NuttX Support for Rapid Control Applications Development with pysimCoder

The main goal is integrating pysimCoder with NuttX to develop NuttX applications easily and faster for Engineering Students!

The pysimCoder is open-source Rapid (Control) Application Development Tool (RAD) which targets broad range of operating systems and target platforms. It has a graphical editor, which is able to translate a block diagram into C code. The C-code can be easily integrated into a main file for different embedded and linux systems. The design of the controller is performed using a Python script.

The NuttX is ideal real-time operating systems to combine with pysimCoder to prepare Rapid Control Prototyping (RCP) platforms based on small and mid-range embedded microcontrollers systems. NuttX POSIX standard programing model allows fast porting of applications and pysimCoder support between GNU/Linux for large designs to cheaper and smaller MCU based systems for faster and simpler applications which gives great potential to fill large gaps between hobby grade solutions supported by Arduino or microPython and professional systems requiring expensive software licenses (even for hobby grade hardware) and for professional use even expensive platforms.

The pysimCoder project repository is hosted here:

http://robertobucher.dti.supsi.ch/python/pysimcoder/

As the demonstration platform and BSP enhanced to support more sensors and actuators the studend should use for example the iMX RT1050 that has support to CAN-FD.

Other boards like the STM32F4Discovery and ESP32/ESP32-C3 could be used, but these boards don't have CAN-FD support.