unusual bare metal target: Amazon Dash

Mike via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Thu Aug 20 02:08:01 PDT 2015


On Tuesday, 18 August 2015 at 01:32:13 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> I don't know whether D can run on one, but from a quick look 
> perhaps feasible.  Running D on something like this (perhaps 
> it's underpowered, but looked to have similar spec to what 
> people had been doing with related ARM cortex processors) would 
> certainly make the point very vivid that it can be a bare metal 
> programming language.
>
> Only 1Mb of flash RAM for the program - is that enough?

Yes, with the right techniques.

Everything one needs to get started is documented at 
http://wiki.dlang.org/Minimal_semihosted_ARM_Cortex-M_%22Hello_World%22

A more complete proof of concept on similar hardware can be found 
at https://github.com/JinShil/stm32f42_discovery_demo

Mike




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