TY - NEWS
TI - Rust-like Programming Language for Low-resource Microcontrollers
AU - Martinez Santa1, Fernando
AU - Orjuela Rivera2, Santiago
AU - Martinez Sarmiento1, Fredy H.
AB - This article proposes a programming structure for low-resource
microcontrollers over the name of Sokae Project, this is inspired by
Arduino and Micropython projects and pretends to work as a medium
point between both programming structures taking the best features of
each kind of languages and programming structures. The project’s name
is inspired by the crab pet of Rust programming language. Sokae means
crab in Emberá Chamí language, so the project’s name is a tribute to
Emberá native people. The programming structure is composed of three
main components: a language based on Rust syntax, a transpiler that
turns the defined Rust- like language into C, and a generic Application
Programming Interface API. The main goal of this project is to obtain a
cross- platform programming structure for programming low-resource
microcontrollers over the same language and API. Sokae language is a
small subset of Rust programming language following its overall syntax.
On the other hand, the transpiler from Sokae language to C is
implemented by using Python and the SLY module as lexer and parser.
Likewise, the API is written for the native C compiler for each
microcontroller, so it is necessary to use it as a part of the project. Several
application examples are tested in order to check the correct working of
the overall programming structure, just over the XC16 compiler for
PIC24/dsPIC33 microcontroller family. Finally, after several tests, the
proposed programming structure shows that it is possible to use modern
language structure to program any kind of microcontroller no matteríts
limited resources.
DA - 2022
KW - Programming Language
KW - Rust
KW - Transpiler
KW - Microcontroller
KW - Embedded Systems
KW - Compiled Language
KW - Microcontroller API
UR - https://repositorio.cun.edu.co/handle/cun/4469
ER -