METRÔLHO, J. ; COSTA, M. ; RIBEIRO, F.R. (2011) - Tiny programming language to improve assembly generation for automation equipment. International Journal of Computers. ISSN: 1998-4308. Vol. 5, nº 1, p. 10-17
1998-4308
Title
Tiny programming language to improve assembly generation for automation equipment
Subject
Compilers and interpreters Embedded systems Industrial systems Programming languages Software design and development
Date
2014-03-20T17:32:59Z 2014-03-20T17:32:59Z 2011
Description
The development time in industrial informatics systems, within industry environments, is a very important
issue for competitiveness. The usage of adequate targetspecific
programming languages is very important because
they can facilitate and improve developers’ productivity, allowing solutions to be expressed in the idiom and at the level
of abstraction of the problem’s domain.
In this paper we present a target-specific programming
language, which was designed to improve the design cycle of
code generation, for an industrial embedded system. The native assembly code, the new language structure and their
constructs, are presented in the paper. The proposed targetspecific language is expressed using words and terms that are
related to the target’s domain and consequently it is now easier
to program, understand and to validate the desired code. It is also demonstrated the language efficiency by comparing some
code described using the new language against the previous
used code. The design cycle is improved with the usage of the
target-specific language because both description and debug
time are significantly reduced with this new software tool. This
is also a case of university-industry partnership.
