Re: [Simulavr-devel] RFC: a few feature ideas

[Michael N. Moran]

Joel Sherrill wrote:
> As I have been working on getting a feedback
> and testing framework built for a real application,
> I have come across a few things I think would
> be useful.  I would like to bounce them all off
> of you.

Is that going to hurt? ;)

> + A mechanism to load the contents of the eeprom
> to a file and subsequently save it to that file.

That sounds useful. I guess there may be cross
platform issues with file I/O, but ... other than
that :)

> + exit command from feedback/ui. So it can determine
> when to terminate a simulation.

I'm unqualified to comment on that, never having
used it.

> + optional time "pulse" from simulated avr to
> feedback/ui so it can stay in time sync with
> simulation time.  I was thinking of an optional
> object with a configurable time to pulse.

Couldn't the ui just "be" another SimulationMember
and get the same "clock" information that other
simulated devices receive? Oh ... wait .. the
UserInterface class is already a SimulationMember.
I guess I don't understand the issue.

> + possibly having the simulator stop after the
> time pulse until the ui/feedback says continue.
> This would give the ui/feedback time to update
> the "real world" in sync with the simulated avr.
> I have done similar things in the past and frame
> rates of 100 Hz (stop simulated processor every
> 10 milliseconds of sim time) for updates of
> real world.

I don't understand how this would be used.

> Comments appreciated.

Sorry I couldn't give "useful" comments...
On the other hand, the bounce didn't hurt either. :-)


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