An XMC 2 GO Eval-Board is an inexpensive way to find out how easily embedded applications that are developed in the SiL (software in the loop) host environment of the redBlocks Simulator can be deployed on a target device.
The board hosts an ARM Cortex-M0 based microcontroller along with a J-Link debugger. Thus, no other hardware than a USB cable is necessary to connect it to a Windows host computer and start going.
We recommend to first download the redBlocks Evaluation Package and follow our tutorials that show how to basically set-up the redBlocks Simulator and build a simple embedded application in the simulation environment. These steps can be conducted on an arbitrary Windows host computer, even without the XMC 2 GO evaluation board.
In order to understand the general steps that are necessary to deploy an embedded software application on a target hardware device, follow this tutorial. It shows how the application that was developed during the previous tutorials can easily be integrated on the XMC 2 GO evaluation board.
While the tutorials only deal with a very basic example application, we hope you get the picture: With redBlocks you can cover many typical embedded software requirements by deploying the ready-to-use components from the redBlocks Component Library and integrate your embedded software application in the graphical SiL environment of the redBlocks Simulator, long before your target hardware is even available. Within the redBlocks Simulator you can manually test your application, record this interaction in test scripts and re-run these automated tests over and over again in order to regression-test your software. When the real target hardware is finally available you can easily deploy the software there. However, the same software can still be run and be automatically tested within the redBlocks Simulator.
For a little more sophisticated application example, refer to this video clip. It shows how the graphical SiL environment for a vending machine for beverages is built within the redBlocks Simulator. This example is also shipped with the redBlocks Evaluation Package.