NU32 Software

Software to download to program the NU32 PIC32 development board.

• Text Editors (These are just suggestions; feel free to use any text editor you are comfortable with)
  • Visual Studio Code (All)
  • Atom (All)
  • TextWrangler (Mac)
  • Notepad++ (Windows)
  • Gedit (All)
    • sudo apt-get install (Ubuntu/Debian)
    • sudo pacman -S gedit (Arch)
  • vim (All)
    • sudo apt-get install vim (Ubuntu/Debian)
    • sudo pacman -S vim (Arch)
  • emacs (All)
    • sudo apt-get install emacs (Ubuntu/Debian)
    • sudo pacman -S emacs (Arch)

• Native C Compiler
  • Xcode Command Line Tools (Mac): Log in with an Apple developer id, available for free, and download "Command Line Tools OSX (version number) for Xcode (version number)" (about 160 MB), to avoid downloading the ~4 GB full Xcode developer suite (which also has the command line tools). You will probably need to add /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin to your path to make sure you find gcc and make from the command line; see the video on software downloads. (Instead of using Xcode command line tools, you could use gcc and make from Homebrew or MacPorts.)
  • MinGW (Windows - Using mingw with Visual Studio Code)
  • gcc (Linux)
    • sudo apt-get install build-essential (Ubuntu/Debian)
    • sudo pacman -S base-devel (Arch)

• Make
  • Distributed with Xcode (Mac)
  • Distributed with MSYS, obtained via MinGW (Windows)
  • make (Linux)
    • sudo apt-get install build-essential (Ubuntu/Debian)
    • sudo pacman -S base-devel (Arch)

• The Microchip XC32/32++ Compiler
• We usually don't use Harmony without the IDE, read about it here: MPLAB Harmony Integrated Software Framework
• FTDI Virtual COM Port Driver
• PuTTY Terminal Emulator for Windows (use "screen" on Linux and the Terminal program on a Mac)

Book Sample Code

• Full Book Source Code (April 2016) All of the source code from the book, including the Quickstart_code. Also contains the bootloader source code.
• New Quickstart sample code for the PIC32MX170F256B Jan 2023 If using the DIP version of the PIC32MX170F256B
  • For compatibility with the text, we also provide the code for Chapter 1 as a separate file PIC32Quickstart.zip (November 2015). This code is also included in the folder 01_Quickstart within the full book source code.

Release Notes

• Embedded_Computing_V1.2-Apr_2016, April 2016
  • Added source code for updated bootloader (running on the PIC32) and bootloader utility (running on the host computer); the primary change was optimization of the code, and clearer code organization. Both new versions are numbered 5.2 and both are fully compatible with earlier versions.
  • Fixed minor mistakes in comments of sample code 6.2 and 7.1.

• Embedded_Computing_V1.1-Mar_2016, March 2016
  • Added Harmony makefile to Chapter 20.

• Embedded_Computing_V1.0, November 2015
  • Initial release.