PICOBIT: A compact scheme system for microcontrollers

Vincent St Amour; Marc Feeley

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-16478-1_1

PICOBIT: A compact scheme system for microcontrollers

Vincent St Amour^*, Marc Feeley

^*Corresponding author for this work

Computer Science

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Abstract

Due to their tight memory constraints, small microcontroller based embedded systems have traditionally been implemented using low-level languages. This paper shows that the Scheme programming language can also be used for such applications, with less than 7 kB of total memory. We present PICOBIT, a very compact implementation of Scheme suitable for memory constrained embedded systems. To achieve a compact system we have tackled the space issue in three ways: the design of a Scheme compiler generating compact bytecode, a small virtual machine, and an optimizing C compiler suited to the compilation of the virtual machine.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Implementation and Application of Functional Languages - 21st International Symposium, IFL 2009, Revised Selected Papers
Pages	1-17
Number of pages	17
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16478-1_1
State	Published - 2010
Event	21st International Symposium on Implementation and Application of Functional Languages, IFL 2009 - South Orange, NJ, United States Duration: Sep 23 2009 → Sep 25 2009

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Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	6041 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

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Other	21st International Symposium on Implementation and Application of Functional Languages, IFL 2009
Country/Territory	United States
City	South Orange, NJ
Period	9/23/09 → 9/25/09

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General Computer Science

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St Amour, V., & Feeley, M. (2010). PICOBIT: A compact scheme system for microcontrollers. In Implementation and Application of Functional Languages - 21st International Symposium, IFL 2009, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 1-17). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 6041 LNCS). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16478-1_1

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St Amour, V & Feeley, M 2010, PICOBIT: A compact scheme system for microcontrollers. in Implementation and Application of Functional Languages - 21st International Symposium, IFL 2009, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 6041 LNCS, pp. 1-17, 21st International Symposium on Implementation and Application of Functional Languages, IFL 2009, South Orange, NJ, United States, 9/23/09. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16478-1_1

PICOBIT: A compact scheme system for microcontrollers. / St Amour, Vincent; Feeley, Marc.
Implementation and Application of Functional Languages - 21st International Symposium, IFL 2009, Revised Selected Papers. 2010. p. 1-17 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 6041 LNCS).

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St Amour V, Feeley M. PICOBIT: A compact scheme system for microcontrollers. In Implementation and Application of Functional Languages - 21st International Symposium, IFL 2009, Revised Selected Papers. 2010. p. 1-17. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-16478-1_1

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