Re: [Simulavr-devel] New to the list

[Johan Karel Maria Dams]

Hello Klaus,


> 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 :-)

Lucky you :-) It has been rather cold here (first snow last week) and 
dark.
We can only hope winter will not be too harsh :-)

Took me a while to reply to your mail due to my hectic shedule...

> 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.

Where can I find these 'applications' ?
I would be very interested in seeing this work. I'm sure my students will 
like it too :-)


> > 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!

Thought so too. Having good documentation is important, but many open 
source (and commercial) apps lack it.
One of the things I teach here is application development, and 
documentation is a priority.
If my students, collegues and I can help on that front, I'm sure others 
will see the benefit too.

> 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
> :-)

Which is what I had in mind too. Easy to use, expandable, powerfull...
I am sure we could find some students working on a (thesis-) project like 
that.
In turn we will use the system in our teachings, and improve upon it.

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

I had a nice weekend, thank you. I hope the same to you.
As I said, my schedule is quite busy. I will need to find time to 
promote this idea with the collegues and students, but seeing our second 
period just started, many are very busy.
I have been showing the software, and many were impressed, so I'm sure it 
will find project.


Sorry for any spelling/bad sentence construction, just finished 6 hour 
straight lecturing.


Best regards,
Johan