The Forth adventure continues… this is part 3 of a series about Mecrisp Forth on ARM STM32F103 µCs - an amazing environment for interactively trying out the hardware in this well-established chip series.
As you’ll see, there’s quite a bit to explore…
This week highlights the capabilities and performance levels achievable with such a (fairly low-end) microcontroller, especially once you start enabling things like hardware interrupts, ADCs, DACs, timers, and DMA.
As always, there will be one article each day, as I prepare all the information I have been able to collect and figure out lately:
- The Dime-A-Dozen collection - Wed
- LCDs need a lot of bandwidth - Thu
- The amazing world of DMA - Fri
- Reading ADC samples via DMA - Sat
Here’s a little teaser for what will be presented in this week’s closing article:
Latest source code is available on GitHub.
If you’ve been following along: the API of this code is still in flux at the
moment (i.e. “io-0!” and “io-1!” have been changed to “ioc!” and
“ios!”, and other small details).
Next week, I’ll go into the big picture behind all this Forth stuff and JET. Stay tuned!
Update - the last article has been split in two, due to its length.