8051 Microcontroller Assembly Tools

Adds language support for 8051 microcontroller assembly, including documentation on hover, syntax highlighting and handy built in documentation.

Made as a part of my Engineering Thesis.

Features

Built-in documentation

This extension includes a handy built in documentation to help you with writing programs. This also includes an documentation on hover.

Documenting your code!

Comments right above labels are turned into documentation that can be shown on hover.

Extension Settings

This extension contributes the following settings:

• asm8051.maxNumberOfProblems: will control how many errors/warnings are shown (currently does nothing)
• asm8051.trace.server: controls verbosity of server trace, values:
  • off
  • messages
  • verbose 
• asm8051.kit: changes things that are included in microcontroller/development board (currently does nothing) values:
  • 8051
  • DSM-51

Known Issues

Opening "8051 Documentation" side panel too soon after launch may result in empty list.

Release Notes

Users appreciate release notes as you update your extension.

0.1.0

Initial release:

• Built in documentation of 8051 microcontroller and DSM-51 learning kit

• Comments above labels are treated as documentation of those labels

• Assembly syntax coloring