Welcome to the Rafael RT58x Matter SDK github repo. It is built on top of the Matter open source SDK and added related components e.g., RT58x RF library(thread/BLE), system/peripherial driver for RT58x platform. The users can use this repo to build the Matter application on their own.
The following diagram shows a simplified structure of a Matter application that runs on the RT58x platform and uses Bluetooth® LE and Thread stacks for communication purposes:
Note: For readability, the diagram does not show all projects components, only the most important ones for a typical Matter application.
The RT58x SDK is based on the FreeRTOS, which is a Real-time operating system for microcontrollers. RT58x supports multiple hardware platforms and provides hardware drivers, application protocols, protocol stacks, and more. The RT58x SDK also integrates other projects like crypto library mbedTLS, MCU bootloader or the OpenThread implementation of the Thread stack.
For the Thread communication purposes, the RT58x platform application is using the Thread stack, which consists of several layers implemented in different projects. The core of the Thread stack is OpenThread, but it also requires the IEEE 802.15.4 radio driver provided by RT58x SDK.
Matter is located on the top application layer of the presented model, looking from the networking point of view. The Bluetooth LE and Thread stacks provided by the RT58x SDK will be integrated with the Matter stack using a special intermediate layer.
In practice, this layer contains platform-specific implementations of abstract manager interfaces (such as Bluetooth LE Manager or Thread Stack Manager) defined in the Matter stack. The application is able to use Matter's platform agnostic interfaces and no additional platform-related actions are needed to perform communication through the Matter stack.
The RT58x platform makes use of the following build systems to generate ninja build scripts:
- GN - Used by the Matter project in majority of cases.
- CMake - Used by other components related with the RT58x platform.
As a result, Matter's stack and platform modules are built with GN and the output is used to generate the library file. The application, RT58x SDK are built with CMake and the Matter library file is imported during the compilation process.
Please follow the steps below to create and test a fully functional Matter example on RT58x series of SoCs
- Rafael(RT58x) Getting Start Guide
The following application demo will need the specified tool providing by Rafael Micro, please go to the Rafael Customer Support Portal to download related files.
- Application development Guide