On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 12:18:45PM +0200, Humphrey wrote: > I am new to python and i want to ask if python can be used in electronics > like for programming programmable chips like the PIC16F series. I want to > used it specifically in power conversion systems like Sine wave inverters and > uninterpretable power supply systems
In theory, any language could be used for something like this, but generally speaking embedded systems like PICs (and I'd say particularly for the PIC16 series which have very tiny memory storage), it may be too much to expect the chip to carry a Python runtime inside it. It is an interesting idea, though, to either think of some sort of tiny interpreter or a native code compiler. For really time-critical or memory-restrained applications, though, which is typically the arena in which PICs and similar microcontrollers exist, people usually program "closer to the bare metal" in assembly or C. You may be interested in looking at xwisp, though, as a related topic. That is a PIC programmer (i.e., software to manage the transfer of programs into the chip itself) written in Python. -- Steve Willoughby | Using billion-dollar satellites st...@alchemy.com | to hunt for Tupperware. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
