Z-Code - Overview

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Z-Code is a C++ framework for programming microcontrollers. Think industrial grade Arduino.

It is designed to support any microcontroller you can implement the Hardware Abstraction Layer for.

Z-Code C++ is stripped down to bare essentials and code written for microcontrollers does not support RTTI or exceptions. What is left however, makes for a very powerful tool in its simplicity and flexibility.

Most of the existing Arduino libraries can be ported to Z-Code with little or almost no work at all, except in cases where there's direct dependency on specific Atmel MCU features.

Z-Code comes with HAL implemented for QEMU ARM emulator and NXP LPC13xx line of microcontrollers.

hello world code that runs on QEMU may look like this:

#include 

#include 
#include 

// qemu RESET code to stop execution
extern "C" void CPU_RESET();
// qemu print helpers
extern "C" int _write (int fd, char *ptr, int len);
int iowrite(char c) {return _write(0, &c, 1);}

class MyPrint : public ZPrint
{
public:
    MyPrint(){};
    size_t write(uint8_t c)
    {
        iowrite(c);
        return 1;
    }    
};

MyPrint myPrint;

void setup()
{
    myPrint.println("Hello there from Z-Code!");

    CPU_RESET();
}

void loop()
{
    // empty loop
    return;
}

For more details, checkout the Git repo.