New in Version 8

Brand new features

Here are some of the new features available in Flowcode 8. Please click on a feature to learn more about it.

• Code Folding

• Icon Grouping

• Simulating Custom C Code

• Custom C Code to Flowchart Conversion

• Coding Paradigms - Flowchart, Blocks, Pseudocode, C Code

• Tab Tear Off - Multi Monitor Support

• Dynamic Updates

• Raspberry Pi Chip Pack

• E-blocks2 Auto ID

• Matrix SCADA

Component changes and additions

CAL components such as ADC, I2C, PWM, SPI and UART are now free to allow for more user-based component creation and library generation.

High-level components created by Matrix are still licensed under the various component feature packs.

We also have a large selection of component, CAL and FCD updates.

New components

Some of the new components include:

• FAT Based GLCD Bitmap Drawer
• New sensor components
• Network abstraction component for TCP/IP and WIFI modules
• E-block specific categories
• Scenario simulation components and wiki based curriculum
• Graphical LCD Graph drawer
• Arduino style serial terminal - via the console
• Raspberry Pi specific - Console Text Generation, TCP/IP
• Raspberry Pi HDMI gLCD
• Modbus TCP - Master and Slave
• DAC MCP48x1
• HTS221
• ESP12S
• PCF8575
• SHT31 Humidity Sensor
• WAV Playback and Record
• RealSpeak
• Bluetooth RN4677
• Various new Grove sensors
• HBridge CAL

Component improvements

• CAL components are more usable and stand alone, injector, scope and console functionality is now built in making it much easier to build into your own components
• Bitmap Drawer component - more bitmap file formats (Mono, 16-Colour, 256-Colour, 24-bit) and up to ten bitmaps per component
• Servo motor 16-bit mode
• PWM Frequency based Period and Prescaler calculator