topic Re: Processor Expert Help in Classic/Legacy CodeWarrior

Processor Expert Help

flyingasics — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:24:38 GMT

I have two questions....

1) Does anyone have a guide/advice on how to add processor expert to code that has been generated by beestack w/o screwing up main.c ect....

2) Does anyone have a guide/advice on how to add beans downloaded from www.processorexpert.com to codewarrior. We have a licensed version so that shouldn't be a problem. I have found the import command in the bean wizard, and beans will show up under the "view beans installed" command, but they will not show up in the bean selector.

We are working on a project with 4 hardware guys and 1 software guy, so you can see why we need these beans to avoid some of the low level coding work.

Thanks

Re: Processor Expert Help

CrasyCat — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:22:12 GMT

Hello

ProcessorExpert will create his own main function.

This cannot be disabled (as far as I know.

If you want to integrate Processor Expert in your own application I would recommend you to rename your main function into something else and call it from within the Processor Expert generated main function.

Also if you have an existing application you probably have a .prm file for the linker.

So in the CPU Bean Build Options, Set "Generate prm file" to NO

If you have interrupts that are served from outside ProcessorExpert you need to define a Interrupt Vector Bean for these and initialize them appropriately.

You can use free beans from the web if you own a Standard or Professional edition of CodeWarrior.

You will then download so called packages from ProcessorExpert web site.

Then in CodeWarrior select "Processor Expert" -> "Update" -> "Update ProcessorExpert from Package" and then browse for the package you have downloaded previously.

Make sure to close CodeWarrior and restart it to activate the new packages.

CrasyCat

Re: Processor Expert Help

flyingasics — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:14:34 GMT

Edit - I got it to work.

Thanks for the reply, I am still having problems adding a bean. I followed your instuctions, and the bean shows up under View -> Installed Beans Overview. After restarting it will not show up in the Bean Selector..

Message Edited by flyingasics on 2008-02-20 05:28 PM

Re: Processor Expert Help

CompilerGuru — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:05:52 GMT

One reason why PE does not show beans is if you do not have the license, or if the license is at least not properly configured.
Check the "Filter" tab on the bottom of the bean selector that you do not filter out non licensed beans.
Basically you can click on the Licensed entry to toggle it.

Daniel