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eLua platform modules
================================================================================
In order to make eLua usable on different platform, eLua provides a number of
"platform modules" that link the language with the hardware platform. They're
mainly tied up with the platform peripherals (PIO, UART, SPI and others).
Currently only the PIO module is implemented by eLua, but much more will be
added as the project evolves. They are loaded when Lua starts (just like the
"standard" modules like os, math, string).
All the platform modules have two parts: the generic part (the one that is
exposed directly to Lua and it's supposed to be platform independent) and the
platform specific part (the one that links the module operations to actual
hardware operations). Consequently, when adding a new platform, one doesn't need
to rewrite the whole module, just the platform-dependent part. The "platform
interface.txt" file shows the conenction between platform modules and platform
interface functions. For example, the "pio" module (src/modules/pio.c) needs 3
functions for interfacing with a specific platform: platform_pio_has_port,
platform_pio_has_pin and platform_pio_op.
All the modules are located in the "src/modules" directory. Besides their
actual implementation, the "src/modules/auxmods.h" file contains the Lua
compatible description of all the modules in the system.
Sometimes it doesn't make sense to include all the modules for a particular
platform. For example, for the i386 platform it doesn't make sense to include
the "pio" module (although this is technically possible by providing "bogus"
platform interface functions, the module won't be able to do anything on a i386
CPU, unless you want to "emulate" it via the parallel port or some other
peripheral). To accomodate this, each platform must provide a "platform_libs.h"
(src/platform/<your platform>) which lists the modules that are used for that
specific platform. For example, if we want to enable only the PIO module for the
AT91SAM7X platform, to the "platform_libs.h" file would look like this:
(BEGIN src/platform/at91sam7x/platform_libs.h)
// Auxiliary libraries that will be compiled for this platform
#ifndef __PLATFORM_LIBS_H__
#define __PLATFORM_LIBS_H__
#include "auxmods.h"
#define LUA_PLATFORM_LIBS\
{ AUXLIB_PIO, luaopen_pio }
#endif
(END src/platform/at91sam7x/platform_libs.h)
On the other hand, we don't want any modules for the i386 platform (yet), so the
"platform_libs.h" file is empty in this case:
(BEGIN src/platform/i386/platform_libs.h)
// Auxiliary libraries that will be compiled for this platform
#ifndef __PLATFORM_LIBS_H__
#define __PLATFORM_LIBS_H__
#endif
(END src/platform/i386/platform_libs.h)
This is why some of platform functions described in "platform interface.txt" are
optional. If there are no modules that use them in one platform, then you don't
need to define them at all for that platform, not even as "bogus" functions.
NOTE: this mechanism is not used only for the platform modules, but also for
other modules in eLua. For an examples see src/terminal_support.txt in which the
"term" is presented, and it can be enabled in the exact same way as a platform
module, even though it's not connected to the platform interface.
================================================================================
=== The PIO module
================================================================================
The PIO module lets Lua access the programmable input/output (PIO) pins of the
microcontroller. It exposes symbolic name for ports (pio.PA, pio.PB, ... pio.PF)
and symbolic names for port pins (pio.PA0, pio.PA1, ... pio.PB30, ...). Also,
it exposes functions to access both ports and pins:
pio.setpin( value, Pin1, Pin2 ... ): set the value to all the pins in the list
to "value" (0 or 1).
pio.set( Pin1, Pin2, ... ): set the value of all the pins in the list to 1.
pio.clear( Pin1, Pin2, ... ): set the value of all the pins in the list to 0.
Val1, Val2, ... = pio.get( Pin1, Pin2, ... ): reads one or more pins and returns
their values (0 or 1).
pio.input( Pin1, Pin2, ... ): set the specified pin(s) as input(s).
pio.output( Pin1, Pin2, ... ): set the specified pin(s) as output(s).
pio.setport( value, Port1, Port2, ... ): set the value of all the ports in the
list to "value".
Val1, Val2, ... = pio.getport( Port1, Port2, ... ): reads one or more ports and
returns their values.
pio.port_input( Port1, Port2, ... ): set the specified port(s) as input(s).
pio.port_output( Port1, Port2, ... ): set the specified port(s) as output(s).
================================================================================
=== The SPI module
================================================================================
The SPI module lets Lua access the SPI interfaces of the target CPU. It exposes
functions for SPI setup and sending/receiving data, selecting/unselecting slave
devices, as well as different SPI specific constants.
Actual_clock = spi.setup( id, spi.MASTER | spi.SLAVE, clock, cpol, cpha,
databits): set the SPI interface with the given parameters, returns the clock
that was set for the interface.
spi.select( id ): sets the SS line of the given interface.
spi.unselect( id ): clears the SS line of the given interface.
spi.send( id, Data1, Data2, ... ): sends all the data to the specified SPI
interface.
In1, In2, ... = spi.send_recv( id, Out1, Out2, ... ): sends all the "out" bytes
to the specified SPI interface and returts the data read after each sent byte.
================================================================================
=== The UART module
================================================================================
The UART module lets Lua access the UART interfaces of the target CPU. It
exposes functions for UART setup and sending/receiving data, as well as some
UART specific constants.
Actual_baud = uart.setup( id, baud, databits,
uart.PAR_EVEN |uart.PAR_ODD | uart.PAR_NONE,
uart.STOP_1 | uart.SSTOP_1_5 | uart.STOP_2 ): set the UART interface with the
given parameters, returns the baud rate that was set for the UART.
uart.send( id, Data1, Data2, ... ): send all the data to the specified UART
interface.
Data = uart.recv( id, uart.NO_TIMEOUT | uart.INF_TIMEOUT | timeout ): reads a
byte from the specified UART interface.
uart.sendbuf( id, string ): this is similar to "uart.send", but its parameter is
a string.
================================================================================
=== The timer module
================================================================================
It allows Lua to execute timer specific operations (delay, read timer value,
start timer, get time difference).
tmr.delay( id, delay ): uses timer 'id' to wait for 'delay' us.
Data = tmr.read( id ): reads the value of timer 'id'. The returned value is
platform dependent.
Data = tmr.start( id ): start the timer 'id', and also returns its value at
the moment of start. The returned value is platform dependent.
diff = tmr.diff( id, end, start ): returns the time difference (in us) between
the timer values 'end' and 'start' (obtained from calling tmr.start or
tmr.read). The order of end/start is irrelevant.
Data = tmr.mindelay( id ): returns the minimum delay (in us ) that can be
achieved by calling the tmr.delay function. If the return value is 0, the
platform layer is capable of executing sub-microsecond delays.
Data = tmr.maxdelay( id ): returns the maximum delay (in us) that can be
achieved by calling the tmr.delay function.
Data = tmr.setclock( id, clock ): sets the clock of the given timer. Returns the
actual clock set for the timer.
Data = tmr.getclock( id ): return the clock of the given timer.
================================================================================
=== The platform data module
================================================================================
it allows Lua to identify the platform on which it runs.
Platform = pd.platform(): returns the platform name (f.e. LM3S)
Cpu = pd.cpu(): returns the CPU name (f.e. LM3S8962)
Clock = pd.clock(): returns the platform CPU clock.