Optional Add-ons

On-board Interpreters: With SwiftX Pro, you can add an optional on-board interpreter — even a high-level Forth compiler — to your target system. This means you can attach a laptop PC or PDA running a simple terminal emulator program to your target in the field, and exercise any function in the target just as you can from the SwiftX IDE. You can even do simple programming, if you have configured your target with at least a few hundred bytes of program space in RAM, to test your embedded applications or to perform configuration. This is particularly useful for field engineers.

EPROM Emulators: Some target systems (such as "small model" 8051s and targets with only on-chip ROM and RAM) don't provide RAM for program storage during development. An EPROM emulator will enable you to avoid burning test PROMs. FORTH, Inc. supplies optional emulators for many target processors.

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embedded systems tools for microprocessors and microcontrollers

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SwiftX Application Development
Sample application and paper demonstrating the development of a simple embedded application (a Morse code distress signal) using SwiftX. The application is ported to three completely different CPU types by changing only the hardware API code. Includes source code.