IDLs Suitable for Microcontrollers

20 January 2022 by Phillip Johnston • Last updated 8 February 2022We prefer to manage the majority of our software’s external communication interfaces through an interface description language (IDL). In general, these languages/systems generally work in the same way: You create an IDL file which describes functions and data types You generate code for your target languages (the languages available depend on the tool), along with library code that handles encoding and decoding the data for transmission You import the generated code into your system and fill in the placeholder functions Specifically, you need to fill in the implementation for …

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