chip develops innovative silicon solutions that enhance interaction with today’s technology. When a designer needs to add a USB port, rest assured that FTDI Chip has a full range of USB solutions to get the job done. Vendor information…

Configuration

You can configure debugging tool using debug_tool option in “platformio.ini” (Project Configuration File):

[env:myenv]
platform = ...
board = ...
debug_tool = ftdi

If you would like to use this tool for firmware uploading, please change upload protocol:

[env:myenv]
platform = ...
board = ...
debug_tool = ftdi
upload_protocol = ftdi

More options:

Drivers

Windows:

See https://community.platformio.org/t/esp32-pio-unified-debugger/4541/20

Mac:

macOS contains default FTDIUSBSerialDriver driver which conflicts with debug tools which are based on this chip. FTDI Chip company recommends removing this default driver from a system. Everything should work after system rebooting. See detailed instruction in official application note (Page 16, Section 4: Uninstalling FTDI Drivers on OS X) AN134: FTDI Drivers Installation guide for MAC OS X

Linux:

Please install “udev” rules 99-platformio-udev.rules. If you already installed them before, please check that your rules are up-to-date or repeat steps.

Platforms

Name

Description

Espressif 32

Espressif Systems is a privately held fabless semiconductor company. They provide wireless communications and Wi-Fi chips which are widely used in mobile devices and the Internet of Things applications.

RISC-V

RISC-V is an open, free ISA enabling a new era of processor innovation through open standard collaboration. Born in academia and research, RISC-V ISA delivers a new level of free, extensible software and hardware freedom on architecture, paving the way for the next 50 years of computing design and innovation.

RISC-V GAP

GreenWaves GAP8 IoT application processor enables the cost-effective development, deployment and autonomous operation of intelligent sensing devices that capture, analyze, classify and act on the fusion of rich data sources such as images, sounds or vibrations.

Samsung ARTIK

The Samsung ARTIK Smart IoT platform brings hardware modules and cloud services together, with built-in security and an ecosystem of tools and partners to speed up your time-to-market.

Frameworks

Name

Description

Arduino

Arduino Wiring-based Framework allows writing cross-platform software to control devices attached to a wide range of Arduino boards to create all kinds of creative coding, interactive objects, spaces or physical experiences.

ESP-IDF

Espressif IoT Development Framework. Official development framework for ESP32.

Freedom E SDK

Open Source Software for Developing on the SiFive Freedom E Platform

mbed

The mbed framework The mbed SDK has been designed to provide enough hardware abstraction to be intuitive and concise, yet powerful enough to build complex projects. It is built on the low-level ARM CMSIS APIs, allowing you to code down to the metal if needed. In addition to RTOS, USB and Networking libraries, a cookbook of hundreds of reusable peripheral and module libraries have been built on top of the SDK by the mbed Developer Community.

PULP OS

PULP is a silicon-proven Parallel Ultra Low Power platform targeting high energy efficiencies. The platform is organized in clusters of RISC-V cores that share a tightly-coupled data memory.

Simba

Simba is an RTOS and build framework. It aims to make embedded programming easy and portable.

Tizen RT

Tizen RT is a lightweight RTOS-based platform to support low-end IoT devices

Boards

Note

For more detailed board information please scroll tables below by horizontal.

Name

Platform

Debug

MCU

Frequency

Flash

RAM

Espressif ESP-WROVER-KIT

Espressif 32

On-board

ESP32

240MHz

4MB

320KB

GAPuino GAP8

RISC-V GAP

On-board

GAP8

250MHz

64MB

8MB

HiFive1

RISC-V

On-board

FE310

320MHz

16MB

16KB

Samsung ARTIK053

Samsung ARTIK

On-board

S5JT200

320MHz

8MB

1.25MB