Exercise - Transferring a Program to the Microcontroller
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This exercise looks at transferring to the microcontroller, the flowchart 'Lamp1.fcf' which you developed in the exercises Creating Your First Flowchart and Adding Devices to Your First Flowchart.
This involves:
- compiling the program (translating it into a form which the microcontroller can use);
- moving it to the connected microcontroller;
- storing it in the microcontroller's memory.
For more details about this part of the process, see Adding Finishing Touches.
Load the Flowcode Flowchart
- Open the flowchart, called 'Lamp1.fcf' which you created in the exercise Creating Your First Flowchart.
- (For help with this, see the exercise Opening an Existing Flowchart)
Compile the program
- The 'Compiler Messages' box appears and shows the progress of the process.
- First of all, the program is converted into 'C' language.
- This is then translated into another language called 'Assembler'.
- Finally, the resulting code is transferred to the microcontroller.
- The good news is that all of this happens automatically, without the need for any intervention from you!