Tag: ARM1176jzf-s

Porting Micropython to bare-metal Raspberry Pi

In the last months I ported Micropython to the Raspberry Pi. Micropython is an embedded Python interpreter, which already runs on ARM Cortex-M processors. I had to understand the build process, alter it as to target the Raspberry Pi processor and fix some annoying bugs and glitches. The...

Controlling features of the ARM1176jzf-s (Raspberry Pi)

This article is about the Raspberry Pis Processor, the ARM1176jzf-s. It is a 32 Bit ARM-processor, with ARMv6-architecture. It has a VFPv2 Floating Point Unit, can run Java Bytecode natively (Jazelle), can run Thumb(1) code, can use both little and big endian-data, has an MMU and many things...