eLua - Lua for Microcontrollers

COPYRIGHT 2016 – Fundação CERTI
eLua – Lua for
Microcontrollers
Vinicius Zein
Bruno Herrera

https://br.linkedin.com/in/viniciuszein
Vinicius Tadeu Zein

www.linkedin.com/in/bherrera
Bruno Herrera

R&D Institute
Founded in 1984 with the mission to
develop technology solutions for products
and processes
500 employees
Private, but results are reinvested in R&D
MCTI and SUFRAMA accredited – projects
with “Lei de Informática”, “Lei do Bem” and
Embrapii
More than 500 clients around the world

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Ag
en
da
CAPÍTULO 1
Introdução
CAPÍTULO 2
Lógica de
negócios
CAPÍTULO 3
Embedded Lua
CAPÍTULO 4
DevKits e build
CAPÍTULO 5
eLua demo
CAPÍTULO 6
Wrap-up

INTRODUÇÃO
CAPÍTULO 1

CAPÍTULO 1 | INTRODUÇÃO
O que é Lua?

Onde está Lua?

LÓGICA DE
NEGÓCIOS
CAPÍTULO 2

CAPÍTULO 2 | LÓGICA DE NEGÓCIOS
Business Logic with script > Motivação
Processo de
Desenvolvimento
e.g. em C
1.  Alterar código
2.  Compilar
3.  Deploy

Business Logic with script > Processo de
desenvolvimento
com script
1.  Alterar código
2.  Compilar
3.  Deploy

Business Logic with script > Linguagens de script são
simples de se apreender
Menor complexidade
Precisa ser
integrável à
linguagem
compilada
(C, C++)

Business Logic with script Lua
Por que Lua?

Porque Lua
é leve x86 – 171K
arm – 160K
arm – 124K
liblua.so

Porque Lua é leve
180K
171K
160K
124K

Robusta &
estabelecida

Portátil &
livre

PODEROSA>permite orientação a objetos
>permite estender aplicações em outras
linguagens
>pode ser estendida por bibliotecas
escritas em outras linguagens
e também

Exemplo 1:
User interface do Set-Top Box CERTI

Integração Lua e C
CAPÍTULO 2 | INTEGRAÇÃO LUA E C

Módulo C

Lua
Bind

Módulo C

Bind

Módulo C

Bind

Módulo C

Bind

CAPÍTULO 3 | EMBEDDED LUA
2 ﬂavors:
> Aplicação C inicializa scripts Lua
> Script Lua carrega biblioteca naNva
É possível ter
a combinação
dos dois

Aplicação C inicializa máquina Lua
> lua_State *lua_newstate (lua_Alloc f,
void *ud);
> void luaL_openlibs (lua_State *L);
> int luaL_doﬁle (lua_State *L, const
char *ﬁlename);
> int lua_pcall (lua_State *L, int nargs,
int nresults, int msgh);
> void lua_close (lua_State *L);

Integração Lua e C > Inicialização da máquina Lua

Integração Lua e C > Bind para ser usado em Lua

IntegraçãoLuaeC

Integração Lua e C > Biblioteca C ( ? ) em Lua

CAPÍTULO 2 | EXEMPLOS
Exemplo 1:
Modiﬁcação do menu do STB Certi

Exemplo 2:
Modiﬁcação da interface do IP Phone


Embedded Lua
CAPÍTULO 3

“Microcontrollers are designed for
embedded applications, in contrast to
the microprocessors used in personal
computers or other general purpose
applications consisting of various
discrete chips.”
-Wikipedia

BSP(board support package) / HAL
(hardware abstraction layer) provided
by the “Chip” vendor
Hardware dependent code, not
portable
No operating system
Hard to port applications
Hard to update on the ﬁeld
Do not forget: it is all about
registers!!
without
addition; basic
and simple
Bare Metal

eLua www.eluaproject.net
Embedded power, driven by Lua
Quickly prototype and develop embedded
software applications with the power of Lua and
run them on a wide range of microcontroller
architectures
MicroPython micropython.org
MicroPython is a lean and eﬃcient
implementation of the Python 3 programming
language that includes a small subset of the
Python standard library and is optimised to run
on microcontrollers and in constrained
environments.
Netduino www.netduino.com
Netduino, an open-source electronics platform
using the .NET Micro Framework.
Cont: JavaME,
Not so bare
Bare Metal

e-Lua Embedded Lua
On a wide range of
microncontrollers
The power of Lua
Flexibility
Rapid prototyping
Reduced time-to-market

eLua is not an operational system
commercial software
nor GPL
reduced Lua
platform speciﬁc

Lightweight,
but...

Porting eLua > prerequisites
Program memory
128kB (basic image)
256kB (full image)
RAM
minimum 32kB*
Recommended 64kB
* LTR (Lua Tiny RAM) – less than 32kB

eLuaArchitecture

adc
elua
bit
i2c
can
net
cpu
pack
pd
spi
pio
term
pwm
tmr
rpc
uart
eLuaGenericmodules

eLuaPlatformmodules
mbed.pio
lm3.disp
str9.pio
mizar32.lcd
Mizar32.rtc

DevKits e Build
CAPÍTULO 4

CAPÍTULO 4 | DEVKITS AND BUILD
eLuaSupportedtargets

src/platform/<name>
> type.h – specific data types
> conf.lua – build configuration file
> stacks.h – stack size definition
> platform.c – platform interface impl
> platform_conf.h – info about platform
and build config
> others: network config, start up,
linker, CPU support package
Porting eLua > structure
CAPÍTULO 4 | DEVKITS AND BUILD

>type.h–speciﬁcdatatypes
Porting eLua >
structure

>conf.lua–buildconﬁgurationﬁle
Porting eLua >
structure

Porting eLua >
structure
>stacks.h–stacksizedeﬁnition

>platform.c–platforminterfaceimpl

>stm32f4xx_conf.h–infoabout
platformandbuildconﬁg

Porting eLua > new CPU
1.  edit build_data.lua
2.  add a new board to eLua
3.  customize the list of source ﬁle and/or
compilation ﬂags

Porting eLua > new board
1.  Name your board - stm32f429disco
2.  Write a configuration file
3.  Change the file list according to the board name
> cp boards/known/stm32-port407z.lua boards/
known/stm32f429disco.lua
> edit stm32f429disco.lua to set up UART and RX/
TX pins

eLua demo
CAPÍTULO 6

CAPÍTULO 6 | eLUA DEMO
Target
Action

Tools
Toolchain
https://launchpad.net/gcc-arm-
embedded/4.9/4.9-2014-q4-major
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:terry.guo/gcc-
arm-embedded
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gcc-arm-none-eabi
Open OCD
git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/openocd/
code openocd
cd openocd
git submodule init && git submodule update
&& ./bootstrap && ./conﬁgure --enable-
stlink && make && sudo make install
Action

GPIO
The famous hello world “led blink” at
user space
pio.pin.setdir(pio.OUTPUT, pio.PG_14)
pio.pin.sethigh(pio.PG_14)
pio.pin.setlow(pio.PG_14)
Action

Wrap-up
CAPÍTULO 6

CAPÍTULO 6 | WRAP-UP

Take away
Use a script language for
app development
Lua is lightweight,
portable and easy to use
eLua runs in
microcontrollers
CAPÍTULO 6 | WRAP-UP

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Obrigado!
https://br.linkedin.com/in/viniciuszein
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bherrera

Links úteis
www.lua.org
site principal para todas as coisas Lua
www.eluaproject.net
site do projeto eLua

Referências
Slide 6 h)p://www.lua.org/
Slide 33, 35 e 36 h)p://www.eluaproject.net

eLua - Lua for Microcontrollers

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