LIN

Introduction

LIN is a compiler (written in java) that will parse LIN Node capability and LIN description files and generate C source code that implements the LIN 2.2 spec for slave or master nodes.

Download

• Latest release (v0.3.1-beta).
• Previous releases can be found on the GitHub releases page.

Install

Windows

• Extract the downloaded zip file into the path "C:\Program Files\LIN-v0.3.1-beta"
• The final folder structure should look something like this.
  • C:\Program Files\LIN-v0.3.1-beta
    • bin
      • LIN
      • LIN.bat
    • lib
      • LIN-v0.3.1-beta.jar
• Then finally add "C:\Program Files\LIN-v0.3.1-beta\bin" to the environment PATH variable.
  • Here is a short video on how to do this in this video he adds C:\Python27 just type C:\Program Files\LIN-v0.3.1-beta\bin instead. You should also make sure that Java is also on your PATH variable as well.

Unix

• Extract the downloaded zip file where ever you feel fit.
• I put it in /opt/LIN-v0.3.1-beta
• Add that location to your PATH so you can run the LIN-v0.3.1-beta/bin/LIN bash script.

Supported Targets

• PIC24FJXXGA00X family.
• PIC24FJXXGB00X family.
• Support for others should not be too difficult to add.

Dependencies

• Java 1.8 the compiler is written in Java 1.8.
• antlr4 is used to generated the parsers for LIN Node capability and LIN description files.
• string template (usually packaged with antlr4) is used as a template engine to generate the C drivers.
• jcommander used to make command line tools more user-friendly.

Usage

Usage: LIN [options] source files...
  Options:
    -h, --help
       Show help this message.
       Default: false
    -o, --output
       Output directory.
       Default: gen
  * -t, --target
       The target device.
  * -i, --target-interface
       The target device's interface.
    -v, --version
       Display compiler version information.
       Default: false

Examples

Generate a master node from a LIN Node capability file.

• LIN -t PIC24FJ64GB002 -i UART1 CEM.ncf
• This will generate two files gen/CEM.h and gen/CEM.c that targets the PIC24FJ64GB002 and uses the first UART module, you will include these files in your master node project.

##### Generate a slave node from a LIN Node capability file. ##### - ```LIN -t PIC24FJ32GB002 -i UART1 LSM.ncf``` - This will generate two files gen/LSM.h and gen/LSM.c that targets the PIC24FJ32GB002 and uses the first UART module, you will include these files in your slave node project.