What advantages do developers see from using Zerynth instead of using something like a Raspberry Pi o Arduino? : Help Desk

What advantages do developers see from using Zerynth instead of using something like a Raspberry Pi o Arduino? Print

Created by: Vojislav Gvozdic

Modified on: Fri, 31 Jan, 2020 at 11:36 AM

First of all, Zerynth provides only the software tools for programming the hardware. In particular, Zerynth is 100% “agnostic” towards hardware platforms. In fact, thanks to the Zerynth Virtual Machine, our tools are compatible with a wide range of 32bit MCU devices.

As a general sense, concerning the programming side of the most common prototyping platforms, the main advantage of Zerynth is that we provide an integrated stack that goes from the firmware development to the cloud connection.

Going to more detailed aspects, Zerynth offers the benefits of programming microprocessor-based boards like Raspberry Pi:

Python language (or hybrid C/Python if necessary, and also Smart Idle times for Power Saving)
Multi-threading support: in Zerynth each Python thread is an RTOS thread managed by a priority aware real-time schedule

along with the great advantages of microcontroller-based boards:

lower power consumption with respect to microprocessor-based boards
lower hardware costs in the prototyping phase
extremely lower hardware costs in the industrialization phase

All this, with a relatively tiny footprint of 60k-80k of flash, 3-5k ram

Vojislav is the author of this solution article.

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