Check the tests

This section provides the versions of the operating system, IDEs and plug-ins, as well as the list of the boards tested.

Operating system and Xcode

   Element Version
macOS 10.15.2
   Xcode 11.3.1

IDEs, boards and plug-ins versions

Active platforms

The test protocol includes building and linking, uploading and running a sketch on the boards using those versions of the IDEs and plug-ins. Boards packages are versioned but not dated.

   Platform IDE Package Date Comment
Adafruit Arduino 1.8 AVR 1.4.13
nRF52 0.16.0 For Feather nRF52832 and nRF52840 boards
SAMD 1.5.9 For Feather M0 and M4 boards
Arduino Arduino 1.8.10 13 Sep 2019 All versions prior to 1.8.0 are deprecated
AVR 1.8.2
mbed 1.1.4 For Nano 33 BLE boards
MegaAVR 1.8.5 For Nano Every board
nRF52 1.0.2 For Primo and Primo Core boards
SAM 1.6.12 For Due board
SAMD 1.8.4 For Zero, M0 and Tian boards
ATtinyCore Arduino 1.8 1.3.3
ESP32 Arduino 1.8 1.0.4 Valid for other ESP32-based boards
ESP8266 Arduino 1.8 2.6.3 Valid for other ESP8266-based boards
LaunchPad Energia 1.8.7E21 17 Oct 2018
CC13x0 EMT 4.9.1 For CC1310- and CC1350-based boards
CC13x2 EMT 5.29.0-beta2 For CC1312- and CC1352-based boards
CC3200 1.0.3
CC3220 EMT 5.6.2 For CC3220S and CC3220SF LaunchPad boards
MSP430 1.0.5 For MPS430FR2433 LaunchPad board
MSP432E EMT 5.19.0 For MSP432E401Y and TM4C1294XL LaunchPad boards
MSP432P EMT 5.29.0-beta1 For red MSP432P4111 LaunchPad board
MSP432R EMT 5.25.2 For red MSP432P401R LaunchPad board
Tiva C 1.0.3 For LM4F- and TM4C-based LaunchPad boards
MiniCore Arduino 1.8 2.0.1 Boot-loader for AVR ATmega boards
nRF5 boards Arduino 1.8 0.6.0 Additional libraries are required
Teensy Arduino 1.8 Teensyduino 1.49 14 Jan 2020

Legacy platforms

Support for the following platforms is either put on hold or discontinued.

Platform IDE Package Date Comment
Arduino Arduino 1.8 STM32F4 1.0.1
Arducam Arduino 1.6.5 ESP8266 2.2.0
chipKIT Arduino 1.8 2.1.0
Cosa Arduino 1.8 1.2.0
 Digistump Arduino 1.8 AVR 1.6.7
Oak 1.0.6
ftDuino Arduino 1.8 0.0.13
Intel Arduino 1.8 Galileo 1.6.7+1.0
Edison 1.6.7+1.0
Curie 2.0.4
LaunchPad Energia 1.6.10E18 C2000
CC2650
CC3200 EMT 1.0.0
MSP432 EMT 3.8.0
Energia 0101E0012 MSP430G2 Beta! Migrated from Energia 0101E0012
LightBlue Arduino 1.8 Bean Loader 1.12.6
Little Robot Friends Arduino 1.8 Library 1.6.0
Little Robot Friends 2.2.0
MediaTek LinkIt Arduino 1.8 One 1.1.23
Duo 0.1.8
7697 0.10.21
Microsoft Arduino 1.8 AZ3166 1.6.3
Microduino Arduino 1.8.4 Microduino 5.0 25 Mar 2019
Maple IDE 0.0.12
Moteino Arduino 1.8 1.5.0
panStamp Arduino 1.8 AVR 1.5.7
NRG 1.1.0
STM32L4 0.0.28
Particle Firmware 0.3.4 22 Oct 2014
RedBear Arduino 1.8 AVR 1.0.3
nRF51822 1.0.8
nRF52832 0.0.2
STM32F2 0.3.3
Energia 1.6.10E18
RFduino Arduino 1.8 2.3.1
Robotis Robotis OpenCM 1.0.2 23 May 2013
Seeeduino Arduino 1.8 AVR 1.1.0
Simblee Arduino 1.8 1.1.4
STM32duino Arduino 1.8 1.8
Arduino STM32 Arduino 1.8 2019.12.31
TinyCircuits Arduino 1.8 1.0.8
Udoo Neo Arduino 1.8 1.6.7
Wiring Wiring 1.0.1 28 Oct 2014
Edison Yocto SDK 3.0 Mar, 15, 2016
Edison MCU MCU SDK 1.0.10 24 Apr 2015

What has been tested

The test protocol includes build and link, upload and run of a functioning sketch on the boards. Obviously, the tests are performed only on the boards and programmers owned.

Active platforms

Support for the following platforms is active.

 Platform Officially tested Tested by users Not tested
Adafruit Adafruit Atmega32u4 Breakout Board with Adafruit USBtinyISP programmer, Adafruit Trinket 5V 16MHz, Adafruit Pro Trinket 5V 16MHz, Adafruit Feather M0 Bluefruit LE, Adafruit Feather M0 with Segger J-Link, Adafruit Feather nRF52832 with USB and Segger J-Link, Adafruit Feather M4 with MSD, Adafruit PyPortal M4 with MSD Adafruit Trinket 3V 8MHz, Pro Trinket 3V 12MHz, Adafruit Feather 32u4, Adafruit Huzzah ESP8266, Adafruit Feather M4 with USB, Adafruit PyPortal M4 with USB, Adafruit Feather nRF52840
Arduino Arduino Uno, Arduino Due, Arduino Duemilanove, Mega2560, Mini Pro 5V, Arduino Leonardo, Arduino Uno with MiniCore boot-loader, Arduino Uno with Adafruit USBtinyISP programmer, Arduino Due with USB and Segger J-Link, Arduino Yún and Tian with USB, WiFi and Ethernet, Arduino M0 Pro, Arduino Zero, Arduino Primo, Arduino Nano Every, Arduino Nano 33 BLE, Arduino Nano 33 IoT Arduino Micro, Mini Pro 3.3V, Arduino Due with Atmel ICE Arduino Mini, Arduino Nano, Arduino Otto Star with USB and Segger J-Link, Arduino Otto Star with USB and Segger J-Link, Arduino MKR FOX 1200, Arduino MKR GSM 1400, Arduino MKR NB 1500, Arduino MKR WAN 1300, Arduino MKR WiFi 1000, Arduino MKR WiFi 1010, Arduino MKR Zero
ATtinyCore ATtiny84
BBC micro:bit BBC micro:bit
chipKIT chipKIT Uno32, chipKIT uC32, chipKIT DP32, chipKIT WF32, chipKIT WiFire Rev.B, chipKIT Uno32 with chipKIT PGM chipKIT Max32, chipKIT WiFire Rev.C
DFRobot BLuno and Wido
ESP32 ESP32-DevC, Adafruit Huzzah ESP32, ESP32-CAM Wrover
ESP8266 ESP8266-01, NodeMCU board 0.9 and 1.0 Wemos D1 R2
LaunchPad LaunchPad MSP430G2 with MSP430G2553, LaunchPad MSP430G2-ET with MSP430G2553, LaunchPad MSP430F5529, LaunchPad MSP430FR2433, LaunchPad MSP430FR4133, LaunchPad MSP430FR5969, LaunchPad MSP430FR5994, LaunchPad MSP430FR6989, Experimenter Board MSP430FR5739, LaunchPad MSP432P401R, LaunchPad MSP432E401Y, LaunchPad LM4F120, LaunchPad TM4C123, LaunchPad TM4C129 Ethernet, LaunchPad TM4C129 EMT, LaunchPad CC1310, LaunchPad CC1350, LaunchPad CC3200 LaunchPad MSP430FR2311, SensorTag CC1350, LaunchPad CC2650, LaunchPad CC3200, LaunchPad C2000 LaunchPad F28027, LaunchPad F28069, LaunchPad F28377S, LaunchPad MSP432E4111 LaunchPad MSP430G2 with MSP430G2231, LaunchPad MSP430G2 with MSP430G2452
Mediatek LinkIt MediaTek LinkIt One, MediaTek LinkIt Smart 7688 Duo on Wiring / Arduino, Mediatek LinkIT 7697
Microduino Microduino Core and Core+ with-FT232R programmer, Microduino Core32u4, Microduino STM32
Microsoft Azure IoT DevKit
Moteino Moteino
NodeMCU NodeMCU board 0.9 and 1.0
nRF5 boards BBC micro:bit, RedBear Blend nRF51822, RedBear Blend nRF51822
panStamp panStamp AVR with panStick, panStamp NRG 1.1 with panStick panStamp Quantum
Robotis Robotis OpenCM 9.04
Seeeduino Seeeduino v4
STM32duino Nucleo STM32F401RE
Arduino STM32 Maple 3 (Flash), Microduino Core STM32 (Flash) Nucleo F103RB (ST-Link)
Teensy Teensy 3.0, Teensy 3.1, Teensy LC, Teensy 3.5, Teensy 3.6, Teensy 4.0 Teensy 3.2 Teensy 2.0
Udoo Neo Udoo Neo (M4) USB and WiFi

Users have reported successful use of embedXcode on other boards. If you're successful with another board, please report it to me so I can update the list. Thank you!

Legacy platforms

Support for the following platforms is either put on hold or discontinued.

 Platform Officially tested Tested by users Not tested
Arduino Arduino Otto Star with USB and Segger J-Link
ArduCAM ArduCAM ESP8266 and ArduCAM CC3200
Cosa Arduino Uno
 Digistump Digispark Oak DigiX
ftDuino ftDuino
Glowdeck Glowdeck with BLE Glowdeck with USB, Glowdeck with Segger J-Link
Intel Intel Curie, Intel Galileo, Intel Galileo Gen2 on Wiring / Arduino, Intel Edison USB and WiFi on Wiring / Arduino, Intel Edison USB and WiFi on Yocto and MCU
LaunchPad Black LaunchPad MSP432P401
LightBlue LightBlue Bean Bluetooth
Little Robot Friends Little Robot Friends AVR, Little Robot Friends Dock Little Robot Friends SAMD
Maple Maple revision 5
Particle Particle Core USB and WiFi Particle Photon
Protostack Protostack 28-pin AVR board with Adafruit USB tinyISP and Protostack USB ASP programmers
RedBear RedBear nRF51822, RedBear Duo and Blend nRF52832 on Wiring / Arduino, RedBear CC3200, RedBear CC3200 Mini on Energia and Energia MT RedBear BLE Nano on Wiring / Arduino, RedBear CC3200 Micro on Energia and Energia MT, RedBear Nano nRF52832 on Wiring / Arduino RedBear Blend
RFduino RFduino
Simblee Simblee
Sparkfun Sparkfun Uno with Sparkfun 5V FTDI basic programmer
Wiring Wiring S

Update to Energia 1.6.10E18 and 1.8.7E21

Release 1.6.10E18 of Energia changes the boards tags and discontinues support for the CC2650 SensorTag and C2000 LaunchPad boards.

Release 1.8.7E21 of Energia isn't self-contained and requires the installation of the Java 8 JDK for external utilities.

For the conversion table and the update procedure,

For the installation and use of Energia release 0101E0017 for CC2650 SensorTag and C2000 LaunchPad boards,

To install Java 8,

Energia old and new boards tags

Release 1.6.10E18 of Energia changes the boards tags.

LaunchPad Old New
CC3200 WiFi lpcc3200 CC3200-LAUNCHXL
LM4F120 Stellaris lplm4f120h5qr EK-TM4C123GXL
MSP430F5529 lpmsp430f5529_25 MSP-EXP430F5529LP
MSP430FR4133 lpmsp430fr4133 MSP-EXP430FR4133LP
MSP430FR5739 lpmsp430fr5739 MSP-EXP430FR5739LP
MSP430FR5969 lpmsp430fr5969 MSP-EXP430FR5969LP
MSP430FR6989 lpmsp430fr6989 MSP-EXP430FR6989LP
MSP430G2553 lpmsp430g2553 MSP-EXP430G2553LP
MSP432P401 EMT Red MSP-EXP432P401RR MSP-EXP432P401R
TM4C123 Tiva C lptm4c1230c3pm EK-TM4C123GXL
TM4C129 Connected lptm4c1294ncpdt EK-TM4C1294XL

Install Java 8

The Energia 1.8 IDE isn't self-contained and requires the installation of the Java 8 JDK for external utilities. If the Java 8 JDK isn't available, Energia prompts an error message.

If you don't plan to use the Energia IDE, there is no need for installing the Java 8 JDK as embedXcode doesn't require it.

  • Download and install the jdk-8u111-macosx-x64 package.

  • Relaunch Energia 1.8 IDE.

Adafruit nRF52 old and new boards tags

Release 0.9.0 of the Adafruit nRF52 boards package changes the tags and the names of the boards. The Feather nRF52 board is now called Feather nRF52832.

Feather Old New
nRF52832 feather52 feather52832
Feather nRF52 Feather nRF52832

If a project uses the old definition,

  • Create a new project with the Adafruit nRF52 board.

  • Copy the Configurations folder of the new project to the Configurations folder of the initial project.

  • Reselect the board on the initial project.

The two options for the bootloader, s132v201 and s132v6 are replaced by a single one, s132v6.

The boards Adafruit Feather nRF52 and Adafruit Feather nRF52 s132v510 are no longer supported.

  • Use the boards Adafruit Feather nRF52832 s132v611 instead.

If the Feather nRF52832 board has been used with a previous version of Adafruit nRF52 boards package, the boot-loader of the board needs to be updated when moving to release 0.9.0.