Software Download and Installation for MAX32660-EVSYS Development Board
The MAX32660-EVSYS evaluation board has its debugging and core parts completely separated. The board is powered by a Micro USB port. A jumper on the board is used to select whether to supply 3.3V or 1.8V to the MAX32660 chip. The MAX32600 supports a 1.8V power supply voltage, which results in lower power consumption and is more suitable for battery - powered applications. The debugger part also has a three-color LED. You can judge the working status of the board based on its color. For example, blue indicates serial port communication, green indicates that the debugger is downloading a program, and red indicates that the debugger has entered the firmware upgrade mode.
The MAX32660 is a processor based on the ARM Cortex-M4F. Therefore, commonly available development tools are supported for software development. For example, MDK-ARM can be used, and the corresponding pack can be downloaded. Here, we would like to introduce the integrated development environment provided by the supplier. In fact, it is a shell-based tool on Eclipse.
Download and Installation
Download the Low Power ARM Micro Toolchain from the official website. This is an online installer.
Install it according to the wizard.
The online installation will take some time. After the installation is completed, you can find an Eclipse folder in the installation directory. Open Eclipse, and it will be your software IDE.
This is the familiar Eclipse interface.
First, we look for some demo programs provided by the official. Open File->Import.
Select General.
After clicking Next.
Here we select the installation directory of the software.
In this way, we can copy all the demo programs to the working directory.
All the demo programs are imported. We can take a look at the simplest Helloworld program. This program mainly controls the LED to blink and prints the count information to the serial port at the same time.
Open the Helloworld project and compile it.
We can debug the program.
After the program runs, open the serial port monitoring program.
It prints the count once every second, and the LED on the development board blinks once every second.
This is the process of downloading and debugging the project through the official IDE. For the MAX32660-EVSYS, a complete set of demo programs is provided, which involves various functions of the chip and is convenient for evaluation. Moreover, the Cortex-M4 core is a common processor core, and there is not much difference in its application here. If you are used to using MDK-ARM, you can also directly use that for development.
Summary
The MAX32660-EVSYS evaluation board has a very unique design, which is suitable for evaluating the functions of a chip and is relatively easy to get started with. Although Maxim Integrated does not have a large number of microcontroller products, the MAX32660 is still very distinctive. The chip has a small package, but it uses an M4 core and has a large amount of FLASH and RAM storage, so its performance is very strong. Combined with Maxim’s power management technology, this microcontroller is targeted at wearable devices or handheld devices. For applications with high requirements for both power consumption and performance, such as wearable sports watches, the MAX32660 still has a great competitive advantage.
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