Re: Ada, the best language with the not-so-best tool chain

[Patrick <patrick@spellingbeewinnars.org>]

I know we have talked about the uselessness of the work "embedded. Can we use the term EDA embedded for bare metal programming that will also likely require a custom circuit board?

I hope this list is not obnoxiously long but here is a list of topics I planned on doing screencasts for with the eLua project. Family responsibilities have caught up and I have not been able to finish them but I still plan too. This list will give some idea of what I mean by EDA(electronic design automation) embedded:

Basics
microcontrollers vs processors vs microprocessors, what exactly is embedded?
briefly what elua offers
basic set up costs needed for working on embedded systems
flashing your board with Windows and closed source programs
run a prefabricated elua program
writing elua programs
using webuilder


Intermediate
background-other languages used in embedded design, what elua offers in more depth
background-microcontrollers overview, arm, avr, pic etc
background-types of memory, flash, sram, etc
background-data buses, control buses, address buses etc
background-serial communication protocols, SPI, I2C, RS232,CAN, RS485 etc
background-External communication, USB, IrDA, Wireless
background-Sensors, light, hall-effect etc
background-open source toolchains and commercial ones
background-optional hardware, logical analyzers, oscilloscopes, chip burners etc..
jtag/flashing with Linux
writing elua programs continued
cross compiling programs on the desktop
modules-Programmable input/output
modules-Serial peripheral interface
modules-Universal asynchronous receiver transmitter
modules-Physical and virtual timers
modules-Pulse width modulation
modules-TCP/IP networking
modules-Low level system access
modules-Analog to digital converter
modules-Platform data
modules-ANSI terminal access
modules-Bitwise operations
modules-Inter-integrated circuit protocol
modules-Remote procedure call
modules- elua system control
optional modules-OLED display support
optional modules-Extended PIO configuration
optional modules-Real time clock
other features-Embedded HTTP web server
other features-FP module (for integer Lua)
other features-XMODEM protocol support for console file transfer
other features-Embedded ROM (Flash) file system
other features-FAT File System layer for mmc/sd cards
other features-Terminal / Console over UART or Ethernet
other features-eLua command shell
other features-Lua interrupt handlers
other features-C interrupt handlers
other features-eLua LTR (Lua Tiny RAM) patch
other features-eLua EGC (Emergency Garbage Collection) patch
other features-Remote (PC) File Sharing
other features-eLua web build service


Advanced
lua internals, "dragon book stuff" parsing, tokenizing etc
elua internals
creating a new port
highjacking circuit boards
demo-valve control
demo-stepper motors
demo-heating control
demo-A/D photodiodes
demo-A/D photomultiplier tubes
demo-LED displays
demo-digital to Analog conversion
demo-relay control
demo-more ideas to come....
ecad-open source tools for PCB design
ecad-tutorials more to come....