Ultibo core

Ultibo core is an embedded run-time platform and development environment written specifically for creating applications with small single board computers. It is built around the Free Pascal compiler and the Lazarus integrated development environment. Ultibo core is an RTL written entirely in Free Pascal and designed to make embedded or bare metal development accessible to all.

Installation

Windows

A Windows installer is available and full source plus a large collection of examples is included.

macOS

• Use FPC 3.1.1 the trunk version (so you have the source)
• Download arm-none-eabi toolchain from https://launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded/5.0/5-2015-q4-major/+download/gcc-arm-none-eabi-5_2-2015q4-20151219-mac.tar.bz2
• Extract the files in ~/Documents/gcc-arm-none-eabi
• git clone from https://github.com/ultibohub at least Core, FPC, and Lazarus
• You have 3 folders now, Core, FPC and Lazarus. Copy ultibo folder from Core/source/rtl/ultibo/ to FPC/source/rtl/
• type cd FPC/source
• type and wait until it finishes without errors:

 make distclean OS_TARGET=ultibo CPU_TARGET=arm SUBARCH=armv7a CROSSBINDIR=~/Documents/gcc-arm-none-eabi/arm-none-eabi/bin/
 CROSSOPT="-CpARMV7A -CfVFPV3 -CIARM -OoFASTMATH"

• type and wait:

 make all OS_TARGET=ultibo CPU_TARGET=arm SUBARCH=armv7a CROSSBINDIR=~/Documents/gcc-arm-none-eabi/arm-none-eabi/bin/ CROSSOPT="-CpARMV7A -CfVFPV3 -CIARM -OoFASTMATH"

• type and wait, assuming your FPC 3.1.1 is in the folder /usr/local/lib/fpc/3.1.1/ so option INSTALL_BASEDIR becomes INSTALL_BASEDIR=/usr/local/lib/fpc/3.1.1/

 sudo make crossinstall CROSSBINDIR=~/Documents/gcc-arm-none-eabi/arm-none-eabi/bin/ CROSSOPT="-CpARMV7A -CfVFPV3 -CIARM -OoFASTMATH" OS_TARGET=ultibo CPU_TARGET=arm SUBARCH=armv7a INSTALL_BASEDIR=/usr/local/lib/fpc/3.1.1/

Linux

An installation script is available for Linux, full source plus a large collection of examples is included.

Supported Devices

• Raspberry Pi A, B, A+, B+
• Raspberry Pi Zero, ZeroW and Zero2W
• Raspberry Pi 2 model B
• Raspberry Pi 3 model B
• Raspberry Pi 3 model A+, B+
• Raspberry Pi 4 model B
• Raspberry Pi 400
• QEMU emulator

Features

Features include:

• Support for all models of Raspberry Pi (except Pico)
• Pre-emptive threading
• Full range of locking and synchronization primitives
• Multicore support on Raspberry Pi 2, 3 and 4 with all cores sharing workload
• Thread priority, affinity and migration support
• Complete IPv4 stack including TCP, UCP, ICMP and raw sockets as well as DNS and DHCP protocols
• USB support with drivers for Hub, Keyboard, Mouse, Storage, Network, HID, Touch, Gamepad and Joystick
• MMC/SD/SDIO device support including eMMC devices on Raspberry Pi Compute Modules
• Full support for FAT12/16/32, NTFS and CDFS filesystems
• Interrupt handling
• Hardware exception handling (catch an exception in code not a crash)
• Complete RTL with strings, code pages, Unicode, classes, objects and exceptions
• Clock and Timezone support
• Console and framebuffer support including Fonts
• Basic Shell (Console or Telnet) with file system commands and many others
• HTTP/SMTP/POP3/NTP/Syslog client and server modules included
• Support for Raspberry Pi devices like Timer, Watchdog and Random
• Full Winsock 1.1 and Winsock 2 implementation
• Packaged with a full compiler and IDE for quick start to development
• Includes example projects plus a full demo image
• HTTP image update module included (No SD card dance!)

Drivers added for:

• DMA
• GPIO
• UART and Serial
• I2C
• SPI
• PWM
• PL2303 and FTDI USB to Serial devices
• USB support for the LAN7515 (LAN78XX) chip

New and enhanced features:

• Raspberry Pi 3 and 4 support (32 bit only)
• Additional code page support
• Common cipher and hash algorithms for the beginning of crypto support
• Real time clock (RTC) support (with driver for DS1307 and similar chips)
• Static IP support with command line configuration
• Updated Lazarus IDE with modern docked layout
• Extra fonts plus new font creation tools
• Support for common LCD displays like the Adafruit 16x2
• QEMU ARM emulation support
• Port of the Asphyre/PXL graphics library
• Support for the FreeVision windowing package
• Standard C library support including POSIX threads
• Fast interrupt (FIQ) support
• Hardware accelerated OpenGL ES and OpenVG graphics and support for the official Pi camera

Videos

• Ultibo Demo 1.0.0

Discovering Ultibo

• Episode 1 Getting Started
• Episode 2 Exploring USB
• Episode 3 Building the RTL
• Episode 4 GPIO Events
• Episode 5 LCD 16x2
• Episode 6 Remote LED

Links

• ultibo.org
• github
• Ultibo Quick Start

From the Free Pascal wiki, page "Ultibo core", as it stood on 2023-01-23 after a change by Ultbo, out of the wiki's dump of 2024-05-26. Copyright stays with the author who wrote it, according to the old wiki's Licensing page. If you have concerns about this material, message the admin.