VK Boards

Mbed OS support for VK mbed boards

⚠️ (since mbed v6.0, VK Boards were removed from the official releases, so their maintenance is done through custom-targets.json )

Install

VK Custom Targets come as library. It can easily be installed with mbed CLI

• Get Mbed OS >_ mbed new <Project name>
• Update to supported Mbed OS version: (mbed-os-6.12.0)
  • >_ cd <Project name>\mbed-os
  • >_ mbed update <mbed-os-x.x.x>
  • >_ cd ..
• Get Custom Targets lib >_ mbed add https://github.com/Vekatech/mbed-vk-boards
• Patch Mbed OS >_ mbed-vk-boards\patch\patch.py

• Get Mbed OS >_ mbed-tools new <Project name>
• Update to supported Mbed OS version: (mbed-os-6.12.0)
  • >_ cd <Project name>
  • >_ git -C mbed-os checkout <mbed-os-x.x.x>
• Get Custom Targets lib >_ mbed-tools import https://github.com/Vekatech/mbed-vk-boards
  • Create lib file >_ echo https://github.com/Vekatech/mbed-vk-boards> mbed-vk-boards.lib
• Patch Mbed OS >_ mbed-vk-boards\patch\patch.py
• Modify the CMakeLists.txt file:
  • Open project's ROOT CMakeLists.txt
  • Insert add_subdirectory(${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/mbed-vk-boards) after the add_subdirectory(${MBED_PATH}) line
  • Save the CMakeLists.txt file.

Build

Go to the project's DIR >_ cd /D <Project path>

• CLI 1 >_ mbed compile --custom-targets mbed-vk-boards -t <toolchain> -m <VK board>¹²
• CLI 2 >_ mbed-tools compile --custom-targets-json mbed-vk-boards\custom_targets.json -t <toolchain> -m <VK board>¹²

Export

Go to the project's DIR >_ cd /D <Project path>

• CLI 1 >_ mbed export --custom-targets mbed-vk-boards -i e2studio -m <VK board>²
• CLI 2 >_ N/A

Demo

Any mbed example program available for a given <VK board> is (& will be) uploaded in demos folder. If no <Example name> is specified, Demo name will be extraced by deffault. The CLI tool can work with one example program at a time, so you have to specify what demo for which board to be extracted.

Full Demo descriptions and more info about Bords manufactured by Vekatech.Ltd can be found on their website.

Go to the project's DIR >_ cd /D <Project path>

• Extract >_ mbed-vk-boards\demos\extract.py <VK board> [<Example name>]²

Footnotes

1. <toolchain> can be one of these options [ ARM / GCC_ARM ] ↩ ↩²

2. <VK board> can be one of these options [ VK_RZ_A1H / VK_RZ_A1LU / VK_RZ_A1R3 ] ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴