Exercise - Transferring a Program to the Microcontroller

<sidebar>Sidebar: Adding Finishing Touches</sidebar> This exercise looks at transferring to the microcontroller, the flowchart 'Lamp1.fcf' which you developed in the exercise Adding Devices to a Program.
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 expanded upon in the exercise Adding Devices to a Program.

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?

Now you have tested that the program performs on hardware correctly, develop your flowchart further by documenting it for clear interpretation by others and for future expansion purposes as described in the exercise Exercise - Documenting a Flowchart