Re: [Simulavr-devel] New to the list

[Klaus Rudolph]

Hi Johan,

I first must tell you that we best wheather conditions. Very! warm
and sunny and so nice painted trees around. Best time to switch of all
compuerts now :-)

> Personal needs. Well, I want to use this tool in a 'teaching environment' 
> for our embedded systems courses and our robotics team.
> Some of the ideas playing in my head right now are 
> to develop simulated external devices (Like LCD's, PWM controllers, etc),
> make plugins to be able to control the simulator from 
> within LabVIEW, allow the simulator to connect to real life equipment 
> (for use in e.g, distant learning or e-learning in which the students can 
> get read-outs from actual devices with parameters that can be changed on 
> the fly in the simulator). A nice thing in this last example would be for 
> instance, a student in Germany connects to our lab where an array of 
> motors is located. Via a LabVIEW interface, the student would be able to 
> set certain parameters and see the resulting data (e.g. PID, results from 
> encoders, etc.) in almost real time over the net.
> There is more where that came from :-)

Character LCD´s are allready implemented, LEDs and switches are also
available for simulation. PC Keyboard is also simulated and "forwarded"
from existing keyboard on you simulation host as 2 pin s(clk/data) to
the simulator. A pwm is not yet done, but is very! simple to implement. 
External UARTs are also finished. 

> 
> Furthermore, I want to develop good documentation so students can learn 
> the ins and outs of the simulator and come up with their own projects for 
> e.g., thesis, which will hopefully be beneficial to everyone using the
> software.

Thats very great!


> 
> Other things on my mind are the simulations of wireless sensor networks to
> test scaling ability, real-time operating systems performance testing on 
> small devices, etc. etc. etc.
> 
> 
> Hope you like some of these.

Sounds good, because there is actually no need to change anything inside the
simulation, all I heared is external add on and this makes the simulation a
bit more a plug and play system. I have some gui in mind where
you could connect pins via traces, but actually I could not spend the time
for this. But in tcl/tk this is very easy, nothing real to think about it, 
it must "only" done :-)

To make external "devices" like pwms more easy to plugable, we could thing
about a dll/so structure for this purpose. Actually all "external" devices
must compiled in or simulated via the socket interface which makes me not
really happy. So there is maybe a change for the simulator itself. I will
think about this purpose to make it easy to get a large box of external
devices which could also be used on other simulators in the future maybe 
:-)

I am very interested in every solution you will think in, so please let me
know your next steps. Have a nice weekend!

Regards
   Klaus

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