Re: STM32F4 GNAT Run Time System - roadmap

[Brian Drummond <brian@shapes.demon.co.uk>]

On Sun, 06 Dec 2015 18:34:41 +0000, Simon Wright wrote:

> Brian Drummond <brian@shapes.demon.co.uk> writes:
> 
>> Anything that can be done to make adding an MCU easier is worthwhile.
>> In the MSP430 case I had a parser for the C header files so that all
>> MSP430s were available (to the extent the parser worked) but that won't
>> work across multiple manufacturers.
>>
>> So establishing a framework into which someone can plug in the details
>> of a new MCU, or which guides or helps him in doing so, would be
>> important.
> 
> ARM's CMSIS[1] contains (in the CMSIS-SVD tab) the definition
> 
>    "The System View Description (SVD) files provide peripheral
>    information and other device parameters in formalized XML based
>    format.
> 
>    "The SVD file typically matches the information provided by silicon
>    vendors in device reference manuals."
> 
> AdaCore, as recently noted here, have made some tools available on
> Github[2]; one of these is svd2ada.

This looks excellent! 

Though I can't see SVDs for any of the Texas Instruments devices there 
yet.

Thanks,
-- Brian