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napowderly 10 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Atopile – Design circuit boards with code

We do have interfaces! They are super useful, I am very stoked that I dont have to remember which way around MISO/MOSI go any more.

Interfaces are just a collection of signals eg

  interface I2C:
    signal sda
    signal scl
    signal gnd

you can connect two together like so: micro.i2c ~ sensor.i2c

Importing schematics would be possible, but IMO not super valuable as all we could import would be the raw connectivity, a big benefit of our language is being able to add a layer of abstraction on that.

xnzakg 10 months ago [–]

How does this handle connecting two microcontrollers with one being a SPI master and one being a slave? Or connecting UART between two devices?

napowderly 10 months ago | [–]

Today, poorly. We just do a dumb matching of signal names. I imagine we will do something like add a property to the interfaces on each device.

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