Peripheral library (plib.h) not included in pic32mx

[GaussSeidel]

Hi,

The peripheral library which is no longer supported by chipkit-core (Arduino add-on) and MPLab X is missing in platformIO.

The plib files (plib.h and the file peripherals) can be found in the last version (abandoned) of MPIDE available here :

http://chipkit.net/wiki/index.php?title=MPIDE

following the path : \mpide-0150\hardware\pic32\compiler\pic32-tools\pic32mx\include

You need to add plib.h and the file peripherals in the pic32mx file of platformIO (which is located here : .platformio\packages\toolchain-microchippic32\pic32mx\include) to make it work.

Using this library you can deal with the pic32 funtions such as :

• adc10
• timers
• spi
• i2C
• ...

Could be fun to have it directly in platformIO.

Pay attention that you can have some redundancy with some libraries that are added directly in the lib file of a project (I think there is a another timer.h library for arduino).

Regards,

Byran

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[EmbeddedMan]

Bryan - just a slight caution about plib.h : the only reason we removed it from chipKIT in the first place was that Microchip was not willing change the license on it to be an open source license. So if you are including it somewhere, be careful that you're OK with the language of Microchip's license.

We ended up rewriting all uses of plib in chipKIT-core so that we didn't need it anymore.

*Brian

[GaussSeidel]

Many thanks for that information !

What are the libraries that replaces plib in chipkit-core ?

I'm currently working with DNETcK libraries to communicate with the chipkit through Ethernet but this library requires plib... I'm also using I2C, timers, output compare ports for PWM etc and I couldn't find any library that efficiently deals with those requirements.

[EmbeddedMan]

Bryan,

Unfortunately, we don't have a complete set of plib replacement libraries.
99% of the use of plib in chipKIT-core was very simple to replace with a
handful of equivalently named macros (for doing pin I/O mainly) which we've
put into our header files. But there are tons of plib library calls that
code could use that we don't have replacements for. Much of the older
Digilent library code uses plib calls that chipKIT-core doesn't currently
support.

The good news is that the majority of plib calls' implementation is very
simple - normally just some register writes/reads using macros or nicely
named constants, which makes things pretty simple to replace in your own
code. But still a bit of work.

*Brian

On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 9:23 AM, ByranByran [email protected]
wrote:

Many thanks for that information !

What are the libraries that replaces plib in chipkit-core ?

I'm currently working with DNETcK libraries to communicate with the
chipkit through Ethernet but this library requires plib... I'm also using
I2C, timers, output compare ports for PWM etc and I couldn't find any
library that efficiently deals with those requirements.

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