Code configuration tool for real time systems

Most of the embedded application developments are time consuming due to the lack of softwares for configuring the peripherals. Currently existing Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) and simulators in the real-time field helps to simulate synthetic tasks, run feasible tests and compile a program, but code generating features for the peripherals are not available in these systems. This paper presents a novel Code Configuration Tool (CCT) for embedded systems, which can be used for developing an embedded application quickly and easily. The features of CCT includes: Graphical User Interface (GUI), tools for configuring peripherals, code generation and project building. CCT is developed using Qt-C++ framework. CCT is interfaced with Philips ARM7 LPC 2148 micro controller and configures the peripherals of LPC controller and generates C program for the same, which a user can use directly to dump on the controller for application implementation. Thus, the key contribution of this work is development of a software platform which can be used to generate executable codes for various peripherals of LPC 2148 controller to implement specific real-time applications without the overhead of configuring and writing codes of the peripherals resulting in rapid hardware implementation.