PlatformIO is an advanced and extremely versatile ecosystem for IoT development that includes an IDE, build system, and library manager. It comes with support for more than 250 development boards, 15 development platforms and over 10 useful frameworks. The PlatformIO IDE is a cross-platform utility for rapid professional development with built-in C/C++ Intelligent Code Completion, Smart Code Linter and advanced Serial Port monitor. Also, PlatformIO can be integrated with the popular IDEs and continuous integration systems to speed up time to delivering IoT applications. PlatformIO is a comprehensive ecosystem that provides an excellent opportunity to explore the fascinating world of IoT development.

1. Ivan Kravets
Explore the new development
instruments for Arduino with
PlatformIO ecosystem

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@me
IVAN KRAVETS
CTO, Founder of PlatformIO.Org
Ph.D., Researcher and Software Architect
“Creativity comes from talent and never from knowledge” ©
www.ikravets.com / me@ikravets.com

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What is PlatformIO?
An open source ecosystem for IoT development
• Cross-platform Build System
• Package Manager (pre-built toolchains, frameworks, SDK)
• Library Manager
• Continuous and IDE integration
• Arduino and ARM mbed compatible
• Windows, macOS, Linux (+ARM v6/v7)
• Written in Python

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Professional development for...
• 250+ embedded boards
• 100+ different MCUs
• 20+ development platforms: Atmel AVR/SAM, Espressif, Freescale Kinetis, Intel ARC32,
Lattice iCE40 FPGA, Microchip PIC32, Nordic nRF51, NXP LPC, Silicon Labs EFM32, ST
STM32, TI MSP430/Tiva, Teensy
• 10+ frameworks: Arduino, CMSIS, WiringPi, libOpenCM3, Energia, ESP8266 SDK, SPL,
ARM mbed

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PlatformIO Command Line Interface (CLI)
$ platformio --help
• Coloured terminal output
• Option “--json-output”
• Standard streams
• Exit status “echo $?”
• Ready for Cloud Compiling
• Windows, macOS, Linux

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PlatformIO IDE
The next-generation integrated development environment for IoT

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PlatformIO IDE: key features
• C/C++ Intelligent Code Completion and
Smart Code Linter for rapid professional
development
• Multi-projects workflow with multiple
panes and Themes support with dark
and light colours
• Built-in Terminal with PlatformIO CLI tool
and powerful Serial Port Monitor

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Project Generator for your IDE
$ platformio init --ide
• Integration with Atom, CLion, CodeBlocks, Eclipse, Emacs, NetBeans, Qt Creator, Sublime
Text, Vim, Microsoft Visual Studio
• Native plugins/packages for Atom, CodeBlocks, Emacs, NetBeans, Sublime Text
• Actual project data for code completion and for the source code linter

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Project Configuration “platformio.ini”
Single source code.
Multiple environments.
• Custom CPU frequency or Flash size
• Extra build flags
• Option to remove built-in flags (“unflags")
• Source code filter
• Upload settings (port, protocol, speed)
• Extra scripting (control build system)

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• Friendly Command-Line Interface
• Web 2.0 Library Portal (examples,
discussions, frameworks and platforms
compatibility information)
• Open Source API
• Library Crawler for “library.json” manifest
• Library dependency management
• Automatic library updates
Library Manager and Registry

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Web 2.0 Library Portal

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“library.json”
Manifest file for embedded library
• Custom structure of source code
• Examples list
• Compatible frameworks and platforms
• Library dependencies
• Extra build flags, source code filters

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Continuous Integration
$ platformio ci --help
• Integration with AppVeyor, Circle CI, Dron.IO, Shippable, Travis CI
• Variable source code ($PLATFORMIO_CI_SRC) and build flags
($PLATFORMIO_BUILD_FLAGS)
• Custom Project Configuration “$ platformio ci --project-conf /path/custom_platformio.ini”
• Project as a library “$ platformio ci /path/to/example --lib .”

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Travis CI: Embedded Builds with PlatformIO
• Official Travis CI documentation
• Automatic Build Jobs / Matrix Builds
• Cache system for PlatformIO
packages
• Project generator with “.travis.yml”
template

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Continuous Delivery
Automatic firmware updates by Daniel Eichhorn

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• Decentralised architecture for development
platforms
• Unit testing for embedded (local & remote)
• Cloud Agent for integration with Cloud IDEs
(Cloud9, Codeanywhere, Codenvy, Eclipse Che)
• New Library Build System (semantic
versioning, intelligent dependency finder,
support for 3-rd party manifests)
• Hardware debugging
PlatformIO 3.0

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Decentralised architecture: “platform.json”
• “platform.json” manifest file for development platform
• Semantic versioning for packages, development
platforms and projects
• Package dependencies with custom package storage
• Embedded board configurations (build and upload
options)
• Isolated build scripts

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Unit Testing
$ platformio test --help
• Local PC and Hardware unit testing for embedded
• Rich Unity Test API

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Developers love PlatformIO!
• 1100 stars on GitHub
• 2000 commits and 60 releases since May, 2014
• Estimated 4 years of effort (COCOMO model)
• 30000 downloads of PlatformIO IDE for the first 3 months
• Community from 150 countries
• Nominated for the year’s best Software and Tools in the 2015/16 IoT Awards

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PlatformIO 3.0
THIS SUMMER

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