Longan Nano with GD32V series MCU costs only $4.9. You then got an Arduino board with 128KB Flash, 32KB RAM, LCD, and even an acrylic case. Story -Longan Nano Sipeed Longan Nano could be the most inexpensive RISC-V development board currently available. With only $4.9, you will get 128KB Flash, 32KB RAM, 160x80 LCD, TF card slot and even an acrylic transparent case. -GD32V Series Microcontroller The main chip on the board is a GigaDevice GD32V Series microcontroller, GD32VF103CBT6. From the information provided by , it is a 32-bit SOC with RV32IMAC instruction set and its core named "Bumblebee". RISC-V website -Arduino Support Sipeed provides the and the board manager URL for Arduino IDE is basic board support for Longan Nano http://bigbits.oss-cn-qingdao.aliyuncs.com/Arduino_for_GD32V/package_longduino_index.json Currently, the URL supports only the Windows platform. For macOS or Linux, the alternative IDE is . PlatformIO The Problem As I mentioned above, the board support package provides only the basic functions. There is no Serial library, no SPI library,... The Solution comes to the rescue, which supports the Longan Nano board from v0.8.1. Arduino RT-Thread library RT-Thread is an open-source RTOS, however, it also provides various drivers and utilities. For Longan Nano, the library currently provides UART, SPI, TF card, and LCD drivers. Its utilities are mostly hardware-independent, e.g. FatFS, tiny shell and etc. So with the single library, you may have a lot of fun. But there is one more thing (library), . It is a GUI library based on RT-Thread, which provides some UI widgets, BMP / JPEG decoder, fonts, and more. (The new problem now will be lack of memory space.) RTT-GUI Enable RT-Thread For Arduino IDE, the RT-Thread library supports the Longan Nano board without any configuration, as the macro, , is defined in the board support package. BOARD_SIPEED_LONGAN_NANO For PlatformIO, the following is an example of the configuration file, " ". platformio.ini [env:sipeed-longan-nano]
platform = gd32v
framework = arduino
board = sipeed-longan-nano
debug_tool = sipeed-rv- lib_deps = RT-Thread, RTT-GUI
build_flags = -D BOARD_SIPEED_LONGAN_NANO
monitor_port = ttyUSB1
monitor_speed = debugger /dev/ 115200 Enable RTT-GUI Enablethefollowinglinesin " ". (Some features may be disabled in this file to save memory.) guiconfig.h #define CONFIG_GUI_DEVICE_NAME #define CONFIG_USING_RGB565                 ( ) "ST7735" // RGB565 1 RT-Thread Contact Info: | | | | Website Github Twitter Facebook Youtube

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