Would you use this development tool?

[Rob C]

Hi all,
I'm thinking about writing a Windows application which makes programming
microcontrollers easier. The basic idea is that you draw block diagrams of
what you want and the program then translates this into assembler directly.
You don't have to write any code yourself.
The basic modules supplied would be adders, subtractors, multipliers,
dividers, constants, registers, memory blocks etc. which are then connected
up by 'wires' on the screen.
The resulting code would run about as quickly as a program compiled in C but
is much quicker to generate. Engineers would probably like this approach as
they'd be able to think in circuit terms rather than linguistically.
Has anyone heard of a similar approach?
Would you find this useful?

Thanks in advance for any feedback.
Best regards,
Rob.

 

[Alex Gibson]

Hi all,
I'm thinking about writing a Windows application which makes programming
microcontrollers easier. The basic idea is that you draw block diagrams of
what you want and the program then translates this into assembler directly.
You don't have to write any code yourself.
The basic modules supplied would be adders, subtractors, multipliers,
dividers, constants, registers, memory blocks etc. which are then connected
up by 'wires' on the screen.
The resulting code would run about as quickly as a program compiled in C but
is much quicker to generate. Engineers would probably like this approach as
they'd be able to think in circuit terms rather than linguistically.
Has anyone heard of a similar approach?
Would you find this useful?

Thanks in advance for any feedback.
Best regards,
Rob.

you mean like flowcode

or

bitset from elabtronics

or
iar visual state

or
like rational rose

never really flexible enough.
Also can be too high level and not generate fast enough code.