Exercise - Transferring a Program to the Microcontroller

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

• Click on the 'Compile to chip' icon.

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!

What Next?

The final step is to test that the program controls the hardware.