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Is Automatic Code Generation in Our Future?

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This morning in his blog TechOnline editor-in-chief Patrick Mannion brought to my a attention an interactive, automatic code generator and design environment called ECCM. (for Embedded Controller Code Maker).  I went to the website (the URL is revealing, too, in its use of the term lego-code:http://www.lego-code.com/INDEX.htm) and among the claims being made is that ECCM will create assembler code for typical embedded controller applications in less than 4 hours without manual coding required. Mannion wonders aloud, and so did I, if automatic code generation is the wave of the future and, if so, what does this mean for embedded developers? What do you think?
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  • I think automatic code generation is indeed the future and is already used with high(er) languages and compilers.

     

    I use an imbedded C-Compiler for PICmicro and this piece of software does really all kinds of things for you. The libraries are really powerfull, this helps the user to think less about the processor and machine instructions but more about the functionality of the application itself. The compiler has also a wizard which ask you to make the framework to set a device and it's periferals.

     

    The backside of automatic code generation; it will cost more processor time and memory but on the other hand; processors are becoming faster and cheaper each day. Sometimes you will need to optimize code, especially for 'critical' real-time-processes.

     

    I personally think that programming will become more visual, that is the GUI between the user and the code will change. A simple example is drawing a circuit with logic functions (and/or/etc.) and translate these logic functions in software-routines.

     

    Best regards,

     

    Enrico Migchels

    Power conversion design engineer

    Heliox B.V.

    Best - The Netherlands

    www.heliox.nl

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  • I think automatic code generation is indeed the future and is already used with high(er) languages and compilers.

     

    I use an imbedded C-Compiler for PICmicro and this piece of software does really all kinds of things for you. The libraries are really powerfull, this helps the user to think less about the processor and machine instructions but more about the functionality of the application itself. The compiler has also a wizard which ask you to make the framework to set a device and it's periferals.

     

    The backside of automatic code generation; it will cost more processor time and memory but on the other hand; processors are becoming faster and cheaper each day. Sometimes you will need to optimize code, especially for 'critical' real-time-processes.

     

    I personally think that programming will become more visual, that is the GUI between the user and the code will change. A simple example is drawing a circuit with logic functions (and/or/etc.) and translate these logic functions in software-routines.

     

    Best regards,

     

    Enrico Migchels

    Power conversion design engineer

    Heliox B.V.

    Best - The Netherlands

    www.heliox.nl

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