PSoC6 Dual Core Project for VS Code

1. Prerequisites

   • VS Code
     • https://code.visualstudio.com/download
   • ModusToolbox 1.1 (for PDL, Device Configurator, CyMCUElfTool and OpenOCD)
     • https://www.cypress.com/products/modustoolbox-software-environment
   • GNU Arm Embedded Toolchain
     • https://developer.arm.com/open-source/gnu-toolchain/gnu-rm/downloads
   • CMake
     • https://cmake.org/download/
   • Make

     • macOS

       Install homebrew GNU by: 'make brew install homebrew/core/make' as explained here.

     • Windows

       Full MinGW install with make: https://osdn.net/projects/mingw/releases/ Lightweight manual: These files can be copied to, for example the "?/Program Files (x86)/make/" folder and it's path needs to be added to the environment (here's how to do it, reboot after adding the path).

2. VS Code Extensions

   • ARM Support For Visual Studio Code (dan-c-underwood)
   • C/C++ IntelliSense, debugging (microsoft)
   • CMake language support (twxs)
   • CMake Tools (microsoft)
   • Cortex-Debug GDB support (marus25)
   • LinkerScript support for GNU (Zixuan Wang)
   • Open in Application (Fabio Spampinato)
   • Output Colorizer (IBM)
   • Tasks (actboy168)

3. Configure

   • Command Palette (CTRL+SHIFT+P) > type: JSON > Click Preferences: Open Settings (JSON)
   • Add the following lines to the VS Code User settings:

   "C_Cpp.default.configurationProvider": "vector-of-bool.cmake-tools",
   "C_Cpp.default.compilerPath": "arm-none-eabi-gcc",
   "C_Cpp.loggingLevel":"Debug",
   // Location of the cmake executable
   "cmake.cmakePath": "/Applications/CMake.app/Contents/bin/cmake",
   //"cmake.cmakePath": "C:/Program Files/CMake/bin/cmake.exe",
   // Location of the OpenOCD executable
   "cortex-debug.openocdPath": "/Applications/ModusToolbox_1.1/tools/openocd-2.1/bin/openocd",
   //"cortex-debug.openocdPath": "C:/ModusToolbox_1.1/tools/openocd-2.01/bin/openocd.exe",
   // Location of the JLink GDB Server (if used)
   "cortex-debug.JLinkGDBServerPath": "/Applications/SEGGER/JLink_V644f/JLinkGDBServerCLExe",
   "cmake.configureOnOpen": true,
   "cmake.sourceDirectory": "${workspaceRoot}"
   

4. Check

   • if make is installed by typing 'make -v' (or mingw32-make.exe -v) into the terminal window of VS Code (the folder of the make binary needs to be added to the system's path variable)

5. Remind

   • after changing the device configuration to use

     • Clean Reconfigure
     • Clean Rebuild

     in order to build the image properly.