Mountaineer.Stm32.Hardware namespace?

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Hi

So I got my hands on the Mountaineer Ethernet Mainboard. I’m using it as an early prototype board for a project at my school regarding home automation.

Because it’s a school project I want to keep it as much “plain vanilla NETMF” as possible. To initialize I/O ports I downloaded the Mountaineer.Netmf.Hardware namespace from http://www.mountaineer.org/resources/netmf-4-2-qfe2/ but this is obviously “socket-oriented”. In the documentation at the top it says:

“4) For “plain vanilla” NETMF programs, without Gadgeteer libraries
/// but with a microcontroller pin-oriented view on hardware features:
/// You want your application to directly depend on the
/// microcontroller’s pinout only, so that you can most easily
/// migrate to a custom board with the same microcontroller
/// later on.
/// Use the Mountaineer.Stm32.Hardware namespace.
/// With that approach, you don’t need this namespace here.”

The only problem is that I can’t find the Mountaineer.Stm32.Hardware namespace anywhere. Anyone have an idea/download link?

Best regards
Troels Vest

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Google for “using Mountaineer.Stm32.Hardware” got me here http://netmf4stm32.codeplex.com/discussions/434323 where I saw

using using Microsoft.SPOT.Hardware.STM32F4;

which has the pin definitions

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Nope. I want to do it without the Gadgeteer libraries and it should be possible, as stated in the Mountaineer.Netmf.Hardware namespace I found.

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@ tr0lle - It is just the project they have on their site

http://www.mountaineer.org/app/download/6122023775/Mountaineer.Netmf.Hardware+V20120613+.zip?t=1346272032

You can build this class library and start using it in your plain vanilla NETMF apps.

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This is still the Mountaineer.Netmf.Hardware namespace which has a socket-oriented view on hardware features and not the Mountaineer.Stm32.Hardware namespace which has a pin-oriented hardware view… Later on I will produce my own PCB and this will not have the Gadgeteer sockets. This is why I don’t want to use the Mountaineer.Netmf.Hardware namespace with all the Socket-classes.

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Yes. But you need the Gadgeteer Core to install the Mountaineer Gadgeteer SDK

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I’m not sure I follow? Can you please clarify what you mean? :slight_smile:

I’ve installed the Gadgeteer Core and Mountaineer Gadgeteer SDK now but still no sign of the Mountaineer.Stm32.Hardware namespace anywhere.

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@ tr0lle - Why are you so fixed on Mountaineer.Stm32.Hardware?

You need to take a look at the Mountaineer.Netmf.Hardware I have mentioned earlier. You said it uses Socket, but it is not a Gadgeteer socket it just another “local” class to group the pins according to their layout on the board.

For example here what Socket1 class is:


    /// <summary>
    /// socket 1 (type CY)
    /// </summary>
    public static class Socket1
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// socket 1 (type CY), pin 3, PD11
        /// </summary>
        public const Cpu.Pin Pin3 = (Cpu.Pin)59;

        /// <summary>
        /// socket 1 (type CY), pin 4, PD1/CAN1_TX
        /// </summary>
        public const Cpu.Pin Pin4 = (Cpu.Pin)49;

        /// <summary>
        /// socket 1 (type CY), pin 5, PD0/CAN1_RX
        /// </summary>
        public const Cpu.Pin Pin5 = (Cpu.Pin)48;

        /// <summary>
        /// socket 1 (type CY), pin 6, PD10
        /// </summary>
        public const Cpu.Pin Pin6 = (Cpu.Pin)58;

        /// <summary>
        /// socket 1 (type CY), pin 7, PE3
        /// </summary>
        public const Cpu.Pin Pin7 = (Cpu.Pin)67;

        /// <summary>
        /// socket 1 (type CY), pin 8, PE4
        /// </summary>
        public const Cpu.Pin Pin8 = (Cpu.Pin)68;

        /// <summary>
        /// socket 1 (type CY), pin 9, PE15
        /// </summary>
        public const Cpu.Pin Pin9 = (Cpu.Pin)79;
    }
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Ok, if you want to use pins by their name like PA0, PB12, etc.
you can use this class:

http://netmf4stm32.codeplex.com/SourceControl/latest#MicroFrameworkPK_v4_2/DeviceCode/Targets/Native/STM32F4/ManagedCode/Hardware/CPU.cs

The convention is:

You just need to copy the cs file to your solution. You can change namespace to whatever you want by the way it can be Mountaineer.Stm32.Hardware

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Thank you! This was in someway what I was looking for. I can definitely use this! :slight_smile:

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You are welcome! Looking forward to hear more about your custom board.

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Sorry for the oversight, we’ll fix that in our next firmware release, due “soon”.

Thanks and best regards

Cuno

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In the Mountaineer SDK 4.3 we have added the namespace to the Mountaineer assembly. So you can now choose between Gadgeteer socket-oriented pin names (Mountaineer.Netmf.Hardware) and CPU-oriented pin names (Mountaineer.Stm32.Hardware).

https://www.ghielectronics.com/community/forum/topic?id=13619

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