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8051 compatibles
May 3rd, 2016 at 1:48am
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I am interested in using my much beloved Visual Micro to work with a STC89C516RD, which is one of a gazillion different 8051 compatible microcontrollers.  8051 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_MCS-51 compatibles are made by all the major chip manufacturers including Intel, Atmel, Maxim, T.I., STC, ST  Micro...  It's an ancient but still very popular platform, particularly for more industrial type applications.

There is a popular compiler called SDCC http://sdcc.sourceforge.net/ which is supposed to be based on GCC.  ATMEL includes support for their 8051 compatibles, such as the AT8515, in Atmel studio.  SDCC plugs into Eclipse.  I couldn't find any support for the Arduino IDE, MPIde, or Energia, or Wiring.

What are the prerequisites to get support for another platform into Visual Micro?
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Re: 8051 compatibles
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Hi,

It needs to conform to the arduino.cc third party hardware spec

If you take a look at the avr folder below arduinoide\hardware you will find a boards.txt and a platform.txt. Also you will find a sibling to the \hardware folder called \tools.

Below the avr folder is \cores

Within these folders is the entire config for a build. The .txt files use {properties} declared within the same files allowing the .cpp, c, elf, archive etc.
  
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