1.6
Development Environment and Tools
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INTRODUCTION
/ c o n f i g
/ doc
/ d a t a s h e e t
/ r e p o r t s
/ f i g u r e s
/ n o t e s
/ t e s t s
/ e x t r a
/ e x t r a
hardware
: Subfolders will store the major components of the project. For
example, the frame has several .dxf files that are sent to the laser cutter, so that
will all go into a subfolder called
frame
. The project may have several PCBs
made as well, and so each should go into a subfolder under
pcb
.
software
: The software is separated by language into separate folders. This
makes sense because each processor in the project will have only one language
running, but separate processors that are running the same language may share
components (library files, for example). Each language has a number of sub-
folders:
*
src
is where the source code for the project is stored.
Subfolders as
appropriate.
*
lib
stores all general purpose library files (code) such as Propeller Obex
objects.
*
test
stores the test harnesses such as unit tests and Spin code to test a
particular module (the latter case would have a ’main’ type method and
would be self supporting when running on the Propeller).
*
tool
holds all the relevant development tools for that language (
BSTC
for
Spin, for example).
*
config
stores any sort of relevant compile time or testing configuration
files.
The files that are in the
software
folder should be used only for what runs
onboard the quadrotor. Test programs or desktop PC client programs should
instead go into the
extra
folder. Note that these programs may still access the
lib
and
tool
subfolders in the software directory.
documentation
: This folder stores all the relevant datasheets in the
datasheet
subdirectory, and any other project documentation that is deemed to fit. Note
that most documentation probably belongs in the Anzhelka wiki on [1].
The
datasheet
and
reports
folders contain the reference datasheets for each
component and the various generated reports of the project, respectively. The
figures
folder holds an images that is used in the documentation. The
notes
folders holds papers that are interesting and relevant to the project, such as
the cited research papers. The
tests
folder holds the test results data, and any
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