nuttx-apps/examples

Examples

Selecting Examples

The examples directory contains several sample applications that can be linked with NuttX. The specific example is selected in the boards/<arch-name>/<chip-name>/<board-name>/configs/<config>/defconfig file via the CONFIG_EXAMPLES_xyz setting where xyz is the name of the example. For example:

CONFIG_EXAMPLES_HELLO=y

Selects the examples/hello Hello, World! example.

Built-In Functions

Some of the examples may be built as built-in functions that can be executed at run time (rather than as NuttX main programs). These built-in examples can be also be executed from the NuttShell (NSH) command line. In order to configure these built-in NSH functions, you have to set up the following:

• CONFIG_NSH_BUILTIN_APPS – Enable support for external registered, named applications that can be executed from the NSH command line (see apps/README.md for more information).

adc Read from ADC

A mindlessly simple test of an ADC devices. It simply reads from the ADC device and dumps the data to the console forever.

This test depends on these specific ADC/NSH configurations settings (your specific ADC settings might require additional settings).

• CONFIG_ADC – Enabled ADC support.
• CONFIG_NSH_BUILTIN_APPS – Build the ADC test as an NSH built-in function. Default: Built as a standalone program.

Specific configuration options for this example include:

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_ADC_DEVPATH – The default path to the ADC device. Default: /dev/adc0.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_ADC_NSAMPLES – This number of samples is collected and the program terminates. Default: Samples are collected indefinitely.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_ADC_GROUPSIZE – The number of samples to read at once. Default: 4.

ajoystick Analog Joystick

This is a simple test of the analog joystick driver. See details about this driver in nuttx/include/nuttx/input/ajoystick.h.

Configuration Pre-requisites:

• CONFIG_AJOYSTICK – The analog joystick driver.

Example Configuration:

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_AJOYSTICK – Enabled the analog joystick example.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_AJOYSTICK_DEVNAME – Joystick device name. Default /dev/adjoy0.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_AJOYSTICK_SIGNO – Signal used to signal the test application. Default 32.

alarm RTC Alarm

A simple example that tests the alarm IOCTLs of the RTC driver.

Dependencies:

• CONFIG_RTC_DRIVER – RTC driver must be initialized to allow user space access to the RTC.
• CONFIG_RTC_ALARM – Support for RTC alarms must be enabled.

Configuration:

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_ALARM – Enable the RTC driver alarm test.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_ALARM_PROGNAME – This is the name of the program that will be used when the NSH ELF program is installed.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_ALARM_PRIORITY – Alarm daemon priority.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_ALARM_STACKSIZE – Alarm daemon stack size.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_ALARM_DEVPATH – RTC device path (/dev/rtc0).
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_ALARM_SIGNO – Alarm signal.

apa102 Rainbow on APA102 LED Strip

Rainbow example for APA102 LED Strip.

bastest Bas BASIC Interpreter

This directory contains a small program that will mount a ROMFS file system containing the BASIC test files extracted from the Bas 2.4 release. See examples/bastest/README.md for licensing and usage information.

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_BASTEST_DEVMINOR – The minor device number of the ROMFS block driver. For example, the N in /dev/ramN. Used for registering the RAM block driver that will hold the ROMFS file system containing the BASIC files to be tested. Default: 0.

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_BASTEST_DEVPATH – The path to the ROMFS block driver device. This must match EXAMPLES_BASTEST_DEVMINOR. Used for registering the RAM block driver that will hold the ROMFS file system containing the BASIC files to be tested. Default: /dev/ram0.

bridge Network Bridge

A simple test of a system with multiple networks. It simply echoes all UDP packets received on network 1 and network 2 to network 2 and network 1, respectively. Interface 1 and interface may or may not lie on the same network.

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_BRIDGE – Enables the simple UDP bridge test.

There identical configurations for each of the two networks, NETn where n refers to the network being configured n={1,2}. Let m refer to the other network.

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_BRIDGE_NETn_IFNAME – The register name of the network n device. Must match the previously registered driver name and must not be the same as other network device name, CONFIG_EXAMPLES_BRIDGE_NETm_IFNAME.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_BRIDGE_NETn_RECVPORT – Network n listen port number.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_BRIDGE_NETn_SNDPORT – Network 2 send port number.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_BRIDGE_NETn_IOBUFIZE – Size of the network n UDP send/receive I/O buffer.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_BRIDGE_NETn_STACKSIZE – Network n daemon stacksize.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_BRIDGE_NETn_PRIORITY – Network n daemon task priority.

If used as a NSH add-on, then it is assumed that initialization of both networks was performed externally prior to the time that this test was started. Otherwise, the following options are available:

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_BRIDGE_NETn_NOMAC – Select of the network n hardware does not have a built-in MAC address. If selected, the MAC address. provided by CONFIG_EXAMPLES_BRIDGE_NETn_MACADDR will be used to assign the MAC address to the network n device.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_BRIDGE_NETn_DHCPC – Use DHCP Client to get the network n IP address.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_BRIDGE_NETn_IPADDR – If CONFIG_EXAMPLES_BRIDGE_NETn_DHCPC is not selected, then this is the fixed IP address for network n.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_BRIDGE_NETn_DRIPADDR – Network n default router IP address (Gateway).
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_BRIDGE_NETn_NETMASK – Network n mask.

buttons Read GPIO Buttons

To be provided.

can CAN Device Test

If the CAN device is configured in loopback mode, then this example can be used to test the CAN device in loop back mode. It simple sinces a sequence of CAN messages and verifies that those messages are returned exactly as sent.

This test depends on these specific CAN/NSH configurations settings (your specific CAN settings might require additional settings).

• CONFIG_CAN – Enables CAN support.
• CONFIG_CAN_LOOPBACK – A CAN driver may or may not support a loopback mode for testing. The STM32 CAN driver does support loopback mode.
• CONFIG_NSH_BUILTIN_APPS – Build the CAN test as an NSH built-in function. Default: Built as a standalone program.

Specific configuration options for this example include:

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_CAN_DEVPATH – The path to the CAN device. Default: /dev/can0.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_CAN_NMSGS – This number of CAN message is collected and the program terminates. Default: messages are sent and received indefinitely.

The default behavior assumes loopback mode. Messages are sent, then read and verified. The behavior can be altered for other kinds of testing where the test only sends or received (but does not verify) can messages.

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_CAN_READONLY – Only receive messages.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_CAN_WRITEONLY – Only send messages.

canard

Example application for canutils/libcarnard.

cctype

Verifies all possible inputs for all functions defined in the header file cctype.

chat AT over TTY

Demonstrates AT chat functionality over a TTY device. This is useful with AT modems, for example, to establish a pppd connection (see the related pppd example). Moreover, some AT modems – such as ones made by u-blox – have an internal TCP/IP stack, often with an implementation of TLS/SSL. In such cases the chat utility can be used to configure the internal TCP/IP stack, establish socket connections, set up security (e.g., download base64-encoded certificates to the modem), and perform data exchange through sockets over the TTY device.

Useful configuration parameters:

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_CHAT_PRESET[0..3] – preset chat scripts.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_CHAT_TTY_DEVNODE – TTY device node name.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_CHAT_TIMEOUT_SECONDS – default receive timeout.

configdata

This is a Unit Test for the MTD configuration data driver.

cpuhog Keep CPU Busy

Attempts to keep the system busy by passing data through a pipe in loop back mode. This may be useful if you are trying run down other problems that you think might only occur when the system is very busy.

cordic

A simple test of the CORDIC character driver.

dac Write to DAC

This is a tool for writing values to DAC device.

dhcpd DHCP Server

This examples builds a tiny DHCP server for the target system.

Note: For test purposes, this example can be built as a host-based DHCPD server. This can be built as follows:

cd examples/dhcpd
make -f Makefile.host TOPDIR=<nuttx-directory>

NuttX configuration settings:

• CONFIG_NET=y – of course.
• CONFIG_NET_UDP=y – UDP support is required for DHCP (as well as various other UDP-related configuration settings).
• CONFIG_NET_BROADCAST=y – UDP broadcast support is needed.
• CONFIG_NETUTILS_NETLIB=y – The networking library is needed.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_DHCPD_NOMAC – (May be defined to use software assigned MAC)

See also CONFIG_NETUTILS_DHCPD_* settings described elsewhere and used in netutils/dhcpd/dhcpd.c. These settings are required to described the behavior of the daemon.

discover UDP Discover Daemon

This example exercises netutils/discover utility. This example initializes and starts the UDP discover daemon. This daemon is useful for discovering devices in local networks, especially with DHCP configured devices. It listens for UDP broadcasts which also can include a device class so that groups of devices can be discovered. It is also possible to address all classes with a kind of broadcast discover.

This example will automatically be built as an NSH built-in if CONFIG_NSH_BUILTIN_APPS is selected. Otherwise, it will be a standalone program with entry point discover_main.

NuttX configuration settings:

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_DISCOVER_DHCPC – DHCP Client.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_DISCOVER_NOMAC – Use canned MAC address.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_DISCOVER_IPADDR – Target IP address.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_DISCOVER_DRIPADDR – Router IP address.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_DISCOVER_NETMASK – Network Mask.

djoystick Discrete Joystick

This is a simple test of the discrete joystick driver. See details about this driver in nuttx/include/nuttx/input/djoystick.h.

Configuration Pre-requisites:

• CONFIG_INPUT_DJOYSTICK – The discrete joystick driver.

Example Configuration:

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_DJOYSTICK – Enabled the discrete joystick example.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_DJOYSTICK_DEVNAME – Joystick device name. Default /dev/djoy0.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_DJOYSTICK_SIGNO – Signal used to signal the test application. Default 32.

elf ELF loader

This example builds a small ELF loader test case. This includes several test programs under examples/elf tests. These tests are build using the relocatable ELF format and installed in a ROMFS file system. At run time, each program in the ROMFS file system is executed. Requires CONFIG_ELF. Other configuration options:

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_ELF_DEVMINOR – The minor device number of the ROMFS block driver. For example, the N in /dev/ramN. Used for registering the RAM block driver that will hold the ROMFS file system containing the ELF executables to be tested. Default: 0.

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_ELF_DEVPATH – The path to the ROMFS block driver device. This must match EXAMPLES_ELF_DEVMINOR. Used for registering the RAM block driver that will hold the ROMFS file system containing the ELF executables to be tested. Default: /dev/ram0.

Notes:

1. CFLAGS should be provided in CELFFLAGS. RAM and FLASH memory regions may require long allcs. For ARM, this might be:

   CELFFLAGS = $(CFLAGS) -mlong-calls
   

   Similarly for C++ flags which must be provided in CXXELFFLAGS.

2. Your top-level nuttx/Make.defs file must also include an appropriate definition, LDELFFLAGS, to generate a relocatable ELF object. With GNU LD, this should include -r and -e main (or _main on some platforms).

   LDELFFLAGS = -r -e main
   

   If you use GCC to link, you make also need to include -nostdlib.

3. This example also requires genromfs. genromfs can be build as part of the nuttx toolchain. Or can built from the genromfs sources that can be found in the NuttX tools repository (genromfs-0.5.2.tar.gz). In any event, the PATH variable must include the path to the genromfs executable.

4. ELF size: The ELF files in this example are, be default, quite large because they include a lot of build garbage. You can greatly reduce the size of the ELF binaries are using the objcopy --strip-unneeded command to remove un-necessary information from the ELF files.

5. Simulator. You cannot use this example with the NuttX simulator on Cygwin. That is because the Cygwin GCC does not generate ELF file but rather some Windows-native binary format.

   If you really want to do this, you can create a NuttX x86 buildroot toolchain and use that be build the ELF executables for the ROMFS file system.

6. Linker scripts. You might also want to use a linker scripts to combine sections better. An example linker script is at nuttx/binfmt/libelf/gnu-elf.ld. That example might have to be tuned for your particular linker output to position additional sections correctly. The GNU LD LDELFFLAGS then might be:

   LDELFFLAGS = -r -e main -T$(TOPDIR)/binfmt/libelf/gnu-elf.ld
   

fb Framebuffer

A simple test of the framebuffer character driver.

flash_test SMART Flash

This example performs a SMART flash block device test. This test performs a sector allocate, read, write, free and garbage collection test on a SMART MTD block device.

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_FLASH_TEST=y – Enables the FLASH Test.

Dependencies:

• CONFIG_MTD_SMART=y – SMART block driver support.
• CONFIG_BUILD_PROTECTED=n and CONFIG_BUILD_KERNEL=n – This test uses internal OS interfaces and so is not available in the NUTTX kernel builds.

foc FOC motor controller

A FOC motor controller based on the NuttX FOC driver and the NuttX FOC library. See apps/foc/README.md for more information.

flowc Serial Hardware Flow Control

A simple test of serial hardware flow control.

ft80x FT80x GUI Chip

This examples has ports of several FTDI demos for the FTDI/BridgeTek FT80x GUI chip. As an example configuration, see nuttx/boards/arm/stm32/viewtool-stm32f107/configs/ft80x/defconfig.

ftpc FTP Client

This is a simple FTP client shell used to exercise the capabilities of the FTPC library (apps/netutils/ftpc).

From NSH, the startup command sequence is as follows. This is only an example, your configuration could have different mass storage devices, mount paths, and FTP directories:

nsh> mount -t vfat /dev/mmcsd0 /tmp  # Mount the SD card at /tmp
nsh> cd /tmp                         # cd into the /tmp directory
nsh> ftpc <host> <port>              # Start the FTP client
nfc> login <name> <password>         # Log into the FTP server
nfc> help                            # See a list of FTP commands

where <host> is the IP address or hostname of the FTP server and <port> is an optional port number.

Note: By default, FTPC uses readline to get data from stdin. So your defconfig file must have the following build path:

CONFIG_SYSTEM_READLINE=y

Note: If you use the ftpc task over a telnet NSH connection, then you should set the following configuration item:

CONFIG_EXAMPLES_FTPC_FGETS=y

By default, the FTPC client will use readline() to get characters from the console. Readline includes and command-line editor and echos characters received in stdin back through stdout. Neither of these behaviors are desire-able if Telnet is used.

You may also want to define the following in your configuration file. Otherwise, you will have not feedback about what is going on:

CONFIG_DEBUG_FEATURES=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_FTPC=y

ftpd FTP daemon

This example exercises the FTPD daemon at apps/netutils/ftpd. Below are configurations specific to the FTPD example (the FTPD daemon itself may require other configuration options as well).

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_FTPD – Enable the FTPD example.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_FTPD_PRIO – Priority of the FTP daemon. Default: SCHED_PRIORITY_DEFAULT.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_FTPD_STACKSIZE – Stack size allocated for the FTP daemon. Default: 2048.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_FTPD_NONETINIT – Define to suppress configuration of the network by apps/examples/ftpd. You would need to suppress network configuration if the network is configuration prior to running the example.

NSH always initializes the network so if CONFIG_NSH_NETINIT is defined, so is CONFIG_EXAMPLES_FTPD_NONETINIT (se it does not explicitly need to be defined in that case):

• CONFIG_NSH_BUILTIN_APPS – Build the FTPD daemon example test as an NSH built-in function. By default the FTPD daemon will be built as a standalone application.

If CONFIG_EXAMPLES_FTPD_NONETINIT is not defined, then the following may be specified to customized the network configuration:

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_FTPD_NOMAC – If the hardware has no MAC address of its own, define this =y to provide a bogus address for testing.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_FTPD_IPADDR – The target IP address. Default 10.0.0.2.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_FTPD_DRIPADDR – The default router address. Default: 10.0.0.1.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_FTPD_NETMASK – The network mask. Default: 255.255.255.0.

TCP networking support is required. So are pthreads so this must be set to 'n':

• CONFIG_DISABLE_PTHREAD – pthread support is required.

Other FTPD configuration options they may be of interest:

• CONFIG_FTPD_VENDORID – The vendor name to use in FTP communications. Default: NuttX.
• CONFIG_FTPD_SERVERID – The server name to use in FTP communications. Default: NuttX FTP Server.
• CONFIG_FTPD_CMDBUFFERSIZE – The maximum size of one command. Default: 512 bytes.
• CONFIG_FTPD_DATABUFFERSIZE – The size of the I/O buffer for data transfers. Default: 2048 bytes.
• CONFIG_FTPD_WORKERSTACKSIZE – The stacksize to allocate for each FTP daemon worker thread. Default: 2048 bytes.

The following netutils libraries should be enabled in your defconfig file:

CONFIG_NETUTILS_NETLIB=y
CONFIG_NETUTILS_FTPD=y

gpio GPIO Read and Write

A simple test/example of the NuttX GPIO driver.

hello Hello World

This is the mandatory, Hello, World!! example. It is little more than examples/null with a single printf statement. Really useful only for bringing up new NuttX architectures.

• CONFIG_NSH_BUILTIN_APPS – Build the Hello, World example as an NSH built-in application.

helloxx Hello World in C++

This is C++ version of the Hello, World!! example. It is intended only to verify that the C++ compiler is functional, that basic C++ library support is available, and that class are instantiated correctly.

NuttX configuration prerequisites:

• CONFIG_HAVE_CXX – Enable C++ Support.

Optional NuttX configuration settings:

• CONFIG_HAVE_CXXINITIALIZE – Enable support for static constructors (may not be available on all platforms).

NuttX configuration settings specific to this example:

• CONFIG_NSH_BUILTIN_APPS – Build the helloxx example as a built-in that can be executed from the NSH command line.

Also needed:

• CONFIG_HAVE_CXX=y

And you may have to tinker with the following to get libxx to compile properly:

• CCONFIG_ARCH_SIZET_LONG=y or =n.

The argument of the new operators should take a type of size_t. But size_t has an unknown underlying. In the nuttx sys/types.h header file, size_t is typed as uint32_t (which is determined by architecture-specific logic). But the C++ compiler may believe that size_t is of a different type resulting in compilation errors in the operator. Using the underlying integer type Instead of size_t seems to resolve the compilation issues.

hidkbd USB Host HID keyboard

This is a simple test to debug/verify the USB host HID keyboard class driver.

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_HIDKBD_DEFPRIO – Priority of waiter thread. Default: 50.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_HIDKBD_STACKSIZE – Stacksize of waiter thread. Default 1024.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_HIDKBD_DEVNAME – Name of keyboard device to be used. Default: /dev/kbda.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_HIDKBD_ENCODED – Decode special key press events in the user buffer. In this case, the example coded will use the interfaces defined in include/nuttx/input/kbd_codec.h to decode the returned keyboard data. These special keys include such things as up/down arrows, home and end keys, etc. If this not defined, only 7-bit printable and control ASCII characters will be provided to the user. Requires CONFIG_HIDKBD_ENCODED and CONFIG_LIBC_KBDCODEC.

igmp Trivial IGMP

This is a trivial test of the NuttX IGMP capability. It present it does not do much of value – Much more is needed in order to verify the IGMP features!

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_IGMP_NOMAC – Set if the hardware has no MAC address; one will be assigned.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_IGMP_IPADDR – Target board IP address.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_IGMP_DRIPADDR – Default router address.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_IGMP_NETMASK – Network mask.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_IGMP_GRPADDR – Multicast group address.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NETLIB – The networking library is needed.

i2cchar Transfer Through I2C

A mindlessly simple test of an I2C driver. It reads an write garbage data to the I2C transmitter and/or received as fast possible.

This test depends on these specific I2S/AUDIO/NSH configurations settings (your specific I2S settings might require additional settings).

• CONFIG_I2S – Enabled I2S support.
• CONFIG_AUDIO – Enabled audio support.
• CONFIG_DRIVERS_AUDIO – Enable audio device support.
• CONFIG_AUDIO_I2SCHAR – Enabled support for the I2S character device.
• CONFIG_NSH_BUILTIN_APPS – Build the I2S test as an NSH built-in function. Default: Built as a standalone program.

Specific configuration options for this example include:

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_I2SCHAR – Enables the I2C test.

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_I2SCHAR_DEVPATH – The default path to the ADC device. Default: /dev/i2schar0.

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_I2SCHAR_TX – This should be set if the I2S device supports a transmitter.

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_I2SCHAR_TXBUFFERS – This is the default number of audio buffers to send before the TX transfers terminate. When both TX and RX transfers terminate, the task exits (and, if an NSH builtin, the i2schar command returns). This number can be changed from the NSH command line.

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_I2SCHAR_TXSTACKSIZE – This is the stack size to use when starting the transmitter thread. Default 1536.

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_I2SCHAR_RX – This should be set if the I2S device supports a transmitter.

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_I2SCHAR_RXBUFFERS – This is the default number of audio buffers to receive before the RX transfers terminate. When both TX and RX transfers terminate, the task exits (and, if an NSH builtin, the i2schar command returns). This number can be changed from the NSH command line.

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_I2SCHAR_RXSTACKSIZE – This is the stack size to use when starting the receiver thread. Default 1536.

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_I2SCHAR_BUFSIZE – The size of the data payload in one audio buffer. Applies to both TX and RX audio buffers.

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_I2SCHAR_DEVINIT – Define if architecture-specific I2S device initialize is available. If defined, the platform specific code must provide a function i2schar_devinit() that will be called each time that this test executes. Not available in the kernel build mode.

ina219 Current/Power Monitor INA219

This is a simple infinite loop that polls the INA219 sensor and displays the measurements.

ipforward IP Forwarding Using TUN

A simple test of IP forwarding using TUN devices. This can be used on any platform, but was intended for use on the simulation platform because it performs a test of IP forwarding without the use of hardware.

json cJSON

This example exercises the cJSON implementation at apps/netutils/json. This example contains logic taken from the cJSON project:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/cjson/

The example corresponds to SVN revision r42 (with lots of changes for NuttX coding standards). As of r42, the SVN repository was last updated on 2011-10-10 so I presume that the code is stable and there is no risk of maintaining duplicate logic in the NuttX repository.

leds Toggle LEDs

This is a simple test of the board LED driver at nuttx/drivers/leds/userled_*.c.

luamod_hello Hello World Lua module

A Lua C module showing how to add built-in modules to the Lua interpreter. Usage:

> hello.say_hello()
"Hello World!"

lis2csh_reader LIS3DSH Accelerometer

A simple reader example for the LIS3DSH acceleration sensor as found on STM32F4Discovery rev. C.

hts221_reader HTS221 Humidity Sensor

A simple reader example for the HTS221 humidity sensor.

lsm303_reader LSM303 Accelerometer/Magnetometer

A simple reader example for the LSM303 acc-mag sensor.

lsm6dsl_reader LSM6DSL Accelerometer/Gyroscope

A simple reader example for the LSM6DSL acc-gyro sensor.

lvglterm LVGL Terminal for NuttShell (NSH)

LVGL application that executes NuttShell (NSH) commands entered with a Touchscreen Keyboard and displays the NSH output. Prerequisite configuration settings:

• CONFIG_NSH_ARCHINIT=n – NSH architecture initialization must be disabled.
• CONFIG_NSH_CONSOLE=y – NSH must be configured to use a console.
• CONFIG_LIBC_EXECFUNCS=y – posix_spawn() must be enabled.
• CONFIG_PIPES=y – Pipes must be enabled.
• CONFIG_GRAPHICS_LVGL=y – LVGL graphics must be enabled.
• CONFIG_LV_FONT_UNSCII_16=y – LVGL font UNSCII 16 must be enabled.

media

The media test simply writes values onto the media hidden behind a character driver and verifies that the media can be successfully written and read. This low level test is useful in the early phases of the bringup of a new block or mtd driver because it avoids the complexity of a file system.

This test uses a character driver and cannot directly access block or mtd drivers. This test is suitable for use EEPROM character drivers (see nuttx/drivers/eeprom), or with block drivers wrapped as character drivers (see nuttx/drivers/bch)

int ret = bchdev_register(<path-to-block-driver>,
                          <path-to-character-driver>, false);

MTD drivers need an additional wrapper layer, the FTL wrapper must first be used to convert the MTD driver to a block device:

int ret = ftl_initialize(<N>, mtd);
ret = bchdev_register(/dev/mtdblock<N>, <path-to-character-driver>,
                      false);

module Loadable Module

This example builds a small loadable module test case. This includes a character driver under examples/module/drivers. This driver is built using the relocatable ELF format and installed in a ROMFS file system. At run time, the driver module is loaded and exercised. Requires CONFIG_MODULE. Other configuration options:

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_ELF_DEVMINOR – The minor device number of the ROMFS block driver. For example, the N in /dev/ramN. Used for registering the RAM block driver that will hold the ROMFS file system containing the ELF executables to be tested. Default: 0.

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_ELF_DEVPATH – The path to the ROMFS block driver device. This must match EXAMPLES_ELF_DEVMINOR. Used for registering the RAM block driver that will hold the ROMFS file system containing the ELF executables to be tested. Default: /dev/ram0.

Notes:

1. CFLAGS should be provided in CMODULEFLAGS. RAM and FLASH memory regions may require long allcs. For ARM, this might be:

   CMODULEFLAGS = $(CFLAGS) -mlong-calls
   

   Similarly for C++ flags which must be provided in CXXMODULEFLAGS.

2. Your top-level nuttx/Make.defs file must also include an appropriate definition, LDMODULEFLAGS, to generate a relocatable ELF object. With GNU LD, this should include -r and -e <entry point>.

   LDMODULEFLAGS = -r -e module_initialize
   

   If you use GCC to link, you make also need to include -nostdlib.

3. This example also requires genromfs. genromfs can be build as part of the nuttx toolchain. Or can built from the genromfs sources that can be found in the NuttX tools repository (genromfs-0.5.2.tar.gz). In any event, the PATH variable must include the path to the genromfs executable.

4. ELF size: The ELF files in this example are, be default, quite large because they include a lot of build garbage. You can greatly reduce the size of the ELF binaries are using the objcopy --strip-unneeded command to remove un-necessary information from the ELF files.

5. Simulator. You cannot use this example with the NuttX simulator on Cygwin. That is because the Cygwin GCC does not generate ELF file but rather some Windows-native binary format.

   If you really want to do this, you can create a NuttX x86 buildroot toolchain and use that be build the ELF executables for the ROMFS file system.

6. Linker scripts. You might also want to use a linker scripts to combine sections better. An example linker script is at nuttx/libc/modlib/gnu-elf.ld. That example might have to be tuned for your particular linker output to position additional sections correctly. The GNU LD LDMODULEFLAGS then might be:

   LDMODULEFLAGS = -r -e module_initialize -T$(TOPDIR)/libc/modlib/gnu-elf.ld
   

modbus FreeModbus

This is a port of the FreeModbus Linux demo. It derives from the demos/LINUX directory of the FreeModBus version 1.5.0 (June 6, 2010) that can be downloaded in its entirety from http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6120.

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_MODBUS_PORT, Default 0 (for /dev/ttyS0).
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_MODBUS_BAUD, Default B38400.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_MODBUS_PARITY, Default MB_PAR_EVEN.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_MODBUS_REG_INPUT_START, Default 1000.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_MODBUS_REG_INPUT_NREGS, Default 4.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_MODBUS_REG_HOLDING_START, Default 2000.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_MODBUS_REG_HOLDING_NREGS, Default 130.

The FreeModBus library resides at apps/modbus. See apps/modbus/README.txt for additional configuration information.

mount Mount Filesystem

This contains a simple test of filesystem mountpoints.

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_MOUNT_DEVNAME – The name of the user-provided block device to mount. If CONFIG_EXAMPLES_MOUNT_DEVNAME is not provided, then a RAM disk will be configured.

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_MOUNT_NSECTORS – The number of sectors in the RAM disk used when CONFIG_EXAMPLES_MOUNT_DEVNAME is not defined.

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_MOUNT_SECTORSIZE – The size of each sectors in the RAM disk used when CONFIG_EXAMPLES_MOUNT_DEVNAME is not defined.

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_MOUNT_RAMDEVNO – The RAM device minor number used to mount the RAM disk used when CONFIG_EXAMPLES_MOUNT_DEVNAME is not defined. The default is zero (meaning that /dev/ram0 will be used).

mtdpart MTD Partition Test

This examples provides a simple test of MTD partition logic.

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_MTDPART – Enables the MTD partition test example.

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_MTDPART_ARCHINIT – The default is to use the RAM MTD device at drivers/mtd/rammtd.c. But an architecture-specific MTD driver can be used instead by defining CONFIG_EXAMPLES_MTDPART_ARCHINIT. In this case, the initialization logic will call mtdpart_archinitialize() to obtain the MTD driver instance.

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_MTDPART_NPARTITIONS – This setting provides the number of partitions to test. The test will divide the reported size of the MTD device into equal-sized sub-regions for each test partition. Default: 3.

When CONFIG_EXAMPLES_MTDPART_ARCHINIT is not defined, this test will use the RAM MTD device at drivers/mtd/rammtd.c to simulate FLASH. The size of the allocated RAM drive will be: CONFIG_EXMPLES_RAMMTD_ERASESIZE * CONFIG_EXAMPLES_MTDPART_NEBLOCKS.

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_MTDPART_ERASESIZE – This value gives the size of one erase block in the MTD RAM device. This must exactly match the default configuration in drivers/mtd/rammtd.c!

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_MTDPART_NEBLOCKS – This value gives the number of erase blocks in MTD RAM device.

mtdrwb MTD Read-ahead and Write Buffering

This examples provides a simple test of MTD Read-Ahead/Write buffering logic.

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_MTDRWB – Enables the MTD R/W buffering test example.

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_MTDRWB_ARCHINIT – The default is to use the RAM MTD device at drivers/mtd/rammtd.c. But an architecture-specific MTD driver can be used instead by defining CONFIG_EXAMPLES_MTDRWB_ARCHINIT. In this case, the initialization logic will call mtdrwb_archinitialize() to obtain the MTD driver instance.

When CONFIG_EXAMPLES_MTDRWB_ARCHINIT is not defined, this test will use the RAM MTD device at drivers/mtd/rammtd.c to simulate FLASH. The size of the allocated RAM drive will be: CONFIG_EXMPLES_RAMMTD_ERASESIZE * CONFIG_EXAMPLES_MTDRWB_NEBLOCKS

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_MTDRWB_ERASESIZE – This value gives the size of one erase block in the MTD RAM device. This must exactly match the default configuration in drivers/mtd/rammtd.c!

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_MTDRWB_NEBLOCKS – This value gives the number of erase blocks in MTD RAM device.

netpkt AF_PACKET Raw Sockets

A test of AF_PACKET, raw sockets. Contributed by Lazlo Sitzer.

netloop Network loopback device

This is a simple test of the netwok loopback device. examples/nettest can also be configured to provide (better) test of local loopback transfers. This version derives from examples/poll and is focused on testing poll() with loopback devices.

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NETLOOP=y – Enables the nettest example.

Dependencies:

• CONFIG_NET_LOOPBACK – Requires local loopback support.
• CONFIG_NET_TCP – Requires TCP support with the following:
  • CONFIG_NET_TCPBACKLOG
  • CONFIG_NET_TCP_WRITE_BUFFERS
• CONFIG_NET_IPv4 – Currently supports only IPv4.

nettest Client/Server Over TCP

This is a simple network test for verifying client- and server- functionality in a TCP/IP connection.

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NETTEST=y – Enables the nettest example.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NETLIB=y – The networking library in needed.

Configurations:

• Server on target hardware; client on host.
• Client on target hardware; server on host.
• Server and Client on different targets.
• Loopback configuration with both client and server on the same target.

See also examples/tcpecho.

nrf24l01_term NRF24L01 Wireless Connection

These is a simple test of NRF24L01-based wireless connectivity. Enabled with:

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NRF24L01TERM

Options:

• CONFIG_NSH_BUILTIN_APPS – Built as an NSH built-in applications.

nx

This directory contains a simple test of a subset of the NX APIs defined in include/nuttx/nx/nx.h. The following configuration options can be selected:

• CONFIG_NSH_BUILTIN_APPS – Build the NX example as a built-in that can be executed from the NSH command line
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NX_BGCOLOR – The color of the background. Default depends on CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NX_BPP.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NX_COLOR1 – The color of window 1. Default depends on CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NX_BPP.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NX_COLOR2 – The color of window 2. Default depends on CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NX_BPP.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NX_TBCOLOR – The color of the toolbar. Default depends on CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NX_BPP.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NX_FONTID – Selects the font (see font ID numbers in include/nuttx/nx/nxfonts.h).
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NX_FONTCOLOR – The color of the fonts. Default depends on CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NX_BPP.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NX_BPP – Pixels per pixel to use. Valid options include 2, 4, 8, 16, 24 and 32. Default is 32.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NX_RAWWINDOWS – Use raw windows; Default is to use pretty, framed NXTK windows with toolbars.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NX_STACKSIZE – The stacksize to use when creating the NX server. Default 2048.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NX_CLIENTPRIO – The client priority. Default: 100
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NX_SERVERPRIO – The server priority. Default: 120
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NX_LISTENERPRIO – The priority of the event listener thread. Default 80.

The example also has the following settings and will generate an error if they are not as expected:

CONFIG_DISABLE_MQUEUE=n
CONFIG_DISABLE_PTHREAD=n
CONFIG_NX_BLOCKING=y
CONFIG_BOARDCTL=y

nxterm Display NuttShell (NSH) as NX Console

This directory contains yet another version of the NuttShell (NSH). This version uses the NX console device defined in include/nuttx/nx/nxterm.h for output. the result is that the NSH input still come from the standard console input (probably a serial console). But the text output will go to an NX winbdow. Prerequisite configuration settings for this test include:

• CONFIG_NX=y – NX graphics must be enabled
• CONFIG_NXTERM=y – The NX console driver must be built
• CONFIG_DISABLE_MQUEUE=n – Message queue support must be available.
• CONFIG_DISABLE_PTHREAD=n – pthreads are needed
• CONFIG_NX_BLOCKING=y – pthread APIs must be blocking
• CONFIG_NSH_CONSOLE=y – NSH must be configured to use a console.

The following configuration options can be selected to customize the test:

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXTERM_BGCOLOR – The color of the background. Default Default is a darker royal blue.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXTERM_WCOLOR – The color of the window. Default is a light slate blue.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXTERM_FONTID – Selects the font (see font ID numbers in include/nuttx/nx/nxfonts.h).
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXTERM_FONTCOLOR – The color of the fonts. Default is black.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXTERM_BPP – Pixels per pixel to use. Valid options include 2, 4, 8, 16, 24 and 32. Default is 32.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXTERM_TOOLBAR_HEIGHT – The height of the toolbar. Default: 16.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXTERM_TBCOLOR – The color of the toolbar. Default is a medium grey.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXTERM_MINOR – The NX console device minor number. Default is 0 corresponding to /dev/nxterm0.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXTERM_DEVNAME – The quoted, full path to the NX console device corresponding to CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXTERM_MINOR. Default: /dev/nxterm0.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXTERM_PRIO – Priority of the NxTerm task. Default: SCHED_PRIORITY_DEFAULT.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXTERM_STACKSIZE – Stack size allocated for the NxTerm task. Default: 2048.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXTERM_STACKSIZE – The stacksize to use when creating the NX server. Default: 2048.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXTERM_CLIENTPRIO – The client priority. Default: 100.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXTERM_SERVERPRIO – The server priority. Default: 120.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXTERM_LISTENERPRIO – The priority of the event listener thread. Default: 80.

nxflat NXFLAT Binary

This example builds a small NXFLAT test case. This includes several test programs under examples/nxflat tests. These tests are build using the NXFLAT format and installed in a ROMFS file system. At run time, each program in the ROMFS file system is executed. Requires CONFIG_NXFLAT.

nxhello

A very simple graphics example that just says Hello, World! in the center of the display.

The following configuration options can be selected:

• CONFIG_NSH_BUILTIN_APPS – Build the NXHELLO example as a built-in that can be executed from the NSH command line
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXHELLO_VPLANE – The plane to select from the frame- buffer driver for use in the test. Default: 0.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXHELLO_DEVNO – The LCD device to select from the LCD driver for use in the test. Default: 0.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXHELLO_BGCOLOR – The color of the background. Default depends on CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXHELLO_BPP.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXHELLO_FONTID – Selects the font (see font ID numbers in include/nuttx/nx/nxfonts.h).
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXHELLO_FONTCOLOR – The color of the fonts used in the background window. Default depends on CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXHELLO_BPP.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXHELLO_BPP – Pixels per pixel to use. Valid options include 2, 4, 8, 16, 24 and 32. Default: 32.

nximage Display NuttX Logo

This is a simple example that just puts the NuttX logo image in the center of the display. This only works for RGB23 (888), RGB16 (656), RGB8 (332), and 8-bit greyscale for now.

• CONFIG_NSH_BUILTIN_APPS – Build the NXIMAGE example as a built-in that can be executed from the NSH command line.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXIMAGE_VPLANE – The plane to select from the frame- buffer driver for use in the test. Default: 0.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXIMAGE_DEVNO – The LCD device to select from the LCD driver for use in the test: Default: 0.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXIMAGE_BPP – Pixels per pixel to use. Valid options include 8, 16 and 24. Default is 16.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXIMAGE_XSCALEp5, CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXIMAGE_XSCALE1p5 or CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXIMAGE_XSCALE2p0 – The logo image width is 160 columns. One of these may be defined to rescale the image horizontally by .5, 1.5 or 2.0.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXIMAGE_YSCALEp5, CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXIMAGE_YSCALE1p5 or CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXIMAGE_YSCALE2p0 – The logo image height is 160 rows. One of these may be defined to rescale the image vertically by .5, 1.5 or 2.0.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXIMAGE_GREYSCALE – Grey scale image. Default: RGB.

How was that run-length encoded image produced?

1. I used GIMP output the image as a .c file.
2. I added some C logic to palette-ize the RGB image in the GIMP .c file.
3. Then I add some simple run-length encoding to palette-ized image.

But now there is a tool that can be found in the NxWidgets package at NxWidgets/tools/bitmap_converter.py that can be used to convert any graphics format to the NuttX RLE format.

Note: As of this writing, most of the pixel depth, scaling options, and combinations thereof have not been tested.

nxlines NX Line Drawing

A very simple graphics example that just exercised the NX line drawing logic.

The following configuration options can be selected:

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXLINES_VPLANE – The plane to select from the frame- buffer driver for use in the test. Default: 0.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXLINES_DEVNO – The LCD device to select from the LCD driver for use in the test: Default: 0.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXLINES_BGCOLOR – The color of the background. Default depends on CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXLINES_BPP.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXLINES_LINEWIDTH – Selects the width of the lines in pixels (default: 16).
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXLINES_LINECOLOR – The color of the central lines drawn in the background window. Default depends on CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXLINES_BPP (there really is no meaningful default).
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXLINES_BORDERWIDTH – The width of the circular border drawn in the background window. (default: 16).
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXLINES_BORDERCOLOR – The color of the circular border drawn in the background window. Default depends on CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXLINES_BPP (there really is no meaningful default).
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXLINES_CIRCLECOLOR – The color of the circular region filled in the background window. Default depends on CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXLINES_BPP (there really is no meaningful default).
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXLINES_BORDERCOLOR – The color of the lines drawn in the background window. Default depends on CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXLINES_BPP (there really is no meaningful default).
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXLINES_BPP – Pixels per pixel to use. Valid options include 2, 4, 8, 16, 24, and 32. Default is 16.
• CONFIG_NSH_BUILTIN_APPS – Build the NX lines examples as an NSH built-in function.

nxtext Display NX Text

This directory contains another simple test of a subset of the NX APIs defined in include/nuttx/nx/nx.h. This text focuses on text displays on the display background combined with pop-up displays over the text. The text display will continue to update while the pop-up is visible.

Note: This example will only work with FB drivers and with LCD drivers that support reading the contents of the internal LCD memory unless you define CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXTEXT_NOGETRUN. If you notice garbage on the display or a failure at the point where the display should scroll, it is probably because you have an LCD driver that is write-only.

The following configuration options can be selected:

• CONFIG_NSH_BUILTIN_APPS – Build the NXTEXT example as a built-in that can be executed from the NSH command line.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXTEXT_BGCOLOR – The color of the background. Default depends on CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXTEXT_BPP.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXTEXT_BGFONTID – Selects the font to use in the background text (see font ID numbers in include/nuttx/nx/nxfonts.h).
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXTEXT_BGFONTCOLOR – The color of the fonts used in the background window. Default depends on CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXTEXT_BPP.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXTEXT_PUCOLOR – The color of the pop-up window. Default depends on CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXTEXT_BPP.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXTEXT_PUFONTID – Selects the font to use in the pop-up windows (see font ID numbers in include/nuttx/nx/nxfonts.h).
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXTEXT_PUFONTCOLOR – The color of the fonts used in the background window. Default depends on CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXTEXT_BPP.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXTEXT_BPP – Pixels per pixel to use. Valid options include 2, 4, 8, 16, 24 and 32. Default is 32.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXTEXT_NOGETRUN – If your display is read-only OR if reading is not reliable, then select this configuration to avoid reading from the display.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXTEXT_BMCACHE – The maximum number of characters that can be put in the background window. Default is 128.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXTEXT_GLCACHE – The maximum number of pre-rendered fonts that can be retained for the background window.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXTEXT_STACKSIZE – The stacksize to use when creating the NX server. Default 2048.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXTEXT_CLIENTPRIO – The client priority. Default: 100.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXTEXT_SERVERPRIO – The server priority. Default: 120.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXTEXT_LISTENERPRIO – The priority of the event listener thread. Default: 80.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NXTEXT_NOTIFYSIGNO – The signal number to use with nx_eventnotify(). Default: 32.

The example also expects the following settings and will generate an error if they are not as expected:

CONFIG_DISABLE_MQUEUE=n
CONFIG_DISABLE_PTHREAD=n
CONFIG_NX_BLOCKING=y

null

This is the do nothing application. It is only used for bringing up new NuttX architectures in the most minimal of environments.

obd2

A simple test of apps/canutils/libobd2.

oneshot Oneshot Timer

Simple test of a oneshot driver.

pca9635 PCA9635PW LED

A simple test of the PCA9635PW LED driver.

pdcurses

This directory contains the demo/test programs that accompany the public domain cursors package (pdcurses) that can be found at apps/graphics/pdcurs34.

pipe

A test of the mkfifo() and pipe() APIs. Requires CONFIG_PIPES

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_PIPE_STACKSIZE – Sets the size of the stack to use when creating the child tasks. The default size is 1024.

poll

A test of the poll() and select() APIs using FIFOs and, if available, stdin, and a TCP/IP socket. In order to use the TCP/IP select test, you must have the following things selected in your NuttX configuration file:

• CONFIG_NET – Defined for general network support.
• CONFIG_NET_TCP – Defined for TCP/IP support.
• CONFIG_NET_NTCP_READAHEAD_BUFFERS – Defined to be greater than zero.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_POLL_NOMAC – (May be defined to use software assigned MAC)
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_POLL_IPADDR – Target IP address.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_POLL_DRIPADDR – Default router IP address.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_POLL_NETMASK – Network mask.

In order to for select to work with incoming connections, you must also select:

• CONFIG_NET_TCPBACKLOG – Incoming connections pend in a backlog until accept() is called.

In additional to the target device-side example, there is also a host-side application in this directory. It can be compiled under Linux or Cygwin as follows:

cd examples/usbserial
make -f Makefile.host TOPDIR=<nuttx-directory> TARGETIP=<target-ip>

Where <target-ip> is the IP address of your target board.

This will generate a small program called 'host'. Usage:

1. Build the examples/poll target program with TCP/IP poll support and start the target.

2. Then start the host application:

   ./host
   

The host and target will exchange are variety of small messages. Each message sent from the host should cause the select to return in target. The target example should read the small message and send it back to the host. The host should then receive the echo'ed message.

If networking is enabled, applications using this example will need to provide the following definition in the defconfig file to enable the networking library:

• CONFIG_NETUTILS_NETLIB=y

posix_spawn

This is a simple test of the posix_spawn() API. The example derives from examples/elf. As a result, these tests are built using the relocatable ELF format installed in a ROMFS file system. At run time, the test program in the ROMFS file system is spawned using posix_spawn().

Requires:

• CONFIG_BINFMT_DISABLE=n – Don't disable the binary loader.
• CONFIG_ELF=y – Enable ELF binary loader.
• CONFIG_LIBC_EXECFUNCS=y – Enable support for posix_spawn.
• CONFIG_EXECFUNCS_SYMTAB_ARRAY="g_spawn_exports" – The name of the symbol table created by the test.
• CONFIG_EXECFUNCS_NSYMBOLS_VAR="g_spawn_nexports" – Name of variable holding the number of symbols.
• CONFIG_POSIX_SPAWN_STACKSIZE=768 – This default setting.

Test-specific configuration options:

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_POSIXSPAWN_DEVMINOR – The minor device number of the ROMFS block. driver. For example, the N in /dev/ramN. Used for registering the RAM block driver that will hold the ROMFS file system containing the ELF executables to be tested. Default: 0.

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_POSIXSPAWN_DEVPATH – The path to the ROMFS block driver device. This must match EXAMPLES_POSIXSPAWN_DEVMINOR. Used for registering the RAM block driver that will hold the ROMFS file system containing the ELF executables to be tested. Default: /dev/ram0.

Notes:

1. CFLAGS should be provided in CELFFLAGS. RAM and FLASH memory regions may require long allcs. For ARM, this might be:

   CELFFLAGS = $(CFLAGS) -mlong-calls
   

   Similarly for C++ flags which must be provided in CXXELFFLAGS.

2. Your top-level nuttx/Make.defs file must also include an appropriate definition, LDELFFLAGS, to generate a relocatable ELF object. With GNU LD, this should include -r and -e main (or _main on some platforms).

   LDELFFLAGS = -r -e main
   

   If you use GCC to link, you make also need to include -nostdlib.

3. This example also requires genromfs. genromfs can be build as part of the nuttx toolchain. Or can built from the genromfs sources that can be found in the NuttX tools repository (genromfs-0.5.2.tar.gz). In any event, the PATH variable must include the path to the genromfs executable.

4. ELF size: The ELF files in this example are, be default, quite large because they include a lot of build garbage. You can greatly reduce the size of the ELF binaries are using the objcopy --strip-unneeded command to remove un-necessary information from the ELF files.

5. Simulator. You cannot use this example with the NuttX simulator on Cygwin. That is because the Cygwin GCC does not generate ELF file but rather some Windows-native binary format.

   If you really want to do this, you can create a NuttX x86 buildroot toolchain and use that be build the ELF executables for the ROMFS file system.

6. Linker scripts. You might also want to use a linker scripts to combine sections better. An example linker script is at nuttx/binfmt/libelf/gnu-elf.ld. That example might have to be tuned for your particular linker output to position additional sections correctly. The GNU LD LDELFFLAGS then might be:

   LDELFFLAGS = -r -e main -T$(TOPDIR)/binfmt/libelf/gnu-elf.ld
   

powerled

This is a powerled driver example application. This application support three operation modes which can be selected from NSH command line:

1. Demo mode.
2. Continuous mode.
3. Flash mode.

pty_test Pseudo-Terminals

A test of NuttX pseudo-terminals. Provided by Alan Carvalho de Assis.

pwfb

A graphics example using pre-window frame buffers. The example shows three windows containing text moving around, crossing each other from above and from below. The example application is NOT updating the windows any anyway! The application is only changing the window position. The windows are being updated from the per-winidow framebuffers automatically.

This example is reminiscent of Pong: Each window travels in straight line until it hits an edge, then it bounces off. The window is also raised when it hits the edge (gets focus). This tests all combinations of overap.

Note: A significant amount of RAM, usually external SDRAM, is required to run this demo. At 16bpp and a 480x272 display, each window requires about 70Kb of RAM for its framebuffer.

pwm General PWM

A test of a PWM device driver. It simply enables a pulsed output for a specified frequency and duty for a specified period of time. This example can ONLY be built as an NSH built-in function.

This test depends on these specific PWM/NSH configurations settings (your specific PWM settings might require additional settings).

• CONFIG_PWM – Enables PWM support.
• CONFIG_PWM_PULSECOUNT – Enables PWM pulse count support (if the hardware supports it).
• CONFIG_NSH_BUILTIN_APPS – Build the PWM test as an NSH built-in function.

Specific configuration options for this example include:

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_PWM_DEVPATH – The path to the default PWM device. Default: /dev/pwm0.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_PWM_FREQUENCY – The initial PWM frequency. Default: 100 Hz
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_PWM_DUTYPCT – The initial PWM duty as a percentage. Default: 50%.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_PWM_DURATION – The initial PWM pulse train duration in seconds. Used only if the current pulse count is zero (pulse count is only supported if CONFIG_PWM_PULSECOUNT is defined). Default: 5 seconds.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_PWM_PULSECOUNT – The initial PWM pulse count. This option is only available if CONFIG_PWM_PULSECOUNT is non-zero. Default: 0 (i.e., use the duration, not the count).

qencoder Quadrature Encoder

This example is a simple test of a Quadrature Encoder driver. It simply reads positional data from the encoder and prints it.,

This test depends on these specific QE/NSH configurations settings (your specific PWM settings might require additional settings).

• CONFIG_SENSORS_QENCODER – Enables quadrature encoder support (upper-half driver).
• CONFIG_NSH_BUILTIN_APPS – Build the QE test as an NSH built-in function. Default: Built as a standalone program.

Additional configuration options will mostly likely be required for the board- specific lower-half driver. See the README.txt file in your board configuration directory.

Specific configuration options for this example include:

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_QENCODER_DEVPATH – The path to the QE device. Default: /dev/qe0.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_QENCODER_NSAMPLES – This number of samples is collected and the program terminates. Default: Samples are collected indefinitely.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_QENCODER_DELAY – This value provides the delay (in milliseconds) between each sample. Default: 100 milliseconds.

random Random Numbers

This is a very simply test of /dev/random. It simple collects random numbers and displays them on the console.

Prerequistes:

• CONFIG_DEV_RANDOM – Support for /dev/random must be enabled in order to select this example.

Configuration:

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_RANDOM – Enables the /dev/random test.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_MAXSAMPLES – This is the size of the /dev/random I/O buffer in units of 32-bit samples. Careful! This buffer is allocated on the stack as needed! Default 64.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_NSAMPLES – When you execute the rand command, a number of samples ranging from 1 to EXAMPLES_MAXSAMPLES may be specified. If no argument is specified, this is the default number of samples that will be collected and displayed. Default 8.

relays Relays

Requires CONFIG_ARCH_RELAYS. Contributed by Darcy Gong.

Note: This test exercises internal relay driver interfaces. As such, it relies on internal OS interfaces that are not normally available to a user-space program. As a result, this example cannot be used if a NuttX is built as a protected, supervisor kernel (CONFIG_BUILD_PROTECTED or CONFIG_BUILD_KERNEL).

rfid_readuid RFID

RFID READUID example.

rgbled RGB LED Using PWM

This example demonstrates the use of the RGB led driver to drive an RGB LED with PWM outputs so that all color characteristcs of RGB LED can be controlled.

romfs File System

This example exercises the romfs filesystem. Configuration options include:

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_ROMFS_RAMDEVNO – The minor device number to use for the ROM disk. The default is 1 (meaning /dev/ram1).
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_ROMFS_SECTORSIZE – The ROM disk sector size to use. Default is 64.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_ROMFS_MOUNTPOINT – The location to mount the ROM disk. Default: /usr/local/share.

sendmail SMTP Client

This examples exercises the uIP SMTP logic by sending a test message to a selected recipient. This test can also be built to execute on the Cygwin/Linux host environment:

cd examples/sendmail
make -f Makefile.host TOPDIR=<nuttx-directory>

Settings unique to this example include:

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_SENDMAIL_NOMAC – May be defined to use software assigned MAC (optional)
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_SENDMAIL_IPADDR – Target IP address (required)
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_SENDMAIL_DRIPADDR – Default router IP address (required)
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_SENDMAILT_NETMASK – Network mask (required)
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_SENDMAIL_RECIPIENT – The recipient of the email (required)
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_SENDMAIL_SENDER – Optional. Default: nuttx-testing@example.com
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_SENDMAIL_SUBJECT – Optional. Default: Testing SMTP from NuttX
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_SENDMAIL_BODY – Optional. Default: Test message sent by NuttX

Note 1: This test has not been verified on the NuttX target environment. As of this writing, unit-tested in the Cygwin/Linux host environment.

Note 2: This sendmail example only works for the simplest of environments. Virus protection software on your host may have to be disabled to allow you to send messages. Only very open, unprotected recipients can be used. Most will protect themselves from this test email because it looks like SPAM.

Applications using this example will need to enable the following netutils libraries in their defconfig file:

CONFIG_NETUTILS_NETLIB=y
CONFIG_NETUTILS_SMTP=y

serialblaster

Sends a repeating pattern (the alphabet) out a serial port continuously. This may be useful if you are trying run down other problems that you think might only occur when the serial port usage is high.

serialrx

Constant receives serial data. This is the complement to serialblaster. This may be useful if you are trying run down other problems that you think might only occur when the serial port usage is high.

serloop Serial Loopback

This is a mindlessly simple loopback test on the console. Useful for testing new serial drivers. Configuration options include:

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_SERLOOP_BUFIO – Use C buffered I/O (getchar/putchar) vs. raw console I/O (read/read).

slcd Alphanumeric Segment LCD

A simple test of alphanumeric, segment LCDs (SLCDs).

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_SLCD – Enable the SLCD test

smps Switched-Mode Power Supply

This is a SMPS (Switched-mode power supply) driver example application.

sotest Shared Library Module Test

This example builds a small shared library module test case. The test shared library is built using the relocatable ELF format and installed in a ROMFS file system. At run time, the shared library is installed and exercised. Requires CONFIG_LIBC_DLFCN. Other configuration options:

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_SOTEST_DEVMINOR – The minor device number of the ROMFS block driver. For example, the N in /dev/ramN. Used for registering the RAM block driver that will hold the ROMFS file system containing the ELF executables to be tested. Default: 0.

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_SOTEST_DEVPATH – The path to the ROMFS block driver device. This must match EXAMPLES_ELF_DEVMINOR. Used for registering the RAM block driver that will hold the ROMFS file system containing the ELF executables to be tested. Default: /dev/ram0.

Notes:

1. CFLAGS should be provided in CMODULEFLAGS. RAM and FLASH memory regions may require long allcs. For ARM, this might be:

   CMODULEFLAGS = $(CFLAGS) -mlong-calls
   

   Similarly for C++ flags which must be provided in CXXMODULEFLAGS.

2. Your top-level nuttx/Make.defs file must also include an appropriate definition, LDMODULEFLAGS, to generate a relocatable ELF object. With GNU LD, this should include -r and -e <entry point>.

   LDMODULEFLAGS = -r -e module_initialize
   

   If you use GCC to link, you make also need to include -nostdlib.

3. This example also requires genromfs. genromfs can be build as part of the nuttx toolchain. Or can built from the genromfs sources that can be found in the NuttX tools repository (genromfs-0.5.2.tar.gz). In any event, the PATH variable must include the path to the genromfs executable.

4. ELF size: The ELF files in this example are, be default, quite large because they include a lot of build garbage. You can greatly reduce the size of the ELF binaries are using the objcopy --strip-unneeded command to remove un-necessary information from the ELF files.

5. Simulator. You cannot use this example with the NuttX simulator on Cygwin. That is because the Cygwin GCC does not generate ELF file but rather some Windows-native binary format.

   If you really want to do this, you can create a NuttX x86 buildroot toolchain and use that be build the ELF executables for the ROMFS file system.

6. Linker scripts. You might also want to use a linker scripts to combine sections better. An example linker script is at nuttx/libc/modlib/gnu-elf.ld. That example might have to be tuned for your particular linker output to position additional sections correctly. The GNU LD LDMODULEFLAGS then might be:

LDMODULEFLAGS = -r -e module_initialize -T$(TOPDIR)/libc/modlib/gnu-elf.ld

stat

A simple test of stat(), fstat(), and statfs(). This is useful primarily for bringing up a new file system and verifying the correctness of these operations.

sx127x_demo SX127X Radio

This example demonstrates the use of the SX127X radio.

system

This is a simple test of the system() command. The test simply executes this system command:

ret = system("ls -Rl /");

tcpblaster TCP Performance Test

The tcpblaster example derives from the nettest example and basically duplicates that example when the nettest PERFORMANCE option is selected. tcpblaster has a little better reporting of performance stats, however.

tcpecho TCP Echo Server

Simple single threaded, poll based TCP echo server. This example implements the TCP Echo Server from W. Richard Stevens UNIX Network Programming Book. Contributed by Max Holtberg.

See also examples/nettest

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_TCPECHO=y – Enables the TCP echo server.
• CONFIG_XAMPLES_TCPECHO_PORT – Server Port, default 80.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_TCPECHO_BACKLOG – Listen Backlog, default 8.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_TCPECHO_NCONN – Number of Connections, default 8.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_TCPECHO_DHCPC – DHCP Client, default n.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_TCPECHO_NOMAC – Use Canned MAC Address, default n.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_TCPECHO_IPADDR – Target IP address, default 0x0a000002.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_TCPECHO_DRIPADDR – Default Router IP address (Gateway), default 0x0a000001.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_TCPECHO_NETMASK – Network Mask, default 0xffffff00.

telnetd Simple Telnet Shell

This directory contains a functional port of the tiny uIP shell. In the NuttX environment, the NuttShell (at apps/nshlib) supersedes this tiny shell and also supports telnetd.

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_TELNETD – Enable the Telnetd example.
• CONFIG_NETUTILS_NETLIB, CONFIG_NETUTILS_TELNETD – Enable netutils libraries needed by the Telnetd example.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_TELNETD_DAEMONPRIO – Priority of the Telnet daemon. Default: SCHED_PRIORITY_DEFAULT.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_TELNETD_DAEMONSTACKSIZE – Stack size allocated for the Telnet daemon. Default: 2048.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_TELNETD_CLIENTPRIO – Priority of the Telnet client. Default: SCHED_PRIORITY_DEFAULT.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_TELNETD_CLIENTSTACKSIZE – Stack size allocated for the Telnet client. Default: 2048.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_TELNETD_NOMAC – If the hardware has no MAC address of its own, define this =y to provide a bogus address for testing.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_TELNETD_IPADDR – The target IP address. Default 10.0.0.2.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_TELNETD_DRIPADDR – The default router address. Default 10.0.0.1.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_TELNETD_NETMASK – The network mask. Default: 255.255.255.0.

Also, make sure that you have the following set in the NuttX configuration file or else the performance will be very bad (because there will be only one character per TCP transfer):

• CONFIG_STDIO_BUFFER_SIZE – Some value >= 64
• CONFIG_STDIO_LINEBUFFER=y

termios Simple Termios interface test

This directory contains a simple application that uses the termios interface to change serial parameters. Just import a nsh config and enable the following symbols:

• CONFIG_SERIAL_TERMIOS – Enable the termios support.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_TERMIOS – Enable the example itself.

thttpd THTTPD server

An example that builds netutils/thttpd with some simple NXFLAT CGI programs. See boards/README.txt for most THTTPD settings. In addition to those, this example accepts:

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_THTTPD_NOMAC – (May be defined to use software assigned MAC)
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_THTTPD_DRIPADDR – Default router IP address.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_THTTPD_NETMASK – Network mask.

Applications using this example will need to enable the following netutils libraries in the defconfig file:

CONFIG_NETUTILS_NETLIB=y
CONFIG_NETUTILS_THTTPD=y

tiff

This is a simple unit test for the TIFF creation library at apps/graphic/tiff. It is configured to work in the Linux user-mode simulation and has not been tested in any other environment.

At a minimum, to run in an embedded environment, you will probably have to change the configured paths to the TIFF files defined in the example.

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_TIFF_OUTFILE – Name of the resulting TIFF file. Default is /tmp/result.tif.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_TIFF_TMPFILE1/2 – Names of two temporaries files that will be used in the file creation. Defaults are /tmp/tmpfile1.dat and /tmp/tmpfile2.dat.

The following must also be defined in your apps/ configuration file:

CONFIG_EXAMPLES_TIFF=y
CONFIG_GRAPHICS_TIFF=y

timer

This is a simple test of the timer driver (see include/nuttx/timers/timer.h).

Dependencies:

• CONFIG_TIMER – The timer driver must be selected

Example configuration:

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_TIMER_DEVNAME – This is the name of the timer device that will be tested. Default: /dev/timer0.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_TIMER_INTERVAL – This is the timer interval in microseconds. Default: 1000000.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_TIMER_DELAY – This is the delay between timer samples in microseconds. Default: 10000.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_TIMER_STACKSIZE – This is the stack size allocated when the timer task runs. Default: 2048.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_TIMER_PRIORITY – This is the priority of the timer task: Default: 100.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_TIMER_PROGNAME – This is the name of the program that will be used when the NSH ELF program is installed. Default: timer.

timer_gpio

This example uses the timer interrupt to periodically change the state of a digital output. The digital output may be a relay, a led or anything else. This example can be very useful to validate timer drivers by using a logic analyzer connected to the digital output. This example mainly differs from the timer example because it waits on a sigwaitinfo() instead of using a signal handler. This approach ensures a deterministic wake-up time when the signal occurs.

Dependencies:

• CONFIG_TIMER – The timer driver must be selected.
• CONFIG_DEV_GPIO – The GPIO driver must be selected.

Note: You should also select one timer instance and have the gpio driver properly configured in your board logic.

Example configuration:

• EXAMPLES_TIMER_GPIO_TIM_DEVNAME – This is the name of the timer device that will be used. Default: /dev/timer0.
• EXAMPLES_TIMER_GPIO_GPIO_DEVNAME – This is the name of the gpio device that will be used. Default: /dev/gpio0.
• EXAMPLES_TIMER_GPIO_INTERVAL – This is the timer interval in microseconds. Default: 1000000.
• EXAMPLES_TIMER_GPIO_SIGNO – This is the signal number that is used to notify that a timer interrupt occurred. Default: 32.
• EXAMPLES_TIMER_GPIO_STACKSIZE – This is the stack size allocated when the timer task runs. Default: 2048.
• EXAMPLES_TIMER_GPIO_PRIORITY – This is the priority of the timer task. Default: 255.
• EXAMPLES_TIMER_GPIO_PROGNAME – This is the name of the program that will be used from the nsh. Default: timer_gpio.

touchscreen Touchscreen Events

This configuration implements a simple touchscreen test at apps/examples/touchscreen. This test will create an empty X11 window and will print the touchscreen output as it is received from the simulated touchscreen driver.

• CONFIG_NSH_BUILTIN_APPS – Build the touchscreen test as an NSH built-in function. Default: Built as a standalone program.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_TOUCHSCREEN_MINOR – The minor device number. Minor N corresponds to touchscreen device /dev/inputN. Note this value must with CONFIG_EXAMPLES_TOUCHSCREEN_DEVPATH. Default 0.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_TOUCHSCREEN_DEVPATH – The path to the touchscreen device. This must be consistent with CONFIG_EXAMPLES_TOUCHSCREEN_MINOR. Default: /dev/input0.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_TOUCHSCREEN_NSAMPLES – This number of samples is collected and the program terminates. Default: Samples are collected indefinitely.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_TOUCHSCREEN_MOUSE – The touchscreen test can also be configured to work with a mouse driver by setting this option.

The following additional configurations must be set in the NuttX configuration file:

• CONFIG_INPUT=y (plus any touchscreen-specific settings)

The following must also be defined in your apps configuration file:

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_TOUCHSREEN=y

This example code will call boardctl() to setup the touchscreen driver for texting. The implementation of boardctl() will require that board- specific logic provide the following interfaces that will be called by the boardctl() in order to initialize the touchscreen hardware:

int board_tsc_setup(int minor);

udp Client/Server Over UDP

This is a simple network test for verifying client- and server- functionality over UDP.

Applications using this example will need to enabled the following netutils libraries in the defconfig file:

• CONFIG_NETUTILS_NETLIB=y

Possible configurations:

• Server on target hardware; client on host.
• Client on target hardware; Server on host.
• Server and Client on different targets.

udpblaster

This is a simple network test for stressing UDP transfers. It simply sends UDP packets from both the host and the target and the highest possible rate.

unionfs Union File System

This is at trivial test of the Union File System. See nuttx/fs/unionfs/README.txt. Dependencies:

• CONFIG_DISABLE_MOUNTPOINT – Mountpoint support must not be disabled.
• CONFIG_FS_ROMFS – ROMFS support is required.
• CONFIG_FS_UNIONFS – Union File System support is required.

Configuration options. Use the defaults if you are unsure of what you are doing:

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_UNIONFS – Enables the example.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_UNIONFS_MOUNTPT – Mountpoint path for the Union File System.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_UNIONFS_TMPA – Temporary mount point for file system 1.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_UNIONFS_TMPB – Temporary mount point for file system 2.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_UNIONFS_RAMDEVNO_A – ROMFS file system 1 RAM disk device number.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_UNIONFS_RAMDEVNO_B – ROMFS file system 2 RAM disk device number.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_UNIONFS_SECTORSIZE – ROM disk sector size.

See the README.txt file at nuttx/boards/sim/sim/sim/README.txt for a walk-through of the output of this text.

usbserial USB Serial Hello World

Target configuration

This is another implementation of Hello, World but this one uses a USB serial driver. Configuration options can be used to simply the test. These options include:

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_USBSERIAL_INONLY – Only verify IN (device-to-host) data transfers. Default: both.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_USBSERIAL_OUTONLY – Only verify OUT (host-to-device) data transfers. Default: both.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_USBSERIAL_ONLYSMALL – Send only small, single packet messages. Default: Send large and small.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_USBSERIAL_ONLYBIG – Send only large, multi-packet messages. Default: Send large and small.

If CONFIG_USBDEV_TRACE is enabled (or CONFIG_DEBUG_FEATURES and CONFIG_DEBUG_USB), then the example code will also manage the USB trace output. The amount of trace output can be controlled using:

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_USBSERIAL_TRACEINIT – Show initialization events.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_USBSERIAL_TRACECLASS – Show class driver events.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_USBSERIAL_TRACETRANSFERS – Show data transfer events.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_USBSERIAL_TRACECONTROLLER – Show controller events.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_USBSERIAL_TRACEINTERRUPTS – Show interrupt-related events.

Error results are always shown in the trace output.

Host-side test program

In additional to the target device-side example, there is also a host-side application in this directory. This host side application must be executed on a Linux host in order to perform the USBSERIAL test. The host application can be compiled under Linux (or Cygwin?) as follows:

cd examples/usbserial
make -f Makefile.host TOPDIR=<nuttx-directory>

Running the test

This will generate a small program called host. Usage:

1. Build the examples/usbserial target program and start the target.

2. Wait a bit, then do enter:

   dmesg
   

   At the end of the dmesg output, you should see the serial device was successfully idenfied and assigned to a tty device, probably /dev/ttyUSB0 or /dev/ttyACM0 (depending on the configured USB serial driver).

3. Then start the host application:

   ./host [<tty-dev>]
   

   Where:

   • <tty-dev> is the USB TTY device to use. The default is /dev/ttyUSB0 (for the PL2303 emulation) or /dev/ttyACM0 (for the CDC/ACM serial device).

The host and target will exchange are variety of very small and very large serial messages.

userfs UserFS File System

A simple test of the UserFS file system.

ustream Unix Datagram Sockets

This is the same test as examples/udp and similar to examples/ustream, but using Unix domain datagram sockets.

Dependencies:

• CONFIG_NET_LOCAL – Depends on support for Unix domain sockets.

Configuration:

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_UDGRAM – Enables the Unix domain socket example.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_UDGRAM_ADDR – Specifics the Unix domain address. Default: /dev/fifo.

ustream Unix Stream Sockets

This is the same test as examples/udp and similar to examples/udgram, but using Unix domain stream sockets.

Dependencies:

• CONFIG_NET_LOCAL – Depends on support for Unix domain sockets.

Configuration:

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_USTREAM – Enables the Unix domain socket example.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_USTREAM_ADDR – Specifics the Unix domain address. Default: /dev/fifo.

watchdog Watchdog Timer

A simple test of a watchdog timer driver. Initializes starts the watchdog timer. It pings the watchdog timer for a period of time then lets the watchdog timer expire... resetting the CPU is successful. This example can ONLY be built as an NSH built-in function.

This test depends on these specific Watchdog/NSH configurations settings (your specific watchdog hardware settings might require additional settings).

• CONFIG_WATCHDOG – Enables watchdog timer support support.
• CONFIG_NSH_BUILTIN_APPS – Build the watchdog time test as an NSH built-in function.

Specific configuration options for this example include:

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_WATCHDOG_DEVPATH – The path to the Watchdog device. Default: /dev/watchdog0.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_WATCHDOG_PINGTIME – Time in milliseconds that the example will ping the watchdog before letting the watchdog expire. Default: 5000 milliseconds.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_WATCHDOG_PINGDELAY – Time delay between pings in milliseconds. Default: 500 milliseconds.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT – The watchdog timeout value in milliseconds before the watchdog timer expires. Default: 2000 milliseconds.

watcher Watcher & Watched

The watcher and watched examples are designed to work together. The watched example will only appear after watcher is selected. The watcher is a task that will monitor other tasks that subscribe to be watched. If a watched task doesn't signal the watcher during the watchdog time period, the watchdog timer will expire and the watcher will print the tasks that did not signal and the ones that signaled. The tasks that did not signal will be printed as the tasks that starved the dog and the tasks that signaled will be printed as the tasks that fed the dog. The watcher task will only feed the watchdog timer when all subscribed tasks have asked to feed dog.

To start the watcher, just run:

watcher

The watched example is not required to use the watcher. The watched example is simply a task that creates 4 tasks that will subscribe to be watched. The first and fourth will not feed the dog to expose the functionality. This example will show the user how to subscribe, to feed the dog and to unsubscribe.

To start the watched, just run:

watched

P.S: This example will only be supported by the chips that support interrupt on timeout, i.e., which have the "capture" command implemented.

This test depends on these specific configurations settings (your specific watchdog hardware settings might require additional settings).

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_WATCHER – Includes this example.
• CONFIG_WATCHDOG – Enables watchdog timer support.
• CONFIG_NSH_BUILTIN_APPS – Build this example an NSH built-in function.
• CONFIG_DRIVERS_NOTE and CONFIG_SCHED_INSTRUMENTATION – Allows the watcher to get the tasks' names.
• CONFIG_FS_FAT – Allows the creation of a FAT filesystem on the ramdisk to create a file with all the necessary info for the watched tasks.

Specific configuration options for the watcher example include:

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_WATCHER_PRIORITY – Watcher Task Priority.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_WATCHER_STACKSIZE – Watcher Task Stack Size.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_WATCHER_DEVPATH – The path to the Watchdog device used by the Watcher. Default: /dev/watchdog0.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_WATCHER_TIMEOUT – The watchdog timeout value in milliseconds.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_WATCHER_SIGNAL – This is the Signal Number used for communication between the watcher task and the watched tasks.

Specific configuration options for the watched example include:

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_WATCHED_PRIORITY – Watched Task Priority.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_WATCHED_STACKSIZE – Watched Task Stack Size.

webserver Simple Webserver

This is a port of uIP tiny webserver example application. Settings specific to this example include:

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_WEBSERVER_NOMAC (may be defined to use software assigned MAC)
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_WEBSERVER_IPADDR – Target IP address.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_WEBSERVER_DRIPADDR – Default router IP address.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_WEBSERVER_NETMASK – Network mask.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_WEBSERVER_DHCPC – Select to get IP address via DHCP.

If you use DHCPC, then some special configuration network options are required. These include:

• CONFIG_NET=y – of course.
• CONFIG_NET_UDP=y – UDP support is required for DHCP (as well as various other UDP-related configuration settings).
• CONFIG_NET_BROADCAST=y – UDP broadcast support is needed.
• CONFIG_NET_ETH_PKTSIZE=650 or larger. Per RFC2131 (p. 9), the DHCP client must be prepared to receive DHCP messages of up to 576 bytes (excluding Ethernet, IP, or UDP headers and FCS). Note that the actual MTU setting will depend upon the specific link protocol. Here Ethernet is indicated.

Other configuration items apply also to the selected webserver net utility. Additional relevant settings for the uIP webserver net utility are:

• CONFIG_NETUTILS_HTTPDSTACKSIZE
• CONFIG_NETUTILS_HTTPDFILESTATS
• CONFIG_NETUTILS_HTTPDNETSTATS

Applications using this example will need to enable the following netutils libraries in their defconfig file:

CONFIG_NETUTILS_NETLIB=y
CONFIG_NETUTILS_DHCPC=y
CONFIG_NETDB_DNSCLIENT=y
CONFIG_NETUTILS_WEBSERVER=y

Note: This example does depend on the perl script at nuttx/tools/mkfsdata.pl. You must have perl installed on your development system at /usr/bin/perl.

wget Web Client

A simple web client example. It will obtain a file from a server using the HTTP protocol. Settings unique to this example include:

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_WGET_URL – The URL of the file to get
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_WGET_NOMAC – (May be defined to use software assigned MAC)
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_WGET_IPADDR – Target IP address
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_WGET_DRIPADDR – Default router IP address
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_WGET_NETMASK – Network mask

This example uses netutils/webclient. Additional configuration settings apply to that code as follows (but built-in defaults are probably OK):

• CONFIG_WEBCLIENT_GETMIMETYPE
• CONFIG_WEBCLIENT_MAXHTTPLINE
• CONFIG_WEBCLIENT_MAXMIMESIZE
• CONFIG_WEBCLIENT_MAXHOSTNAME
• CONFIG_WEBCLIENT_MAXFILENAME

Of course, the example also requires other settings including CONFIG_NET and CONFIG_NET_TCP. The example also uses the uIP resolver which requires CONFIG_UDP.

Warning: As of this writing, wget is untested on the target platform. At present it has been tested only in the host-based configuration described in the following note. The primary difference is that the target version will rely on the also untested uIP name resolver.

Note: For test purposes, this example can be built as a host-based wget function. This can be built as follows:

cd examples/wget
make -f Makefile.host

Applications using this example will need to enable the following netutils libraries in the defconfig file:

CONFIG_NETUTILS_NETLIB=y
CONFIG_NETDB_DNSCLIENT=y
CONFIG_NETUTILS_WEBCLIENT=y

wgetjson GET JSON Using wget

Uses wget to get a JSON encoded file, then decodes the file.

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_WDGETJSON_MAXSIZE – Max. JSON Buffer Size.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_EXAMPLES_WGETJSON_URL – wget URL

xmlrpc XML-RPC Server

This example exercises the Embeddable Lightweight XML-RPC Server which is discussed at:

http://www.drdobbs.com/web-development/an-embeddable-lightweight-xml-rpc-server/184405364

Configuration options:

• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_XMLRPC_BUFFERSIZE – HTTP buffer size. Default 1024
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_XMLRPC_DHCPC – Use DHCP Client. Default n. Ignored if CONFIG_NSH_NETINIT is selected.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_XMLRPC_NOMAC – Use Canned MAC Address. Default n. Ignored if CONFIG_NSH_NETINIT is selected.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_XMLRPC_IPADDR – Target IP address. Default 0x0a000002. Ignored if CONFIG_NSH_NETINIT is selected.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_XMLRPC_DRIPADDR – Default Router IP address (Gateway). Default 0x0a000001. Ignored if CONFIG_NSH_NETINIT is selected.
• CONFIG_EXAMPLES_XMLRPC_NETMASK – Network Mask. Default 0xffffff00. Ignored if CONFIG_NSH_NETINIT is selected.

zerocross Zero Crossing Device

A simple test of the Zero Crossing device driver.