ZOTI-FTN

ZOTI-FTN (Flexile Type Notation) is an experimental tool for describing common data types and generating glue code in various target languages. It consists of:

• a language for describing a (small) set of data types and their properties in a target-agnostic manner. The language comes with a parser CLI tool which dumps the ZOTI-FTN AST.

• a base handler and target-agnostic AST for building modules of types and aiding with target-agnsostic tasks, e.g. retrieving properites, dependencies, etc.

• (currently only) a handler instance and derived AST for C backends for generating various kind of glue code for bare-metal C based on the type properties.

Note: This tool is in early experimental phases and might be deprecated in the future. It is mainly maintained for the sake of demonstrators, but a more scalable alternative is being researched. For an overview discussion on the role of ZOTI-FTN and its position in a synthesis flow such as Genny please refer to the ZOTI project hub page.

The current implementation of ZOTI-FTN is as a Python library. For installation and usage instructions, please refer to the project’s GitHub page.

Documentation pages

• The ZOTI-FTN Language
• The Target-Agnostic Core
  • Hashables
  • Base Attributes
  • Core Data Types
  • The Type Database Handler
• The C-Specific Core
  • FtnDb
  • TypeRef
  • Structure
  • Array
  • Void
  • Integer
  • Boolean

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page