MCU8051IDE(1)

💖 MCU8051IDE 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this is the General Commands Manual page for mcu8051ide and she is that girl. no cap.

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✨ NAME ✨

mcu8051ide — an Integrated Development Environment for MCS-51 based microcontrollers. yes, a whole IDE. for tiny chips. iconic behavior honestly 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

mcu8051ide [--help] [-h] [--assemble asm_file] [--compile asm_file]
[--iram-size size] [--code-size size] [--xram-size size] [--no-opt]
[--quiet] [-q] [--nosplash] [--nocolor] [-n] [--version] [-V]
[--defaults] [--disassemble] [--minimalized] [--config-file filename]
[--check-libraries] [--ignore-last-session] [--open-project project]
[--reset-user-settings] [--hex2bin input output] [--bin2hex input
output] [--sim2hex input output] [--sim2bin input output]
[--normalize-hex input] [--auto-indent input] [--comp-quiet] [--no-sim]
[--no-bin] [--no-lst] [--no-hex] [--warning-level N]

that's a lot of flags. she's got range 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

MCU 8051 IDE is a tool for developing programs in assembly language and C language (with SDCC) for micronstollers based on the industrial standard MCS-51.

and it consists of, listen:

• an editor with syntax highlight, auto completion, syntax validation and command line
• a compiler with support for macro-instructions (even macro in macro, bestie, macro in macro)
• a simulator
• a scientific calculator
• a (rich) text editor for writing to do lists
• a hexadecimal editor
• and many other tools ✨

the way that she just keeps adding features… main character energy fr fr 🔥

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --help, -h — Display short help text
• --quiet, -q — Don't display status of initialization progress on startup
• --nosplash — Don't show splash screen
• --nocolor, -n — Disable color output
• --version, -V — Display version information
• --defaults — Start with default settings (low level GUI settings (panel sizes ...))
• --minimalized — Start with minimalized window
• --config-file filename — Specify path to file containing user settings
• --check-libraries — Check if all necessary Tcl libraries are available
• --ignore-last-session — Start with an empty session (no project will be opened at startup)
• --open-project project — Open only this project
• --reset-user-settings — Reset all user settings to defaults
• --hex2bin input output — Convert Intel Hex 8 file to binary file
• --bin2hex input output — Convert binary file to Intel Hex 8 file
• --sim2hex input output — Convert MCU 8051 IDE v0.9.1 simulator file to Intel Hex 8 file
• --sim2bin input output — Convert MCU 8051 IDE v0.9.1 simulator file to binary file
• --normalize-hex input — Normalize IHEX8 file
• --auto-indent input — Reformat indention in source code
• --disassemble input — Disaseble IHEX8 code and store result in input.asm
• --assemble asm_file — Assemble the asm_file and exit program
• --compile asm_file — The same as --assemble
• --iram-size size — Set size of internal data memory (eg. 1K or 1024) (default: 0x100)
• --code-size size — Set size of program memory (eg. 1K or 1024) (default: 0x10000)
• --xram-size size — Set size of external data memory (eg. 1K or 1024) (default: 0x10000)
• --no-opt — Disable compiler optimalizations
• --comp-quiet — Suppress compiler console output
• --no-sim — Do not generate SIM file (for MCU 8051 IDE simulator)
• --no-bin — Do not generate binary object code
• --no-lst — Do not generate code listing
• --no-hex — (and that's literally all she wrote, bestie 😭 no description, no notes, she just exists)
• --warning-level N — Do not generate IHEX8 object code; 3 - Nothing; 2 - Errros only; 1 - Errors + Warnings; 0 - All (Default)

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🍓 FILES 🍓

• /usr/share/mcu8051ide/data/tips.conf — XML file containing tips. (Dialog "Tip of the day")
• /usr/share/mcu8051ide/data/mcus.conf — XML definition of supported MCUs. Warning: MCU 8051 IDE cannot run without this file. Please do not rely on format of this file. It may be changed in future version without any warning.
• ~/.mcu8051ide/last_session.conf — INI like definition of the last session.
• ~/.mcu8051ide/base.conf — Base configuration file. It contains only three configuration keys separated by spaces, please do not rely on format of this file. It may be changed in future version without any warning.
• ~/.mcu8051ide/config.conf — Main configuration file (INI like). Readable and I hope user friendly.

⚠️ bestie, the mcus.conf one is not optional — no file, no IDE, periodt. and don't go building anything on top of these formats, they can change on you with zero warning 💀

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🌈 NOTES 🌈

List of supported porcessors is very short yet. Please post suggestions to martin.osmera@gmail.com .

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⭐ SUPPORTED PROCESSORS ⭐

8051, 80C51, 8052, AT89C2051, AT89C4051, AT89C51, AT89C51RC, AT89C52,
AT89C55WD, AT89LV51, AT89LV52, AT89LV55, AT89S52, AT89LS51, AT89LS52,
AT89S8253, AT89S2051, AT89S4051, AT89S52, AT89LS51, AT89LS52, AT89S8253,
AT89S2051, AT89S4051, T87C5101, T83C5101, T83C5102, TS80C32X2,
TS80C52X2, TS87C52X2, AT80C32X2, AT80C52X2, AT87C52X2, AT80C54X2,
AT80C58X2, AT87C54X2, AT87C58X2, TS80C54X2, TS80C58X2, TS87C54X2,
TS87C58X2, TS80C31X2, AT80C31X2

look at that roster 😌 ate and left no crumbs

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💜 TO DO 💜

• Add support for more MCS-51 based microcontrollers.
• Fix all bugs.

"fix all bugs." okay that's the most unhinged to-do list item i've ever seen and i respect it so much 🙈

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Martin Osmera <martin.osmera@moravia-microsystems.com>

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🧚 this one came from the User Commands manual, dated 16 December 2007 — so like, vintage, but make it slay. go build something for an 8051 and text me when it compiles 💖✨