(py)libstored -- Store generator and Embedded Debugger client

libstored is a generator for a C++ class (store) with your application's variables, and a tool set to synchronize updates between processes (including FPGA), and debug it remotely. Refer to the documentation for details and examples.

This Python package contains:

• The generator itself.
• The client implementation of the Debugger protocol (version 2), and a few helper classes and modules to debug your application.

The synchronization protocol of libstored is not available in python (yet?).

Generator

In short, to generate the store, run python3 -m libstored.cmake, which produces a FindLibstored.cmake for you. Then, call find_package(Libstored) in your CMakeLists.txt. Afterwards, the CMake function libstored_generate() can be used to create the store (C++ header/source files, VHDL package, documentation) for you and build it as a static library.

This library includes the Debugger, which provides the server side of the Debugging client below.

Debugging client

Execute these modules like python3 -m libstored.gui, optionally with -h argument to get some more help:

• libstored.gui: a GUI that connects to a debug target.
• libstored.cli: a command line interface that connects to a debug target.
• libstored.wrapper.stdio: a stdin/stdout wrapper, which is a bridge between Embedded Debugger messages within the stdin/stdout streams of the application to a ZeroMQ socket interface, which in turn can be used to connect libstored.gui or libstored.cli to.
• libstored.wrapper.serial: like libstored.wrapper.stdio, but using pyserial instead of stdin/stdout.
• libstored.log: command line tool that connects to a debug target and logs samples to CSV. It is equivalent to passing -f to libstored.gui, but this tool allows easier automation of a specific set of samples.