User Guide

This guide is intended for users of the Pumbaa Embedded Programming Platform.

The Pumbaa installation guide can be found on the Getting Started page.

Software architecture

Below is a picture of the Pumbaa software architecture. At the bottom is the hardware. On top of the hardware is the Simba operating system, that implementes all low level functionality; kernel, drivers, filesystems, networking, etc. MicroPython implements the Python 3 language and a many Python standard library modules. The user application on the right can be implemented in a mix of Python and C code depending of the requirements. Normally the whole application is implemnted in Python.

Contents:

• Build system
• Configuration
• Environment setup
• Hello World application