1209 / 2006 - GCBASIC Simulation Stack
| VID | 0x1209 |
|---|---|
| PID | 0x2006 |
| Owner | GCBASIC |
| License | GPLv2, Public Domain |
| Site | http://gcbasic.sourceforge.net/ |
| Source | https://sourceforge.net/p/gcbasic/code/HEAD/tree/GCBASIC/trunk/ |
Our Open Source software is called the Great Cow BASIC suite. The Great Cow BASIC suite is robust and fully functional compiler and assembler. Using Great Cow BASIC is the fastest method to program a Microchip PIC or Atmel AVR 8-bit microcontroller for those just starting and the professional user.
Great Cow BASIC (or GCBASIC) is an Open Source BASIC compiler for PIC and AVR microcontrollers. The project was founded in late 2005, and it has since attracted attention from several other developers. It has been used in the University’s high school outreach programs, and has been used by quite a few other people. One challenge has been guaranteeing that the compiler will produce correct assembly and machine code for a given program. An automated test system will be created to verify that the compiler has compiled programs correctly.
This PID supports the automated testing of executable code generated by the compiler, and verify that the code executes as expected. An existing simulator has been developed for Great Cow but never publicly released. This will be developed further, and a hardware simulator will also be built. The hardware simulator will include a set of different microcontroller chips, and would have a way to download code to any one of the microcontrollers and then verify that it has run as expected.
Great Cow BASIC has three main aims - to remove the need for repetitive assembly commands, to produce efficient code, and to make it easy to take code written for one microcontroller type and run it on another microcontroller type. The design intent is to remove the complexity of using and programming a microcontroller. Great Cow BASIC is suitable for beginners, for those who do not like or wish to learn assembly language and for experienced microcontroller programmmers. Great Cow BASIC is available for Windows, Apple Operating Systems and Linux.
We have two versions of Great Cow BASIC. Both versions use the same common core toolchain the difference is the user experience.
Great Cow BASIC IDE
Great Cow Graphical BASIC