libsimpleio is an attempt to encapsulate (as much as possible) the ugliness of Linux I/O device access. It provides services for the following types of I/O devices:
- Industrial I/O Subsystem A/D (Analog to Digital) Converter Devices
- Industrial I/O Subsystem D/A (Digital to Analog) Converter Devices
- GPIO (General Purpose Input/Output) Pins
- Raw HID (Human Interface Device) Devices
- I2C (Inter-Integrated Circuit) Bus Devices
- Labview LINX Remote I/O Devices
- PWM (Pulse Width Modulated) Output Devices
- Remote I/O Protocol Devices
- Serial Ports
- SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface) Bus Devices
- Stream Framing Protocol Devices
- TCP and UDP over IPv4 Network Devices
- Watchdog Timer Devices
Although libsimpleio was originally intended for Linux microcomputers such as the Raspberry Pi, it can also be useful on larger desktop Linux systems.
The C wrapper functions exported by libsimpleio all follow the same uniform pattern:
- All C wrapper functions are proper procedures (
void f()
in C). - All input arguments of primitive types (
int
,float
, etc.) are passed by value. - All output arguments of primitive types are passed by reference
(
int *
,float *
, etc.). - All composite types are passed by reference.
int32_t
is used wherever possible forint
andbool
arguments.
All of the C wrapper functions are declared between _BEGIN_STD_C
and _END_STD_C
for C++. Additional source code libraries are
provided for Ada, C++, C#, Free Pascal, Modula-2, and Python that
define OOP (Object Oriented Programming) thick binding classes for
libsimpleio.
The user manual for libsimpleio is available at UserManual.pdf. Installation instructions are on pages 6 and 7.
The man pages specifying the libsimpleio API are available at libsimpleio.html.
The libsimpleio source code tree is available at:
https://github.com/pmunts/libsimpleio
Use the following command to clone it:
git clone https://github.com/pmunts/libsimpleio.git
Prebuilt libsimpleio
packages for Debian
Linux are available at:
http://repo.munts.com/debian11
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