ThingMagic Mercury xPRESS, Platform Manual, Page: 130 / 146

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Software Reference Guide
ASF
The Atmel Software Framework provides a common C function interface to various functions on
Atmel AVR and ARM processors. Using ASF should lower the initial learning curve of a
processor as well as ease porting to new Atmel ARM processors. We have done our testing
using ASF 3.7.3
SDK
The SDK provided by ThingMagic packages bundle all of the tools and source into a single
tarball. The user can un-tar the SDK into a directory of their choice. At the root of the SDK is a
README.txt file that provides an introduction to development of xPRESS applications. Included
is a series of links to where the user can find a JTAG module, the toolchain and Eclipse.
Once the user installs the toolchain and “make”. The user should be ready to build an application
for the xPRESS
The basic SDK directory structure is laid out such that ThingMagic source is separated from 3rd
party source:
./xPRESSReaderSDK-1.5.1.x
./xPRESSReaderSDK-1.5.1.x/scripts
./xPRESSReaderSDK-1.5.1.x/3rdparty
./xPRESSReaderSDK-1.5.1.x/3rdparty/Atmel
./xPRESSReaderSDK-1.5.1.x/3rdparty/ThingMagic
./xPRESSReaderSDK-1.5.1.x/tm
./xPRESSReaderSDK-1.5.1.x/tm/app_demo
./xPRESSReaderSDK-1.5.1.x/tm/abt
./xPRESSReaderSDK-1.5.1.x/tm/dox
./xPRESSReaderSDK-1.5.1.x/tm/lib