μCShell (micro-C-shell) or (micro-Controller-Shell) aims to be a hardware agnostic shell/console library for embedded systems. Originally developed as a debugging utility, μCShell can become so much more.
At the time of this writing μCShell uses strtok and additional parsing to run commands commonly passed
through a com-port/terminal viewer, such as putty or MobaTerm, via a microcontroller's UART peripheral. Though the source of input and manner output are ultimately up to the designer and application at hand.
μCShell simply provides the command & callback registering mechanisms to implemnt an embeded console experience.
- Debugging utility where realtime operation of the microcontroller is preferred over a debug state where pausing
of code execution can yield unnatural behavior such as timeouts or misrepresentation of system behavior.
- For example tuning PID values and observing the changes take effect in realtime as oppose to pausing code or having to rebuild and reflash firmware to observe a minor tweak of a value.
- Streaming of data:
- Variables
- Registers
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