SiDrive

A project led by @specta and implemented by @coshaugh.

Summary

A community driven platform aimed to standardize the register maps for ICs (sensors, codecs, any IC that can be configured via a common protocol (i2c/spi) by a host processor).

Key Features (Immediate Goals)

Community driven.

• Standardized register maps are created for ICs via YAML/Json configuration files. Development is driven by the founding team and the community to ensure reliable drivers are produced from user generated configuration files.

Platform / hardware independent.

• Sure, drivers exist for arduino and similar platforms for many sensors, but arduino is hobby stuff. People spinning custom boards need platform independent drivers that are not human parsed and configured.

Automatic read() and write() function filling based on host selection.

• When users generate the drivers all they need to do on their host is enable SPI/i2c and they are already talking to their sensors. - i.e. I am using an ST processor with I2C fill in the functions with known code that works across all of STs processors. Or I am using a cypress psoc with SPI, fill the read() write() functions automatically.

Web searchable database of parts with drivers.

• Much like snapeda, components are searchable

Key Features (Further Out)

Generate custom driver setups and save configurations.

• Each user (of our web platform) can generate a custom header and c files by using the GUI interface. Users will save configurations to revert back to, keep multiple configurations for testing, etc... This will further drive development accessiblity.

Instructions

• These will be made available when relevant.