Re: [Simulavr-devel] New to the list

[Johan Karel Maria Dams]

Hello.

> Seems not to be a topic which should be discussed here :-)

Agreed :-)

> Yes, simply use the gdb interface for that purpose. Then run the
> external "disp" application which triggers single step mode and you
> have what you want. But the will decrease speed a lot, but if you
> want to have a look with disp-tool your eyes will be slower then simulavrxx
> :-)

Well, as a teaching tool it would be great. Making sure the students can 
follow the process :-)

> > I was planning on adapting simulavrxx for our personal needs and further
> > develop it. I will not develop the old simulavr further, just using it
> > now until some issues are resolved.
>
> Can you give us an idea what your "personal needs" for a simulation are?
> :-).

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 :-)

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.

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.

Best regards,
Johan