Developer Guide

By the time you land on this page, you probably want to enhance the Paparazzi project, that is really good for your karma and really appreciated. You are welcomed to enhance and extend this documentation.

• Contributing
  how to contribute
• Continuous Integration builds
  Info on the CI server
• Code Editing
  How to setup an IDE for OCAML and C and C++
• Learning to Program
  Improve your Paparazzi code in OCAML,C,C++ and Python

• Design Overview
  Attempt at a longer walk through the airborne code architecture
• Firmware Architecture
  Attempt at brief overview of the firmware architecture with modules and subsystems
• Communications
  how telemetry and datalink is done
• Communications (Proposed New system)
  how telemetry and datalink is done
• Server-GCS communications
  how the Server and the Ground Control Station interact with each other
• Values
  a short walk through the system
• Settings
  Settings is the generic mechanism that allows to set and get the value of any variable of the embedded code.
• Paparazzi Math Library
  The custom paparazzi math library (C) and how to use it in external programs

• LPC USB Download
  how the Paparazzi USB bootloader works
• Upload Bootloader for LPC21xx
  How to upload the Bootloader to a LPC2148 processor based AP board like the TWOG
• Upload the luftboot bootloader
  How to upload the Bootloader to a STM32 processor based AP board like the LISA
• Upload with DFU (with native or custom dfu bootloader)
  using the native (embeded in ROM) or custom (e.g. Luftboot or KroozSD) bootloader to upload paparazzi code
• Upload with STLink via SWD (without Bootloader)
  using SWD/ST-Link to upload without bootloader
• JTAG-Debug
  using JTAG to directly debug on the board
• USB-Serial
  using the USB instead of the UART for telemetry

• ControlTheory
  The harsh reality about the Control Theory
• Reference/bootloader
  All questions about bootloader but where afraid to ask
• Altitude and Height
  Altitude and Height demystified
• Abi
• DevGuide/StateInterface
  A stateinterface is a stateinterface is a stateinterface, poems aside read more here

• RT_Paparazzi
  Real Time Paparazzi how-to and guidelines