MAmanchoz·Aug 8, 2022
MbedOS (https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbed-os), the RTOS from ARM, has a very large C++ API (leveraging C/C++ SDKs from hardware vendors).
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Arm Mbed OS is a platform operating system designed for the internet of things
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In Linux Rust SupportI found it easier to work with mbed than STM32Cube for USB and ethernet. I found it really hard to understand the autogenerated STM32Cube with USER CODE BEGIN lines and couldn't make sense of non-working examples for Ethernet and USB for my target board.
Mbed was more of an abstraction layer - I saw a lot of similarities to what STM32Cube does underneath.
The process of adding target platforms has a bit of a steep learning curve. I copied a target with the same MCU and worked from there. But once the target platform is implemented writing code is pretty enjoyable.
See https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbed-os/pull/11648/files for the example of adding a target
See https://rohfle.gitlab.io/posts/2019-10-19-olimex-stm32e407-t... for example ethernet code
In The Best and Worst Microcontroller SDKsThe big benefit of using mbed is there really nice API which abstracts the hardware. The code for the API is Apache, and available on github[1].
Furthermore, you don't even need to use their online IDE to do anything. The online IDE has an option to export your project such that it can be built with arm-none-abi-gcc and make[2], or you can use their mbed-cli tool, which is a python based command line tool, and is also on github[3].
The mbed guys have way embraced open source and working with existing tools, and I wished the community would embrace them more, since I think their API's beat the snot out of Arduino.
[1]: https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbed-os
[2]: https://developer.mbed.org/handbook/Exporting-to-offline-too...
[3]: https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbed-cli
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