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Third Party Hardware Drivers

Adding SDK Extensions for Hardware Drivers

You can find the Third Party Hardware Drivers GSDK Extension at Github, as a first step you should clone the repository to your local computer.

You can follow this step-by-step guide to install and use the extension or watch a guideline video showing the same steps.

GuidelineVideo

  • STEP 1 Clone Third Party Hardware Drivers repository from Github

    It is up to you to choose a folder on your computer to clone the repository into.

    git clone https://github.com/SiliconLabs/third_party_hw_drivers_extension.git

  • STEP 2 Open Simplicity Studio and go to Window/Preferences

    Preferences

  • STEP 3 Go Simplicity Studio/SDKs, select an installed GSDK (version >=4.2.0), click on Add Extension

    AddSDKExtension

  • STEP 4 Select the SDK Extension's location, click on OK

    The SDK Extension will be detected in the repository folder.

    SelectExtension

  • STEP 5 Click on the Trust button on the Verify SDK Extension dialog

    TrustSDKExtension

  • STEP 6 The SDK Extension successfully installed, click on Apply and Close

    Installed

Example Project Templates

The Third Party Hardware Drivers extension provides example project templates for each supported driver.

  • STEP 1 Open the Launcher perspective in Simplicity Studio

    LauncherPerspective

  • STEP 2 Select a product either in the My Products or in the Debug Adapters dialog

  • STEP 3 Filter examples by typing "third" or "Third Party" in the "filter on keywords" input

  • STEP 4 Select an example project from the resources and click on the Create button.

    LauncherCreateProject

  • STEP 5 Follow the steps in the New Project Wizard dialog.

Launcher creates a new project based on the selected template, this project contains basic example on how your application can integrate a driver using the extension.

Software Components

  • STEP 1 Open a project configuration (The selected perspective should be "Simplicity IDE".).

  • STEP 2 Select SOFTWARE COMPONENTS and search with "third" keyword in the Search keywords, component's name input

    Make sure that the components with Evaluation quality level are enabled in the Software Components view.

    SoftwareComponents

  • STEP 3 Select a driver from the list by clicking on it, click on the Install

    SoftwareComponentsInstall

The selected hardware driver is installed to your project. The installed driver's API can be found in the extension's public folder.

PublicAPI

Public header files should be included in your application for each installed driver.

For further information on how to use drivers in your project see application example templates in the Launcher.