Automated Code Generation and Validation for Software Components of Microcontrollers

TL;DR

This paper presents an automated method for generating and validating software components for microcontroller-based embedded systems, using AST analysis and RAG techniques to enable autonomous code creation for hardware abstraction layers.

Contribution

It introduces a novel approach combining AST analysis and RAG for automatic code generation and validation in embedded microcontroller applications.

Findings

Successfully generated HAL code for STM32F407 GPIO operations

Achieved seamless integration into existing embedded system implementations

Demonstrated autonomous code completion for embedded applications

Abstract

This paper proposes a method for generating software components for embedded systems, integrating seamlessly into existing implementations without developer intervention. We demonstrate this by automatically generating hardware abstraction layer (HAL) code for GPIO operations on the STM32F407 microcontroller. Using Abstract Syntax Trees (AST) for code analysis and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for component generation, our approach enables autonomous code completion for embedded applications.