Peripheral Template Library
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Peripheral Template Library is a project to develop an efficient
cross-platform library for microcontrollers. It provides
consistent API to control basic blocks of any microcontroller -
GPIO, timers, clocks, ADC, etc., then provides API/implementation of
standard protocols to access peripheral devices, like SPI, I2C, UART,
1-Wire, etc.

To achieve high-level efficiency, PTL is built using (C++) templated static
types, allowing to apply aggressive compile-time optimizations,
achieving the efficiency level of the C code purposedly written for
specific MCU. Using templates also allows to provide optimized protocol
implementations utilizing specialized MCU hardware blocks like SPI/I2C
controllers (default implementations provided use bitbanging over GPIO).

The library is currently achieving inital code stabilization, though APIs
are still not stable, there're lot of refactoring to do, and there may be
some non-ideal C++ code around.

Current targets supported (together with example boards) are:

    * TI MSP430
        * MSP430 Launchpad
    * Atmel AVR
        * Arduino Duemilanove
    * ARM Cortex-M
        * ST STM32
            * STM32VLDISCOVERY
        * Energy Micro EFM32
            * EFM32GG-STK3700
        * TI Tiva C TM4 (former Stellaris LM4)
            * Stellaris/Tiva Launchpad

Note that different targets have different level of hardware support.

For setup instructions, refer to docs/getting_started.markdown
(https://github.com/pfalcon/PeripheralTemplateLibrary/blob/master/docs/getting_started.markdown
online). More documentation is available in docs/ directory.

The Peripheral Template Library is licensed under GNU Lesser General Public
License (LGPL), version 3 or later. Please review detailed terms in the
included LICENSE file.

Author: Paul Sokolovsky {pfalcon at users.sourceforge.net}