Thanks Peter. Downloaded. -- William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca> On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 04:22:32PM -0400, Peter Hiscocks via talk wrote:

I'm currently developing a program in assembly language, using a Linux platform to host the development. The development environment is very simple. My notes on this are now on my academic web page at

http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~phiscock/

in the 'papers' subdirectory.

Peter -- Peter Hiscocks Syscomp Electronic Design Limited, Toronto http://www.syscompdesign.com USB Oscilloscope and Waveform Generator 647-839-0325

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On 2017-09-22 04:22 PM, Peter Hiscocks via talk wrote:

I'm currently developing a program in assembly language, using a Linux platform to host the development. The development environment is very simple. My notes on this are now on my academic web page at

http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~phiscock/

in the 'papers' subdirectory.

Thanks for that, Peter. A couple of comments: * You can use inline assembly language in the Arduino IDE, and it handles the assembly/compilation, linking and upload with one click or key shortcut. Hints for inline assembly: https://ucexperiment.wordpress.com/2013/06/03/gcc-inline-assembler-cookbook/ * Arduino IDE also has a serial monitor * I'd agree that debugging avr-gcc is virtually impossible, and that's why the whole Arduino infrastructure is so light on debugging. Part of the problem, though, is that effective debugging of embedded code needs hardware that's a) not cheap, and b) got a learning curve. * “sudar/Arduino-Makefile” <https://github.com/sudar/Arduino-Makefile> allows you to build Arduino projects from the command line, if that's your thing. * Really beware of instruction set changes between Atmel chips. Many of the ATTiny chips don't even have a multiply instruction, f'rinstance … * Atmel microprocessors are rather expensive, and getting a bit long in the tooth. For the same price as a < 20 MHz 8-bit ATMega, I can get a 80 MHz 32-bit ESP8266 breakout complete with built-in wifi and megabytes of flash storage. I can also program the ESP8266 in MicroPython or Arduino, which brings embedded development to a wider audience. While we* sell a bunch of AVR-based boards still, the ARM and ESP-based boards sell in higher volumes. cheers, Stewart *: my employer, Elmwood Electronics, an electronics mail-order retailer in Bloor West Village. --

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