How to Use Native USB CDC in Atmel Studio 7

Hardware Arduino Due
#1

Hi everyone,

I would like to move to AS7 from Arduino-IDE. For other peripherals bare-metal coding is fine but USB-CDC is something in another dimension for me. I was using SerialUSB.println and SerialUSB.write functions for data transmission or printing purposes.

How can i use SerialUSB in Atmel Studio 7 without creating a Arduino sketch in it. Which files do i need to put in the src directory. Or what would you suggest.

The reason i do not want to create a Arduino sketch is that it has its own hierarchy and it creates problem for example when i want to create my own SysTick functions with SysTick_Handler.

Any help is appreciated.

#2

There is no issue with Arduino IDE if you need to use SysTick_Handler, you simply call sysTickHook().

See this example sketch to blink an led every 1 second thru Systick_Handler()/ SystickHook() and pendSVHook():

/*************************************************************************************
  void SysTick Handler (void) {
  i f ( sysTickHook ( ) ) return ;
  . . .
  }
  void PendSV Handler ( void) f pendSVHook ( ) ;
  int sysTickHook (void) __attribute__( (weak , alias ( " __false " ) ) ) ;
  void pendSVHook (void) __attribute__( (weak , alias ( " __halt " ) ) ) ;
*************************************************************************************/
#define SYSTICK_FREQUENCY_HZ (1000)
#define Number_of_Ticks   SystemCoreClock / SYSTICK_FREQUENCY_HZ
// sysTickHook will be triggered by sysTick_Handler once per ms

extern "C" {

  int sysTickHook() {
    SCB->ICSR |= SCB_ICSR_PENDSVSET_Msk ;
    return 0;
  }
}

// pendSVHook will be triggered by systickHook once per ms


extern "C" {

  __attribute__ ( ( naked ) )
  void pendSVHook () {
    blink();
  }
}

void setup() {
  pinMode(LED_BUILTIN, OUTPUT);
  Serial.begin(250000);
  /* Set interrupts to be preemptive. Change the grouping to set no
       sub-priority.
       See SAM3x8E datasheet 12.6.6 and 12.21.6.1 */
  NVIC_SetPriorityGrouping (0b011) ;
  /* Configure the system tick frequency to adjust the time quantum allocated
     to processes. */
  SysTick_Config (Number_of_Ticks) ;
  /* Set the base priority register to 0 to allow any exception to be
     handled.
     See SAM3x8E datasheet 12.4.3.14  */
  __set_BASEPRI (0) ;
  /* Force the PendSV exception to have the lowest priority to avoid killing
     other interrupts.
     See SAM3x8E datasheet 12.20.10.1  */
  NVIC_SetPriority ((IRQn_Type)PendSV_IRQn, 0xFF) ;

  NVIC_SetPriority ((IRQn_Type)SysTick_IRQn, 0xFF) ; // Set the lowest priority for SysTick

}

void loop() { }

void blink() {
  static uint16_t i = 0;

  if (i++ == 1000) {
    i = 0;
    digitalWrite(LED_BUILTIN, !digitalRead(13));
  }
}
#3

Thanks for reply. Systick handler was one problem as an example.

In general for debugging i want to go to AS7 but when i use it, i do not know how to add USB functionality to my any project.

I do not know which libraries do i need and where do i need to add them etc.

#4